*Jacklyn's POV*

I, Jacklyn D. Hall, am a judge when it comes to hotels. I have slept in places from a water-bug infested room with black mold on the walls and a green-toned pool to a five-star hotel and resort. Trust me, when it gets counted, I've practically lived in a hotel for more than a quarter of my life. What's all this amounting to? Boy did the British get these beds right. I slept like an angel, and that's saying something because normally, it takes me forever to go to sleep. The bed and pillows were perfect. The AC unit was blasting freezing air at me(otherwise I would have been tossing and turning all night from the heat under the covers) and everything, everything was sparkling clean. Of course there was that moment of slight panic when Avis reminded me to check for bedbugs. With me having personal experience with them before, I didn't want to again.

So when my internal alarm went off I saw that it actually was bright outside. I twisted in my bed grabbed my iPhone which had been charging on the nightstand. The time read 12:01PM. I blinked. It was noon and here I am just getting up. In a sudden panic I leaped out of bed and hurriedly dressed, brushed my teeth and hair grabbing my purse(Dad called it a saddle bag though)and flung open the door. Not in the mood for an elevator ride, I shoved the door to the stairs aside and went down them as quickly as I could. With a quick thought of how this reminded me being in school, rushing up and down the stairs to get to my classes, I reached the first floor and opened the door quickly, but slower than the other in hopes that I wouldn't hit anyone.

Walking stiffly to the lobby I saw with some surprise that John and Josh were sitting at one of the tables in the breakfast area, though I doubted that they were still serving breakfast. Josh looked up as I approached and frowned. "Well at least one of you is alive. What did you do? Take more Tylenol?" I rolled my eyes and elected to ignore him. Instead I turned to Mr. Flanagan while wringing my hands in front of me. "I am so sorry I slept so late, I guess I'm just not use to the sudden time zone change yet and all." He held up a hand as he put his coffee cup down and smiled. "No need to apologize. I can understand and you needed your sleep."

Still feeling a little bit guilty, I took a seat next to Josh and took my phone out of my back pocket as I did. I don't like the thought of sitting on my phone. Clicking it quickly I checked for any notifications or messages to see nothing but game updates. Clearing those I put my phone up and stuffed it into my purse. "So," I said a bit hesitantly, "What are we doing today?"

"Do you mean in the meager six hours we have left?" Josh put in. I scowled at him and he shrugged in turn.

Before anyone could say anything else, hurried footsteps interrupted and I turned to see a frantic-looking Avis sprinting in our direction. "OhmygoshImsosorryIsleptinsolate-" For not the first time in the morning, John held up his hand while smiling and reassured her that it was okay. "Besides," Josh put in, "Your not the only one to get up late." I nodded,

"I actually just got up."

"Literally," Josh said dead-pan. I glowered at him, resisting the urge to actually growl at him. Avis took a seat next to John since it was a square table with only four chairs and it happened that the chair next to him was empty. I smirked at her from the corner of my eye, easily seeing that her face was close to a cherry red from awe.

"So," I said, leaning forward, my elbows on the table top, "what are we doing today?" John -who had been drinking his coffee at the moment- placed the cup down and replied once he had finished swallowing the drink.

"Well nothing too extravagant since this is your first day. I had planned on assigning sites to each of you and as we went further into your time here, switch you out so you all could get a chance at seeing all of them." I nodded. Made complete sense. John stood up and the three of us hurriedly followed. With a slight hand gesture, he beckoned us to follow him out to the front of the hotel and out into the crisp morning air. I shivered and wished -not for the first time- that I had my jean jacket on. Sadly, it was back in my hotel room.

We walked across the parking lot and up to a white pickup truck, Chevy, 2010 model. He unlocked it and reached inside to the glove box of the truck and took something out. Closing the door and locking it again, he gave each of us a manila folder with a dark green ribbon holding it closed. At a signal from him, we un-tied them and looked inside at the folders contents. A small map of the area was the first thing that I saw. At a closer look, I saw a small star marking the hotel that we were at and not to far from it, a black dot with a red circle around it. I looked at the small, neat words above it. Site Two. Guess this is the first site I go to before any of the others.

I pointed this out to John and he nodded in agreement. Avis got Site One while Josh landed with Site Three which was nothing more than the village around Site One, which was Castle Redmont. Haha, sucker. John spent the rest of the day explaining each of the sites and what we would be doing there. Turns out each of us get to drive a standard issue of a Chevy 2010 model pickup, much like Johns. "That way," he had said, "You can go a bit farther past the site your assigned to and go to any other sites in case of an emergency a lot faster than by foot."

Soon, too soon in my opinion, it was dark again and time to head back to bed. Tomorrow we would each go to our assigned site early in the morning and begin to help with the dig there. Excitement kept me from sleeping instantly and I kept feverishly looking at the clock, hoping against hope that it would somehow make time go faster so that it would be morning. Eventually though, I did fall asleep. Somehow.

•Herrow all. Technology this week in my house just did not want to work and I could end up making this authors note longer than the chapter if I named all of them so I'm just not going to go into detail. Anyway, hope you enjoyed this chapter!•
~SO