“It’s Thursday, Olivia. You know what that means,” said a familiar, coy voice.
“I know the drill, Iris,” Olivia replied dryly to the middle-aged receptionist. “We all do.”
Rolling her eyes, but still smiling, the young woman made her way to the designated locker room of the unremarkable public access facility, as it was called. From the outside, it looked like most other bland commercial buildings that dotted the downtown area. The only difference – superficially speaking – was that the outer plaza and lobby was adorned with emblems identifying it as a government building. For what went on inside, it had to be.
Olivia June didn’t give it much thought, anymore. She hadn’t since she began going to the facility as a teenager. Most of her friends and peers did the same. It had gotten so mundane that it was just normal, as much a part of their routine as buying groceries or paying taxes. Most would argue, however, that coming to that particular building was much less tedious.
“I need this,” she said to herself with a heavy sigh, “more so than usual.”