Ten

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Night had fallen all around the grounds, I looked at the shed numbers that were lit up by dim solar panelled lights, finding my way to shed number thirty

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Night had fallen all around the grounds, I looked at the shed numbers that were lit up by dim solar panelled lights, finding my way to shed number thirty.

"I was starting to think you weren't going to come." Nate whispered who already stood outside his shed. He beckoned me to follow him and together we snuck through the hedge and around the staff buildings.

"Stop" I pulled him back as we peeked out behind the shower block. We watched the commander walk across the pathway and disappear into a set of offices. We couldn't help but laugh quietly together like a pair of naughty school kids.

We got to a small gravel parking lot, army tanks lined up along the back row and staff cars parked in the next two rows. Nate walked past each and every one, stopping before a gold Lamborghini.

He moved his eyebrows up and down at me in a playful manner and then he eyed up every square inch of the car. This was a personal vendetta for Nate. I ran my hand along the smooth, metallic exterior of Axels car.

A Lamborghini suited him and so did the colour, I approved.

"Is he rich?" I gushed over the car.

"He's the Lieutenant." Nate replied as if that explained everything. Truthfully I had no idea what these people earned.

Nate slotted a black thin piece of metal down the window frame and the car unlocked. He looked at me with a mischievous smile before opening the door.

The doors opened upwards like butterfly wings instead of outwards, I was already impressed.

"Easy! Now you try with the other side." He said to me.

I took the metal and walked around the car, copying Nates exact movements but the car didn't unlock.

"Keep it straighter, more firm." He whisper-shouted from inside the drivers seat.

I followed his instruction and the car unlocked. I felt a surge of excitement run through my veins, it was this adrenaline that heated up my blood. I jumped into the passenger seat and fastened my seatbelt.

Nate pushed a few buttons on the dashboard and the roof started moving away, leaving us both exposed in the warm night air.

"Watch and learn. If you feel for this wire it will feel about three millimetres thicker than all of the others, pull it down and expose the copper inside. Then feel to left, there's one lone wire set aside from all the rest. Just put them together, twist them up and—"

The engine roared to life and Nate shot me a playful wink. "Wallah!" He said as he hit his foot down on the gas and the car started moving. My smile grew bigger, overtaking my whole face.

He drove out of the bootcamp through two big metal gates on the back entrance and we went at a normal speed down the country roads. I fiddled with the radio trying to find a decent station at this time of night.

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