New Life, New Love

chapter 14

Kieran POV

After Nia went to freshen up I sat down on the chair she was previously sitting on. I wonder what happened to her. She is the most stubborn I have ever met. I put my elbows on my knees and rest my head on my hands.

Xander came in holding a brief case. "You look stressed. What's up?" He puts the brief case down and looks at me. "Girl problems?" He asks after folding his arms over his chest. "Why does she hate her birthday so much?" I ask him and he tenses. His face expression changes into a sad one. He unfolds His arms and looks away from me. "She will tell you that when she is ready well If she tells you. We never celebrate her birthday and she will like to keep it that way. Just never ask her about it, it bring back bad memories" he says then goes to open the brief case. "Hey kid do you know how to use a gun?" I shake my head no. "Well do you want to learn?" he asks and I nod my head yes.

Xenia POV

I took off my clothes then turned on the shower and sat down letting the hot water run down my skin. Why did he have to ask me about my birthday? Why can't he mind his own business? Is it not clear that I don't want to talk about it?

I start to break down into tears because of what happened on my birthday. I will never forget that day. I could have stopped everything from happening if I just reacted sooner. Everything was my fault. I start to let out silent sobs. I'm sure the guys can't hear me because of the shower. After a while I stopped crying because I stared to get a headache and cleaned myself up then wrapped a towel around my body when I was done. I opened the door and popped my head out. "Hey Xan did you bring any clothes so that I can change" I saw that he was busy showing Kieran how to use a gun. He turned to me and said "oh shit I forgot. I'm really sorry. You'll have to wear your sweaty clothes." At first he was remorseful but now he is just making fun of me.

"You can wear mine" Kieran suggests. "I'll think about it" I say and close the door. I jump up and down making wired noises that can only be heard by me. I hope. What? That means I'll smell like him and he smells incredible. I calm myself down then pop my head out the door again after opening it. "Sure" I say trying to act cool. He takes his bag and hands it to me and while he does that our hands touch and thousand of electric bolts run up my hand causing me to drop the bag. Shit. I inwardly slap myself for acting so wired. I pick the bag up and shut the door. I can feel that my cheeks have heated up. Dammit I can be so stupid sometimes.

I get out the restroom wearing his black sweatpants and a black hoodie with nothing under, not even a bra. I feel like I can faint because his hoodie smells so great I think I'm addicted to his smell. His smell should be illegal.

Xander and Kieran turn to look at me and I think I saw Kieran smilling or was he smirking. I shrugged it off and gave him his bag back. "You know you can put you clothes in here right" Kieran says, gesturing to his bag and I shake my had no. "My clothes are sweaty and I and don't want to make your bag dirty and smelly."

"You know that this is a gym back right. Its bound to get dirty and sweaty and if you haven't noticed there is something called water." I rolled my eyes at his last statement. "I said no and that's final." I said then placed my clothes on the chair. "So what now?" I ask. "well now I'm going to teach you how to use a gun." When Xander said that I started jumping up an down. When I saw how everyone was looking at me I stopped a calmed myself. What? I love guns and please don't say I'm a tomboy. Just because I don't like dresses that does not mean I'm a tomboy. "We shall never speak of that again"

"Agreed" they both said in unison.

Xander taught is the basics and took us to a shooting range. Kieran was a fast learner and he hit all his targets perfectly while on the other hand I was struggling a bit. At least I got two out of five.