Headphones // Merome

Chapter 53: Disconnected

=Mitch's POV=

I grabbed Jerome's hand and we followed the others towards the center of the clearing. "How long were you planning this?" I asked him. "A few weeks now." He answered, giving me a small smile. "You kept it hidden from half of us for that long?" I said in surprise. "Yeah. Pretty sure you all almost found out at one point or another, but we covered it well." He grinned.

"First off!" Rob shouted as he reached into one of the boxes that was lined up in the middle of the clearing. He pulled out a small blue thing, and chucked it at Vikk. It exploded, and everyone realized what was about to happen. Water balloon fight. "Oi, mate!" Vikk said, shaking some of the water from his hair. He pushed through Em and Meg to pull a balloon out for himself, and went on the throw it at Rob. Rob dodged out of the way though, so it hit the un-expecting Preston. "What the fudge, man?!" Preston yelled and tried to hit Vikk. Because Preston had horrible aim, the balloon stashed Jason. When Jason picked up a balloon, all hell started breaking lose.

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"No! Please! Mercy!" I yelled as Em snuck up behind me with a loaded gun. "Fine." She turned her back, but quickly shot over her shoulder and hit me in the leg. "Why?" I fake cried, and she flashed a cheery smile at me. "Because I can, pleb." she ran off, trying to find another target, I assumed. I pulled the nerf dart from my leg and loaded it onto my own gun, grinning as I stood and snuck my way out of the trees.

The only people left in the match were Em, Lachlan, Vikk, Mat, Preston and myself. I had one shot left, so did Vikk and Preston. Em had two, Lachlan had two, and Mat stood tall with three.

I started scouting out Preston. Not wanting to shoot him, take him out of the game, but in hopes that he'd team with me to take down the Vikk and Lachlan duo. They were inseparable this entire match, and it was time they took a few hits. Vikk had take a bullet for Lachlan already, I was by Brandon's side as he shot it. But I was hoping with Preston's video game skills he'd be able to help me find a way to hit them where no sacrifice could be made.

I glanced across the clearing, hoping to find a way to run across, when I saw something bright orange slip between trees. Preston's teeshirt practically glowed in front of the dark green leaves. I sprinted across the grass and towards where Preston was heading. I got across without being seen, and Preston was a little bit ahead of me. "Preston!" I said, not wanting to be loud enough that the others would be able to hear me. Preston turned, gun raised, ready to shoot. "No!" I said, and threw my gun to the ground between us. "We're both at one. I want to take Vikk and Lachlan down, at least one of them. Then we team for Mat." I said, putting my hands up in surrender. Preston thought for a moment, then nodded. "Lets go."

We searched for no longer then three minutes before I spotted the bright blonde hair of the Aussie. "There!" I whispered to Preston, pointing in Lachlan's direction. "Follow me." Preston motioned for me, and then started running in the direction I pointed.

"Take the first shot, when Vikk has his back to us completely." Preston said. We had ducked behind a row of bushes, and were barely peeking over at the pair. "What about Lachlan? He's ahead of Vikk." I questioned, but Preston shook his head. "Leave little Lachy to me." he said with a smirk. I looked at him like he was insane. "You sound like a lunatic." I said with a small laugh. "Maybe I am." Preston answered. "Oh." I grinned, and Preston laughed. Then he pointed. "Now!" I quickly aimed for Vikk, and pulled the trigger as Preston aimed for Lachlan. I watched as the bullet hit Vikk square in the back, and he jumped and faced where Preston and I were crouched, even though he couldn't see us. "That's it, Vikky!" I smiled standing up, making sure not to reveal Preston. "Damn it, Mitch!" He said with a grin. "GG mate." He said as he started off to the center of the clearing, where everyone else was waiting for the last of us to fall. "I let you go for now, Lachy." I smiled mischievously, and then a bullet flew past me and into Lachlan's chest. "I won't!" Preston cheered as he stood beside me. "Aw, wow. Darude." Lachlan said with a glare to Preston. "I try my best." Preston grinned. "Well, I dont know about you, but I believe we have an unharmed Nooch to take down." Lachlan said, glancing around. "Team to take Nooch out once, then we're all fair game to each other." I stated, to which the others agreed. "Lets take out Nooch!" Preston cheered, maybe a little too loudly. "Shh!" Lachlan and I shushed him at the same time. "Sorry." Preston said with a sheepish smile, running one of his hands through his hair. Lachlan laughed. "Leggo!"