Assassin (One Direction story)

Chapter 23 Part 1

 

Avery’s POV:  

We arrived at the gun range about ten minutes ago. Steve the manager was a friend of Mr. Matheson so he let me set all my stuff as he talked to the boys and Ashton. I had just finished checking both guns and getting the ammo ready when Steve and the boys walked in. “Okay Avery I went over the safety with them but I didn’t teach them anything about the guns. I am leaving that for you. You guys have as long as you want here so no rush and have fun. But be safe!” Steve said escorting the boys over to me.

“Alright thank you Steve!” I did one last check to make sure the guns had their safety on and then continued. “Okay so the gun you guys are going to learn on is a 10 22 rifle. It’s very simple to use and has very little kick, so it won’t knock you down like you might think.” The boys just kind of stood there watching me. Awkward! “When you’re using it never point the nose of the gun anywhere other than down range.” I pointed to where the targets go and continued. “Here’s the safety, the trigger, and this is where the cartridge of ammo goes.” I pointed to each thing as I talked about it. I went over a few more things until they all kind of nodded.

“Okay so i’m going to show you the form and i’ll go one round and then either I or Ashton can show you.” I sat down at the bench and put the cartridge in the gun.

I took the gun off of safety and put the but of the rifle against my shoulder. Taking a few deep breaths I looked through the scope and aimed. Inhaling I pulled the trigger as many times until it made a click signalling there was no more ammo. I discharged the cartridge and put the safety on.

I stood and turned to the boys. “That’s really all you have to do and you don’t have to do it speed shooting. As long as you inhale and pull the trigger as you exhale you should do fine.”

“Can I go first!” Harry asked kind of hopping up and down.

“No... Liam gets to go first.”

“How come?” Louis pouted.

“Because i said so and because he told me why he was late. So I thought it was only fair. If you really want to go right now Harry my brother was trained by me so he can teach you. Have fun! Niall or Zayn i’ll let you go next if you want I don’t care! Let’s go Liam!” I was actually kind of excited to teach the boys, well Liam and maybe even Harry..... I mean psh who said that? Why would I be happy to teach these boys to use a weapon. I mean crazy talk right?

“So what exactly do I do?” Liam asked sitting on the bench I was just at.

Liam’s POV:  

I was so happy Avery said I can go first and just totally ditched Harry and Lou! Ha that’s what you get for messing with daddy! Woah.. to far, just way too far! I had to look like I wasn’t extremely happy to be learning to shoot because that wouldn’t seem really responsible but on the inside I was acting like a child in a candy store. “So what exactly do I do?” I asked.

“Ok first things first. You need to fill the cartridge up with ammo.” I just looked at her. She reached over my shoulders and grabbed a bullet and the cartridge. “You take the cartridge like this, and the ammo. You just have to push the ammo down into this part.” She showed me a couple and then made me finish. It was a twenty round cartridge so it went by fast-ish.

“Now what?”

“Take it off safety, load and then aim. Don’t forget to breath and stay steady. Also don’t stop until you hear a little click. I will come back over when you’re done.” She walked off and I was alone to deal with this.