Beneath The Mask

31. I've Finally Got A Sister!

Lets just have a small recap :

Chap 24 - Friday evening, they go out to a paintball arena and then Catherine jumps off the bridge. Oops!

Chap 25 - Friday night, they decide to go on a road trip. Yippie!

Chap 26 - The same night, Sam and Daniel argue and leave on the bus. And they kiss..! Yay!

Chap 27 - About midnight, they share a cute lil moment! Aww!

Chap 28 - A few mins later, Cath gets a nightmare. Michael and Cath get off the bus and go for a walk to find a house.

Chap 29 - They break into the house and are caught by the owner. And Catherine faints.

Chap 30 - The next morning, the gang comes out to the house and find it was actually their friendly uncle Phil's house.

I just wanted to make this up clear so that there isnt any sort of confusion and the next few chapters too would be on what's going to happen on the weekend.

That being said, I wanna give you a warning!

This chapter contains violence and blood. People who may be triggered are advised to skip those parts which will be given a warning before the passage.

And this chapter is highly unedited so please bear with all the spelling and grammatical errors. So that's it! Enjoy!

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Saturday morning - The Field behind Phil's house

Cath's POV :

"Ready?" Phil narrowed his eyes at me. I nodded at him and turned attention to my target that was a few feet ahead of me. My eyes bore the same determination that he did. I peeked at him from the corner of my eyes. He stood beside me with his eyebrows scrunched up and his eyes calculating my every move.

"Aim!" He shouted out loud so that everybody could hear it. I tightened my hands around the cold metal of the gun and positioned in from of me. I shut my left eye and locked my target with my right eye. I angled the gun so that the bullet would land on the central red circle, my target among the numerous other colourful circles.

Phil walked up beside me and stood with his face beside me. His eyes were trained on the gun point with determination. He pushed my hand lightly to my right and whispered, "shoot!" But I wasn't satisfied with the angle. I brought the gun back to the original position and fired it before I could think any longer. Adrenaline pumped inside my blood as I heard the clinging sound of the trigger and my body jerked back a little from the impact of the force. The bullet emerged out of the gun in lightening speed and travelled through the air but I could see it all clearly in slow motion. The bullet travelled through the air past all the dust. It pierce through the red dot on the sheet and hit the tree bark behind it.

Cheers erupted from beside me. Phil smiled at me and patted my back. "Nice job, kiddo! You officially a shooter now." A huge grin broke out on my lips but it changed into a gasp as I was tackled to the ground by four giants or you could call them as Zoran, Blake, Harry and Michael.

So if you're wondering what is happening, I woke up from my slumber a few hours ago. Everybody told me what happened to clear my confusion. I was initially scared of Phil. Who wouldn't be after seeing him point a gun at you? But I grew accustomed to his heart warming smile and I liked him very much. He was sweet and kind to me, inspite of breaking into his house and also breaking his window. After that, Phil took us out to the field at the back of his house. He for some unknown had a licensed gun and a place to train his shooting skills. He vowed to teach us how to shoot. Sam was freaking out by the mention of it and ran back to the house. Daniel too joined her stating that they would make us a heavy lunch to feed on. That left the six of us behind. Phil taught us the basics of how to hold a gun and how to shoot. But Michael was pretty much skilled in it and didn't even try to hide the fact that he knew it too. He kept rubbing it on Blake's face and they had a competition going on between them. But without doubt, Michael won. After a few hours of taking turns and trying not to hurt the birds around, I finally managed to fire a bullet right on the target, that too on the bullseye. It was partly due to beginner's luck but still I tried.