An Unexpected Romance [on hold]

Hunger Games Paintball

When first hour ends I walk out the door and feel someone starring at me. I turn around to see Mitchell following me. "Can I help you?" I ask him.

"Why did you change your clothes and stuff?" he asks me.

"Why do you care?" I spit at him.

"I was just wondering. I liked the clothes you use to wear." he told me. I laugh sarcastically.

"Yeah right! You also liked to torment me. Go away!" I retort.

"I like your new clothes better, although I'll miss the self conches girl I use to know." he says walking away.

"Yeah right like you even bothered to get to know that girl!" I yell at him.

My next hour was P.E. I've always loved P.E. I love playing Volleyball and Dodge ball. When she tells us to go change I pull my short brunette hair into a high ponytail and tied my tennis shoes. When I walked upstairs to wait for the rest of the other girl Miles walks over to me in the same gray shirt, blue shorts uniform. "Have the guys left you alone?" he ask me tapping my bottom.

"Miles!" I whisper giving him a glare. "Chance and Jake have. But Mitchell told me how he's going to miss the old me. He looked serious but... I don't trust him."

"Well let me know if I need to beat him up." he says smiling at me. I don't know why but Miles enjoyed beating people up.

After we do our warm ups Mrs. Hal drags out a big laundry basket on wheels. We gather around the white board as her and Mr. Ceiling explain our game.

"Today we will start a game that has to do with agility, smarts, and skill a game that requires more brains than brawn. We can't do the Hunger Games, but we can play a spin off of it we introduce: Hunger Games Paintball. Everybody will be fending for themselves but you can have allies. Since the janitors don't want to clean up the paint we will be shooting, we have permission to use the park across the street. Grab a vest, gun, and amo from Mrs. Hal then follow me." he says. I grab my gear and follow Miles when we go to the park.

"Want to be partners?" I ask.

"Duh," he says kissing my temple. "Sorry Mitchell was starring at you." he whispers into my ear.

"Thanks," I say giggling. When we get to the park Coach spreads us out in a circle. Mr. Ceiling starts to count down from sixty. I give Miles a look and tilt my head to a patch of trees. He nods discretely. When Mr. Ceiling gets to one he blows an air horn. I don't waist any time I run off to the patch of trees and start shooting. I was able to shoot, Casey, Khylee, Megan, Alex and Chance. Miles makes it to my side shortly and we follow the trail of trees. I see an opening behind a huge tree and turn my head toward the tree and give Miles a look. He nods and I look around. I don't see anyone but its a blood bath of paint by the swings. The length is about ten feet away from the huge tree. I take a short breath and place my hand around my gun. Luckily the gun is small and is like the ones you see on NCIS. I get halfway when I see Torreto shoot at me. He shoots at me but I slide down onto my knees and shoot her in the chest. She falls down to the ground with a cry of pain. I sprint the rest of the way to the trees and wait for Miles. He checks his surroundings and starts to run, he makes it about three feet when an unknown sniper strikes from behind a park bench. I see that it was Janny and shoot her arm then her chest. I run over to Miles. He lays on the ground and starts coughing holding his stomach. I cradle his head, and he says.

"You have to win," I smile because he's being so dramatic. "For me." I smile and reply.

"Of course." he shuts his eyes and his head falls slightly. I kiss his forehead and look up. I look up at the tree we were close to I look at it and walk over to it. I scale it in a few minutes and wait for a target. I shoot at least ten people from my tree without being spotted. I see Mitchell look up and smile at me. All that's left is Jennifer, Jillion, Paloma, Tommy, Mitchell, me and Jules. I hear Paloma and Tommy fighting and take them out with a single hit to the back. I look at the tree to my right, I take a breath and jump about two feet and land on the branch. I start to slip and grasp it with my hands I cry out in pain but bite my lip. I can't draw attention to myself if I want to survive. I feel tears fall from my eyes because of the cuts I'm getting from the bark of the tree I pull myself up and lay down with my back on a sturdy branch. I breath really hard. That was close, these Games might not be real but I could have broken something. "I should really take those pull-ups more seriously." I tell myself. I wipe my tears away and look at my surrounding I see Jennifer sneaking around behind a bush. I point my gun at her and shoot her in the leg then her back. She falls to the ground with a gasp. "Three down, three to go." I whisper with a blow to my smoking gun. I scale down the tree and summersault behind another bush. I find a hole in my bush and hit Jules in the shoulder. She falls to the ground with a scream of pain. I can see Mitchell and he's sneaking up on Jillion but she's expecting him and turns around firing her gun. But as she fires, he smacks her gun up just in time and the paint hits a tree ten feet away. He sweeps her feet with his legs and she falls down. He's about to fire but she's not going down without a fight. She rolls side ways and knocks him down. She swings her legs and sits on top of his chest holding him down. She smacks him in the face and starts to run. He gets up and tackles her to the ground holding her down with his hands on her arms. He pulls out her gun from her holster and throws it a few feet away. As he grabs his gun she knees him in the... private area. I try not to laugh as he sits on the ground holding his... area. She gets up and runs to get her gun he pulls his own and shoots her three times as she slides for her gun. Dang it! She out, its just me and Mitchell!. He starts to look around for me and I watch him from the bushes around me and when I am ready to face him I come out from behind the bush. He smirks and says. "I guess it's just me and you, Princess." I smile as I start to approach him and shoot him before he can even say anything. I hit him in the private area and then the chest as he falls. When he falls to the ground I lift his chin to face me and say. "Actually its just me now, Prince." I whisper as I shoot him in his stomach. He groans and falls to the ground. I stand up and pat my hands on my shorts. I hear Mr. Ceiling blow his air horn and say. "Ladies and Gentleman, I am pleased to present the victor of the second hour Hunger Games, Lauren Games. I give you the tribute from Tenth grade!" he shouts. Everybody gets up and pats me on the back. I walk around until I see Mrs. Hal she slaps me on the back and says. "Nice job Lauren! I never would have thought of scaling a tree and shooting from there. Genius!"

"What? How do you know that?"

"We have cameras planted everywhere and we're posting the video from each hour, on the schools website, then we'll have a Quarter Quell. We'll have eight victors, eight second placers, and eight third placers. We're going to have it all day on Friday and if you die then you go back to class. But if you win then you have bragging rights and you get to pick what your grade does for your P.E. hour for a whole week. Awesome right?" I stand there smiling as I try to process this.

"That is awesome!" I say.

"Congratulations and 'May the odds be ever in your favor.' Your gonna need it." she says biding good-bye.

"Thanks." I tell her. I feel a pair of arms snake around my waist.

"You were awesome, you honored my death, babe." I smile as he kisses my cheek.

"Miles, that was so much fun! Guess what?"

"What?" he asks mimicking me.

"I'm in the Quarter Quell! There's eight victors, eight second placers, and eight third placers! I can't wait!"

"You'll make our grade proud!" he tells me kissing my temple.

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