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Chapter 8: Gun Training

~Lauren~

"Lauren!"

I awoke to Dinah screaming and look at her, sleep fully.

"Mmm, yeah DJ?" I say and propped myself on my elbows.

"Come on! Breakfast is done!" She says before leaving the room, closing the door behind her.

I blink then look for my phone, checking the time.

8:36 am.

Who wakes up at this time?

Oh yeah, me and the girls.

I groan and bury my head in my pillow, sighing as I did so.

I remember I had gun training today and jump out of bed, running to my dresser to check my gun.

I rummage through the drawers, finally finding it on the last one.

I gently took the gun out and look at it with wide eyes.

I just hope there won't be a time that I'm going to have to use it.

"Lauren?" Ally asks behind me and I jump, turning around quickly and hiding the gun behind my back.

"Yes?" I say and I put the gun in my waist band.

Her eyes swirl with confusion as she tries to look for what I'm hiding behind my back.

"What are you hiding?" She steps into the room, taking steps toward me.

I shook my head and say, "Nothing, nothing at all. Why? What's up?"

She narrow her eyes at me, looking at me and then trying to see behind me.

"Okay... Well I just wanna tell you that we have a day off today so me and the girls were thinking if we-" I cut her off.

"Sorry, I'm gonna have to take a rain check today. But maybe some other time, yeah?"

I saw her face drop but I didn't let it affect me. Of course I would love to spend this day with them but I can't, I need to learn how to protect myself from now on.

"Okay, I'll see you downstairs. I'll tell the girls that you can't today." She says before leaving the room. I let go of a sigh, glad she didn't dig around for more answers and quickly got a shower and changed into some decent clothes.

Finishing off my look, I put the gun back in my waist band.

I grab my phone before going downstairs, into the kitchen.

I sat next to Dinah, hoping she won't question me where I've been these last days and why I'm acting weirdly but instead focus on eating.

As I was eating, my mom slip me a white iPhone and I look at her.

"Your new phone since your other one is broken into pieces. All of our numbers are in there if you need to call us," I nod at her and took the phone in my hand. I put in Dean and Ria number, and logging into all my accounts. I quickly send a text to Dean to pick me up and he sends me an okay. I stuffed my phone in my pocket and gave a small smile at my mom.

"Lolo, where are you going today?" Camila asks me and I froze, what the hell do I tell them?!

"Uh I'm going to the studio today." I lie and look at them, hoping they'll believe my lie.

They did and I let out a small sigh of relief. I clean up my plate before leaving the house, saying a quick goodbye to them since I got a text telling me that Dean is here to pick me up.

I jump into his car and he speed out of the driveway. I smile at him and he smile back.

"Good morning Lauren." He says.

"Morning Dean, I got a new phone." I say and showed him my iPhone.

He raise his eyebrow at it and looks at me. "What happen to your old one?" He asks me.

"It's broken to pieces."

"Why?"

"I threw it at the wall."

"Why did you threw it?"

"Cause I was getting threats."

"Let me see." He practically demanded.

I shrug and look for the tweets that made me throw my phone. Once I found them, I hand it to him as he stops on a red light.

"Okay, I'll get someone to check this out. Did you bring your gun?" He says and I nod, patting my gun to show him that I do.

"Okay, you'll learn this easily."

"How do you know?"

"It doesn't take a rocket scientist to know how to pull a trigger and where to aim, plus you look like you learn quickly and got the eye for it." He says and I shrug.

We soon got to our destination and he leads me inside. He motions me to take my gun out and I hand it to him, he gives me a pair of head phones, to protect me from the noise the gun makes when it is being used.

I put them on and he guides me to a giant room, where there were rows were you can focus on your target.

To be honest, I was pretty excited.

I took off my long sleeve, a tank top underneath as I put it on the holder next to me. I grab my gun again and look at it then at the target that was meters away from me.

Dean taught me how the gun works and after I got caught on with it, he started to make me shoot at the target.

"Firm grip on the gun, legs apart, eyes on the opponent, never take your eyes off your enemy, breathe in and hold your breath when you pull the trigger, don't blink or let it affect you, aim at the part of the body you wanna shot at. Ignore the world around you and focus at the task at hand, you must eliminate your enemies before they destroy you. You must protect yourself at all times or you will lose, and this time you won't lose something stupid like a phone but more importantly you will lose your life, be always on gaurd. You must protect yourself and your love ones, or you will lose them." Dean says strongly and I follow everything he says, taking it all in.

I parted my legs, firmly grip the gun in my hands, my muscles flexing as I did so, my eyes focusing on the target as I aimed for the head, I breathe in and hold it before I pull the trigger.

Bang.

Head shot.

Holy shit.

My eyes widened as the bullet went straight into the target head. "Holy shit, that just happen!" I explaim as I pointed at the target with my gun, looking back at Dean with a full blown smile on my face.

He smiles proudly at me and motions for me to continue.

I did, of course I missed a few times but I mostly got all of them.

After pulling a bullet to almost every target, Dean brings me into another room.

Wood look alike people were all across the room, platforms beneafth them to make them move around the room, I look confusely at Dean.

"I wanna see how quick you are to shoot a gun, your gonna have to shoot at these 'people' to see if you can handle more then one person trying to hurt you. I'll be in that room over there watching you." He points to a room on the top floor where you can see everything happening down here. I nod and he walks over to the door, not before throwing me another gun.

"Use them both and oh, Lauren?" He says and I look at him, his hand on the knob about to close the door.

"Yeah?" I say.

"It's kinda like The Hunger Games in here."

And he shuts the door.

"Wait, what do- fuck!" I yell as I duck and hid behind a wall.

Oh my god, why the hell didn't I notice that the wood people have mini paintball guns?!

I took in a deep breath, bringing my two guns up and close my eyes before lauching into action.

"Let's do this shit."