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Chapter 9: Midnight Talks

~Lauren~

I jump out of my spot and started to shoot at the wooden people, they seem to have a sensor of where I am, which makes it a little more hard.

Paintballs flew around me in the air, I duck and went behind one of the wooden people, shooting them in the back. They quickly shut down and I smirk to myself. As I took in my glory, I was shot in the ass by a paintball.

"Oww! What the fuck?!" I say and jump behind another wall, grabbing my ass in pain.

"You should pay more attention to what's around you Lauren, you could get shot anywhere, anytime." Dean's voice boom around the room and I wince at the pain in my ass, rubbing the spot where I was shot.

"Paintballs hurt you know!" I yelled out to him and ignore the pain, grab my guns again before going back into action.

"Beat that you motherfuckers!" I yelled and did a happy dance when I got all of them.

"You can't touch this!" I say and stop dancing when I saw Dean walk into the room smiling widely at me.

"You, my dear, have the eye of the tiger!" He says and hugs me. I smile and hug him back.

"You didn't even missed! I'm impressed!" He says and I smile even more, he wraps his arm around me and guides me outside of the room. He grabs one of the guns from me and says,

"You can keep one, just load it before we go, okay? I think you can protect yourself now with that eye." I grin and nodded. I loaded the gun and follow him back to his car. We got in and he brought me to his police station since I left my car there. I wave goodbye to him as I got into my car and started it. I back out and drove home but not before grabbing some lunch too.

I ate while driving home.

Once home, I park my car in the garage before hopping out, throwing away my lunch, well what's left of it anyway.

I sigh as I lock the door behind me, leaning against it for a moment.

"Lauren? Where have you been?" My mom asks and I look up in shock.

"Uh studio mom." I say and walk pass her to the living room.

"I called the studio earlier and they told me you weren't there. What's going on sweetie?" She asks me and I froze, I knew I should've called them and make them cover for me.

"Yeah, I left earlier and went for a walk." I lied and hope she believe me.

"Okay, how was it?" I let out a sigh of relief and continue to walk to the living room.

"It was cool, really cool." I say, referring to the guns and everything, and I sat down on the couch, throwing my legs on the table and grab the control.

I flick through the channels as my mom sits next to me on the couch.

"What's going on Lauren?" My mom pressed and I kept my face emotionless.

"Nothing mom." I say and kept my eyes on the flat screen tv.

"Music?" She asks.

"No mom, everything is going fine with the next album." I say.

"Is something troubling you?" She presses on.

"Nothing is going on mom." I say and look at her.

"Is it boy trouble?" She asks and I suck in a breath.

Well, I think I could tell her about that.

"Me and Luis broke up the other night." I say and bit my lip, looking down at my lap.