AIDAN’S POV
“I feel like she is watching me. She freaks me out!” Lola turned around to check if we were being followed.
“I think she is cool but I will agree. Saying she has eyes everywhere in that deep voice kinda gave me the creeps” Alice agreed.
We were on our way to our mission and I was focused on the map. The others were just following chatting. More like gossiping about the love of my life.
Sergeant Chase.
“I think it was kinda hot. I hate how strict and scary she is but in a way it makes me wanna beg her to fuck me.” Dawn commented and we all turned to look at her in shock.
“You are gay?” Jamie asked her.
“I like human beings.” Dawn shrugged.
“The best way to live is to not restrict yourself into any category. I’m 20 and I wouldn’t mind getting on with a girl” Alice agreed.
“What about you Cruza?.”
“Hmm girls all the way. Men make me hurl”
Of course I knew Jaimie didn’t have any straight bone in her body.
“What about Black?. She gives me lesbian vibes with that killer body” I heard Lola ask.
When life gives you hell, thinking about sexuality just didn’t fit in my suffering box. I did things to survive after Mr Cruza kicked me out at the age of 16. Things I was not proud of.
Saying I was a lesbian knowing I would do those things again was just not ideal. I ignored their comments and kept walking. Topics changed and I was really distracted thinking about last night.
“What about you Black?”
“Huh” I turned back to the girls
“Are you into someone right now?. From the camp?” Dawn adorably tilted her head to the side.
Was I into someone?
Yes.
I thought about Sergeant Chase. Last night.
We almost kissed. Maybe I was in way over my head but the tension and how close we were. The way we stared at each other. I could still feel her breath on me. Her eyes staring in my soul.
I visibly swallowed, my neck heating up along with my face.
“OH my God who is it?”
“Wait you like someone?” Jamie frowned glaring at me.
“Who is it?” Alice too wanted to know.
Actually the seven girls wanted to know. The ones not asking were Maddie and Sureya. But they were looking at me too. They wanted to know.
I couldn’t think of anyone. All I could think about was Sergeant Chase. Last night, the lake, the shooting range. Her dominating nature.
I wanted to lie, say anything else. Maybe no but her name was on my lips. I opened my mouth to speak but before I could there was ruffling in the trees.
“Take Guard!” I warned the girls I was with looking around to see who was there.
We stood in the same spot surveying our surroundings.
“I see two camouflaged targets in the brunches” Jaimie whispered.
I saw more than that. I could hear Sergeant’s voice in my head. Our training. This was an ambush.
“We are under attack. We are surrounded” Alice spoke below her voice.
“What do we do?. You got a plan?” Maddie asked keeping her eyes on the targets.
“I got a plan. We are not far from the explosive devices.” Jamie suggested looking down at my map.
She told us the plan. 3 to cover the north, three to cover the west side and Jaimie in front. I didn’t mind. Instead of them attacking us we took them out first. These were not real guns but it felt like the real thing.
I wanted to get out alive, untouched and watch Sergeant Chase look at me with pride. These were male trainees judging from their physique. They were the ones Attacking us. It got loud as were running in the woods.
I covered Dawn as we took them out one by one. My heart was pumping as I hid behind a tree. I imagined them as real guns with real bullets.
A bullet for a life
I wiped off sweat with the back of my hand. One of the opponents were going behind Jaimie. I ran behind him instead and took him out. Of course we were using training laser guns but it felt real with the pressure and being in the forest. The smoke too.
When they were all down we began to move a lot more alert.
“I found the device!” I heard Lola’s voice.
We all ran towards the device and looked at it. There was 3 minutes left before it exploded. Dawn being the dork identified the device and we all put in ideas on what we remembered from our training.
We were all tense as Alice tried to turn the bomb off. We turned it off a minute early.
“Guys we have 10 minutes left before 3pm” Maddie looked at her pocket watch.
“Fuck we need to run. Can you check of there is a shortcut Black?” Jamie gave me the map.
“There is always a shortcut. Come on”
We cut through the woods instead of the main road we used when we marched. We were all running when I noticed uneven ground and recently disturbed branches
“Stop!” I raised my hand and they all stopped. The metal in the soil reflected and I knew I was right.
I took a rock then threw it at the mark. Red paint exploded.
Grenade training. Came In handy.
“Good job Black” Sureya praised with a sigh of relief.
“Are you all ready?”
“I left my glasses” Maddie complained.
“Then follow behind me. Come on we have five minutes left” Alice called moving first.
The experience was blinding. I could hear Chase in my head the entire time like a guardian angel. We ran in full speed and jumped over the camp fence while the first four held it down.
We ran to our barracks and made it right on the dot.
The other trainees were already there. Most were covered in red paint and their live sensors lights were dead. I looked around our team and we made it without a single soldier hurt.
“Alright, I see you have all made it alive”
Cheers were made around us. The other trainees from other barracks were all surrounding us holding their guns. Most had paint.
“Only one group with all members alive. The ones covered in paint this is a reminder for you to work harder in the week before your final trials. A reminder that you have one life and out in the world everything is real. The guns, the Grenades, bombs. You would have been…Dead!”
I felt shivers ran down my whole body at her tone. Yeah Lola was right, the deeper voice was scary and creepy.
“It is kill or be killed. To protect your country, you gotta be alive. Keep yourself alive first. When you are out there I hope you remember that you do not have 9 lives. Yes we sacrifice but make sure the sacrifice isn’t just that. You will be faced with times where you make very difficult decisions and that’s where you use what you know and your instinct.
I say this with a caring heart, don’t get fried for nothing!”
Oh my god.
All the happiness vanished as she spoke. Why was she so harsh?.
“Our duty is to selflessly fulfill our obligations! We will do so alive. To be courageous. The chart will be up early morning. You will know what to work on. Your tactics!. Your physique. Your technique, your leading skills. Your ability to develop. There is no limit! You can be better. Tomorrow you rest and will be allowed your gadgets. Privates! You are dismissed!”
Gosh I felt my nipples tighten with her commanding voice. Her power and her honesty. It was scary but true.
Just watching her command, had my underwear in a puddle.
“Yes, Sergeant!” We all shouted then saluted.
We marched off joining the crowd.
“Okay I thought our instructor was a dick but she is terrifying”
I heard people talking.
“She just laid it out for them like that. Gosh I am glad we didn’t get her.”
They were lots of murmurs about Sergeant Chase and they didn’t know her so they were moved. We were toughened up by her and her honesty was an everyday thing for us.
She never beat around the bush.
Since we were dismissed until Monday. There was a party thing going on with all the trainees. I joined in and was surprised there was liquor hidden in soda cans.
It tasted terrible but I wanted to be drunk. To just loosen up.
“I’m getting myself a night sexy snack” Alice stood up
Our team was just sitting together during the party. I was a bit drunk.
“Me too. I need me a good fuck” Sureya followed after.
All 7 of them just nodded and they just disappeared after that. Well except one person.
“Can I ask you something?” Jamie asked still sitting on her spot.
“Go on”
“Who is the person you like?” Her tone was soft but a little slurred.
“It doesn’t matter because she will never like me back Jaimie”
“Fucking sucks huh?…” She stood up.
“What does?”
“When you can look at the only person you want but they don’t want you back.” Jaimie slurred looking directly at me.
“Yeah, yeah it does” I mumbled looking down.
Jaimie stumbled into the crowd and I was left alone. What she said got to me. Because it did hurt. Surgeant Chase had looked at me and pulled away. In a way she didn’t want me back.
That was rejection.
I grabbed more of the horrible alcohol and decided to get myself fucked up. I drank until my world was spinning then decided to go back to the bay.
I could barely see or walk but I remembered walking and thinking, that Chase had to have some sort of feelings for me. I didn’t just imagine it, we had a moment on that rooftop.
In my drunken state, going to Chase seemed like the best idea ever.
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