He Hates Me

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"What's wrong?" Torin asked with creased forehead while his eyes followed Lana.

Lisa arched an eyebrow and said, "Lieutenant, you should be nice with me if you want to get close with any of my friends, instead of making me lose points with... urgh never mind."

"You mean Jungkook, right? Let bygones be bygones and let's start a new alliance? What do you think, soldier Chan." Torin murmured as he acted as if he was inspecting Lisa's rifle.

Then he continued when he noticed that he and Lisa were still alone, "I will help you with Jungkook and you'll help me with Lana. By the way, in case you are wondering how did I find out... Let's just say I'm a good detective."

Lisa wanted to laugh because Torin looked so serious, but bygones would remain bygones only when she got even with him for that beef stew thing. She felt that she had got a lot of negative points because of it.

"Lieutenant Torin, do you really think I need your help? Let me think... If the time comes that I will need any help, perhaps, I will consider your offer then. But for now, no thanks... I absolutely can handle everything myself, so good luck... with Lana…" she said with a teasing voice as if she was going to do something that would make Torin lose some points too.

"The heck, what a stingy brat," Torin murmured as he looked at Lisa's back who left him and walked towards Lana's post.

"Alright, soldiers! I bet that all of you will enjoy the second phase. I've already noticed most of you had fun identifying the weapons we have here. You will all learn how to assemble, disassemble them and how to shoot them, practicing your marksmanship. As I've said this phase is concentrated on to the development of basic combat skills, whereas you will be taught how to train your skills, self-discipline, and will go through various team-building exercises," Sergeant Park explained.

Lisa had noticed that there's a bit of leeway. The Sergeants did not hang on their every breath, though they were still tough with them.

She caught Jungkook stealing glances on her so she was quick and gave him a wink.

'Miss me?' She wanted to deliver those words with that wink, but then the latter ignored her as if he didn't see her.

Lisa arched an eyebrow but did not stop stealing glances at Jungkook whenever she had the opportunity.

On the other hand, Jungkook was feeling uneasy. He could feel that Lisa was throwing on him a lot of glances and that wink almost made him nervous because they were with other soldiers at an open range.

'Darn, why is she so bold?' He complained inwardly.

To his surprise, Lisa walked towards him and gave him a salute as she greeted him.

"General, please help me zero my weapon. The Sergeants are busy with other soldiers, Sir. Is it okay if I ask for your help instead?" Lisa said with a smile, not leaving Jungkook' eyes.

She surely missed talking to him that's why she came up with this brilliant idea of hers to approach him directly because other Sergeants were very timely busy with other soldiers.

"General, please help me zero Juli." She repeated when Jungkook did not respond and stared at her with his usual blank expression.

"Juli?" Jungkook asked.

Lisa gave him her sweetest smile, her face blushed too and looked stunning under the bright sun rays.

"Yes, I've named my rifle Juli…" she answered and wanted to add 'it's our baby'.

But then she chose not to because Lana's face suddenly appeared before her eyes saying, 'You are so crazy. Totally obsesses!'

So she deliberately shook her head to shoo Lana's face and added, "I named this weapon because if you give something a name, you are more likely to treat it better. Treat your weapon well, and it will serve you well. I actually heard that from my dad."

Unconsciously, Jungkook chuckled that made Lisa stare at him more because of how perfect he looked with that sincere smile. Lisa wanted to freeze that moment to stare some more at that expression of his.

"Alright, give me that. I mean Juli. Then listen carefully. I will teach you how to do it," Jungkook said as he grabbed the rifle from Lisa.

Lisa moved closer to Jungkook to have a better look at how it was properly done.

She was too focussed and did not notice that her face was just an inch away from Jungkook.

Then she murmured, "By the way, General, I'll be visiting the Meteor Den regularly from now on before the curfew."

Jungkook froze because he could smell Lisa's warm breath. He felt like he was mesmerized as he stared at her face while she was still looking at the weapon.

He could hear his heartbeat that was thumping hard and loud.

"Soldier Chan! Go to your comrades now and we will start in a minute!" Torin shouted and startled both Jungkook and Lisa who jumped up suddenly away from Jungkook.

Jungkook returned Lisa's rifle and said, "It's done."

"Thank you, General," Lisa replied and quickly left.

"Bro, I see Rizie. But I can't figure out who is Rizie between you two," Torin mumbled and as he stared at Lisa with narrowed eyes then he turned his head to face Jungkook but to his dismay, Jungkook was no longer there.

'The heck... He's really fast in running away from me huh. You can run, Bro, but you can't hide from detective Torin!' He mused with flaring nostrils.