"What about my job?" Mother said through her teeth. "You know how long it took me to get it? It'll be highly uncomfortable for me to move and leave it."
"That's why we're suggesting you move into an apartment in a similar location."
"But why do we need to move, you should've already gotten that pathetic gang over with-"
"Mom, let's just move." I blurted out. The room became silent and everyone looked to me.
"What are you saying?"
"The leader is still alive. That means that the gang hierarchy remained for the most part and they won't hesitate to make a comeback. Just imagine you didn't have that watch on you to call backup." I said soullessy while staring at my mother. "The apartment complex they're offering is much more safer and there are generally better conditions than in the house."
The room remained quiet as everyone looked at my mother. She thought for a while with an unreadable expression.
Finally she sighed.
"Fine." Her tone indicated that she was completely done with the situation. She glared at the secretary. "This better not happen again. I signed a contract to be safe and not be involved in this anymore. This is the last time I'll take it." She said through her teeth.
"I deeply apologise ma'am. I'll make sure this won't happen again." The secretary said.
As the 2 elder women began discussing the terms for the apartment, I got pulled out of the room by Taeyong. He decided to show me around the base.
It was beautiful and massive. Majority of it was done, although there were some parts that were not accessible yet.
We walked down to the lower grounds and got met with a shooting range. Taeyong smirked at me.
"Wanna try it out?"
I smiled. "Let's see if I'm still better at aiming than you, dumbass."
"We'll see."
We went into the armory next to the shooting range and I was met by all kinds of machinery.
I looked around and tried on some of the guns, but in the end chose a Ruger 10/22 rifle. It fit perfectly and was the best of my liking. I looked to the other side of the room and saw Taryong loading a basic AK-47.
"I see you're not getting very creative there." I said sarcastically beginning to load my gun as well.
"Sometimes basics can be deadly." He answered. "Besides, seeing you haven't shot a gun for over 2 years comforts me, so I rather not take risks."
"I'll still kick your ass."
"You can try. Anyway, how many shots are we going for?" He looked up at me with his gun fully loaded.
"Let's take it easy. 10 shots and whomever has the best accuracy wins. You'll need to buy me ice cream." I said with a smirk. He laughed.
"Bold of you to assume that I'll be the one buying YOU ice cream." Taeyong grinned and ushered me to the shooting range.
We both put on noise cancelling headphones and glasses and began aiming at the targets. I felt this rush of adrenaline and excitement that I haven't felt in so long. Blood rushed up to my ears, but I contained my emotions and focused on the dot in the middle. I felt the rifle become a part of me as I adjusted it in my hands.
I drowned myself into the silence caused my the headphones and...
Shot
I barely heard any noise, not only because of the noise cancelling headphones, but also because of the silencer on the rifle. I smiled to myself as I saw the bullet hole right by the red hole in the middle.
The next one was the same. And the next. With each I got closer to the dot in the middle.
And as I shot my last 3 bullets, they all hit bulls eye. It was amazing.
I heard Taeyong from next to me fire his last shot, so I took off my noise cancelling headphones. I felt my heart beating excitedly after the returned memories of those 10 shots.
He was the first to look at my target. His eyes widened in disbelief but then he smiled.
"I knew it... genius never goes away nor changes. I guess 3 of the shots hit bulls eye?" He asked, obviously knowing the answer anyway. I peaked at his.
"Wow, your aim has improved a lot. 2 years ago you would sometimes put holes through the walls." I giggled and he rolled his eyes.
"Fine. Ice cream for you it is."
I jumped up and down like a little kid and Taeyong giggled.
"Let's go put these away before the closest convenience store closes." He said and I nodded, already knowing which ice creams I wanna get.
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