"Aren’t you going out tonight?" May asked Keira as they prepared to go to bed.
Keira shook her head and threw herself on her bunk bed. After a second, she covered her face with her pillow as she kicked her feet.
May laughed, Keira was so stressed-out with the incident at the Conference Room B.
"Don’t worry, who knows that dish might become a potion and Wolf will fall for you," teased May followed by a burst of laughter. However, a pillow quickly landed on her face.
"What the heck!" She exclaimed and threw back the pillow at Keira’s face.
"You two, stop playing around and let us sleep!" Lana scolded.
Keira pouted her lips and looked directly at May.
"I’ll be on a week hiatus for going out before curfew May. I will let that incident subside..." she murmured.
"Week hiatus my ass! You mean a day hiatus!" May burst out.
Keira ignored May and just stuck her tongue out then lay down on her bed as she closed her eyes. She couldn’t forget Zach’s crumpled face. The next time around she would make sure that it was Zach’s drooling face...
Meanwhile, Zach was having a very uncomfortable night as his stomach ached and grumbled several times.
He was definitely going to make Torin’s life miserable...
.....
As days past by, Keira was feeling more of a soldier as she was getting adapted with everyday routine. She was getting used to how everything was supposed to work and what they should or shouldn’t do.
"How many days it has been?" Lana asked May with an arched eyebrow as she watched Keira drinking her bottled water.
"It’s been five days already... She said that it would be a week hiatus, so two more days I guess," May said with a grin.
True to her words, Keira hadn’t bothered Zach. Based on their observation, she was even avoiding interactions with him unlike before when she was bluntly staring at Zach whenever he was monitoring their training or giving them lectures. But lately, Keira did not even spare a single look to Zach intentionally avoiding looking at him.
Lana looked at the army unit patch on her left shoulder. At that day the first phase of their training ended.
"Soldiers, welcome to our shooting range! We will now proceed with the second phase of your training! Learning the basic skills of a soldier!" Shouted Sgt. Park.
"She looks so excited," Torin whispered to Zach, pointing to Keira who was listening intently to Sgt. Cole, as the latter explained how to shoot the M-16 A2 rifle.
Zach did not respond but looked at Keira.
"You are required to shoot at least 28 out of the 40 targets that pop up. You will gain the badge of "Marksman", "Sharpshooter", or "Expert" depending on how many of the 40 targets you will hit," explained Sgt. Park.
They began to fire and Keira, with a wide smile, enjoyed what she was doing. Drey was beside her as male troops were mixed with them.
"Ahhhh! Yessss!" Forgetting that she was in the middle of the military training, Keira shouted when she missed only two targets. She even gave Drey their usual high five.
"Good job, Soldier Chan, but you are not allowed to scream like that!" Scolded Zach all of a sudden that left Keira tongue-tied.
She had two more days before she was planning to start bugging Zach again so she was maintaining her distance with him during those days.
"Sorry! I will not shout next time!" Answered Keira.
"You’re so dead...!" Zach mumbled and Keira gasped because she realized that she forgot to address Zach properly by his rank.
So she repeated, "Sorry, General Lim. I will not shout next time!"
Zach frowned and said, "You think you’re a ghost, huh, shouting like that and not caring about your surroundings?! Moreover, forgetting to show basic respect to your superior?! Then you should act like a ghost the whole day! Don’t talk to anyone!" Zach commanded sternly, which made Torin arch his eyebrow.
’What is it this time, Bro? Is he in his period?’ Torin mused because he felt that Zach was bullying Keira for no reason. A whole day of not talking? Couldn’t he punish her with doing push-ups instead? For Torin, it was equal to death if he was not able to talk the whole day.
"Did you understand what I just said, soldier?!" Zach asked with a creased forehead but Keira did not respond and ignored him.
"Soldier Chan! Did you understand?!" This time Zach shouted.
Keira blew air at her forehead and said, "General Lim, you just commanded me to act like a ghost, right? So I am just doing it! That’s why I’m not answering. I’m a ghost, General! Am I alive now?"
Torin burst out in a fit of laughter but quickly suppressed it, seeing how gloomy Zach’s face had become.
"Sergeant Cole!" Zach shouted and the latter hastily walked towards him.
"Yes, General?" Asked Sgt. Cole.
"What do we do to pedantic soldiers?" Asked Zach, not moving his gaze from Keira’s eyes.
"They must scrub toilets until they look like they just came from Home Depot, General." Answered Sgt. Cole.
Keira’s jaw dropped, still looking at Zach’s face.
’Are you for real?!’ She wanted to shout out.
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