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"Jisung, shot by a member of the Red team. Please go to the jail for 2 minutes." I take a swift look around to find his teammate or someone else and see no one. I move my gun back and sit up to see the boys with open mouths." "Wow Hyejin your aim is really no joke." I smile and laugh at the shocked Leeknow that complimented me and I speak back "I get really competitive with this stuff." The speaker erupts once more "Seungmin, you may reenter the field." My expression changes. "Seungmin knows that me and Hyunjin are here, If he finds his teammates and makes an alliance, there is a chance they will get us out." I say and are met with conflicted faces on what to do. I speak again. "We can't make anymore alliances and this game ends in 35 minutes, we could wait it out and continue shooting from above or we can change locations to somewhere no one would expect." They think and we all agree on changing locations. "Wait, how is your aim from below though?" Chan asks and I smile anxiously. "I've never shot before in general so I have no idea." There mouths fly open and I put my finger on my lips to shush them before they yell. "Yes I've never shot before, and no I haven't even played paintball before. I'm just really competitive." There faces get even more shocked and they nod. Calming down before I scan the area to see if we can go down yet. As soon as I stand over the half wall and yellow paintball comes flying over my head, causing me to duck and everyone else to do the same. "Yellow?" Hyunjin asks as we make eye contact and it clicks. "Seungmin." We say at the same time. "Yellow team and Blue team has formed an alliance." The speaker erupts and I find a hole where Seungmin shot at me, I point the gun out and don't see him but instead see his footprints in the sand leading to the watch tower. I signal for everyone to point their guns at the ladder and barricade it with the wood that is in the corner, as I get up and look around to see 3 other footsteps on different sides of the watch tower coming to us as well. "There all here." I say and some faces fill with panic as others fill with excitement. I look around and see a large rope attached to the roof of the watch tower leading to the floor. Team Blue and Yellow start banging on the wood and I whisper yell. "There's a rope here, I know it's a long way to drop but hold tight. After we get to the floor we will head behind the shooting barricade a small run away from here." They nod and I send Felix first, than Hyunjin, I look back and see the wood boards lifting. I tell Chan to go and It's just me and Leeknow. I cup his face and kiss his cheek, "You've got this, ok?" He nods and I grab the rope, handing it to him. He slides down and reaches the floor. As soon as I grab the rope the wood on top of the ladder  comes off and Han comes out. I guess I didn't hear his release over the speakers. I run and jump, grabbing the rope for dear life. I start running as soon as I touch the floor, away from where I told the members to go. As I'm running I hear shooting, The Yellow and Blue team is shooting at me and I make a distraction by shooting the other side, causing them to look away. I signal for Hyunjin to come over Leaving Chan, Leeknow and Felix on the other side. Hyunjin sneaks over behind the houses and hides with me. I Signal the other boys on our team to shoot with me and Hyunjin while there looking away. We start shooting. "Changbin out." "Han out." "Chan out" "Seungmin out" "I.N out." "The game is now over." We look up at the clock. We already used all the time? He stand up and highfive each other before running over to Leeknow and Felix and jumping around with them. "Good job everyone!" The Green and Blue team plus Chan come over and we do a group hug. "This was fun!" I yell and we talk and laugh on the way out of the field. We give back our dirty protective pads and walk out with our stomachs rumbling once more. "Hyejin are you ready to settle in at the Straykids dorm?" I smile wide and nod. "Of course I am." We smile and make it back to the Van. I am one of the last members to get into the van and I sit next to Chan and Seungmin. "Ah, my once enemies." We laugh and talk for the majority of the ride until I feel sleepy. The words of Seungmin and Chan slowly fogging out of my head as I close my eyes and subconsciously rest my head. "Babygirl, we're here." My eyes flutter open and I look up to see a red faced Chan. I smile at the boy and he takes my hand in his, kissing the back of it. We stand up and walk out of the van catching up to the others. The manager goes to the trunk and grabs my two suitcases and some more. "Your mother sent these over miss Song." I smile and hug the manager. "Thank you!" They nod and I take as many suitcases as I could carry, accidentally leaving some behind. "Would you like some help miss clumsy?" I turn around and see Han carrying two of my suitcases just like when we first met, sending nostalgia throughout my memories making me laugh. "It seems like I do Squirrel boy." We laugh and take the Suitcases inside