The following morning we had breakfast at the usual time and then Justin wanted us all to meet him in the shooting gallery. Ben and I were walking behind all the others but we weren’t holding hands this time. We weren’t really allowed to fraternize with each other. It was one of the big rules arou
Ben and I stayed in that clearing for most of the night. We laid on the ground while we were staring up at the moon and stars and we were just talking about everything and anything.“How is it possible that you’ve never had a boyfriend before?” Ben asked. “I don’t know. It’s just never happened.” I
But I guess, I have had worse. They used to put me through hell week at the old base. They would do that to me every couple of months where we would only get a couple of hours of sleep that whole week. It’s meant to prepare us for when we are out on missions and we may not sleep much at all for day
BEN POVYou know, after having my heart broken I told myself that I was never going to fall in love again. I was determined that I wasn’t going to get my heart stomped on again. My mother always told me that I fell in love way too hard. And I never saw a problem with that. Not until Ellen met that
“You bet he does. You all have to beat her record now.” Justin said. But Eric was laying on the ground, looking like he was about to die. It was pretty funny to see actually. He was beaten by a girl and he is always going around talking about how tough he is. He’s not as tough as he thinks he is.
LILLY POVWhen we got to the helicopter pad, Justin was already waiting for us and we got on board and found our seats before we put on our equipment and we lifted off. We always had to have a senior with us whenever we went on a mission and this time it was Justin. Even though he’s only 25. He’s n
It was still dark and there should be patrols running the border but we couldn’t see them. They must have already done the pass here so Justin gave us the signal and we started moving in on the pack. We made it through the forest without incident and came out the other side in the territory. We no
As soon as we got back to the base we put all of our equipment back and made sure that the magazines were taken out of the guns and everything before we handed them back to the armory and then we headed to the mess hall. We’d already missed breakfast but the cooks had made extra food when they knew