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He pressed my index finger pulling the trigger. A bullet fired out from the other end of the gun with a loud bang. The reverse force made my body pressure on Jungkook who was standing still, baring my body with his.

He slowly lowered his arms along with mine. Still, the vibrations remained in my body. He spaced apart from me letting me breathe fast. Crap, it felt like ages.

Jungkook glanced at the target board to check how much we succeed. The bullet showed as a black mark near the red dot. He smacked his lips,

" So close," He muttered and drew his attention to me. Those orbs scanned me head to toes. His face emotions were unreadable. What's on his mind? It looked like he saw a strange insect crawling on the floor. An astounded expression was covering his face.

" You are even smaller than Jimin hyung. It felt like holding like a small kid"

I startled with his words. Breathing fast, I stared at his face with my mouth half opened, trying to find some words. Did he feel something strange?No,I can't let him think something stupid. After some quick thinking, I again came up with a lame excuse. How am I getting all the dumb ideas in the world when I'm in this kind of situation?

" Yah! I'll grow all right, I'm just a late bloomer" His forehead furrowed with my explanation. His big doe eyes were scrutinizing my figure. He was immersed in his thoughts.

" Late bloomer you say?"

I nodded with a awkward smile. What is this guy thinking about anyway? I changed the topic before he get too interested in it.

" Yeah, can we get to the point again?" After he was done staring and me he shrugged his shoulders and glued his eyes on the target board. Man, I wish I had a superpower to read his mind right now.

" Yeah. Whatever. It can't be...it's not possible"  He mumbled under his breath and glanced at me once again.

" What are you blabbering?" I huffed him.

" Nothing...Let's practice few more shots. This time you will do it without my help" Pulling out some small pieces of equipment from the drawer, he stepped near me. Two earpieces were on his opened palm.

" Here, wear this. Those are ear protections to reduce the sound of the shot "  While wearing one on his ear, he explained to me like a good teacher who's trying to make his student absorb every bit of his lesson. I picked the small plastic thing from his hand and confusedly glanced back at him.

" Umm...How do I put this thing?" He snatched them from my hand and fixed them in my ears like he was expecting me to say it. I could see some kind of unexplainable thing is written on his face as he gazed at me. He took his hands off me and paced back.

" Ok, now go ahead. Try to shoot at the bull's eye"  he crossed his arms and stood aside to inspect my movements. For about three hours we were practicing. It was hard to concentrate all the time. Sometimes he frustratingly groaned when he saw me screwing up.

" Yeong Seok-ah!How many times do I have to tell you to relax your body? Don't give that much tension to your muscles" Rubbing his temple, he gave me a disapproving look. He just kept yelling every time he saw even a tiny mistake of mine. Looks like he's waiting till I mess up so he can shout at me.

" Just stop yelling ,for god's sake, I'm trying to focus here" I threw a irritated glance at making him sneer at me. Such a grumpy man. I aimed and shoot at the board, ignoring his frustrating groans. It flew away from the red dot, pinning in between two black circles.

" Wow what a shot, you aced it"  The guy near me sarcastically commented me clapping his hands together in a mockingly way. I glared at him and positioned myself once again.

" Shut up!I'll do it next time" I snapped at him and shot another bullet taking a careful aim. To my embarrassment and indignation, it flew even more further away than the last bullet I shot.

" Shut up, I'll do it next time"  Jungkook mimicked with a silly high pitch tone and started laughing. I rolled my eyes fuming with anger. Seeing my face made him laugh even harder.

" Ha ha ha..very funny" I scoffed and furrowed my face at him.

Suddenly the door opened reviling a guy. His blue bangs were again tied up to a man bun like the day I saw him first, letting half of the bangs fall in his face. Taehyung strode towards both of us. His lips were formed to a thin line with no smile.

"Time's up guys, we gotta get going now" Jungkook's smile dropped. He clamped his jaws together and looked at Taehyung. His face was embedded with the dark clouds.

" Let's go hyung" Jungkook stormed out from the room throwing the earbuds in table,  leaving me behind along with Taehyung. Did he forget we are here too or did he just ignored me? I smell something more than that. Taehyung let out a heavy sigh, breaking the silence between us. He turned to me.

" Come on. Let's go" He took the gun from my hand and placed it inside the locker with the other gun. I removed my earpiece and handed him. I blankly stared at nowhere while Taehyung locked and secured the weapons. What caused Jungkook to act like that? I gazed at the man who was moving the target boards away to the corner.

" Why does Jungkook act like that whenever you guys mention your boss?" Taehyung brushed his hands together and softly sighed.

" We all have a dark past. Each of us has a  story that made us ended up like this. In Jungkook's case, It just happened to be that he was a such a young age when he faced that"

Do they all have a dark past? Just like me?

" What happened to him?" I was curious to know all about it.

"He'll tell you himself. It's his story to tell"

Taehyung puts an arm around my shoulder trying to wrap up the conversation. None of them was willing to tell me what was really going on here. I guess I have to wait until it's time.

" Let's go. It's not good to  be late for your first job  you know" Again turning to his gangster mode, blue banged guy smirked at me.

" Sure" I chuckled at his statement. I turned to him. " So aren't you good at guns?"  He proudly smiled at my question.

" I'm not good as Kook, but I do have a special skill" His smile was so wide. I was curious about his skill.

" Can I see it? " Taehyung nodded at me and took a small weapon from his pants pocket. I recognised that it was the same blade he threatened me with.

" Watch carefully" He took the blade in his hand and stood where a red  line was drawn on the floor. The target boards were quite far. He slowly aimed, incredibly balancing his hands and targeting carefully at the dot, he swung his arm making it flying cutting the wind. It must have taken only mili seconds and the next thing I knew is that it was tangled right in the middle of the bullseye.

" Wow! it's amazing!" My hands gathered to a loud appulse. He gave me his usual rectangular boxy smile.

" It took me about six months to practice that thing" Well, let me tell you it's gonna take me all my life to do that. I doubt that too...

" Let's move now"

We both went upstairs. Everyone looked dead serious. Darken faces, It was like the sky before a thunderstorm. I wonder how their boss looks like...

" We are taking two cars. Jin hyung, you take Yeong Seok with you " Jin nodded at him as Namjoon turned to him. He called the other two men as well.

" Right, Hoseok and Taehyung, you two are coming with us" they both scooted towards us as he said.

"That leaves me, Jungkook, Jimin and Yoongi hyung. We'll follow your Car. Hobi you know where to go right?" Namjoon asked the man near him. Hoseok hummed as a response.

" Let's get going then" Yoongi grabbed the keys from the table and hurried towards the garage.

"Meet you there then" Jimin followed his partner. So did Jungkook. Boy, he looks nervous. He was trying to hide the nervousness by wearing a stern look on his face.

Namjoon left us with Jin. Seokjin led us to a black car parked next to the house. The car windows were tinted black so anyone can't see inside from the windows. It was perfect for our business. I and Taehyung got in the back seat. He too looked nervous but not much as Jungkook.

" Buckle up everyone. Hobi, lead the way"

Jin said from the driving seat. He turned the gear and accelerated. I held to my knees as we started moving. No one spoke except for Hoseok who was giving Jin the directions. Taehyung kept wetting his dry lips from time to time to overcome the anxiety. We were driving on a totally different, strange road. The only thing I could see was the shade of the trees.

" Hyung, take a left, park it inside there" Hoseok pointed to the left. I peered out as the car slowly drove in a steady lane. He pulled out the car and shut down the engine.

" We are here, get down guys" Hopping off the car, Hoseok called the rest of the members. Taehyung unbuckle his seatbelt and opened the door to get down, with a small sigh escaping him. I was still glued to my seat. I was disquieted by the fact I was going to finally meet the guy my father wanted me to find. For a moment I was imbued with my thoughts.

"Yeong Seok-ah, you ok ?" Pair of black eyes were watching me from the mirror. Jin's face looks concerned. I hummed and nodded as a reply before getting down.

I exhaled some misty air and followed behind Taehyung. The other car pulled over near ours as well. Four men got down from it. Younger two followed the elders. Soon we gathered together. I gazed at the man who was constantly wobbling his cheeks nervously. He wasn't looking straight but at the ground with deepened orbs. I couldn't do anything to help him but to worriedly gaze at him.

The place looked abandoned.

The halfway built building was kind of daunting me. It didn't looked like it had a human touch for a long time. But I could see that the long time abandoned place had gained attention towards some people as I saw an expensive car which was probably belonged to a billionaire was parked near the entrance, accompanied by four more cars. The hooting of an owl made me slightly flinch from it's sound.

This night is going to be long, I can feel it.

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