Monday April 24rd 2012. My 16th birthday… I had no idea what I was getting. But I was on the way to school on my bike as usual. Me and Catherine now date and have done for a while. We were very happy together. I was riding with James, Nathaniel, Conor and Rose. We all rode fast, so it was no problem. We all arrived and locked our bikes. I’m always first because I have the lightest bike making me more nimble. Then we strolled indoors, James giving me birthday beats on the way in. After we entered the Student entrance, I saw Catherine standing there waiting for me. I walked up to her, kissed her and hugged her. “Happy birthday babe.” “Thanks. Are you still coming over mine tonight?” I smirked. “Of course…” She said trying to hide a grin. Then it was time for tutor so we walked in. The day went surprisingly fast. After we all left our last lesson, we unlocked our bike and rode home. Half way, my phone vibrated. My Dad sent me a text. “Happy Birthday Son! I’m picking you up at 4pm. Is that okay?” I texted him back saying that was fine. I said goodbye to the other lot and walked indoors. As I shut the door, James shouted “You’re going to lose!!!” I asked him what he was on about but rode off before I could finish my sentence. I shrugged it off just before my Mom ran at me and gave me a huge hug. “Happy Birthday Darling!” She squealed while squeezing me. “Mum, I’m not 5. This is my last good Birthday.” My stepdad walked up to me after Mom let me go. “Here you go Bud. Enjoy.” He gave me Burnout Crash. (The new Burnout racing game.) “Thanks bud.” I quickly rushed upstairs and had a shower and got changed. I put on my new Bench. aftershave and jacket and went downstairs. Just as I sat down, my Dad pulled up. “Siiigh. See you tomorrow Mum!” “Okay Hun! Have fun!” I stood at the doorway a little puzzled. But quickly got to my Dad. I opened the van door and hopped in. “Happy Birthday! He handed me a letter. I opened it. I wasn’t money, which puzzled me. I flipped the slip inside over to reveal something. *16 Player Paintball Tournament VIP Pass* I flipped as I realised that 14 people I knew were going to a Paintball tournament for my birthday! “Oh my God!!! When is it..?” “In 15 minutes. That’s why I picked you up early.” I fastened my seatbelt and awaited the great event that was approaching…
We arrived at a Paintball HQ based at an old Marines Training Track and HQ. I was getting more by the minute. We pulled into the car park, got out and walked to the door. As I walked in the door, I saw a few faces I knew. James, Catherine, Conor, Rose, Nathaniel, Lauren and Lou. I said hello to them all and kissed Catherine. “Surprised?” She purred at me. “Yeah, you had me all fooled.” As I said that, a paintball manager took us all into a room. As we sat down, we noticed a few other people we didn’t know. One person caught my eye. She was beautiful. Although I was with Catherine, still found her looking lush. But I’d have Catherine. We all watched the safety briefing and the rules of different game modes. After he had finished, we all got suited up and armed. As we were receiving our guns one of the assistants shouted something. “Who’s the Birthday Boy?” I raised my hand and walked up to him. He was holding a weird version of the normal guns. “Here you go. And do you want a certain type of background music..?” a humongous grin appeared on my face. I turned to Conor. “Get me my iPod…” “What type of music is it we will be playing..? “Dubstep.”
I wasn’t a team captain unfortunately. But I had Conor, James and Rose on my team along with a few paintball veterans that worked there. All the others were against me. My suit had a few golden spots on it to symbolize that I was a VIP. It was Capture the Flag first. As we headed to our base, they headed to theirs. When we were ready, a loud speaker sounded. “CAPTURE THE FLAG. 3… “2… 1… GO!” And as he shouted go, my Dubstep kicked in. Deep Dirt Hype by Cookie Monsta. Me and Conor joked and sang a little to Tempa T’s lyrics. Then a paintball whizzed past my helmet. I jumped back and looked at the other team’s base. Me, James and Conor charged at them. I pulled my trigger once and about 6 paintballs sprayed out. Fully automatic. Unlike the standard Semi-automatic guns. We continued to run at it and James got sniped in the knee. He dropped to the floor. Me and Conor didn’t notice and continued running. I dived behind 3 barrels and Conor jumped behind a car. I peeked up and saw Catherine and the Beautiful girls stood there. I could have them both. There in my sight… “Catherine, Emma! Move!” a veteran shouted and they scrambled out of sight. “Damn it.” I whispered. “We could go around, take the flag and run and gun it home.” “Good idea, you take point.” Conor happily took the lead as we snuck into the teams base. A little battle was going on outside that was keeping the veterans occupied. Then I saw a sniper and pulled Conor down as I hit the deck. “There’s a sniper. I’ll go for a few shots, you flank them and get them from behind.” I popped out of cover and sprayed about 24 paintballs at the sniper. Conor took off in the other direction. All shots missed so I jumped back in cover to reload. Then I heard “Take this you stalker!” 2 shots fired and the sniper screamed. It sounded like Lou. In fact, it WAS Lou! Conor then jumped down and we sprinted towards the wooden flag, knowing that the other team heard our shots. Conor dropped his gun and ran in front of me. I covered behind him while James appeared from the bushes and covered the front. “RUNNN!” I saw Lou get up and shot a paintball at Conor’s back. He dived in pain, throwing the flag. James picked it up and ran for about 3 seconds until Emma appeared and sprayed him until he couldn’t move. James threw the flag backwards as he was getting sprayed. I shot Emma in the arms to make her drop the gun. She dropped and fell next to James, writhing in pain. I stumbled to my feet, picked up the flag and ran for my life. I heard paintballs whizz past me as I ran. Just turned the corner to enter our base when Catherine appeared carrying 2 guns and our flag. “You WHAT!?” I screamed. “Nothing personal babe. Just business.” She smirked. She raised the guns and pointed them. Then Rose darted towards her spraying her with paintballs. I quickly unhooked our flag off of her back and ran with them both. Jumped and stuck them both in the dirt and a loud bell rang symbolizing the match was over. I turned around only to see 2 paintballs darting towards me. They hit my goggles on my helmet and I flew back in surprise. I ripped my helmet and goggles off and gazed at who shot me. Emma and Catherine stood there with a gun each. I chuckled as I stumbled to my feet. I had to recover from my hit but I was fine 10 minutes later and played 4 more games. Zombie apocalypse, Search and Destroy, Team Deathmatch and Stop the Terrorist. (I was the terrorist and Alpha Zombie. I won Zombie and Team Deathmatch but lost Stop the Terrorist since it was 15 against 1.) Then Catherine came around my house afterwards and slept around. She had to cuddle me gently since I was sprayed with bullets in the last game. I couldn’t wait until next week. I just wanted to know what that week had in store for me…
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