Louis POV
“Yes sure.” I heard Codie say through the wall. “Yep, sounds good.” Either she was talking to herself… or she was on the phone. “Yeah, see you next week then.” Okay, maybe she’s on the phone. I continued lying on my bed, trying not to get up. Last night was a good night, I went to bed early, and got some good shut eye. Now, I can’t be bothered moving. “Alright, goodbye.” I hear her say.
“Hey Falls, how’s it going?” obviously she’s called Clarisse. “Would you like to get all the girls out here in about an hour?” what was she planning? “Yep, make sure they’re wearing something they can run in, okay?” this didn’t sound very good. “Alright, see you then, byes for now.”
I kept thinking over what we could be doing today. It couldn’t be too much, I still have a broken arm, which isn’t useful. I got up and put on a shirt. And shorts. I opened the door and got ready to attack Codie when she came out of her room. Then she didn’t. I hear a door open behind me. Oh, that was just Harry. For a minute there I was thinking that Codie had gone through the bathroom and came out of my room. Hmm, what could have happened? I’m fairly sure she was just about to come out of her room.
I started opening the door. She was sitting on her bed, eyes open. “Codie?” I asked quietly. No response. “Codie?” I asked again. Still no response. Don’t tell me. She’s fallen asleep sitting up, with her eyes open, hasn’t she?
“Codie. Hello? If you are asleep I will stab you, because you are creeping me out so bad right now.” I stood in front of her, my spine shivered, it was so creepy when people fall asleep with their eyes open. “CODIE!” I screamed in her ear.
“OH MY F*CKING GOD! WHAT THE F*CK WAS THAT FOR?! I WAS HAPPILY SLEEPING AND YOU DECIDED-”
“YOU WERE SLEEPING WITH YOUR EYES OPEN!” I cut her off.
“Oh, okay then. Maybe next time shake my shoulders instead of screaming and scaring the complete shit out of me.” She said, raising her eyebrows at me.
“Who were you talking to before?” I asked.
“Falls, why?” she said, standing up. She grabbed my hand and interlocked our fingers.
“No, before her. I heard the conversation.” I said.
“Oh, someone from a news television show. I wasn’t paying too much attention as to which one it was, but I have an interview thing next week with them and the cameras are gonna follow me around all day for ‘A Day in the Life of Codie Badress’. I really think it should be called ‘Life, Cars and One Direction… Wait, What?!’ I think it suits.” She grabbed a box of cereal while she was talking.
“One Direction in there because of your amazing boyfriend?” I asked as I wrapped my arms around her waist. I swung her around before she could respond, making her scream. I put her down again before I dropped her.
“I wouldn’t go as far as amazing, but you’re okay I suppose…” she trailed off, looking at the box of cereal.
“Okay? Okay? I made that birthday party for you and I’m just ‘okay’? Well, I think I might be appreciated more with someone else.” I said, closing my eyes and turning away. “Goodbye Codie.” I joked.
“What?!” she screamed at me, I turned around to find her eyes widened in worry.
“I was joking Codie.” I explained.
“Thank god.” She answered to me. She relaxed and smiled to show that she got the joke. “I actually don’t feel like cereal.” She screwed her face up as she looked at the box.
“What are you gonna have then?” I asked her.
“Wake the other guys up, I’m gonna make pancakes. As well as they have to be up before the hour is over for my plans.” She instructed me.
“What if I make the pancakes and you wake the boys up?” I offered. She hated cooking just as much as she hated waking up the boys, she was now stuck in a dilemma. At least that was what I had thought.
“What if you don’t wake the boys up and you don’t get the pancakes-” I thought that would be enough torture, but apparently not. “-but I will make a stack of them. They will be in front of you, but when you reach for one, I’ll take them away and eat them all myself.” My answer came as soon as she finished the sentence.
“I have thought this over carefully and have decided that you can make the pancakes and I’ll wake the guys up.” I said walking out of the room.
“That’s what I thought.” I heard Codie say as she got everything out of the cupboards. My plan of attack was to wake Harry up first, then go in order down on the bottom floor. “Dude, you want pancakes you have to get downstairs pronto.” I told Harry after I opened the door. If he made a response, I didn’t hear it. “Zayn, pancakes, now or never.” I told him before leaving his door. “Liam, move, fairly sure you can smell the food.” I told him. Then I went to Niall’s room. This would be easy. “Pancakes.” I said as I opened the door.
“Pancakes. Food. What? Huh?” I don’t think he had any idea what was going on, but I left the door open and walked away. I got to the table and sat next to Harry.
“What can today’s breakfast conversation be?” Harry asked.
“I got a good one. Pet peeves.” I said as Codie walked in.
“You wanna know my biggest pet peeve?” I heard Codie ask.
“What is it?” I asked her back.
“When people walk in shorts, ugg boots and a massive jumper.” She said seriously. I looked at her weirdly.
“Codie.” I said simply.
“Yeah?” obviously she hadn’t picked up on it yet.
“What are you wearing?” I continued. She looked first at her jumper, then her ugg boots, then her shorts.
“Shut up!” she shouted at me before storming off into the kitchen.
Codie’s POV
“Number 1, Louis Tomlinson.” I said handing him the first gun. “Number 2, Harry Styles.” I said handing him the second. “Three, Zayn Malik.” Obviously I was handing him the next one. “Four, Liam Payne.” Yep, you guessed it, he got the next one. “Five, Niall Horan.” Niall got the fifth. “Six, Elysse.” I handed Elysse hers. If it was real, she probably would have shot someone by now. “Seven, Clarisse.” I gave her the seventh. “Eight, Jamie.” I handed her the eighth. “Nine, Amelie.” I handed her the second to last gun. “Ten is me.” I grabbed the last gun, and kept it for myself.
I grabbed my phone out of my pocket on my shirt. “Now soldiers, this shall be girls vs. boys laser skirmish. First, we will go to the ‘war zone’ and get you familiar with the surroundings. But even before that, we need to go over the rules of cheating. If you do not agree to these rules you shall not be playing. Rule number one, do not go outside of the area. That shouldn’t be too hard seen as it’s fenced off. Rule two, no reviving after your lives have run out. Your amount of lives depends on the scenario we are playing. Right, so far, that’s the rules. Friendly fire does not count as a hit, letting you know now.
“Thing is, if you hit someone in your own team more than four times, you are out. Not the person who got hit, you, the person who shot them are. I have my ways of checking if you are cheating, so be careful.” I clicked the finish button on my secret way of checking. It needed to know who had what gun and what the basic rules were before the different scenarios, those rules were entered in on buttons to click. My army style camo pants were awesome with my black cargo boots. My shirt was just a tank top with a pocket on it.
“Alright ladies.” I said with my army commander voice on. “Today, we shall be playing two rounds of each scenario. That means over eight games. Although it depends on how long you can survive. The forest is not for city folk, so be careful. If you get attacked by wombats, it’s not my problem, it will be yours. If a kangaroo decides that you look like a good punching bag, try and get away. Don’t fight back. Any questions?” I looked around the back veranda for a show of hands. There were none. “Good, now let’s get moving.” I started jogging out of the veranda down to the ‘war zone’.
So you know, the ‘war zone’ is just a part of the forest I fenced off to use for laser skirmish. It has awesome trees, a creek and a clearing perfect for shooting people. If the boys think they can win against us, well they don’t know us very well. We always use the same method, and we’ve never lost. Well, we haven’t played in a while because I haven’t had a group stay for a few months, but this stuff is like riding a bicycle. You can never forget how to kick-ass.
We finally reach the ‘war zone’ and I prepare my soldiers. “Fist scenario, capture the flag. Sounds easy right? Always a good way to start off the newbies. So, guys, you have this piece of material.” I grabbed a 1 meter by 1 meter piece of fluoro blue material and handed it to the closest guy, Harry. “Now, you have to hang it in your half of the fenced area. We have our piece, it’s bright orange. You have to make it very visible, otherwise you are disqualified, so, you can only hang it by one corner. There is no wrapping it around any braches to make it difficult to get off. Your guns will shut down when the flag is captured. No you shall not know my secrets. You have unlimited lives, you will just have to wait ten seconds until you reboot, but that’s only the first three minutes. After that, if you get shot you die. Good, we understand each other.
“You have four scouts, who search the area for the other teams flag. The last person stays behind to protect the flag. If I find that all five people have been trying to find the flag, I will not be happy. Right, we have five minutes to hide the flag and figure out tactics. So you guys know, we’ve only been beaten once, maybe twice so don’t be surprised if you lose.” I turned around to walk away before a hand grabbed my shoulder and turned me around. Before I could do anything they’d planted their lips on mine. Then they took them away.
“Just in case I get killed and don’t return, just don’t forget, I will always love you.” Louis said in his British accent, pretending he was going to war.
“And I-I-I will always, love you-o-ou
I will always, love you.” I sang to him mockingly. “Thing is love, if you actually died, it won’t be honourable. If anything, I would be the one going to war.” My friends always said that if I wasn’t a driver I would be a kernel in the army. Or singing, either or. After I finally broke away from him we went to the girls spot, where we were to put our flag.
“Do our usual?” I asked.
“Has it ever failed?” Amelie asked me back.
“That would be a no.” Clarisse answered.
“So I think that means yes, we will do what we normally do.” Jamie said.
“Well what are we waiting for?” Elysse said, holding her gun with a killer glint in her eyes.
“I am so glad you’re not holding a real one of those.” I said under my breath.
“What?” Elysse asked, unaware of what I said.
“Nothing.” I answered with a smile. I walked to the tree and hung the flag at the bottom. “I’ll see you at the end girls.” I told them, slinging the gun over my shoulder. I grabbed the bottom branch and climbed the gum tree until I got to the familiar dip where the branches stretched out from. This is why people never won against us, because I’m skilled in tree climbing. Wait until the ‘Zombie Apocalypse’ scenario, that is when we are in complete awesomeness…
Louis’ POV
At the moment we were tied, we only had one scenario to go. Zombie Apocalypse. Great, how would we win this time? “Guys, you can choose what you want to be first because us girls are gonna kick your ass either way.”
“We’ll be human first.” I blurted out. Right, unlimited lives for three minutes, then we are to die. Great, just great Lou. Stellar choice.
“Alright, you know what your life situation is. Three minutes unlimited, after that, if you die, you die. Good luck, and may you die soon. Oh, also, if you shoot the target at the other end of the playing field, the zombie’s become mortal. On that note, we shall go to our start point, and so shall you.” She turned around and started walking away. Her hair in a messy bun looked like gold in the sun.
“Louis, stop staring at her and let’s go. Think of tactics.” Zayn told me.
“What tactics do we have to use that they haven’t crushed?” Liam said rubbing his temples. He hated being frustrated, and right now all of us were pretty damn frustrated. We were only tied because the girls didn’t want us to feel like complete shit.
“Uh, um, well we could… I got nothing.” Harry told us before shaking his hair to get the dirt out of it.
“Um, don’t look at me. We could just go with what we feel is right?” Niall suggested.
“Stumble into war blindly? Going on instinct? That doesn’t sound too bad actually. I suppose it’s better than nothing right?” Zayn agreed.
“Really?” Liam and I said at the same time. We looked at each other. “Jinx” We said together again. “Double Jinx” we said at the same time.
“Oh my god, shut up both of you.” Zayn told us. “No tactic sound good? I’m glad we all agree.” Just as he finished his sentence, our guns lit up signalling us to begin playing. Great, just great. I kind of expected the girls to jump out at us and start killing us, but I suppose that would be useless because of our unlimited lives.
“Are we gonna sit here until we die? Is that how it’s gonna go?” Niall said.
“We were gonna go with our instincts though weren’t we?” Harry asked.
“Dude, what instincts do we have in fighting Hazza?” Liam reasoned.
“None.” We are gonna die. We’re gonna lose this round, next round when we’re zombies we’ll kick arse though. Waiting, waiting, waiting…
Codie’s POV
“Alright girlies, so we smashed them in that round. Now we’re gonna kick arse again. Being the humans we have our tactic, them being zombies, what’s the bet that as soon as our first three minutes is up that they’ll try to attack us? Fairly high. Alright guys, we’ll begin this last round in 5, 4, 3, 2… 1.” I clicked the button on my phone and the guns turned on. As soon as they did, we started running to get to the guys. With unlimited lives for the first three minutes, we had to act quickly.
I steadied my breathing and just before we could start shooting at the guys, I darted off to the side. Behind the line of trees was a trench, only I knew about it. I started crawling along the bottom of it army style. I heard someone walking towards me, they can’t know I’m here. I see a ditch on the wall of the trench. I quickly crawl towards it and tuck myself up into it. I heard silence, then the sound of someone walking away. After it went silent again I continued crawling along the trench. When I made it to the end I knew the three minutes were up. I only had one life.
I jumped out of the trench and stood behind a tree. All of the boys were looking for something. When I saw all the girls sitting out, lights off, doing nothing, I realised they were all dead. I was the last one. The boys weren’t looking for something, they were looking for me. I saw Niall guarding the target, all I needed was a distraction to get him away from the target. He was standing right in the line between me and the target so he kinda had to move.
I caught Amelie’s eye. She nodded at me. I went back behind the tree. “OH MY GOD THERE’S A F*CKING SNAKE!!!!” I heard Amelie shout. As soon as she finished, I jumped out and shot the target then jumped, grabbing onto the branch above me and hoisted myself onto it and slid into the foliage. I could see everyone from here, and I had clear shots at all of them but one. Alright, I knew how I would play this out.
First I shot Liam, then Zayn. Then it was Niall. The other two had started moving around, so I couldn’t shoot them as easily. I was still a good shot though, and soon enough Harry was down. Now was the difficult one. Louis.
“Come out come out wherever you are.” He said in a creepy pedo voice. He wanted me to say something so he would know where I am. Well that ain’t happening. “Come on Codie, you’re gonna win anyway.” He said. That’s right, I’m gonna win anyway. That doesn’t mean I’m gonna give myself away. He turned around. This was my chance. I jumped out of the tree and somersaulted as soon as I hit the ground. I stand up and hold my gun the way assassins do just before the kill. I press the gun against his back.
“Put the gun down, put your hands on your head and turn around slowly.” From assassin to cop, great job Codie, your sticking with your personalities here, eh? Just turning into Elysse with this bi-polar shit. “There’s one rule you should know about laser skirmish.” I said. Before I could finish he jumped around and aimed his gun at me. with practiced skill, I put my right arm underneath it and pushed it away while turning around towards him. As soon as I was close enough, I kissed him. While I was kissing him I pulled the trigger on my gun.
“That rule would be to not let your opponent get the better of you.”

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