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Chapter 19 - Love at first sight

The next morning Axel came into the room and shouted.

A: Waking up its training time!

Everyone jumped out of bed and greeted the colonel except Chester who was still in bed. Axel looked at him and approached him.

A: You don't plan to get up and say hello to your Colonel! Haven't you learned the rules!

Axel was still staring at him, Chester turned and looked at him tired.

C: Why don't you shut your mouth and stop yelling anymore?

A: What did you say !?

Axel said angrily, took out his baton and approached him.

A: If you don't get up within 1 minute, I'm going to beat you up until I break every bone in your body!

He got out of bed and looked at him, Axel saw a scar on his lips.

A: What is that on your lips? Who did you fight with again?

C: With nobody,  I was bitten by an insect

A: Don't lie! Disinfection for insects and other things is done here every week!

C: Well obviously not properly.

Axel got annoyed and started hitting him with a truncheon over his body. After a few blows he stopped, turned and headed for the exit.

A: Everybody get out on the field you're waiting for me!

Chester walked down the 3rd-floor hallway, stopped at a window, and looked outside. There were mostly some bars on each window, he opened the window and sighed a little fresh air. He looked outside again and saw General Max standing in one corner of the building talking to a masked man. He saw them giving each other some papers, turned around, looked in the hallway, saw a small table where it says exit and started running towards it. He followed the sign all the way to the back door, tried to open it but they were locked.

C: Damn, why is it locked now!

He tried to open them a few more times but failed, he looked at them nervously.

?: Hey you there! Stop!

A voice was heard shouting behind him, he turned and saw a soldier walking towards him with a gun in his hand.

?: What are you doing there? Do you know you can't be in this place!

C: Oh sorry soldier I didn't know. You know I'm new here and I'm a little lost. My Colonel told me to go outside so I followed this sign.

?: Go back to the first floor, first right door and then follow the hallway to the end there is exit.

C: Thank you soldiers.

Said Chester and headed for the stairs, he walked past the soldier looking each other in the eye, the soldier grabbed him by the shoulder and turned him towards him.

?: If I find you here again, I remember I won't think or listen to what you say. I'm going to shoot you in the head. Now get out!

Chester kept walking and managed to get out where the others were.

C: I can't believe he believed it while I was lying. I need to find out who that person was and what those papers are, but it will be difficult with so many guards.

He spoke to himself and continued to walk with the others. He sat in one corner and watched everyone.

C: Hmm as far as I can see there are no rules in age, both young and old are mixed here. This doesn't look like a real army to me, this is more like a prison.

He got up and continued to look around, every corner where the cameras were and how many guards there were everywhere. After a while, he sat under one tree away from everyone else. He looked around and took a cigar out of his pocket and lit it. He heard some sounds from the other side of the tree, got up and turned. As he turned he was face to face with someone else, Chester didn't wait a second and immediately grab him and knock him down to the ground.

?: Wow, that hurts.

A female voice was heard speaking, Chester let go and stepped back a few steps and watched her. When she turned around, he saw a beautiful red fox with white paint on her neck. He watched every move until she got up.

?: Are you crazy! Why did you do that, you know it hurts!

Chester stood and watched in silence, and she watched him. They stood for a few minutes staring at the silence. The fox sat down next to the tree again and took the book from the floor.

?: So you don't talk much, if you plan to stand there and look at me like a horny dog, you better go before I rip your throat out and put it in your mouth.

He's kinda pretty to be honest.

C: I'm sorry I didn't want to do that, I thought someone tried to sneak in and attack me. I just wanted to sit in silence and enjoy a cigar.

?: You decided to speak, I thought the same thing so I wanted to react first. But you're pretty fast I didn't expect that from a wolf. Aren't you too young to smoke?

Chester said nothing, sat down again and continued to smoke. He leaned against a tree and looked up at the sky, then at the fox sitting near him.

C: What is your name if I may ask?

L: Leila, what about you?

C: Chester. Sorry Leila for that again.

L: It's fine.

C: The moment before, you said don't look like a horny dog. Why did you say that?

Leila sighed, closed the book and looked at him.

L: Almost everyone here would like to try something with me. Honestly, since I was 13, I avoid going out or being in a group with more people, especially with boys. Everyone tells me I'm beautiful for my ages. I experienced a couple of times that some people tried to attack and rape me. That's why I'm always alone.

C: I'm sorry to hear that.

The bell rang, they both got up and started walking towards their rooms. Before entering the building, they stopped and looked at each other.

C: It's nice too met you Leila.

L: Same.