chapter 3 -
caroline p.o.v ,
its been 2 days since i left Tyler and tomorrow i have katherine and bonnie moving in the locks have been changed and tyler stuff has been removed which had a very angry tyler shouting at the door for 2 hours before i had to call the police with trembling hands but the satisfaction i had when i realised i had done that on my own ignited a spark i thought was long forgotten so here i am standing in the department store picking up things to change my home from the walls that stood by and watched to walls that will make me feel new.
i had everything i needed and as i was walking out to the taxi a flyer caught my eye picking it up i quickly got home and to work in transforming my home,
picking up the paint brush i began my work barely able to contain my excitment to begin my new life.
katherine p.o.v,
I've packed everything except for some clothes i'm not moving until tomorrow and its early still and i bored so i ring caroline who has been busy all day but i try agian "theres no point ringing she wont" 'hello' "huh,, hey i've been trying to reach you all day where have you been" straight to bitch mode trying to hide my concern 'planning a surprise,' comes her perky response "what surprise could of taken all day" 'oh not much it didnt take all day i just finished about an hour ago' i hear busteling in the back ground that sounds alot like traffic "where are you" 'oh im heading to the cages' "whats the cages" ' a place i used to go to with my mom, i had to stop going because of tyler but im free well as free as im gonna be but he didnt like me coming here so i stopped but i found a picture when i was erm any way you should come its on 9th on cherry street' it has me intregued so i decide to give her the benefit of the doubt "what is it on cherry street that im supposed to be going to?" i ask "oh that can be a secret but you, know when you get here its next a hair salon theres bars on the windows i'll be inside ooh bring bonnie, gotto go im here' she says before hanging up , bars on the windows where is she going, i think before ringing bonnie.
bonnie p.o.v,
me and katherine stand outside the place where caroline is meant to be with apprehension settling into me, its a gun shop the sign is a faint hunters bronze with a target on it and 'hunters mark' written on it there are bars on the windows which hold hunters gear and other things behind it on a display for passer bys to see, and i cant help but think what people would see while looking at us, 2 girls standing outside a gun shop with matching looks of confusion on there faces "are you sure this is where caroline is" i ask katherine after what felt like a hour at standing looking into the window "this is where she said, but it cant be right this has to be a joke" "i know, why would she be at ,, this" "i have not got a clue, do you think tyler hit her so hard that she lost all her marbles" "katherine" i screech who just shrugs before walking to the door and opening it up.
the inside is strange there is a glass casing running alongside the walls which hold lots of different types of guns and ammo on the other side looks to be a wall of hunters gear all the way from boots and tents to bear traps and such theres a guy standing behind a row of fishing lines and my eyes are trying to spot caroline in this mess, when suddenly i see her coming out of a door way with the biggest smile on her face talking to a really handsome middle aged guy "care" i say getting her attention "hey you made it" she says as we walk over to her "what are we doing here" katherine ask "kat, bon id like you to meet alaric, alaric these are my friends katherine and bonnie" she says pointing to each of us
"hi" "nice to meet you, caroline was wondering when you would pluster up the courage to come and join us inside" he says "ok can some one please tell me what im doing here, or what your doing here for that matter" "well when i was planning your guys surprise i found an old photo of me and my mum here and i thought about the last time we came here together and i realised i dont have anyone telling me what i can and cant do any more and i thought when was the last time i held or even shot a colt 44 revovler and i just decided that i'd come here and see if my membership was still active, and i was lucky that it still was so i've been testing out some of these beautiful bad boys while waiting for your skinny asses to get in here so i can teach you" she says with a grin that would normally come from a 5 year old in a candy store.
"teach-you cant be serious" i scream did she want us to hold a gun and shoot at it "my mum always used to say that every girl should know how to handle a gun, and i thought i bet neither of you knew, probably never even seen one up close and personally so why not have me teach you" "well ladies if you would like i could teach you both" alaric says katherine seems nervous but has this look of excitement in her eyes while im just freaked "oh come on ric, you and i both know i have just the same amount of experience as you when it comes to guns" she says before turning to look at us "but he's a good teacher your in safe hands, so with that i have a beautiful swing out revolver that i'm dying to show some attention to, start them of with something small okay" she says before trotting of to pick up the gun that looked bigger then her for arm.
after the intial shock of shooting the gun a few times i got a strange feeling of being in power which i never had before and one look at katherine i could tell she was feeling it too.
i put down the gun and walk further along the shooting range to see caroline im shocked still watching her.
her face is blank in concentration but her eyes are a light with a fire ive never seen in her before and shes shooting the gun like its nothing i take a couple of steps to see the target and her shots are perfect the head and body covered in perfect puncture wounds from the bullets shes shooting, just then alaric comes to join
"shes one of the best shooters i've ever met, she won our competition for years ever since she was 14 years old and she wasnt even meant to be able to qualify, some mistake and by the time they found out she had already blown the competition out of the water" his voice barely filters through my ears in between the sounds of gun shots
"shes so focused, like i've never seen before" i hear myself say while watching her as she empties the remaining bullets letting them sail into the air.
i watch as she turns around and stalks over to us back to her cheerful self "hey how you finding it, fun right" "that was incredible how long have you been able to do that" i ask "since i was about 6 i think before that i was helping my mom clean her service pistols for as long as i can remember, it was one thing we had in common my dad hated it but it was our time you know, we loved guns and hated ponchos, weird right" she says with a giggle.
we walk over to katherine who for some reason has stopped shooting and is sitting with her head in her lap "kat are you alright" caroline ask rushing over to her she pulls her head up and i've never seen any one so pale in my entire life "kat whats wrong" i ask "i -i dont feel to-" she starts saying before passing out into carolines lap "oh god, kat, call 911 " i shout before dropping down next to them.