"Yu!" I heard coming from behind me. Right as I turned around a small girl came up and jumped on me. "God d-..." I blurted out. "Yu!! How dare you almost cuss when you haven't seen me for a year?!" She yelled. "Hey calm down you pushed it outta me by jumping on me!" She laughed, "I squeezed it outta ya, eh? Gross!" She started to squish my sides, "Let's see what else I can make you say! Gui, gui, gui, gui..." "No need for sound effects!" I snapped at her. "You're so mean!" She pouted to me. I smiled, "Oh, I know." She made a grumpy face. "Dang you." "So how was the year without me? Awful? Terrible? Lonely? I knew it!" Jonah said as she poked me. "Actually, it wasn't to bad. I got a boyfriend..." I smiled. "Oh sou- WAIT, EXCUSE YOU?!" I laughed loudly, "It wasn't to bad, ya." She grabbed my face, "Excuse you?! You know that wasn't what I was talking about!" "Oh, him? Yeah I got a boyfriend his name is Ju. He's so sweet and charming and beautiful and..." "Alright, alright. Shut it up." "What? Don't hate, appreciate." "I don't start Yusa." I smiled and then the belled rung, "Dang, okay, I gotta go to class I'll talk to you later!" "Okay, bye Yusa!" "Bye, Jo!" I sat through class like I always did. Talked to some other friends of mine, ate my normal lunch, did my normal things. After class clean up time it was time to go home. I started to get everything and head to the front gate where I would find Jonah as always. "Yuuuuuuu!" I heard her voice slowly creeping towards me. I heard the clicking of her shoes, click click click. Jonah and her heels. "Hey Yu! We are gonna walk home together, yeah?" "Of course silly." So we started to walk home, and then, all the sudden I felt the hairs... ... middle of paper ... ... stood there just thinking, it came to me pretty quickly. I have to concentrate. My old kendo coach had tought me this. I stood there with my fingers on my temple and concentrated. All the sudden I felt this warmth against my back. Two objects come against my back. I grabbed them and they... They were swords! I couldn't believe this, all my work in kendo will help me so much. I looked over to Jonah she was actually getting this and I saw the colours behind her back form into two long objects. "J-Jonah! It's two... rifles!" I was so surprised... Did she know how to use guns? She gave me a look and winked, "Bet you didn't know I was training with my dad!" She giggled and pulled the guns from her back. My jaw had now dropped. I couldn't believe cute little Jonah was holding two rifles! These weren't little tiny rifles they were strong looking. Like big massive
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