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Billy gestured to an empty bay beside the older ladies, and we set our things down on the table. He showed us what to do, step-by-step. It seemed easy enough.
“Ladies first,” he shouted.
I swallowed hard and took a deep breath. I didn’t know what to expect firing a gun for the first time. Don’t completely miss the target. That would be embarrassing. I took my gun from Billy after he loaded it and stood in front of the table. My hands shook as I raised the gun in front of me.
“May I?” Billy stood behind me and placed his hands on my hips. He moved me where he wanted me to stand, setting my legs in the proper spots. He raised my arms, and I held the gun straight out in front of me. Then, he stepped away.
One. Two. Three. I pulled the trigger. Immediately, I was pushed backwards from the powerful blast, and the sound of the shot vibrated throughout my chest. I didn’t hit any of the marks in the middle of the paper, but I hit the paper nonetheless.
I set my gun down on the table and turned around. Tanner high-fived me, a grin stretched across his face.
“What do you think?” Billy asked.
“I think you need to teach me how to hit my target.”
He and Tanner laughed. “All right. Take the stance I showed you.” I watched as he placed a small red sticker on the target paper where an actual human heart would be located, and sent it back down the track. “I want you to aim for that red sticker. Take a deep breath, and when you exhale, that’s when you shoot.”
I aimed for the red dot. Inhale. Exhale. Shoot. This time, I wasn’t pushed backwards as far as before. I didn’t hit the red dot, but I did hit the fake human in his chest.
“Woo!” Tanner hooted.
“That’s the trick,” Billy said. “If you aim for something small on your target, you’ll be sure to hit somewhere close enough.”
“I just need more practice.”
“Your girl’s determined,” he said to Tanner.
Tanner just kept grinning. “Yes, she is.”
“I think you guys are good to go. Let me know if you need any more help.” Billy walked away, leaving me and Tanner alone.
“Your turn.” I set my gun down and leaned against the table, watching Tanner take his stance.
I didn’t find guns sexy, but Tanner looked sexy holding one. Then again, he would look sexy no matter what he was holding. He oozed virility. His shirt was tight in all the right places, showing off his muscular physique, and his jeans hugged his perfectly round bottom. The only bare asses I’d seen were in movies, other than my ex-boyfriend Kyle’s. Kyle’s could never compare. From what I could see, I doubted Brad Pitt’s magnificent rear could even hold a candle to Tanner’s.
“How’s the view back there?”
My cheeks grew hot, and I knew my face was as red as a tomato. “Aren’t you supposed to be focused on your target?”
“It’s kind of hard to concentrate with you checking out at my ass like that. I’m not a piece of meat, you know.”
One of the older women next to us poked her head into our bay. “Sugar, with a rear end like that, you should be used to getting ogled everywhere you go.”
I burst into laughter, and she winked at me before returning to her side of the bay.
Tanner laughed, and it was the first time I’d seen him blush. He set the gun down. “Get over here. It’s my turn to stare at your ass now.”
“Careful,” I said, gesturing with my thumb. “She might think you’re talking to her.”
We took turns shooting for the rest of our paid hour and grabbed pizza nearby afterward. Two hours later, we arrived back at my apartment.
“I’d say we could go back to my place to hang out, but my brother ruined that idea.” Tanner turned off his car and faced me in his seat.
“What do you mean?”
“I was going to move in to the apartment above our garage. My parents had it furnished for me and everything. Then, Chase decided he wanted to give it to his girlfriend instead.”
“He’s dating that girl Merritt, right?”
