See You Later

Keira was panting hard after the run. Like the other candidates, she was soaked with sweat.

Lana and May were also done and they smiled at each other.

"Alright, rest for now and we will get back in twenty minutes to announce who among you will advance for our second round tomorrow," Lieutenant Kang said with a smile.

"Do you really think something happened between her and Drey? Lana whispered at Keira's ear while the latter was drinking her water.

Keira shrugged her shoulders while May answered in her stead, "Trusts me, Lana. The answer is YES."

Lana looked at Lieutenant Kang and commented, "She's beautiful and I think she's probably in her early twenties. Does it mean Drey is straight?"

"Well, we only presume he is not. It just so happened that he's always with us and he loves to act like someone who likes men like us to stay connected probably, but from the start, I actually felt he's really straight." May interrupted.

"Yeah, maybe we've influenced him too much. Imagine being surrounded by us… Poor Drey." Lana muttered.

"Let's stop and let Drey decide on what he wants then support him along the way. Ohh, I'm so tired that I want to lay my body as soon as possible." Keira murmured complaining.

After exactly twenty minutes, Lieutenant Kang returned with the result.

"I will call the names who have passed and if you didn't hear yours, thank you for taking the exams and I'm sure there's probably a better opportunity to you outside this Academy. So I will bid you good luck in advance and know that you all guys really done well." Said Lieutenant Kang with a smile.

After hearing her name, without caring about her surroundings, Keira tiredly rested her body on the grass. Lately, she enjoyed staring at the sky, perhaps, because of her previous training outside.

She felt very exhausted and tired…

"Keira, let's go," Lana called when almost everybody went back to their tents.

"You go, girls… I will stay for a while and get back inside soon." Keira answered with closed eyes.

"Okay, I will go now because I feel so stinky and want to clean up immediately," Lana said and walked out followed by May.

Keira closed her eyes for a while. She hoped everything would go according to what she expected.

It was the first time she experienced things such as this in her whole life.

She always got everything easily, but this time, everything was not easy and simple.

"It's almost sunset," she murmured before she closed her eyes.

She felt like the sun totally went down since the bright reflection from her closed eyes became dim.

"Two more tiring and killing days like this, Miss Chan," a man's voice came from her side.

Because Keira was too tired she thought she was daydreaming so she smiled sweetly and answered, "Yeah."

"Why don't you go inside and rest properly instead of letting the cadets feast at your appearance here in the open field." The man's voice said; it sounded familiar.

With eyes still closed, Keira crumpled her forehead.

...….

Zach who had returned at the site to check the women's final result get worried when he noticed that one woman was left out lying in the open field. He rushed there and saw it was Keira, he bent his knee and wanted to check her.

He stopped and frowned when Keira smiled with her eyes closed.

He felt relieved that she was okay, however, the sun would come down soon and cadets from training would run the area soon for their way to the army lodging, so it would not be good for her to stay like that.

She looked tired and full of sweat but still stunning. No wonder that Jeru was deliberately marking her.

...…..

Zach frowned when Keira did not respond to his last words.

"Can you get up? Do you want me to carry you?" He asked as he started to feel concerned.

Keira abruptly opened her eyes at that instant and realized that Zach's face was right before hers, covering her eyes from the bright rays of the sun.

"I said, can you get up?" Zach repeated.

Keira looked around and noticed that no one was there so she raised her both arms and said, "No, please help me I feel like my bones all smashed up."

Zach hesitated for a second but, in the end, held Keira's hands to pull her up.

Because of her overtired body, Keira was lazy. Thus she weighed double, as Zach helped her on her feet with great effort, causing their bodies to be too close to each other.

"Did you miss me?" Keira murmured, it's almost a whisper that barely reached Zach's ears.

"What?!" Zach exclaimed, he was startled when he heard Keira's words but was hesitant to answer, wondering if he heard it right.

Keira giggled. With a swift movement, she pinched Zach's cheek, winked and said, "Thanks, handsome. See you later."

Before Zach could react, Keira quickly turned around and ran towards her tent.

Torin who was about to pick up Zach rubbed his eyes as he witnessed what happened.

"What the heck, Bro?! Do you want to be dead meat? Is this why Jeru is spurting out an unnecessary declaration to you about Keira? Darn!" Torin muttered in disbelief as he put the pieces together.

"How... interesting…" he burst out with a wicked grin and ran towards Zach. He could feel it- an interesting year ahead before they would be dispatched for the next assignment.