An unexpected gift from a secret Santa arrived,

It was Christmas Eve at the time

She’d cautiously open the covered up with Christmas wrappings and a cute red bow on top of it 

She was afraid of what she’d be about to come face to face with.

Rose wasn’t a very open person with others

She didn’t have many friends

Nor was she close to any of her family members

Though she remembered she had some very vicious ones who would want to kill her vigilantly.

She had many previous strange blackmailing attacks

She didn’t feel safe

Even the aura coming from the gift didn’t feel normal to her…

“It must certainly be one of them” 

She thought.

“Who else would want to sabotage me this badly if not them and do it in such a careful and undercover way?”

She decided to not waste time any longer

She started by unwrapping the bow and then started ripping the wrappings one by one

She’d stare to the unwrapped box for a moment and sigh

Once the box had finally opened

What she was faced with was nothing out of the ordinary…at least for her.

She was very startled however,

“Huh…but how did they even know my new address?”

She had moved multiple houses and changed multiple addresses due to that her life was very unstable 

In fact she changed many school environments and never got used to any of them before she got into university.

She was the next heir after her father

After his death and her upcoming 18th birthday..

She’d inherit all the inheritance he used to posses.

It was a big deal for everyone in the family who craved the money,

None of them ever showed her love nor even cared enough to.

It was just her and her freshly new boyfrie-

“SO IT WAS YOU AFTER ALL”

She bumped him into the wall she wasn’t very well in her senses after what she had just faced,

“To which one of them did you give my new address to?”

“I uh..” the boy shook his head in fear he was very stunned by her emotionless expression 

“It’s not what you think…”

“It must be aunt Phennya… only she’d come up with something like this…”

“I think you misunderstood me..”

“QUIET. OR ILL POINT IT TOWARDS YOUR HEAD.” She pinned him over the wall with a very piercing stare. 

He was very aware of her situation and how much stress she had gotten into after coming face to face with that gift…

“WHO IN THEIR RIGHT MIND WOULD EVER MAKE SUCH A GIFT AND DELIVER IT TO ME?” 

“So the gift you got was a…”

“Gun”

“Right.”

“DO THEY WANT ME DEAD? IS THIS A THREAT NOW?”

“I think they most likely just wanted to protect you…” Mario would shake her shoulders he tried to make her snap out of it.

“PROTECT ME WITH THIS? HOW? I THINK THEYRE PLANNING SOMETHING ON CHRISTMAS DAY IM SURE OF IT..”

But the thought didn’t even catch her mind…

“That’s it I’m so done…”

Shed grab her coat from the hanger behind in such rage

“Where are you going?”

He finally had the guts to ask her after that attack he just got…

“To the police station, hoping to finally find some justice…”

“You need to calm down first and then-“

“IF YOU WANT ME TO CALM DOWN THEN YOU’D BETTER CONFESS”

Her voice tone went higher and higher on the decibels…

He sighs, somehow he doesn’t overreact.

“Do you remember the last time you went to the police station and reported about them?”

“I know…they got away with it without living a single strand of hair behind…”

Last time her aunt brought bodyguards outside of her previous apartment to watch every single step of Rose with the excuse of “guarding her”. However, they actually tried to even get in using violence…

Though her aunt managed to come up with a perfect alibi, same went for the so-called bodyguards.

“I’ll have to take drastic measures this time…how could it have gotten out that I moved again…?”

“Think about this positively, maaaybe the person who sent you this just wants you to protect yourself.”

“With a gun? I don’t even know how to hold my hair dryer appropriately without burning my hands and now you’re telling me to use a GUN?”

“Maybe they just want you to learn how to protect yourself.”

“You gotta be kidding me-“ she said as she was about to leave his apartment holding the keys he had entrusted her with since they became a couple…

“Alright Mario, I’ll get going now, I need to find more informa-“

He caught her wrist,

“What if I taught you how to use one?”

She looked at him in question,

“You…?” She chuckled

“A nerd like you knows how to use guns?”

Mario looked like your ordinary university nerd, with the glasses, braces and all…she thought he’d not be capable of something like that.

“You forgot I served in the military last year huh?”

He said and scratched his neck in embarrassment 

“Oh…yeah…then sure, teach me.”

She said and pushed him out of his apartment playfully.

“W-wait-!”