As it became afternoon, I spotted Marie walking back to my room. I walked straight over to her still carrying the gun in from the pool area. “So, that was gunshots I heard earlier?” Marie asked referring to my target practicing. I looked down at the gun I was still holding, which Alex had given to me. I had no idea where to put it or what to do with it now that it was ‘loaned’ to me. “Yeah.” I simply stated to her look of shock. “My bodyguard has given me a gun.” “Umm. Right.” She commented with her hazel eyes wide. “Yeah. I don’t know what to think about it either.” I said truthfully. While I loved shooting the apples and found that fun, I was not about to treat this gun as what it really was, a device designed for a particular purpose: a device that could take a life. To me it