Recovering

If you haven't read Brent's post yet, I got shot yesterday. My arm is still sore but the swelling has gone down a bit.

Yes, I cried but I couldn't help it!! :(

I was hiding behind the 'house' and I didn't know that there was an enemy inside. I thought he was one of my teammates, I swear. When we made eye contact, I was about to ask him where the 'enemies' were shooting from and that's when he shot me at least 3 times on my arm.

I guess you can say that I was in shock. I couldn't believe that he was shooting at me at such close range. You're supposed to give the person a chance to call mercy if you're within 15 feet. He was less than 10 feet. After the third shot, I yelled "Hit! Hit!" Once he stopped, I yelled "You didn't call mercy!"

The guy came up to me and you can kinda tell that he knew he did something wrong. I quickly looked at the ref and yelled that he didn't call 'mercy' but the ref didn't really know what to say.

I was so pissed, I stormed off and that's when the tearducts exploded.

I just want to set the record straight - I didn't cry because I got hit. I was just so angry. I was really frustrated at how it happened. The guy argued that there's no mercy rule in the house and the ref kind of agreed with him. No one mentioned about this 'no mercy' rule in the house and that got me even more angrier. I mean, if I knew, then I wouldn't have stayed by the house! Anyway, after the game was over, the guy apologized but he was still implying that it was my fault. "There's no mercy in the house." ...well, I wasn't even in the house dink!

The owner of the paintball field asked what happened and when I told him what the guy/ref said, he said that they were wrong.

Anyway, Brent was really great at making me feel better. He stayed with me and took care of me afterwards. He talked to the guy and I'm pretty sure if I gave him the 'ok', he would have destroyed him.

And everyone else was nice too - they made sure that I was alright.

A few kids came up to me and asked if I was the girl that got hit.

(insert big sigh... I didn't mean to make it a big deal!)

I said "Yes". They told me that they saw him shot at me a few times and thought he was a jerk. :)