BLACK SUN

2

I got up early in the morning and got ready, as usual, I put on my black jeans and white sweater that fit my legs perfectly and tucked the front of my sweater in front of my pants. I checked my gun and strapped it on my waist. I put my jacket and boots aside and sprayed my perfume, this perfume was custom made for me. An old blind woman in Italy had prepared the right scent for me, and Yankı's perfume was a special production just like mine. We used to visit her every year, she knew us since we were 15 years old. Speaking of echo, I'd better call my twin, I touched his number on my phone and put my earphones in my ear. While I was talking to him, I should have had my breakfast, while I was in the kitchen making myself a toast with cheese and avocado, Echo picked up the phone. He was asleep at this hour, and I loved to wake him up every morning and disturb him.

"Good morning sleepy lawyer, you're going to be late for your class." The echo grunted and made a strange sound.

"Only your command will not help me, first lieutenant Lir, girl, you are ruining everything in the most beautiful part of my dream." I laughed, I did this to him all the time and he couldn't stand me no matter how angry he was.

"I hope the best part of the dream is not the girls, Echo, and if I woke up, you should wake up too." He laughed, I missed him so much. The last time we met was 2 weeks ago, because she was studying in France.

"My most beautiful dream is you, first lieutenant. I twisted my lip, I didn't know when I was going to leave. Being a maroon beret was a big responsibility and it was not clear when the operation would take place. I poured the juice I took out of the fridge into my glass and started eating my sandwich.

"I miss you, although sometimes I regret growing up, I think the only way to get rid of my parents is to grow up. You should finish that school and come to me as soon as possible." I heard Yankı's troubled breathing, and he was living a life he didn't want.

"My future blonde, I can't stand the absence of you. And because you're doing this job, I have an extra mind for you, my exams will start soon, we will have a break after the exams. Be careful, Lir. I don't want to bore you, but you are my dear, remember that.. also.. I have a surprise for you. " I finished my sandwich and threw my plate and glass into the dishwasher. I put on my jacket and opened the front door.

"When will I find out about this surprise?" As I put my boots in front of the door, I looked at the men in front of me in bewilderment. Hakan and Bora were right in front of me, I couldn't understand what Yankı was saying while my eyebrows were furrowed in surprise. "I'll call you later." Hakan smiled lightly as he touched the earpiece and ended the call.

"Good morning, sir, it's a shame to ask, what is the reason for that wonderful smell coming from your house?" I looked at the house, not understanding. Yesterday I thought of the diffuser I put bergamot essential oil to disperse the paint smell.

"Good morning, yesterday I turned on the diffuser to dissipate the paint smell." Hank looked at me in disbelief. "Think of it like a steam engine, you're just adding essence to it." Hank grinned and brought his hand to his neck.

"I'd better borrow it from you sometime. Good luck, Commander, by the way, if you're short of anything, don't hesitate to ask." I gave him a small smile and nodded, then looked at Bora. She was putting on her boots, and after she finished her work, our eyes met. I greeted him with my head.

"Good morning." I said flatly, and he just shook his head. So my next-door neighbor was Mr. cocky and Hakan, I quickly put on my boots and locked the door. As Bora was passing in front of me, Hakan gestured for me to go first, unlike Hakan Bora, he was a gentleman. Bora was knocking on a downstairs door, suddenly the door opened and Giray and Mert came out of the house quickly.

"Brother, it's always because this unbalanced person eats s**t, get on my nerves in the morning.. good morning, commander." When Mert noticed me, he corrected his speech and said good morning to me. Mert and Giray were bickering a lot and they were both very funny, I answered Mert in the same way and went downstairs. Bora was in the front and me behind him and Hakan Giray and Mert trio at the back, Giray was trying to cringe at me too much today.

"Commander, if you wish, I can take you, I can be your driver." I think Giray's problem was getting into my car, he hit Mert Giray on the neck.

"It's clear, my commander, I want to get in your car." These two bickering made me laugh.

"Son, I have never seen such an expensive car in my life, is it called the commander directly?" When we went out to the garden, I threw the keys to Giray.

"Giray, if you had said it directly without being abusive, don't deceive me again." While Giray excitedly caught the car key in the air, Mert was excitedly looking at the key in Giray's hand. He looked at me excitedly.

"Commander... can I come with you?" Hakan grinned, looking at the happy men like two children next to him.

"I'll be in the front seat though." While Mert and Giray were running towards my car, Hakan walked towards Bora's car. I frowned at him as he opened my door. "My hand is holding my feet, Mert, sit down late." Mert excitedly opened the back door and sat in the back seat.

"Commander, can I drive your car in the evening?" While I was fastening my belt, I looked at Mert in the mirror and nodded to him. While Giray was excitedly starting the car, he could hardly keep himself from screaming, he looked at Mert as he started to drive.

"Son, my dreams are coming true, look at this... in my hands." I couldn't help laughing at this situation, Yankı was wondering because I hung up the phone so suddenly. He texted instead of calling, I put my earphones in his box and went to the message notifications on my phone.

Is there a problem?

You hung up the phone all of a sudden, my mind was on you.

My thoughtful twin was curious about me, I shouldn't have left him wondering too much. His mind was on me anyway, I smiled slightly. I had no one but him, okay.. I had my grandparents, uncles, but parents and siblings were different. My parents wouldn't call us unless they were busy, they would call us to join when there was an invitation. Also, my mother would call to see my paintings and use the ones she liked in her exhibition.

It's okay, I just ran into my commander. I'll call you when it's convenient

He had seen my message instantly, we were approaching the headquarters when he sent a message that he had approved me. I put my phone in my pocket and started to follow the road.

"Long distance relationship is difficult, sir, I understand you." I looked at Giray, not understanding, he was completely tactless with excitement.

"Do you think I'm stupid enough to have a relationship, Giray?" Gray looked at me in surprise.

"How do you... don't you have a girlfriend, sir?" He hit Mert Giray on the neck.

"Do not believe my son, besides, the man who can approach the commander was not born from the womb of his mother. His grandfather, uncle, colonel, the man who will approach the commander either ate his mind with cheese bread or went crazy. Thank God, someone with understanding and the commander did not burn you either." Gray looked at me, scared.

"Really, sir.. has anyone ever inflicted the wrath of your grandfather and uncle?" I laughed, they were incurring my wrath before their wrath.

"Do you think I look like someone from afar who rats out everything to their grandparents and gets them to do their job?" they both shook their heads.

"Well, sir, Bora, it will be quite upon you today. I'm sorry in advance if we have to hurt you." I laughed sarcastically, Mert was the biggest and most built. Bora and Hakan were also built and tall, but Mert was huge, and Giray was a little taller than me.

"If you tolerate me because I'm a woman, then I'm sorry, don't do your best." they both laughed.

"Yes, sir." Bora was obsessed with me and I was dying to break his prejudices and see the shape his face would take. When we arrived at the headquarters, Hakan and Bora were getting out of the car, and when we got out of the car, we all went to the dressing room. There was never any discrimination as we would be in the same environment as men while we were studying. So my closet was the same as the others and I would dress next to them. It wasn't a problem for me, I was used to it and I wasn't ashamed. They wouldn't look at me anyway, if anyone did, I could take their eyes out of their sockets and put them in their hands. When we entered, Bora and Hakan had already taken off their clothes, they were both naked. I walked towards my locker without looking at them.

"Commander wants us to go out..." Shaking my head, I opened my locker and took off my jacket and hung it on the coat rack.

"There's no need, Hakan, I don't mind, and I know you won't be looking at me." I took off my sweater and put on my green shirt first and then my camouflage shirt. After I got dressed quickly, I folded my civilian clothes and put them in the closet. After closing my closet, I sat on the wooden bench behind me and started putting on my army boots. Bora was also tying the ropes of his boots right next to me, Bora looked at us all as I finished my work and put my boots in the shoe rack.

"Come with me, everybody be at the gym in 15 minutes." He looked at me first, and while everyone was approving, we left the room together. We went to the lower floor of the top floor, when we proceeded towards the end of the corridor, Bora opened the door of a room and we went inside together. The room was very large, two office tables were placed opposite each other, and there were Turkish flags behind the tables. There was a large bookcase on one side of the room, and behind the desks was a cupboard. On the nameplate on the table on the right, Bora Çelebi First Lieutenant was written, and on the table opposite that table, Lir Zorlu First Lieutenant was written.I looked at Bora proudly, and he showed my table with his hand. "Put your things in, we'll go to the gym later. Let's measure your height." She rolled her eyes at her disdainful gaze and picked up the papers on her desk and handed them to me. "Then you'll take care of these paperwork." I put a huge pile of papers on the table, then there was a knock on the door. "Come", when the door was opened, one of the soldiers had brought my belongings, he left after greeting us. While Bora took his place, I placed my things on the table, put the photo frame with the Echo in my drawer. I didn't want to have it on the table, I couldn't put my weak spot in the middle.I put my favorite coaster in the junk drawer next to the table and put my grandfather's pen in the drawer where I put the photo, I was going to keep that drawer locked. The pen wrote "Cloud" on it and it was inherited from my grandfather, I wasn't using that pen, it was just a memory. I usually used the pen that Yankı had custom made for me, on the pen there was a symbol formed by the combination of the letters L and Y on the pen. After I placed my files and other belongings, the doorbell rang again, Bora looked up and said, "Come," while the door opened, the soldiers entered with huge office plants in their hands. A large Licuala, Benjamin, and a tall bonsai were staring at me with a white acacia flower and a blue orchid.

"Commander, these came to you, where should we put them?" probably my grandparents and uncles wanted to celebrate my first day of work. I showed the empty space next to me, they don't like much sun as they are indoor flowers. I was more or less guessing which one Yanki had taken, I picked up the blue orchid from the soldier's lap and took the note on it. Just as I predicted, these orchids were from him.

'Happy first day at work, the meaning of my life, even though it's not the same color as your eyes, it reminded me of you the first time I saw it. I love you very much, take care of the orchid as well. I'll check when I get near you.' I smiled slightly and placed the orchid on the cabinet behind me. After the soldiers had placed the plants, they both saluted and left the room, putting the other notes on the table. I stopped reading the notes for later and lined up my succulents next to the orchid that Yankı bought. After I finished my work, I looked at Bora, she was leaning on her seat, watching me.

"Looks like it will happen to flowers that do, plants that don't like much change of location." I smiled smugly and stood up.

"Don't worry, Bora, first lieutenant, I don't like to change places too much." He stood up like me and looked at my flowers.

"You have too many fans, it's not good for a soldier to have so many fans." I shrugged.

"After all, we're not robots, we all have people we love. It's up to us not to make them our weak spot." He nodded as if impressed.

"You have a good mouth, first lieutenant, show your skills a little physically." I reached for the door.

"Satisfaction." The two of us walked out of the room together towards the gym, which was at the bottom of the headquarters. Hakan Giray and Mert were warming up in the gym, I gathered my hair tightly and started to unbutton my camouflage shirt. Bora was watching me as he took off his shirt like me, I took off my shirt and hung it aside and joined the others. It was cold but I was warming up because I was running, Bora joined us. While we were all lying on the ground and doing sit-ups, I had Bora on one side of me and Giray on the other.

"When was the scar on your arm, sir, it's a shame to ask." he was talking about the stab wound on my arm, when I got up with my hands on my chest, I looked at Giray out of the corner of my eye. I was kidn*pped in 3rd high school, my father was an ambassador and he had a lot of enemies. Exactly 2 days later, my eagle team rescued me, my grandfather and uncles were very scared. They were even more worried than my mom and dad, but it was Echo who was most afraid and worried. He blamed himself for months and never left my side even for a second.

"Am I going to give an account of the scar all over my body, Giray?" I said sarcastically, he laughed and looked at me.

"How many scars do you have, sir?" Others were listening to us with interest.

"I didn't count, his blessings run out." When they all laughed, only Bora and I weren't laughing.

"There is a race between us, Giray who has the most scars. No one has passed him so far, then Hakan and Bora are my commander." I thought of the scars on my body, actually I didn't have many. In fact, I had more wounds in my life before I enlisted, I was shot once but it just grazed. I was stabbed in the arm and leg when I was kidn*pped in my third year of high school, I had tried to beat the guys to escape with insane courage and was stabbed. After that day, we had more frequent combat training with Yankı, I laughed bitterly. He once threw the glass vase in my room to the floor while he was fighting so badly with my father, then he slapped me and made me fall on the pieces of glass. At that time, Yankı and my mother had gone to another country for the exhibition, I cleaned the pieces of glass that got into certain parts of my body on my own and bandaged my wounds myself. I didn't tell anyone what my father did, if my grandfather and uncles and Yankı found out that my father hurt me, they would have a big fight. So much so that my grandfather could even shoot my father with a gun, because when the subject was Yankı and me, the flowing waters in my grandfather would stop. Actually, my grandfather had only one son, but Yankı and I used to call the colonels in my grandfather's team uncle, they were really like our uncle.

"What is it, first lieutenant, you've been distracted. Looks like you're in a position to surpass Giray." said Bora sarcastically, I shook my head.

"I haven't had many injuries since I became a soldier, so I'm pretty good except for minor scratches." They all looked at me in surprise, I think I broke the pot.

"Were you injured before you became a soldier?" said Giray curiously, I ignored him and continued to sit up.

"You ask too many questions, soldier, let your body work, not your mouth." no one spoke more, Bora stopped doing the sit-ups and got us all on our feet. He was looking at me with an evil grin.

"Giray, get in front of your commander. Don't get too tired, but he's fresher, we don't want to miss him right away." I looked at Giray, he winked at me as if he remembered our conversation in the morning and approached.

"Sorry again, sir." I rolled my eyes and waited for him to lunge towards me, as he made a hard lunge against my chin, I easily grabbed his fist and lifted it into the air and gave him a hard kick in the stomach. Giray grinned and straightened himself up and started to throw his hard moves at me, I was swinging him easily. Although I only defended myself at first, when I got bored I easily knocked him down and bent his arm behind his back and tucked my knee into his back. He complied with my command that morning, but I didn't quite believe it was all his strength, so I pressed my knee harder against his back as I groaned in pain.

"You don't show yourself Giray, I won't let you get in my car again." He opened his eyes wide and looked at me and got up from under me and punched me hard in the stomach.

"LAN" Hakan and Mert were yelling with grimaces, I straightened up and grinned and gestured for him to come. As he leaped towards me, I slapped him hard on the throat with my hand and knocked him down in one swift motion. While Hakan and Mert were laughing, I looked at Bora's first lieutenant, his arms on his chest watching us. There was no expression on his face, he took his eyes from us, looked at Mert and gave a sign with his head. Mert looked at Bora in surprise, as if to say are you sure. When Bora frowned slightly, Mert walked right in front of me, he was bulky, it would be hard to hurt him, but there was no need.

"I'm sorry if I hurt you, Commander." I laughed, I was going to leave him defenseless but he had to hurt me a little first. I wasn't doing anything when he was throwing at me, I was just trying to spot his weak spots. While Hakan and Giray were looking at me in surprise, Bora was trying to understand what I was doing by squinting. When Mert knocked me down hard, I had already achieved my goal, when I got up and wet my lip, I marked the points I had determined in my head. When Mert made a move again, I hit the points I had determined hard, Mert was staring at me with a stiffening. He was trying to move, but it hurt, he couldn't even move his head.

"Don't force yourself, you'll get hurt." While Hakan and Giray looked at me with admiration, Mert was surprised. With my victory smile, Bora was watching me when I turned to the first lieutenant. "What do you think, first lieutenant, I think you should come and test it yourself. You can't understand much by watching it from afar." While Hakan and Giray were laughing, Bora pointed to Mert.

"Untie Mert." When I turned to Mert, he was still looking at me without moving, just when I punched him hard in the middle of his abdominal cavity, he untied and threw himself to the ground.

"Commander, what was that like? My whole body froze as if I couldn't move." It wouldn't be bad if he took a muscle relaxer.

"I learned it from a martial artist when I lived in Japan, so remember I'll give you some muscle relaxers when we go upstairs." When Mert nodded to me, I looked at Bora again. "Would you like to try it, lieutenant?" they were all laughing. Bora shook her head as if to say no, she walked over to me and looked me up and down.

"Do your best, lieutenant." I nodded like him and walked towards him with my elbow on his stomach and behind him and kicked him hard on the back of his knees, it only made him stumble when he wrapped his hand on my stomach and lifted me up, I hugged him as he was about to throw me to the ground with ease and prevented me from falling. When I dropped myself to the ground, I kicked him in the stomach with both my feet and pushed him away from myself, he was not very impressed, but I got up and got up again. Just as I was about to lunge for him again, he easily swung me behind me and slapped my neck with his arm, my back against his chest, and our chests heaving up and down as we both gasped. "Not with this weight, but on the enemy mountain, the wind will take you away." As the trio, who was watching us excitedly next to us, giggled, I slammed my head hard into his face, getting rid of him as his hand relaxed and hitting his feet hard, causing him to lose his balance and fall. He grabbed me as I fell, and we were both on the ground, I was on top of him. I raised my head and laughed sarcastically, and looked at him triumphantly.

"It's not our weight that keeps us standing, it's our feet, first lieutenant, it's good to have our feet firmly on the ground." While the trio was giggling again, Bora easily threw me off and climbed on me. He had my hands folded over my head with one hand.

"You're too daring." Bora's first lieutenant was too close to me as my chest rose and fell rapidly. I laughed and kicked his man hard. "LIRR!" Bora's first lieutenant groaned in pain as I threw him off me and stepped aside. The trio next to us were muttering curses through their mouths as they screamed in pain as if they had been struck by their own manhood. Bora, I gave my full attention to the first lieutenant.

"My temper is dry, first lieutenant, you weren't going to underestimate me." While Bora was squirming holding on to her manhood, Hakan and Mert went to her and helped her, and Giray held out his hand for me to come and get up. Okay, I went too far, but... I had defeated him in the end, and I was going to do the same when I faced the enemy after all. You hit too hard, Lir.. you played with the guy's future, I hope it was okay.

"Gone the little land." When Hakan and Mert looked at Giray with wide eyes, Giray had to keep quiet, Bora was going to destroy both me and Giray. I took Giray's outstretched hand and stood up and went to Bora, she was already on her feet. I put on a loving smile and looked innocently at Bora, but he was extremely angry, just as he was passing me, he stopped and leaned towards my ear.

"You deserve a fine reward for your bravery, Lir Zorlu." He shrugged and walked past me.

"It was precious, of course, little land." We looked at Giray, the three of us sideways. "Don't look, son, I felt it to my bones. He played with the man's life, first lieutenant." Hakan grabbed Giray's neck harshly and knocked him down.

"Speak right next to the first lieutenant." said Hakan angrily, he didn't like being disrespected in my presence.

"I'm going to make you feel it in your bones now." When Hakan and Mert entered Giray, I took my shirt on the side, Bora's was also here. I took his shirt and walked out of the gym, I had gone forward. Before I went to the room, I had the soldier on duty get water from the canteen and went upstairs to the room, Bora was not in the room. I put his shirt on his chair and squeezed my deodorant from the closet and suppressed the smell of sweat until I got home. I took a pain reliever from the drawer on the side of my desk and placed it on his desk along with the water the guard brought. It would be okay if I apologized, okay, it was unacceptable for him to underestimate me, but... my conscience still wouldn't allow it. I left the room and started to look around, but it was nowhere, when I went back to the floor where our room was, I went to the toilet to wash my hands and face. There were no separate toilets for boys and girls in the military, I was comfortable as there was no one else on this floor but ours. I went inside and washed my face with cold water, while I was drying my face with a napkin, Bora came out of the cabins. Still pissed off, I threw the napkin away and turned to him.

“Lieutenant… I…” He looked at me angrily.

"You've proven yourself well, don't talk too much and don't get on my nerves." I was just trying to apologize, I frowned slightly.

“You are prejudiced, accusing me of not understanding and listening…” He turned to me and pressed me against the wall hard.

"You got here with someone's help, thank you, you are a good soldier, but there is no place for you in my team." His voice sounded disgusted, and I frowned as my nervousness increased, and I pushed him back hard.

"You keep blaming me, why can't you accept that I came here on my own? Do you want me just because I'm a woman?" He leaned towards me as he frowned.

"Be careful who you talk to, you don't have friends, you have superiors." His green eyes were looking at me with hatred, as my eyes burned, I closed my eyes to calm down and took a deep breath, he was right. Our ranks may have been the same, but he was above me.

"You're right sir, I was just going to apologize, but you didn't give me the opportunity. I apologize for crossing my line." I left the bathroom without letting him say anything and went to the air vent, where no one ever frequented. There was no one else here but me, so I leaned against the side mound and looked up at the sky. I wouldn't care, I wouldn't see him, I had only one goal and that is to protect my homeland. I would ignore what they said and be patient, everything would come to pass. After collecting my head for about 10 minutes, I went back to my room to do the paperwork, Bora's first lieutenant was not in the room. There was no water and painkillers that I put on the table, and no shirt. Apparently, he had come to the room after I left, and I went to my desk and took my lucky pen that Yankı had given me and started to do the paperwork. After about 3 hours, I took a break, I was so immersed in the paperwork that I didn't even realize what time Bora's first lieutenant had come across.