Chapter 1

Six P.O.V.

I wake to a trumpet blaring reveille. I quickly jump out of bed and stand up straight and alert. Sargent Amar walks into my room. "Prior! Are you ready for a mission to save the US or not?" He yells at me. I don't even flinch. "I am ready to take on the duties, Sargent." I respond knowing that was the right answer. Amar may be my brother, but he is ahead of me in ranks, so whatever he says goes. "You are going back to high school." He says in a certain tone letting me know it's alright to let loose and complain. "Why? I finished early so I could do this. Fight for our freedom, train initiates, and beat the crap out of you anytime I get the chance to! I don't wanna leave the base!" He chuckles lightly. "Sorry Six, don't worry I will be your gym teacher, Tori will be art and music and homeroom, Max will be your History, Mikie will be you weird English, and Morgan will teach math. We need you to find new recruits besides, you will get to see some old friends." I instantly smile hearing this. "You mean my idiotic cousins Uriah and Zeke, and my friends Will, Christina, Lynn, Marlene, and Shauna will be there?" I question making sure I'm right. Amar nods. "Do the idiots know I'm coming, and that I go by Six?" "They have no idea you are coming, but they do know to call you six." I sigh a sigh of relief. "Good I don't want them knowing my real name or nick name." "We are leaving in five minutes." Amar says calmly. I mutter shit under my breath and hurry to pack. Lord, I swear he will be the death of me. Man, why does Amar have to be the one who's turning twenty-two in two months, while I'll only be seventeen. Ironically, I have gotten used to this. Amar always tells me this kinda shit at the last freaking minute. I somehow make it on the plane just as it starts to take off. "Six what took you so long?" Tori ask me with a smirk on her face. "Well Tori, Amar the idiot, decided to tell me about this mission or whatever it is at last minute." She shakes her head and chuckles lightly.

Let me inform you about the lovely life of the Six Prior, also known as Tris or Beatrice Prior. I am the daughter of Andrew Prior and Natalie Prior. They are some of the most famous soldiers in military history. Andrew survived 86 bullet wounds and Natalie survived 3 explosions caused by grenades that were thrown right in front of her. They lost their lives when I was six. They had to go to war and never came back. You are probably wondering why I call them by their first names instead of mom and dad. Well, I was born and raised on a military base so that's what I heard everyone call them, so my brothers and I always called them by their first names. As well for my other bros, well, they are a different story. Amar is the oldest of us all and acted as if he was our father as we grew up so he was one of the parent figures, while I was the other mainly because I'm the only girl and the 2nd oldest. The quadruplets we took turns with. Caleb and Xander being the oldest ones were the easiest. They were into technical stuff so I was able to bond with them with my smartness. The other two are living hell itself. Tristian and Ky are a trigger happy, cake loving, weirdoes I'm proud to call my brothers. We are our own family.

Back to the present. We ride on the plane for about four hours before we step off of the plane and on to Chicago, Illinois. "Home sweet home." Tori said. As I scan our surroundings, I notice we are behind a large greyish-greenish colored house with about three floors. I thought we would land at the airport. "Okay teachers and student, this is the house we are staying in. Six will have the top floor to herself, Tori and Morgan will have the middle floor, and Max, Mikie and me will have the bottom floor. The basement will be for military work and the attic will be for training while it's raining outside because Mr. Max here will murder me if we mess up this house. Got it everyone?" Amar yells after receiving our attention. We head into the house and it's beautiful. I run up the stairs to the top floor and open the door revealing huge room with white walls and some paint and brushes on the floor I smile as I throw my bags down and pick up the paint brush and start to paint on the walls in different colors. On the longest wall closest to the ceiling I paint the quote "PAIN IS JUST A FOUR LETTER WORD" in a bright blue, on the wall above my door I paint "RED IS THE COLOR OF A NEW BEGINNING" in a blood red color and make it look as if it's dripping down, on the wall where I plan on putting my bed without the bed frame above a long window I paint the quote "A DREAM DOESN'T BECOME REALITY THROUGH MAGIC; IT TAKES SWEAT, DETERMINATION, AND HARD WORK" in camo pattern, on another wall I put "THE ONLY THING TO FEAR IS FEAR ITS SELF" in black with a cream color around it, and on the last wall I put "LEAVE NO SOLDIER BEHIND" in a grey color with red spreading out around it. Weird 5 walls, well that's new. I paint a galaxy color around each quote and/or their little bit of color around them. As I finish I look around the room with a satisfied smile on my face, I start to unpack. I really need some normal clothes. All I have are my comfortable military ones. Oh well. "Amar when does school start?!" I yell from my room. "Hold on I can't hear you, I'm coming up to your room!" He yells back and I hear feet pounding on the stairs as he runs up them. "What-Whoa!?" Amar says as he walks into my room. "When does school start?" I ask snapping Amar out of his gaze. "Tomorrow, oh and Mikie wants you to write a story and have it ready for October, when your class will present. He said it doesn't matter what you write, but at least make it scary and you." I nod. "When am I getting my bed?" I ask because I can't write without having something I can get into multiple positions on, it's weird. "It's on its way up right now. Nice walls and quotes." I smile, then I hear someone mutter 'damn' "Six, how heavy is this shit bag of a bed?" Mikie says as he and Max enter my room with my heavy bed. I laugh slightly at how much he's acting like a baby. "First of all it's not a shit bag of a bed, and second of all it's not that heavy, just be happy I'm not sitting on it while it's in your arms. Just drop it on the floor once it's in my room, I can do the rest." I tell them, and Mikie gives me some sort of nod and Max just smiles. They drop the bed and it lands on the floor with a thump. I push them out and get to moving my bed to sit up against the wall horizontally. I add some military green sheets and a camo bed spread and pillows. Yeah I now it's not the best combination, but I like it. As I hang up my drawings on the walls and a map of the world on the biggest wall, the doorbell rings, but I ignore it until Tori yells for me to get my ass down there. "I'M COMING, GIVE ME A SECOND TO FINISH HANGING THIS THING UP BEFORE IT BREAKS!" I finish hanging the poster of the world and look down at what I'm wearing. I'm still in my uniform from the camp, but oh well. I run down stairs only to run into Tori neither of us fall, but I have a feeling I have something on my face. "Six, there's blue paint on your face." I try to wipe it off, but it won't come off. "Why did you need me to come down?" She smiles and rolls her eyes. "Uriah, Zeke, and their friend Four are here to help you unpack…you might want to hide your breakable things." I turn to run up the stairs to go and hide a few things from them, but I run smack into Zeke who starts to tickle me until I put a knife to his throat. "Don't you dare tickle me Ezekiel Pedrad." I hear laughing behind me. "You should know not to tickle her by now, Zeke! Did you forget that she stabbed me with a pencil the last time I did?! SIX, WHERE THE HELL DID YOU GET A KNIFE?!" Uriah's voice rings through my ears as he yells at me. "Actually, I'm not really sure where I got the knife. All I know is I'm supposed to have about six to eight on me at a time. It's become instinct over the years at the base, and out in war so yeah." I'm really not sure where I grabbed this one from. I slowly remove the knife from Zeke's throat. "Sorry dude, but seriously Zeke, how long have you known me? You should know not to do that by now. Bro Hug me!" I tell Zeke before we do a bro hug. Six this is my emotionless friend, Four." Zeke says I look over to the kid. "Hey." Four says with a little confusion in his voice. The kid has eyes that are a darkest blue I've ever seen with a little bit of light blue in his left iris, muscular built, high cheekbones, a strong jaw-line, a spare upper lip with a fuller bottom lip, and a rumbling voice deep voice. "Sorry, but I've got to ask. Why did you two bro hug instead of actually hugging?" I smile when he says this. Every time someone new meets me through any of my regular guy friends or cousin they always ask that question. "It's our little way of showing that I'm not a girly girl who has to throw themselves at guys to get them to notice them and that most of the time, I'm just one of the guys. I'll give girls real hugs mainly because my friends would murder me if I gave them a bro hug. All except Lynn." He nods and I smile. "Okay let's get to my hell whole of a room. Beware, I haven't put up the boxes of weapons in a certain place yet and there might be tacks on the floor. The room it's self might still smell like paint." I say as I run upstairs to the top floor. I hear them make a few confused noises at the last statement, but I decide to ignore it. At the top of the stairs I turn and open my door and enter my room. I move over to find the box with toiletries so I can hurry and put it in my bathroom before Uriah can start to scream I'm a real lady again. I'm walking to the bathroom when they all finally make it up all of the stairs breathless. "How...did…you…do…that?" Uriah says between overly loud pants. "Training." I say with one word that should explain it completely to them. The nod and head into my room to start unpacking stuff. I hide the toiletries inside the cabinet which has a trapdoor that I open and put them there. I rush back into my room when I hear a crash. "Uriah what did you break?" I say as I enter the room. "Nothing, I just fell this time, I swear!" I look around to see them with all of their hands up and sure enough nothing is broken. I shrug and walk over to another box. When I open it I mutter a curse word. "What?" I hear Four ask me as he crouches down next to me. "I gotta hide these before Uriah sees them." I say quickly, then Uriah pops up behind me. "Gimme, gimme, gimme!" Uriah says as he grabs one of my chocolates out of the box. I hurry and grab the box and run to the bathroom and hide my chocolates with my toiletries. I sigh as a walk back into the room only to find Uriah trying to shove the chocolate bar down his throat. He chokes and hit him hard on the back causing him to cough it back up and it flies out of his mouth, still whole, and onto my floor. I pick it up and throw it out the window. "Aww, why did you do that, Six?" Uriah whines. "Uriah, you practically threw up on the floor after I saved you from choking. Do I really need to explain myself?" She shakes his head no, and we continue on with the unpacking.

We are almost finished when Zeke slides me a box. "You might want to be the one to unpack theses." I give him a questioning look until I realize it's my lingerie box. "Uh…thanks Zeke. I'll unpack that later." I say as I feel my face heat up. He laughs a little at me as I push the box into a corner. The next box I open makes me smile. I quickly find a place to put any chargers, then I pull out my laptop and place it on my bed, the Wi-Fi router and plug it in, and all the equipment I have for hacking, programing, and other fun stuff. "Leave it to Prior to be excited about nerdy stuff." I hear a voice say right out my door. When I turn my head to see who they are, I am tackled. "WATCH OUT SHE HAS A KNIFE!" I hear Zeke yell and I am instantly free again. That's when I see them "CHRISTINA, LYNN, SHAUNNA, MARLENE! Oh, hey Will." I yell now that I see them. Before they can say my real name. I say, "I go by Six now before you yell you know what. If you call me that name in public or around people who don't know that name, I will put a knife to your throats." The nod and squeal. I hear Christina shriek in terror. "What did you do to your room?! Nothing matches! And your clothes, Where the hell are all the cute ones? All I see is military uniforms. And your shoes, Lord I though we raised you better than that? Where are the heels. I all I see are combat boots and tennis shoes." I laugh at how much Christina is over reacting. "Chris, take a chill pill. Don't start hyperventilating on me again. I spent my whole life on a military base and only a few months at a time I was allowed to leave, so you are going to have to calm down and deal with the fact that this is all I have right now, okay?" She nods and takes a few deep breathes before she stats to talk again. "Where are you going to go to school?" "Uh…I don't know, ask Amar, Tori, Morgan, Mikie, or Max. They know since Amar said they were going to be new teacher there." Christina pulls out her phone and starts texting Morgan, at least I think she is. "Cool, you are going to Rothwood High with the rest of us. Yay! Can I stay tonight, I can go run down the road and get some of my clothes for tomorrow and" Christina starts rambling around, but I cut her off. "If I say yes will you shut up for five seconds? Oh, and be ready to hear some kind of alarm" She nods her head vigorously yes and runs down the steps. The other girls look at me pleadingly. "Text her to grab y'all so clothes for tomorrow too." They smile excitedly as I say this and whip out their phones, except Lynn. "Lynn, you can use some of my clothes. Tom-boys like us need to stick together," I tell her with a smile, and she smiles back. "What are gonna do with you boys?" I ask my voice directed to the four boys. "We can stay at my house, it's just down the road." Will says. "Well, that covers it. Now get out." I say they nod and walk out. That's when the Christina shows back up and we get to having fun and catching up. At least I will know some people at this new school.