Disclaimer: I do NOT own Divergent or any of the characters, just the plot and storyline. Also, this is set during the movie, right after Tris' final test, when Max announces: "Congratulations, new members of Dauntless!" and before they get their tracking devices. The characters look the same as in the movie and FourTris hasn't happened yet.
Tris' POV:
"Congratulations, new members of Dauntless!" Max, one of the leaders, announced, and we all cheered. I am so glad I made it through the final stage. Tori warned me about that. About how Divergents couldn't make it past the second stage. And it is very rare that they do.
I hugged Christina and Will and then they hugged and… kissed! They kissed! I am so proud of her. I was so excited about being in Dauntless officially that when I saw Four, I ran up to him without thinking and kissed him on the mouth. I heard a couple of "ooooh's" and a few gasps of shock or something before I pulled back, suddenly aware of what I just did. He looked at me, surprised before he blinked a couple of times. I turned and saw Christina watching. She waved and smiled hugely. I took off running toward the dorms. Locking myself in a bathroom stall, I contemplated what I just did. I kissed Four, my instructor. Yes, I think I had liked him from the start, but he certainly did not like me. There was no way he liked me.
I heard someone come in. "Tris? Are you in here? Tris?" Christina. I tucked my feet below me, above the gap in the door. "I know you're in here. I can here you breathing. Tris, come out please." I didn't move. She continued, "Whatever. I have to meet Will in the cafeteria. See you then." She turned and walked out. At least, I think she did. I heard the door slam shut and sighed in relief. I so did not want to talk about it with Christina. She's too much of a gossip girl.
Suddenly, I couldn't breathe. I quickly unlocked the stall door and stumbled into the hallway. Christina was sitting on a bench with Will down the hall a little. I stumbled a few steps farther before she noticed. She waved at me to come over but quickly her facial expression turned from happy to confused to panicked/worried. As I collapsed, I saw them hurry over, probably shouting for help. I couldn't hear. But I could see several nurses and Four rush over to help. And then I blacked out.
I woke up with a pounding head ache. Christina was sitting next to me, reading a book about the old world, before the factions. Will was next to her, texting on his iPod. I sat up and they both put down their stuff. "Are you okay, Tris?" Christina's voice rang with concern and worry. I nodded and patted her shoulder twice. "It's okay. I'm okay." I sighed and swung my legs out from under the blanket and over the edge of the bed to sit up right. "Whoa, Tris, what are you doing? You aren't supposed to stand up or move from this bed until the doctor says so." Christina came over on my side to stop me but I put my hands up to block her. I stood up carefully. No dizziness or nausea. "How long was I out?" Will took a step beck before saying he had to leave, to check on some stuff. "About a day and a half." I gasped and abruptly ripped out the IV. I had to get back to the Pit. I wanted to make sure I didn't miss the job selections. They were in a few short hours after all. One of the nurses came over, Martha, and gave me my regular Dauntless clothes. After I changed, she signed me out of the infirmary and Christina and I made our way to the cafeteria for lunch. When I saw Four, he smiled and walked to a dark hallway, motioning for me to follow him. "Hey, I'm gonna catch up with you in a few minutes okay? I… Have to talk to someone." Christina nodded and said she'd save me a seat before she walked over to the table Will was at. I walked toward the dark hallway, making sure no one was following. As soon as I got there, Four pulled me into the shadows and said, "Hey. I wanna talk about that kiss. I… I think it would be better if I showed you how I feel. It's hard to put into words." I nodded and he bent his head down, pushing his warm mouth against mine. I pushed back. My arms instinctively wrapped around his neck. He pulled me closer and I could hear my heart thundering in my chest. "Whoa…" We pulled away from each other and saw Zeke standing down the hall a little. "What did I just witness?" I turned beet red and fixed the hem of my shirt. I needed to slow my heart before I passed out. I cannot believe that just happened. Zeke just smiled, shook his head and passed us to the cafeteria. Four looked at me then. "We… Do you want to keep it a secret? Or we could just tell everyone? I don't mind either way." He just shrugged. I replied, "They'd find out sooner or later. But maybe we should wait a little while. Sort everything out. Okay?" He nodded and we headed toward the table all our friends sat at, Dauntless-born or not. He sat down across from me and we ate in silence, listening to all the conversations in the cafeteria. I kept sneaking small glances at him, but Christina noticed. She just looked in between us, before asking, "What's up? What's going on between you two?" Will, Christina, Uriah, Zeke and a couple of others who I couldn't name looked at us. "Nothing. Nothing is going on," I lied. But I am a terrible liar because every time I try to lie to a Candor, I look away or I bite the inside of my cheek. Or both at the same time, like right now. Christina nodded slowly, as if silently saying, Yeah right. Something is going on and I will be watching you. I shuddered involuntarily. Christina creeped me out sometimes.
After the whole thing in the cafeteria, Eric announced that we will see the final ranks and we will chose our jobs today. Plus we get the keys to our new apartments. Right now. I tried to think of what jobs Four had. Training initiates of course… But what about the other one? When there aren't any initiates left to train. He came up to me and whispered, "If you're wondering, control room." I smiled at him and almost laughed out loud. It was like he could read my mind. Maybe because I chewed on my bottom lip every time I was thinking about something of importance. Like right now.
When we walked up to the chalkboard, Eric explained that this was only the rankings for Dauntless transfers, and that all Dauntless-born initiates must follow Lauren, which took all but 10 of us. When he flipped it, it was like this:
1. Peter
2. Tris
3. Will
4. Christina
5. Imane (E-mon, yes I totally did that :D)
6. Drew
7. Molly
8. Al
9. Myra
10. Edward
"Those of you who are below 6 will have the worse jobs, like cafeteria work or guard duty. Very boring, guard duty. Okay. Peter? What job would you like?" Peter chose leadership. I chose training initiates and the control room. Christina chose to be a nurse, Will was a librarian and the rest got chummy jobs, like what Eric said. Guard duty, cafeteria work, janitorial work, etc. After the job choosing, we got apartments. I was in B49 and Four was in B66 already, which was right down the hall. Zeke later told us he was having a party in B46 at 10:00 that night. Apparently, Uriah was in B47.
Christina came over later, around 6:30 and dragged me to a clothing store for shopping. I kept seeing all these dresses, but I didn't like any, until I found a pale red one shoulder with lace lining. It hung to my mid thigh and it was beautiful. I bought that and grey knee high boots. When we got back to my apartment, she tortured me for an hour and a half, perfecting my makeup. Grey smokey eye, light red lipstick and a feathering of blush. Perfect. She told me to wear layers. Mostly because of the games we were going to play later, but I ignored that suggestion. I followed her advice and put on several jackets for a layered look. Sexy, sophisticated and chíc. She spent the next two hours doing her makeup but took an extra thirty minutes to figure out what outfit to wear. When we finally got there, Zeke answered the door. One look and his eyes literally bulged out. I laughed and saw Four. As I walked up to him, he just stared. I noticed everyone else staring, then took a real look at what Christina was wearing. Black leather knee high boots, a leather pencil skirt and a denim jacket over a black tank top. Her makeup was a black smokey eye, light black lipstick, and a light blush. Wow.
Suddenly the music stopped. Everyone was staring at us. "Okay, what are you all looking at? Get back to doing whatever," She spat and everyone went back to partying. The music came back on and I took a look at what Four was wearing. Black pants, a grey polo shirt and Dauntless sneakers. I hugged him and he kissed the top of my head. Christina looked on approvingly before heading off to find Will. I still had to look up to Four because the knee high boots only had a two inch heel. He was still taller than me by three inches, at least. We spent the next three hours partying and dancing. At about 3:30 in the morning, Zeke yelled out: "Okay, everyone who is not a close friend, out!" About 95 percent of the people left. That left me, Four, Zeke, Christina, Will, Uriah, Peter and 3 other girls whom I didn't know. Four saw my confused glances at those three and pointed them out, "Lynn, Marlene and Shauna. Just in case you didn't know." I smiled gratefully and tried my best to find an appropriate way to sit. I ended up sitting with my legs underneath me. Zeke and Four shared a look and tried to contain their laughter. "Okay, for those of you who don't know, we are going to play a series of very inappropriate games. First, truth or dare. The rules: Someone asks someone else 'truth or dare' and that person picks with one. If you don't want to answer a truth or do a dare, you must take off an article of clothing. Shoes and socks do not count, and neither do high heels, cough cough Christina and Tris." Here, we gave him death glares for pointing us out. He continued, Anyways, lets begin." Uriah started by asking me. I picked truth and he yelled out, "PANSYCAKE!" Zeke yelled that we were so not bringing that back again. I was confused but I swept that away and answered that I owned four thongs, thanks to Christina. Four smiled slightly when I answered, though I didn't know if it was because of me having 'four' thongs or because I had any at all. We continued playing for a half an hour or so before Zeke asked Shauna, "Candor or Dauntless, Shauna?" She chose Dare almost immediately, but I knew she instantly regretted it when he dared her to go into the hallway and run all over the Dauntless Compound screaming bloody murder. All she was wearing was underwear, bra and a shirt. She took off the shirt because her voice was a bit raw because she was getting over strep. After that, we played never have I ever, but everyone ganged up on me and did ones that I actually have done, like date my instructor or trip over nothing or stand up to Eric. It was ridiculous how much they did that. By the end of the night, I was stumbling and totally over the edge.
"When are we going to Zeke's party? Did we miss it? Hey the sun is up. I can smell cake. What time is it? I love you Four. Hahaha, I love everyone here, even the three girls I don't particularly know. Lynnie, Marly and Shaunie. Hahaha, I love you guys." Four decided to take me home. Christina wasn't particularly drunk, so she helped me get redressed. Once we (Four and I) were in the hallway, I grabbed him and kissed him, softly at first, then harder with more passion. He broke it off and hurried me home, where we spent the night in my bedroom… If you get my drift (wink wink).
I woke up with a pounding headache and no memory of anything. I saw Four lying next to me and checked… Yep, we were naked. Which meant we did it lat night. I recognized my apartment though. Whew. I got up carefully and got dressed in a tight black tank top, red lacy underwear and bra and black skinny jeans that I knew Four would love. Thank the heavens that the apartments had a stove, sink and a pre-stocked fridge. I decided to make toast, bacon and eggs. When the toast and bacon was done and I was in the middle of cooking the eggs, Four came up behind me and wrapped him arms around my waist. "Morning, beautiful." I blushed a little and tilted my head to kiss him softly. Once we sat down to eat, the apartment became spookily quiet. Then I heard a crash in the other room. I swallowed the bite of toast I had in my mouth and looked alarmingly at Four. He put his hands up in an "okay, calm down" way and slid a hidden blade from the bottom of his shoe. Carefully tiptoeing into the other room, he almost hit Zeke. "What the hell? Why did you sneak into Tris's apartment? What is wrong with you?" Zeke smiled and replied, "I wanted to scare you, but I'm really dizzy and knocked over a cup. Sorry. Anyways… Christina told me to come get you guys. Something's wrong. She would tell me what." We rushed out the door, forgetting breakfast entirely as we made our way to her apartment. The door was locked. I told them to back up and I reached under the mat to grab the key. Once inside, we found…
Sorry! Haha, cliffy! I love those! Makes you want to read more right? Anyway, I will only update if I get 10 reviews! And also, for those smart-asses out there, one person posting 10 times doesn't count! Sorry! Anyways, next chapter at 10 reviews!
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