DISCLAIMER: I do not own these characters
The lights of the city glow during the night. We stand on the roof of a building, relaxed by the soft breeze. It has been one month after initiation, and I honestly did not know I could pull together. With being short, skinny, and weak, it is quite uncommon to pass Dauntless initiation. Laughter rings through my ears and I pull my eyes away from the city to look at my friends. They laugh and shove each other, enjoying our time. My feet move toward them and I feel myself grinning.
"Tris come! Uriah is telling us a story," Christina laughs as she stumbles toward me, taking a hold of my arm. She sits me next to her on the ledge of the building where everyone is circled around, sitting cross legged on the floor. All of our eyes meet Uriah's as he is still doubled over in laughter.
"Okay- okay I'm done, I'll start the story now. So the other day, I was walking from the pit, making my way to the canteen. And, and I see Eric and Four talking so of course I sort of backed myself against the wall just around the corner and eavesdropped. They were talking about past initiates -us- and"
"Dude does this story even have a point, you're laughing way too hard and it doesn't seem like it's getting anywhere." Uriah tosses a look at Lynn who sits there smug as if she didn't interrupt.
"I wasn't laughing at the story, I was laughing because I remembered about Zeke dropping his cake" We all switched gazes from Uriah to Zeke who sat hugging his knees and lifted a hand to flash his middle finger. Uriah started to burst out laughing again, but maintained himself and continued. "Yea, all I was going to say was that Eric was talking mad shit about everyone and Four just walked off when he said your name, Tris." All at once, everyone was howling at Uriah, forcing him to give more details about what Eric had said about them. I sighed and turned my head to look back at the city lights. My thoughts drifted off to the last time Four and I talked.
"Congratulations, Tris. You're now an official member of Dauntless." Four spoke as he tugged his girlfriend closer to his side. I held my eyes on his and gave a small smile, as a thank you. My gaze drifted to his girlfriend, Aria. She looks to the wall with a bored expression, as if she wanted to leave. As I searched her face for two more seconds before meeting Fours gaze, I could realize why he would date her. Her hair was thick and dark, matching her eyes. Unlike me, her jaw was defined and gave her face a nice structure. When I looked back up at Four, I gulped nervously, scared of being judged by her deathly expression.
"Thanks, Four." I managed to speak before giving one last smile and turning on my heel to walk back to the pit where a party waits for the new members.
I let out a breath I didn't know I was holding and looked back to my friends. I felt Chris staring at me, so I turned to her. "You ok?"
"Yea." I forced a smile as her expression grew different. Her face had that I can tell you're lying look on it, and before she could open her mouth, Marlene hopped up and told us to go with her. Her eyes glowed as she bounded away, with all of us on her heel. I could already tell what we were going to do. Take the zipline down and go back to Dauntless. Will grabbed Christina's hand and they started to bolt off. I let out a laugh and ran after them, hearing the squeals of the others as I felt them run behind us.
We made it back, by nearly midnight. Uriah and Lynn laugh at I'm assuming something he said, and it echoes throughout the dark halls.
"Shut up!" Zeke spins around and yells at the two, with a boyish grin on his face. I could hear Uriah snort, before he takes off. In the next moment, I feel laughter bubbling out of me before my feet take off, running farther than Uriah. I turn my head back and look at the others, Marlene spinning, Chris and Will shaking their head, and Zeke and Lynn trying to run past us. I looked forward again and skid to a stop, but it's too late. My body slams into another as we both fall back. My vision goes blurry for a couple seconds, as I groan and try and lift myself up.
"I'm- sorr"
"Watch what you're doing. It's nearly midnight. What are you guys even doing out? You're acting like initiates. I thought you all knew better." The words spun in my head as the person sat us up with warm strong arms.
"Don't ruin our time, we are just trying to have fun, Four" I heard Zeke say. Four. Wait, Four? I look up with a pounding head and see Four lifting himself from the floor, giving the others stern looks. I sat dumbfounded on the floor, the position he sat me in before he reached his hand out expecting me to grab it.
"Well you guys shouldn't be out this late." His deep voice pounds in my head as my shaky hand reaches toward his, before I lowered it. His gaze shifted from them to mine. "Are you going to let me help you?" He speaks in a more soft manner. I clear my throat, brush my shirt off and rise myself.
"Why are you out? You can't tell us what to do, you're not our instructor anymore." I feel myself saying. My vision grows a bit blurry, fearing what he would say back. I'm surprised not only because I said that, but because it sounded clear and fierce. The halls were silent as I looked in his deep eyes. I almost saw a hint of pain in them, but I'm not so sure anymore because they were masked. He opened his mouth and I felt my cheeks flushing, still thrown off with what just happened these last couple of minutes.
"Head back to where you belong." He snapped, looking behind me at the others. His gaze shifted back to mine, and my heart pounded faster. He looked at me for not more than three seconds, before he looked back up and slowly turned away before disappearing in the dark.
"Wow." I heard myself whisper before I turned around to look at the others, who had their wide eyes glued on mine. "Guess we should head back.." I forced out before turning and disappearing, just like Four
This is my first Divergent fanfiction and I'm very excited (: If you have any suggestions for the story, or if you want to see some things please let me know. Four and Tris have not had a past relationship, the ferris wheel and fear landscape has not happened, just in case if you were wondering. Thank you so much for reading, please let me know what you think!
