Four POV

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I slam my hand on the alarm getting it to turn off and walk to my dresser. My new school doesn't start until 8:00am but I like to wake up at 5:30 and go to the gym to practice my basketball skills. After all, basketball is what got me into Divergent High School. If they hadn't given me the scholarship I would never be able to afford this expensive privet school. I live with only my mother. Marcus, my abusive father, was arrested last year after one of our neighbors found out what he did to my mother and I. After that we couldn't live in Florida anymore. It had too many terrible memories. We moved here to Chicago and my mom works three jobs for just enough money to pay the bills. I help out a little with a part time job at the apple store but it still doesn't pay much.

Once I'm in my basketball shorts and my plain black tee-shirt, I walk to the kitchen. My mom is still sleeping so I try my best not to make too much noise. I grab a granola bar and my gym bag and head out the door. I get in my rusty, old car and drive to the gym. When i get there i start to warm up. I stretch a little and start to practice some free throws. When I'm about to start working on my three pointers someone walks in.

"Hey! Wanna play some one-on-one?" The guy asks

"Sure." I respond

We play for about 45 minutes. We play about three games, first to 30 wins, and I win each one

"Damn you're good!" The guy says

"Thanks," I say, "Hey I gotta go. I've got school in an hour."

"Yeah me too," he says, "What school do you go to?"

"Divergent High." I respond

"Really? Me too. I don't think I've ever seen you around before. What's your name?"

"Four. It's my first year there so you wouldn't have seen me before."

"Four...is that a nickname?"

"yeah it was my basketball number at my old school."

"Cool. meet me in front of the school and I'll introduce you to some of my friends."

"Okay," I say and he starts to walk away, "Wait! What's your name?"

"Zeke." he says halfway out the door.

I get home and see my mom making waffles. "Hey sweetie. How was your work out?" she asks

"Fine." I say and head to my bathroom to take a shower.

Once I'm out of the shower I put on my black jeans and a clean black shirt. I throw on a pair of converse knock-offs and put on my favorite Memphis Grizzlies hoodie (The grizz are an awesome basketball team) . I walk back to the kitchen and my mom puts a plate of waffles with whip cream and chocolate chips in front of me

"It's your first day so I thought I'd make your favorite." She says with a smile

"Thanks mom." I say with a mouth full of waffle. That makes her smile even more. Ever since we left Marcus she has been a lot happier even though we still struggle with money. Marcus worked in the government and made lots of money so we never really had this problem until now.

When i finish my breakfast I grab my school bag and walk out the door.

I get to school with ten minutes till 8. I walk up to the front doors and see Zeke waiting for me with a younger looking version of him.

"Hey Four! What's up man?" He greets me with some weird hand shake and he must see I'm confused cause he says "That's alright man we'll work on that later. This is my less attractive younger brother Uriah." He says turning to the mini him.

"Well I see you've already met my idiot older brother Zeke." Uriah responds hitting Zeke in the back of the head. Zeke just flicks Uriah's ear. "Come on lets get our schedules." He says. Zeke and I walk to the senior office while Uriah goes to where I'm guessing is the junior office and we get our schedules, locker numbers, and locker combinations. Zeke and I get a locker next to each other and we put our stuff up. We compare our schedules and see that we have first hour, lunch, and last hour together. We still have seven minutes left untill class starts so Zeke decides to introduce me to some of his friends.

"There's Christina!" He says pointing to a girls with dark hair standing at her locker. Zeke walks up to her and I follow him. When we reach her Zeke puts his arm over her shoulder and says "Four, this is my girlfriend Chris. Chris, this is my new friend Four."

Christina slaps his arm off and says "You wish. Speaking of girlfriends, have you asked Shauna yet?"

"No." Zeke mumbles. Christina hits him in the arm "OW" Zeke says sarcastically

"You need to ask her before you get friend zoned!" She shouts at him

"Friend zone? The great Zeke Pedrad never gets friend zoned!" Zeke says. Christina just roles her eyes. "Can I see your schedules?" She asks me and Zeke. We both hand her our schedule and she reads them. After a couple of seconds she looks up at Zeke and says "I have first, third, and lunch with you," Then she looks at me and says, "and i have first, second, and lunch with you."

"Well then lets get to class." Zeke says and we follow him to first hour.