Chapter 2 (Uriah's POV)

The first day of training went very well for all of the Dauntless born initiates. Now how it went for the transfers, I have no clue because I am obviously a Dauntless born. I found the first day pretty easy, but today is the day when we actually fight each other. I walk into the training room with Lynn and my eyes fall onto the board. I am paired up with one of the strongest Dauntless born, Ethan.

"Oh god…" I say to Lynn before we walk up to our spots.

"Today you will actually be fighting against each other. Find your name on the board and who you are next to, is your opponent" says Skye.

"First fight! Uriah and Ethan!" yells my dork of a brother Zeke.

We both step into the circle on the padded floor, and stare right into each others eyes. Man, if looks could kill we would both be dead now.

Ethan surprises me with how much his punches hurt. Before I know it I am on the floor. I see a figure walk out of the training room right before I go unconscious. Was it Zeke? Was it Skye? Was it an initiate? I won't know until I wake myself back up and ask them.

I wake up in a hospital bed with Skye at my bed side. I don't let her see that I am awake. I open my eyes after awhile, I feel bad for not showing her that I am okay. I see her and she starts to smile a giant smile. Her eyes are puffy, she has been crying. Why would she be crying because of me? Maybe she was the one that walked out of the training room because she didn't want to see me get beaten up. Maybe she has feelings for me. I will not ask her now. It doesn't seem like the best time to ask her. I guess I could ask her after initiation because dating your trainer. Yeah, no thanks. Everybody would think I had an advantage over them. I already have enough competition as it is! I don't want anymore! I am snapped out of my thoughts when Zeke enters the room.

Zeke comes and sits beside Skye. He gives Skye a sideways look and asks

"Have you left his bedside at all in the past 2 hours?"

Skye blushes and says "Umm, no."

I smile, but I'm not sure why. Zeke is staring at me and I finally realize why. I was making googly-eyes at Skye! Zeke starts laughing, but Skye doesn't laugh, she blushes. Okay now I am sure that she has feelings for me.

It has been 4 days since my injury, and 4 days since the whole "Skye Thing." I still don't know what I am going to do. I had time to think about if I had feelings for Skye too. I found out that I did, but just a little bit. I am going to see if spending more time with her than usual makes my feelings for her develop even more. if they do then I might make a move, if they don't then I'm sorry Skye.

It is another day of fighting against each other today, and I am against Ethan again.

"Oh my god!" I almost scream, but I bite my teeth together and hold it in.

I am going to try my hardest this time, and if I lose, oh well then. I know I will be safe and not get cut from Dauntless. I mean I am freaking Uriah! I will never get cut!

"Okay too cocky mind" I whisper to myself as I step into the circle once again.

Ethan throws a right hook at my jaw, and I duck to avoid it. I am smaller and faster than he is. I punch him in the side and he loses his balance. He recovers quickly, but not early enough. I hit him square in the temple. I look over at Skye for a millisecond and see that she is still there, and she is smiling. This, for some reason, gives me confidence. I dodge almost every punch that Ethan throws, except for one that hits me right in the jaw. I almost have Ethan knocked out. I can see it in his eyes. They waver and are all over the place. I dodge one left hook quickly and punch him square in his other temple. He collapses onto the floor. I look over and Zeke and Skye are smiling, Skye a little more than Zeke.

Training is over after they take Ethan to the infirmary. Zeke and Skye walk out together. When I see them in the hallway they are laughing and punching each others arms in a playful way. This kind of breaks my heart in a way, but I know Zeke and Shauna are dating and he would never do that to her. I run to catch up to Skye, and this time I don't run through the center. I learned the hard way on not to do that. Instead, I run up next to Skye and bear hug her. She bites back a scream and slaps my arm. I don't know what persuades me to do this, but since I am a little under a foot taller than her, I can reach her cheek if I was standing behind her. My mind goes blank, and as she tries to get me off I kiss her cheek. She stops all of a sudden. I release her and walk beside her now. You can clearly tell that she is blushing. My romantic side takes over and I wrap my fingers around hers. We walk like this into the cafeteria, ignoring all of the stares. Then Skye's hand falls from mine and back to her side.

I see Peter staring at me with devil eyes. Peter is a Candor transfer who trains with Kassie and Four. Supposedly, Peter is top in the class and will do anything to stay there. He even stabbed another initiate that was above him in the eye with a butter knife! He is kind of crazy to me at least. Skye gives me a worried look, and whispers something to me.

"Meet me at the chasm at 10."

I am scared to meet her in the chasm by myself. I figure she won't do anything bad, she just might want to talk. Or possibly kiss, no Uriah stop it! I finish lunch and go back to training to ponder on what will happen at 10 tonight.

I am walking down to the chasm now, it is 9:45. I came a little bit early. I hope she might have came a little bit early too. I turn the corner and see Skye looking over the chasm. She waves for me to come over. Skye leads me on rock ledges down to a flat ledge inside the chasm where water doesn't splash us. She turns quickly and kisses me then puts her finger to my lips. Skye starts talking a mile a minute and it is hard for me to keep up. She says,

"Uriah, you know we can't do this, no matter how much I want to believe me, but it would make the other initiates think you have an unfair advantage. Plus, they might already think that since they do know that Zeke is your brother, but back to the whole point of this. I really really like-"

I cut her off before she can finish by pressing my lips to hers. I say,

"Trying to keep your distance from my won't any way lessen my affection for you, but I understand."

I kiss her one last time and start heading back to my room. Half heart broken and half worried about Skye and Peter. I just decided to sleep it off until the next day of training.