Four opened the doors and brought us into a room where the Dauntless-born initiates were.
"This is where you all will be sleeping," he stated.
"And if you're wondering, it is co-ed habitation," added Peter with a smirk.
"Awesome," giggled one of the Candor girls who winked at Hec as we walked in. Hec looked at her like she was crazy before all the boys by him started to tease him.
"Usually the Dauntless-born room and train separately from the transfers. However, the best way to pick up Dauntless behavior is to see it. Learn from them," stated Four.
"We grade you every day," added Eric. "There are seventeen of you here. Unfortunately when training is done, not all of you will be able to stay."
"What do you mean by some of us won't be able to stay," I asked.
Eric let out a deep sigh of frustration at my question. "I thought Four said that all questions were to be left outside of Dauntless." He eyed me, but I continued to stare at him. He smirked. "Alright Amity, I was not going to start scoring until tomorrow but consider yourself in the negative."
"In her first hour," questioned Four looking at him. They both stared at each other, until Four relented.
"As Four mentioned every day you are to earn points or be graded. For many of you the training starts tomorrow. For you," he said walking up to me. "Your first day is today, Amity. And you just loss points for talking out of line, especially to a leader." Eric faced the rest of the group. "The more points that you earn the higher grade you get. Less points earned means a lower grade," he leaned down towards my ear. "Greatest chance of you getting cut and kicked out of Dauntless, understood?"
I nodded and he took a couple steps back.
"You have to earn your points, earn your grade, earn your spot to become Dauntless. Everything needs to be earned. As Four mentioned earlier, just because you jumped off a train and into the building that does not make you Dauntless. You need to earn it and a lot of you will not earn it, especially if you continue to talk back to leadership." I bit my lip from saying something sarcastic back. I did not enjoy being singled out on the first day. "Shall we continue?" He turned to Four.
"You'll love the bathroom," called out one of the other Dauntless boys as Four and Peter led us to the group bathroom. And yes it was a group bathroom. Some of the Dauntless born started to laugh as some of our faces dropped. I let out a sigh and turned to look at Mina.
"I'm always up for experimenting new things," Mina said shaking me a bit to try and get my nerves out.
"Well, this is going to be awkward for me. I lived with six brothers, so sharing a room with guys is okay but having to shower naked in front of a guy," I shook my head and then decided to crack a joke. "At least Eric won't be in the room. He'll find something to take points from me, like perhaps I used too much shampoo."
We both laughed until I turned to see Eric standing right behind us. He smirked and then shoved past me. He overheard everything. I wondered if I would have lost more points.
"Get out of those clothes," Eric yelled as he walked out. "You are in Dauntless. You should dress like it. That means you, Amity." With that he, Four, and Peter left.
We took out clothes from the bin where two Dauntless guys and two Dauntless girls were handing out clothing. Every person received three sets of everything. They quickly ran out of medium size tanks so I took an extra-large size instead. I even had to take a couple large and 1x size crew neck tees. Mina took a couple large as well. The Candor girls had got everything before we did.
"You'll be given credits as time goes by," said one of the girls that had been handing out our clothes. "With those credits you'll be allowed to get more clothing or purchase anything else you might need. Tomorrow your trainer will go over that with you before you start. This is just to get you out of those tree hugging clothes, Amity."
I nodded not really caring about the Amity comment or wearing loose fitting clothing for a while. I was just training anyways. Come to think about it, I was kind of heavy up top so the large would be just fine. I was not used to wearing pants or shorts. I had always used flowy skirts. I was partially glad that I wasn't diving straight into wearing the tight clothes that I saw the Dauntless girls in.
We turned to see that the beds that were by the corners or hidden were taken by the Candor girls as well. While their bunks had more privacy we would be out in the open. I looked towards the beds that a lot of the guys were by and decided Hec and Noah seemed okay, so I grabbed Mina and led her over there.
"Are these taken," I asked as Hec smiled.
"No, you can have them," he answered with a smile. Mina took the top bunk, which I didn't mind. On the other side of our bed were Dio and Odysseus. A few of the other beds were where the other Erudite boys and girls had decided to be.
"Hey Mina," I called up to her as she had already started stripping off her Erudite clothing. "The girls there," I motioned to the two Erudite girls.
"They're not my friends," she answered quickly. "A lot of girls didn't like hanging out with me."
"I didn't have friends either in Amity," I shrugged.
"No it's not that," she shook her head jumping off the bed. "Let's just say that sometimes you need to watch out for certain people in Erudite. Someone didn't like my mom and because of that, that person went and spread fictitious information about my family. Parents didn't want their kids associating with me."
"Wow. That's cruel," I said softly.
Mina smiled at me. "Your Amity is showing."
I put on a smile. "That's still cruel. No one should have to go through that."
"Thanks. I guess that's why I came here. I wanted to get away from it."
"I understand." Mina turned to me. "I wanted to get away from things too." I decided that since we were friends I could play around with her. "I didn't just come here for the boys," I teased as we both started to laugh.
"Hi," a small voice came out from behind Hec. A girl with fair skin and dark brown shoulder length hair, who was lying down, sat up and extended her hand. "I'm Beth." I shook her hand and she motioned for a couple other Dauntless kids across to come over. "This is Ryan, Scott, Tammi, and..."
"Noah, the greatest Dauntless ever," Noah screamed as he jumped from the top of his bunk, which he shared with Ryan, to the top of Hec's bed, making the bed shake.
Hec pushed him off and immediately two other Dauntless boys from the opposite end of the room came over as they started to play fight.
"Never mind them," said Scott, the boy who had bumped into me on the train. "We can get kind of rowdy here."
He jumped down from the top bunk of Hec's bed making me believe that he was the one who would be sleeping there.
"As I had proof from earlier," I smiled at him.
"You know each other," asked Beth.
Before I could answer, Mina piped up. "Yeah, they bumped into each other on the train."
I rolled my eyes and then turned back to Beth and the other girl named Tammi who came to sit on our bunk, instead of Hec's.
"By the way my name is Mina," she introduced and then ever so slightly she turned to Scott and sort of pushed me into him. "And this is Ana."
"It's nice to finally meet you," Scott extended his hand which I shook.
"It's nice to meet you too," I smiled.
I turned back around just as one of the Dauntless called for Scott to help whatever wrestling match had started. He seemed like a nice guy.
Beth and Tammi started to talk to me and Mina about certain things here at Dauntless. They were very talkative, especially Beth.
"Oh," she grabbed my tank before I could slip it on. I stood there awkwardly in my bra. "Honey, this is size 1x. Surely you need something tighter to fit you."
"It's okay, really," I tried to get it back but she bounded from my bed, over to hers and then back again with a few shirts.
"Trust me, you need to contain those," she pointed to my chest. I already was feeling a bit out there but with her pointing them out I couldn't help but blush when a few of the Dauntless boys had stopped to look at what she was talking about.
The Dauntless born had eight guys and four girls in total. There were twelve of them, nineteen transfers, and only twenty of us were going to make it as I was soon to find out.
"I'd listen to her if I were you, Amity," said one of the Candor boys.
I turned to see him sitting down on the other end of my bed. Was he sitting there the whole time I was changing?
"We wouldn't want you to get in trouble now would we? By the way my name is Don," he said as he extended his hand.
I titled my head and looked at him awkwardly unsure of what he was doing. I know that Candors were not deceitful but I had never come to like many of them.
"I know, I know, Candor usually don't associate with Amity. But we're in Dauntless now," he kept his hand up. "This is the part where you say your name," he leaned in and whispered.
"Ana," I answered as I shook his hand. Just then the four Candor girls walked by and turned their attention to him.
"Honestly, Don," called out one of them.
"See you around," he said as he smiled, stood up and followed behind the Candor girls and the other three boys from Candor.
"It's going to be very cut throat from here on out," said the other boy who was with Scott on the train. I believe his name is Ryan. I turned to see that he was looking at me and Mina.
"Cut throat," asked Mina.
"Like Eric said not all of you transfers are going to make it. Very rarely does one of the Dauntless get cut. But the possibility of being factionless for a transfer is very high," explained Scott.
"What did he mean by that anyways," I started. "He mentioned that I already lost points."
"You lost points already," several of them screamed while staring at me in shock.
Mina laughed and came around to the front of our bunk slipping her hand around my shoulder. "Apparently that show on the roof was just a preview on Ana's disobedience. Ana here kept talking back to Eric, questioning almost every little thing he said. Honestly Ana, I'd be careful if I were you, especially with Eric. He's got a mean streak to him."
"That's what I was going to say," Hec offered. "Although that was awesome what you did up there on the roof, the continued attitude might get in you trouble, especially with Eric." The Dauntless laughed at that and then Hec turned to Mina. "Wait, how do you know that about Eric?"
"I can just tell," Mina just shrugged obviously hiding something but continued in the conversation anyway.
"Well, the points you earn give you a grade," Hec explained. "That grade needs to be better than everyone else because the people who have lower grades or scores end up not making it."
"Wait, we're competing against one another," I looked around as they nodded.
"People can get vicious," Beth looked over at one of the other Dauntless girls who were glaring our way.
"So," Mina stepped forward. "How do they determine what score or grade does not make it? Is there a certain cut off that they…"
"Twenty," Scott said coming back towards us.
"Twenty points," I asked.
"There's twenty spots," Hec corrected.
"There used to be ten spots every year open to new Dauntless members. They increased it to twenty but at the same time," Ryan trailed off.
"The amount of dependents trying out for Dauntless increased as well," Mina nodded. "If there are only twenty spots but x amount of us here then that means more than half of us will become factionless?"
"People fight for the right to become a member here at Dauntless," Tammi stated as if it was nothing.
"And they'll fight you off for it, even the ones that you grew up with," another Dauntless nodded towards a couple others who were still eyeing us out.
"They're sizing you up right now," Hec warned. "They're trying to find your weaknesses to use that against you throughout initiation. That's really all it is, a test to see whether or not you can beat the weakest person here."
"I can't believe it," I shook my head. "Do others actually sabotage one another," I asked.
"You're not in Amity anymore Ana," said Noah. "I suggest you two be careful around the other transfers. From the looks of things, a couple of those girls from Candor may already have it out for you."
"Not to mention the ones from Erudite," Mina muttered as the two girls walked past us.
"And Dauntless," I whispered to Mina.
Mina and I walked down with Beth and Tammi. It was easy to see how a lot of the girls and guys from the initiate class had started to mingle with one another. Well, all accept the girls from Candor. Those four mostly stuck to themselves.
We all sat down to eat dinner with most of the Dauntless born initiates. Gross, I thought as I looked at the center of the table. There in the middle of all the fruits, salad, bread rolls, and other starches, was none other than meat.
The thought of killing an animal for one's personal gratification was not really a crime in Amity. It wasn't frowned upon either, because no one in Amity frowns. I started to laugh at my inside joke but stopped when I realized that I would probably look like a crazy person.
My brothers and I, along with some of their friends would sneak a taste of it here and there. Of course we never knew how to cook it, so we never really thoroughly enjoyed it. Jonathan and Jordan told me that they eat chicken, but there wasn't any out right now. I saw everyone else eating the meat. I grabbed a piece of it slowly and placed it on my plate. I cut it into really small pieces and threw it in with some salad that was also there. I guess I'll break myself in slowly.
Tammi was eyeing me out with a smile.
"Don't worry, it'll grow on you," she said.
We continued to eat and talk about each other. I sighed a little. I hated group activities and getting to know other people in Amity. But for some reason this was comfortable. Yup, talking, laughing, and smiling here just came more natural than it did when I was in Amity. A roll of bread flew across the table.
"Is the bread from Amity," I asked scared of the answer.
"Yes and no," Tammi replied. "Yes, it's from Amity, but no it doesn't have any of your folk's happy juice in it," she said throwing me a wink.
She must have known I didn't want to eat it if it did. Boy was I poisoned my whole life being punished for an outburst here, "All you're getting for dinner tonight JoyAnna is some bread". Then another punishment for an outburst there, "It's not going to hurt at all being injected with peace serum for the tenth time this week, JoyAnna". I rolled my eyes at the memories. I hated being injected.
Beth grabbed the bread. Noah ducked his head down as Beth flew it back at him.
"Boys," she said rolling her eyes. "I think I might try to be bisexual this year," she said out loud as though the statement meant nothing to her.
Mina smiled at her. "I love your curiosity, but that came out of nowhere."
"Well, I'm not sure if I am. I'm never tried a girl before," Beth said smiling.
"What do you mean by 'tried'?" They all looked at me. "I mean, like what exactly do you mean? What is it that you did, or this case didn't do?" Beth started to laugh.
"Are you virgin," screamed Mina.
"Yes, aren't you all?"
"I am," answered Tammi. "I wanted to wait until after initiation. Max already knows that."
"Max is the son of one of our leaders, whose name is also Max," whispered Beth smiling at Tammi.
"That's not why I'm dating him."
Beth leaned back and rolled her eyes. Tammi pointed out Max sitting a couple tables away with two other Dauntless boys. One of them, who looked so familiar, nudged him and he looked our way and smiled.
"He's a year older than us. He ended up being ranked third in his class last year. That by him is Cain, Beth's brother, and the other is called X," Tammi explained.
"Wait," I finally realized where I knew that Dauntless boy from. "You said that boy there with the black spiky hair is Beth's brother?"
"Yeah," she answered. "That's Cain. He was first in their class, X was second. X is a transfer from Abnegation like Four and Six," her voice got softer when she said that last statement.
"Wait so there's three Abnegation transfers here, in what the past four years," Mina asked. "Wow she actually got her information right for once."
"Who got their information right," I asked.
"No one," Mina shook her head.
I turned back to the table to see Beth's brother still looking at me. Cain, I thought to myself as I looked down. I finally had a name to go with the Dauntless guard who I had spent so much time with the past few months.
"You were staring at my brother, weren't you?"
I looked up at Beth and saw her smiling.
"Oh, don't worry. He's staring at you too. X over there was trying to get him to move. They had to knock him off the bench because he was so intently staring at you."
"Of course you would notice anything that X does," Tammi rolled her eyes.
I decided to challenge Beth. "You thought I was looking at your brother, why does Tammi think that you were looking at X?"
"Come on, look at him, Ana. He's deadly sexy! Besides it's the quiet and reserved ones you got to watch out for."
Mina and Beth laughed. I still didn't get it. "What do you mean by look out for? Is he dangerous?"
Both the girls stopped laughing.
"Have you at least kissed a guy," Tammi said looking at me.
"A couple," I thought back to my first kiss.
"So," Beth nudged me. "You going to divulge or…"
"She doesn't have to say if she doesn't want to. We're not Candor," Tammi said.
"You said a couple," Beth offered as if she thought of something. "That means more than one, right? So perhaps you could just tell us which one you thought was the best."
Mina smiled. "True, the least you could give us is who the best kiss was. You do remember his name don't you?"
"I actually just found out his name now," I looked up to Mina.
"No way," she exclaimed.
"Now, I don't get it," said Tammi.
"It's Cain," I said quietly. "He is the best kiss I ever had."
"I'm sorry, who now," Tammi asked leaning in.
"It's Cain," I repeated once more just as softly.
Beth must have heard because she spit out her water that she was drinking. "You're the Amity that my brother made out with during his night patrols at the fence!"
Thank goodness everyone else was screaming so they didn't hear Beth.
"Cain," Tammi said loudly and turning to look back at the table where they were sitting. "Oh my God, did he recognize you?"
"I think he might have," I shrugged.
"Oh yes he did. The way he talked about you, there was no way he'd forget what you looked like. In fact I need to find out," Beth stated.
"I'm sorry. Find out what exactly?"
The next thing I knew she leaned over Mina, grabbed my head, and pressed our lips together. Our lips moved so perfectly. She bit at my lower lip, pulled less than an inch away, and sighed.
"Mm," she replied. "Yeah, my brother was not lying. You're good," she pointed at me and then leaned back.
"That was good actually," I said looking down kind of embarrassed. "But I really like boys."
"Hey, I still love dick, too," she said it like nothing. "I like it way too much. Yes, that was awesome," Beth pointed again to me. "But, I love how Hec makes me feel." Mina spit out her water. "Oh yeah, Hec was my first. Hec was also my best, too. We were sixteen. I slept with another guy from last year's initiation class. I was really aiming for X. He was okay, but Hec for some reason, my God!"
"You should have gone to Candor," teased Tammi as Beth rolled her eyes and threw something at Tammi.
"What about you Mina," Beth motioned to her. "When was your first?"
"I was sixteen, too."
"You're joking," I asked her.
"What can I say? Kids at Erudite are naturally curious. I would ask an analysis of that girl on girl kiss, just because an inquiring mind wants to know, but judging from the reaction of Beth there, I'm saying it went pretty great."
They started to laugh as I blushed harder.
We walked back to the room, with Beth getting a piggy back ride from Hec. I was hoping not to see or hear them in the bed next to us. Judging from the giggling that I heard that night, someone was making out in the dorm room and it wasn't coming from the bed next to ours. After a couple hours of tossing back and forth or hearing moans and giggles from other initiates' beds, I finally got up and decided to walk around in the compound.
I quietly slipped on a jacket. I had on the shortest shorts to sleep with and a loose tank top because of its large size. I opened the door and stepped out of the room. The second the door closed, someone spun me around and pushed me up against the wall.
Just as my back hit the wall, the person's hand gripped my waist as the other hand covered my mouth. I took a quick glance down the hallway. Why was the lighting so poor? It wouldn't be safe. Then, why did you decide to walk out by yourself, Ana? Dummy! Maybe I wasn't cut out for Erudite after all. Slowly the person's face came into the small piece of light from the blinking light bulb and he moved his hand away from my mouth.
"You," I said quietly taking in a couple breaths as a small smile appeared on my lips.
"You," he responded before smiling and pressing our lips together. A soft moan left me causing him to press his lips harder to mine, pushing our bodies tighter together.
"Cain," I sighed right as he started to suck on my neck.
He started to growl as he squeezed on my waist and then my butt. He gripped my thigh and lifted me up. I threw my arms around his neck and wrapped one of my legs around him as he kept me tight between him and the wall. Cain chuckled and I giggled right before we started to kiss again. His kisses started to get softer. Then after a while, he dropped me slowly from his hold. He pulled back a couple inches, moved his thumb back and forth on my cheek and smiled.
"How did you know my name?"
"I'm in an initiate class with your sister." I put on a smile, too. He leaned in and kissed me softly.
"What else did she say," Cain asked as he moved his head back to my neck, placing a soft kiss and then sucking harder here and there. It felt like old times.
"What else did she say about what? You," I asked as I almost lost my breath.
I had not seen Cain in months and to feel him again made my body weak. He pulled away and smiled. I forgot how handsome he was. He looked different and seemed a bit older, but still had that same look in his eyes.
"Follow me," he said and pulled me down the hallway. We took a couple turns until we reached the Chasm. Cain sat us down on a rock.
"I looked for you," he said keeping my hand in his. He looked torn. "Those few times we met out in the fields or by the Amity river border, those were the best and most fun for me."
"Because we were two teenagers sneaking around and making out," I said smiling as he smiled in response.
"Yeah, I think the whole excitement of us breaking rules, too." He paused and then turned back to me. "A couple weeks went by and I never saw you. I thought you got in trouble for sneaking out of the fence at night. I wanted to ask someone or type your name in our security system but I didn't even know your name."
"It's Ana."
"Ana," he repeated and then gave me another soft kiss. "I like it." He then turned and looked away.
"I kept going out there for a while," I mentioned. "I didn't see you coming back either. I thought I had done something wrong."
"I wanted to find you Ana to let you know. I got assigned to patrol the gates at Erudite, instead of the fence by the Amity fields. Then that is when," he paused and shook his head. "It doesn't matter now."
"I'm guessing you recognized me," I smiled.
"I saw you sitting down in the dining hall," he nodded as he moved to press a kiss to my cheek. "I just had to tell you. I felt like you had to know that I did try to find you. All those nights in the Amity fields were by far my favorite."
"Mine, too." I started to giggle.
"I still can't believe you're here," Cain started to chuckle.
"I can't believe you're out here, either!"
Who in the world was that?
Cain slowly stood up pulling me behind him and turned around to face our interrupter. It was Eric. He looked apathetic and cold.
"Sir, I..."
"Get out of here Banner!" Cain turned to either hug or kiss me. "I said get out of here!"
"Don't," I whispered, pleading with Cain to stay.
"That's an order," Eric repeated.
Cain looked apologetically at me, turned around and hurried away. I felt scared now. Cain was leaving me alone with Eric, at the Chasm, too of all places. Eric cocked his head and just stared at me.
"Cain Banner," Eric finally said as he started to shake his head. "Being the first ranked initiate in his class from last year is a hot commodity. That is what a lot of girls chase after, is it not? The number one guy," He took a couple steps forward. I straightened myself.
"I didn't know he was ranked first." Lie.
"Hm," he paused to consider my statement. "You two looked awful close on the rocks over there," Eric continued to walk closer. "Met out in the hallway and made your way down here?"
"How did..."
"There are cameras here and there in the Dauntless compound. Of course all of that is to keep people safe," he said stepping in front of me and running his hand in my jacket and along my stomach.
He used his other hand to run his fingers through some of my hair in the front of me. He moved my hair away and then gently touched my neck. He opened my jacket slightly and moved his hand down my side. I felt like screaming for help. But he was leader and everyone was afraid of him. Who would come to help me? When he reached my thigh, he ran his hand back up, lifting my short and shirt higher, revealing more skin. I almost felt violated.
"I can see why you got someone like Cain so enamored."
I shivered as his eyes shot back at me and turned cold. He wouldn't continue to touch me further if I asked him to stop, would he? I swallowed in a breath, I felt scared of him now.
"You certainly enjoy breaking the rules don't you?"
"N-n-no," I began to stutter.
His smile widened. Eric pushed me over to the wall, slammed me against it, and then pressed his forearm against my neck. There was no sense in struggling. I could feel the strength in his arm hold me. I wanted to cry.
"Do you know how dangerous it is for a pretty little initiate like you to be out here, breaking the rules, all by yourself?" This time I tried to squirm out of his hold, but he kept me firm against the wall. "You should be glad I found you and not someone else, especially out here by the Chasm." He pressed my head back against the rock with his hand. "Someone could have thrown you over. And what do you know, right there," he pulled my jacket and made me face another wall to my right. "There's no camera, so no one would see what happens to you."
Eric's eyes scanned me one more time, before he pushed me in the direction of the hallway and let me go.
"Get back to your room, Amity." I pulled the jacket in closer, feeling shook up from my encounter. "Oh and Amity," Eric called. I stopped. What was he going to do to me now? I slowly turned around to face him. "You lost points for that shower comment earlier. I suggest you watch that mouth of yours."
I couldn't believe it. I had to hold my tongue at home. Now, I couldn't be sassy here either?
"What are you still doing here?"
Eric made a face that said I should have left already. A strange feeling came up within me. I just had to, didn't I?
"I'm sorry. I was not sure if you were done talking," I said with a bite of sarcasm.
Eric let out a small chuckle. "You're dismissed," he then said coldly as his smile disappeared.
I slowly walked down the hallway until I came to the hallway that led to the dorm room. Once I took that turn, I sprinted down and burst through the door, forgetting that the sound might wake up somebody. Fortunately it did not. I walked silently to my bed and crawled inside. Finally I was able to get some sleep, exhausted from either bumping into Cain or getting caught by Eric.
Within a couple hours we were up with loud banging noises. The lights turned on to reveal Peter running through the room, hitting all of our bunk beds to wake us up. That must be his favorite part of training, irritating us.
"Get up and get dressed. You have three minutes," yelled Four from the door. Eric then stepped inside followed by Uriah and Lauren.
"Three minutes," Mina whined as she jumped off the bunk.
"We should be happy Four didn't say two," Hec joked from the other side of us.
We tried to hide our laughter, especially me. I already loss so much points. Right when I took off the tank I was sleeping in, Mina grabbed me and pulled me against her.
"What?" Mina's eyes widened happily though and looked down. "I know the Dauntless bras here really make my breast look big."
"You did look like a natural D cup before," added Scott, jumping off the top of his and Hec's bed. "Dauntless bras just make you look sexier." He smirked and pinched my cheek.
I stuck out my tongue. Then I turned back to look at him. "How did you know my cup size anyways, Scott?"
"He was staring at you that's why," supplied one of the Dauntless boys before walking past me into the bathroom.
I eyed out Scott who began blushing before turning back to see Mina with a questioning look on her face. "Are you thinking of going bisexual too? Is that why you're still staring at me?"
"Ana, you have hickey on you," she whispered.
"What the," Hec said spinning me around. "I swear to God, I thought I went to Beth's bed last night. I'm so sorry, Ana."
Mina giggled as Scott started to chuckle.
I pushed Hec playfully causing him to fall back on his bed. "You did, you dummy," I whispered back. "I did not get it from you."
"Who did it get it from then," Mina asked.
Scott put his hands up in the air. "It wasn't me."
"Is there a problem," Eric asked from behind us. I didn't want to turn around for Eric to see me only in my bra let alone the hickey Cain gave me last night.
"No, sir," answered Hec who kept getting ready.
Everyone had started to move quicker but Eric continued to stand there. I grabbed a shirt, only to have Mina hand me another one and put it on over my head. Mina slipped on her pants and we both walked past Eric, avoiding his gaze.
"Sorry," Mina whispered. "I did not want you to get in trouble. It's on the bottom of your neck, that's why I gave you that crew neck shirt."
"It's fine Mina."
We stood and waited for orders from the trainers. Four stood in front with Lauren and explained that training would alternate. One day, he and Lauren would train. Then the next day it would be Peter and Uriah. It would be like that for the next two months. During the third month Will and Six would join us. Why were there so many people training us?
For this week only, Dauntless born and transfers were going to be separate. The first part of the morning was full of introductions on Dauntless' credit system and our weekly allowance.
Once Mina had input all her information into the system she vowed that we were going to go shopping. Unfortunately the next available trainer to take my information was Eric. I sighed and sat down in front of him.
"Name," he stated.
"Ana."
"Your full birth name," Eric corrected looking up at me.
"JoyAnna Summers," I finished as Eric tilted his head at me before looking back down.
Every question asked felt personal. However, none of them were actually personal. It was just the feeling of having Eric who is a Dauntless leader ask me these questions knowing full well what he did last night that left me feeling uneasy.
"What is your relationship to Cain Banner?"
"Is that part of the information you need to put into your system," I asked.
"You talking back to me this early, initiate?"
I scowled and looked away, crossing my arms in front of me.
"Five points gone for refusal to answer questions," Eric stated as I rolled my eyes. "We're done."
I stayed in my seat. I didn't need to take this from him. I didn't care who he was. He had touched me in a way that I didn't want to be and if I remember correctly, my father always told my brothers that if a girl didn't want to be touched that it was wrong to force your hands on her. Neither was a gentlemen supposed to talk that way to a woman.
"Is something wrong Amity," Eric snarled seeing my reluctance to move.
"Ask nicely," I said.
"Excuse me?"
"You heard me," my voice was soft. "Ask. Nicely."
Eric and I stared at one another refusing to blink or submit to the other until finally he let out a huff and looked down. I guess he wasn't going to ask. Therefore I wasn't going to give an answer.
I got up quickly, causing the chair to fall back and hit the floor.
"Is everything alright here," Four looked over.
"Everything is perfect," Eric replied as I began to walk away. "Amity," he called out.
I turned around. "It's Ana," I corrected. "I just told you my name. You should learn to call me by it."
"The chair," he nodded to it. "Please put it back the way you found it."
"Wow you said please," I replied.
"Ten points gone," Eric smirked. Four was still staring at Eric but I knew that Eric still had some power on the situation.
I reluctantly walked over and put the chair back.
"Thank you, Amity." I glared at him as he said it. "You should know not to demand things from me."
After that was done, Four and Peter, along with Eric, walked us to the training room. They showed us the punching bags, the ring, the targets, etc. At the other end of the room there were some Dauntless guys already in there, one of them was Cain. Four walked us by them.
"This is Blaze," he motioned to one of them who stood up shirtless. I rolled my eyes. Did they just have to show off? "He was first in his class, three years ago. Dillon, Jason," he motioned to two others who stood up. "They were ranked second and third. This is Cain. Cain was ranked first last year. X and Max," Four nodded to them. "They were second and third."
Cain had stood up when Four introduced him and took a quick glance at me with a slight smile. I smiled quickly before turning back to Four.
"X, Dillon, and Jason were transfers like you," he turned to look at us. "They beat the odds that were against them and are now some of the finest Dauntless members that we have. We asked them to come here and give you all some pointers. Are there any questions," Four sent a look at us, zeroing in on the Erudite-born.
However none of them had decided to ask anything.
"Amity," called out Eric. "I'm sure you got a couple questions."