Hey all! I'm back! Did'ja miss me? Well, here goes! Chapter 2.
Also, I know she's kinda OOC in this chapter, it was just really fun to write. And, I know Four and Tris are supposed to be 2 years apart, I just decided this would make more sense for a high school story. "
:) Happy reading!
Disclaimer: I, only own the copy of the story sitting beside me. Not the whole book. I, unfortunately, am not the all mighty Veronica Roth
Tris POV
I walk to English, my new best friend walking beside me, following Zeke and Shauna down the hallway. "Here it is, English. The language we all know and love," Zeke says, obviously sarcastically.
I smile, and follow him into the classroom. There are bookshelves lining the walls, with all my favourite books. From things like 'The Fault In Our Stars', to future classics, like 'Harry Potter'. I sigh, and grin. There are not many things I like, but those books are some of them. Above the bookshelves, there are posters done by former students. They are all Shakespeare related. Shakespeare was okay, but very confusing.
"Let's sit at the back," Marlene says, pointing to a bunch of empty desks at the back, about the only empty ones in the room, except the first row. No one likes the first row. We all nod, and walk to the back, following Marlene's lead. I sit with Christina, Zeke with Four, Shauna with Marlene, and Uriah with Will.
"Welcome class," a voice from the leading off room says, hushing all the conversations.
"My name is Ms. Smith, and I will be your English teacher this year. I'm going to start with attendance." She walks to the front of the room, and sits in the wheely chair in front of a small desk. I zone out until I hear her start to say my name.
"Bea-" I cut her off before she finishes.
"Tris. Just Tris," I say, not wanting anyone to make fun of my name.
"Okay, Tris," She says, putting emphasis on my name. She obviously didn't like being interrupted, but it had to be done.
"How would you like that to be spelled?" She asks me, her pencil hovering over her paper.
"T-R-I-S," I answer, spelling it out. She nods, and jots it down on the paper.
I zone out again, until I see her getting up, and going into the little room she came out of at the beginning of class.
"We will be starting the year off with novel study." She grabs a box of books from beside the door, and takes it to the front of the class.
"Four, would you please come and hand out the books?" She ushers him up to the front, where he grabs the box and hands them out to everyone. When they get to me, I gasp. All I see are the best five words ever: The Fault In Our Stars. No wonder there are so many on the shelf. They're used for novel study! I'm super excited. I see one of the guys closer to the front of the room raise his hand.
"Yes?" The teacher asks him.
"Isn't this a chick book?" He asks, sounding disgusted.
"It may be kind of girly, and many of you may have read it- who am I kidding. You guys are Dauntless. But still, it gives us a good message. How many of you have read it?" I shoot my hand up right away, and I'm the only one who does.
"And? What did you think of it?" Ms. Smith probes. I take a deep breath.
"Sometimes you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book? This is that kind of book." The teacher gives me a knowing smile.
"I have never met a student who could memorise a part of a book that well. How did you do it?" I shrug. "I've read it millions of times." I all of a sudden feel really shy. I slouch back in my chair, and avoid everyone's eye contact.
"Well, class. Open to chapter one."
I then get lost in the beautiful world of Hazel Grace Lancaster.
I know she's really OOC in that chapter… It was just so fun to write! Don't worry, the next chapter won't be so bad. I'm also sorry for the length. Again, the next one'll be better. Much better.
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~Cat