One Year Later

Chapter 2

I turn to see Caleb.

"Hi Beatrice." "Um…It's Tris now." "Oh. I'm sorry. Hi Tris." I steal a glance at Tobias. "Hi Caleb." I turn to the group. "Caleb these are my friends, Christina, Will, Marlene, Uriah, Zeke, Shauna, and my boyfriend Four." I point to each one as I list them off. "Guys this is my brother Caleb." A few of them looked a little surprised. Uriah spoke first. "Trissy-poo you never told us you had a Erudite brother." Caleb looked at me confused. "Two things. One. Trissy-poo? And second. You didn't tell them about me?" I paused for a moment to come up with an explanation. "He made up the nickname during initiation." I said with a laugh. "And I never really got around to telling anybody. Fraction before blood right?" Caleb looked shocked by my response. "Um… yeah. Totally."

"Now I get it!" says Zeke. "What are you just now getting?" says Tobias. "The 3 ravens on you chest. You said they represented the ones you loved. I always assumed it was for some grandparent or pet, but it all makes sense now. It represents your brother" "I thought that too." Says Uriah. "For the record I didn't think that. I knew it stood for her brother." Said Christina raising her hand. "Show-off" muttered Uriah and Zeke together. "That's cause you and Will were with me when I got it." "HA!" shouts Uriah and Zeke at the exact same moment. "Well at least I didn't think it represented a pet. I don't think you are even allowed pets in Abnegation. Are you?" Christina looks over to me, but Caleb spoke first. "You aren't." "See" Christina says with a smile on her face. Caleb looks slightly flustered by the scene unfolding before him.

Tobias puts an arm around whispers and me in my ear. "I have to go Marcus is looking at me and I have to beat the initiates there." I turn to look at him. "Okay. I will stall the initiates by having them watch this argument go down and me kick somebody's ass. Maybe than they will begin to respect me as their trainer. You go." "Bye. Love you." He gives me a peck on the lips. "Love you too." He walks towards the exit. I look over to see Caleb staring at me. I just brush it off.

I turn to see Christina and Uriah still fighting. I walk over to the group of initiates huddled by the wall. "Come here and get your first taste of Dauntless." They follow warily.

We walk up just I time to hear Uriah say, "Lets all remember who ranked higher. Shall we?" I take the opportunity to show them both up. "Yeah. Guys lets all remember who ranked first." I say loud enough for the room to hear. "Hey Zeke!" "Yeah Trissy-poo?" "I can't remember who ranked first. Could you please remind me?" Zeke couldn't stop laughing. He finally gained some of his composure. "If I remember correctly Trissy-poo it was you." I fake a surprised face and say, "Oh. That's right I did beat BOTH of you." I emphasis on the both. A chorus of, "Ohhh. Burn!" Uriah's face was wiped of the smile he had been sporting. "As I said before, BULLY!" I pat Uriah on the back. "Okay Uriah. What ever helps you sleep at night."

Turning to the initiates. "Okay initiates. Let's go." With Uriah and I at the lead we run for the exits. We pause when we arrive at the street. I look over at Uriah. He nods. We run. Yelling and shouting as we cut through the groups of Abnegation. When we arrive at the tracks I let some of the initiates climb their way up.

Behind me I hear a man say, "I can't believe our daughter is one of them now." He says this with some disgust. "Our sweet innocent daughter could never be like one of them. How has she not become fractionless? She does not have what it takes."

I check my watch o see how long we have till the train gets here. "10 minutes!" I yell up to Uriah who is busy laughing at the initiates trying to climb up to the tracks. "Got it Trissy-poo! You should really join me up here it is really funny." I laugh at that. "I'm good I have to do something quick!" I yell up.

I turn to talk to the man expecting it to be some Candor smart mouth, but it isn't. It's my Father. "Dad?" he goes stiff when he recognizes me. "How long have you been standing there?" he asks nervously. "Long enough." I say harshly. "No need to use that harsh tone with me young lady." Says me father in the voice he used to use when I did something wrong as a kid. "You are no longer the boss of me dad. I am dauntless now." He is slightly taken aback by my response. "And for your information I was first in my initiate class."

"I was second!" shouted Uriah from just above me. He jumps down and lands on my right. "I'm Uriah. I was in her initiate class, but I was a dauntless born so we didn't train together. And who might you guys be?" my parents are quite stunned by his interruption. "Uriah these are my parent." "Well nice to meet you both, but the train will be here in 2 minutes so we must be going." "Alright. Goodbye Dad. Love you Mom."

I turn and begin to climb up to the tracks. Once I get to the top in about 5 seconds I look back down to see my parents stunned and Uriah laughing at the expressions on their faces. "Still think I'm not cut out for dauntless. Come on Uriah the train is coming." Uriah scrambles up the post just as the train is coming around the bend.

"Run!" I shout to the initiates. They cautiously do as I say. Uriah gets in first. I grab the handle and Uriah offers a helpful hand which I gladly take. Once on I see the candor transfer girl. I decide to help her. I grab her hand and help her in just in time. The sides of the tracks end. "Thank you." She says breathlessly. She starts to stand. "I would stay sitting if I was you. You will need to catch your breath. " She sits back down. I pat her on the shoulder and say, "Go second." I then walk back over to the door and look back. Every one made it on the train. We still have 7 transfers and 11 dauntless born. Let's hope it stays that way for now.

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