HERE IS CHAPTER TWO, AS PROMISED.
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Uriah's POV:
It's been about two weeks since I started helping Tris with her training in the afternoon.
She walks in at exactly 6:50 PM and finds me beating the crap out of a punching bag. I notice that she smirks and just stands there.
"You like what you see, Prior?" I tease her a little and flex towards her, eliciting a giggle from her dainty lips. I smile and just watch as she cautiously walks towards me.
"Yes, actually, I really do," she practically whispers and steps closer to me and bites her lower lip. I gulp and can't do anything else but watch her as she runs her fingers down my arm.
"Um, let me go, um, shower real quick," I try and hide the fact that I am extremely turned on by her right now.
She giggles and looks at me, blushing like crazy, and bites her lip, "I didn't know that you had to shower before another workout."
I blush and look her in the eyes. God, those eyes. They draw me in like a siren draws in a sailor at sea. "I don't normally, but when a sexy girl walks him and puts her hands on me, I can't help feeling the need for a cold shower." She looks around confused with who I am talking about and I just stare at her with a faint smile on my lips.
"Who?" she asks, still looking around.
"You," I smile as she blushes and looks down at her feet. "You intrigue me, Prior."
"And you, me."
"Go get ready before you waste all your time admiring my sexy body," I laugh at her.
"Seems like it was the other way around," she pokes my chest and then quickly pulls her shirt off revealing her flat stomach and her black and purple sports bra. This girl never ceases to amaze me. One minute she is all shy and timid and the next, she's just as outgoing as the rest of us.
For the next hour and a half, I teach her punching and kicking techniques, and I give her pointers on how to exploit her opponent's weaknesses, as well as her own. She catches on quick and soon she tells me she wants to spar with me. I don't know if she realizes that when you ask someone to spar with you, it's like asking them out on a date. I hope she knows and that that is the reason she asked.
For the next few minutes, we spar with each other. She's good! She caught on fast. Next thing I know, while I am admiring the way sweat rolls down her neck and down her collarbone, she has me pinned. Her hands wrapped around my wrists, her hips holding my hips down, and her legs pinning my legs down. I look up at her, with her golden hair framing her sweaty face and some of it sticking to her forehead or cheeks. I smile and she smiles back.
"Hi," I say softly as I sit up with her also sitting on my lap.
"Hi," she giggles. I love that sound. The sound of happiness slipping from her lips. The sound of joy filling her heart.
We look each other in the eyes and I don't know what we each saw, but next thing I know, her lips are on mine, or my lips are on hers. She smiles against my lips as I pull her closer and kiss her slowly, deepening the kiss. Slowly she pulls away.
"What about Marlene?" she asks.
"We were never a thing," I whisper against her lips and she smiles, being lulled back into our own little world.
We kiss for what seems like hours, until we hear the door open and then we begin to slowly pull apart again, both of us smiling like idiots.
"Initiates! What are you doing in here?!" It's Eric.
Tris scrambles to stand up off my lap and I stand up slowly.
"We were, uh, we were..." Tris trails off, not knowing what to say.
"We were training. I offered to help Tris with her fighting for the fights that start tomorrow and she accepted," I state. I mean, it's the truth, we were training for the fights until we started making out. Then it became something more...heated.
"It looked like you guys were trying to reproduce!" he growls. Geez, what's his problem? He caught initiates making out in the training room all the time, he needs to chill.
"I'm sorry, Eric, it won't happen again, I promise," Tris quickly attempts to make amends.
"Pff, I don't!" I wink at her, earning me a small glare and then a giggle.
"Just don't let me catch you again, you heard?" he growls at us. We both nod, Tris nods faster, which makes me smile. It's obvious she really wants to stay here. I want her to stay too.
Eric's POV:
He was kissing her. Uriah was kissing Tris. They were on the sparring mat. They were sparring...together. I feel this, this, this rage build up inside me. Maybe that's why I was yelling at them. Maybe that's why I got angry with them. I was so tired of seeing initiates making out in the training room that I took it out on them.
Deep down I know that's not why I was mad, but that's the only explanation I am allowing myself to believe. I mean, there can't be any other possible reason, right?
[TWO WEEKS LATER WITH PRACTICE EVERY NIGHT: FIGHT DAY]
Tris' POV:
Okay, so Zeke paired me against Peter. Just great.
Last night, Uriah and I hung out for a bit after we basically got kicked out of the training room. We wandered through the halls holding hands and talking. We laughed and we had fun. That is until it was time to turn in for bed. Uriah kissed me before heading off to his dorm, leaving me with a smile on my lips. He never asked me to be his girlfriend or anything of the sort, which kind of bothered me because I don't know how this kind of stuff works. Do we just automatically become a couple? Does he have to officially ask me? I don't know what to do, but that is okay because I guess I will find out soon enough.
I head down to breakfast where I find Uriah already sitting in his spot, I go to sit next to him, but Marlene beats me to it. I frown and sit across from him. He reaches across the table and grabs my hand. I smile and Marlene glares at me. I ignore him and look into his dark brown eyes. He smiles.
"How did you sleep?" he asks.
"Good, how about you?" I ask him and squeeze his hand.
"Fantastic! Thank you for last night, it meant a lot to me," he blushes and I bite my lip. His eyes narrow slightly, then they return to their original position. I smile at him and steal his bread roll from his plate. He's about to protest but then just laughs. Marlene just glares at me some more and I roll my eyes at her. Uriah looks at me confused and I just shake my head.
"Do you know who you're fighting?" I ask Uriah.
"Yeah, I'm fighting Lynn today. Mar here is fighting Jake," I nod, only recognizing one of the names. "Who are you fighting?"
"Peter," I state. He looks me dead in the eye and asks me if I am joking and when I tell him that I am not, he gets pissed.
"Zeke! What the hell?! You paired the weakest initiate with the strongest? What the hell is wrong with you?" he whisper-shouts at his brother beside him.
Zeke shrugs and says, "Look, I didn't have the final say, I didn't make that pairing. Look at it this way, the longer she holds off from being knocked unconscious, the more points she'll get and the higher she will rank."
Uriah just shakes his head and gets up, motioning for me to follow. I stand up and walk beside him as he takes his plate up to the window where you drop off your plates. He grabs my hand and we go to the training room to practice some more before my fight.
[A few moments later]
"You guys here to make out again?" Eric punches a bag.
"No, we are here because someone decided that it was okay to pair me, the weakest initiate, with the strongest," I growl. He looks over at me surprised for a second and then a flash a guilt, I think.
"Well, if you last, you may actually learn how to fight," he taunts. I roll my eyes. Uriah and I head over to the mats, where we spar. Next thing I know there is a callused hand on my stomach and the other on my back.
"Never forget to keep tension here," a deep husky voice says right beside my ear. I gasp and let out a slow shaky breath as Uriah stops and glares at Eric, standing behind me.
"What do you want, Eric?" Uriah growls.
"I am simply helping an initiate become the best that she can be," he says with what I can tell is a smirk on his face.
Uriah, looking pissed as ever just rolls his eyes and looks away as Eric saunters away.
Eric's POV:
Her skin was warm, after all the sparring. I want to know how she does in this fight. She managed ot last about 20-25 minutes with Uriah and he is a hell of a lot better than Peter. Let's see how this turns out.
[skipping the fight because I don't know anything about fights]
Holy shit! She won. She won the fight with Peter. She won the fight against him. The weakest initiate somehow became the strongest in a matter of two weeks. I don't know how she did it. She somehow found all his weaknesses. She figured out that he steps before he punches and he leaves his stomach uncovered when throwing a punch. Their fight lasted a good 30-40 minutes and then Peter received a punch to the temple, and he collapsed. A part of me wanted to scream with joy because SHE WON, but then another part of me wanted to cry because she had won and that meant that she was going to stay.
I didn't think it was possible for her to amaze me any further, but she did. After a very exhausting and energy consuming fight, she still managed to run across the training room to her boyfriend. Uriah (ugh). She jumps into his arms and he spins her around with a giant proud smile on his face. That should be m- nevermind. They seem happy. It's the least she deserves.
I head over to Zeke, who is ordering Christina and Molly to get in the ring and fight. "Zeke, you realize who the Stiff just knocked out right?" He nods. "Well, we need to let Tris sleep in the Dauntless-born dormitory because I know his kind of people. He is all big and bad and intimidating and once someone knocks him off his pedestal, he will do anything to get back at them. Now that he knows he can't win against her in a fight, he will do it while she is asleep, and I can't lose an initiate."
"How do you know what kind of person he is, it's been two weeks," he asks confused and interested in what I am saying.
"I was that kid, Zeke, I was the exact same way," I say quietly.
"Well, then, in that case, we still can't put her in the Dauntless-born dorm, Peter has friends in there. We're going to have to pass it with Max, and get her an apartment of her own," he says thoughtfully.
"Yeah, that could work, make sure it's on the same floor as my apartment, so that I can keep an eye on her, just in case he gets ballsy," I state seriously and he nods understanding my "reasonable motives." Deep inside I know that the only reason I suggested that was so that I could get her away from Uriah. She doesn't know what I know about him.
[Three Weeks Later: Initiation is over]
Uriah's POV:
I am walking to my new apartment when Marlene comes out from some hallway that I didn't notice before.
"Why did you let her come between us?" she asks as tears stream down her face.
"What are you talking about? There was never anything between us."
At that same moment, Tris comes down the hall and kisses me on the cheek, "Come on let's go get lunch, in fact, why don't you go ahead of me?" I just listen and walk ahead of her to the cafeteria.
Tris' POV:
"Back off my man!" Marlene growls at me, causing me to roll my eyes.
"If he was really YOUR man, do you think he would be holding me in the morning, kissing my lips throughout the day, and in the end, being pleased by MY body?" I retort. She does a kind of pouty scream as she turns and walks away. Pleased with her reaction, I walk to lunch with my BOYFRIEND.
When I get to lunch, he already has my plate all made up and it sits beside his on the table. Zeke and Four both making the whipping sound, and Uriah glares at them.
"I'm not whupped! I just like doing things for my girl," he gets all defensive. I come up behind him and kiss his neck and wrapping my arms around his chest.
"Hey babe," I smile and nibble on his earlobe.
"Beatrice, you better start eating your food, or I will eat you," he growls back so only I can hear him, causing me to giggle.
"You'll do that anyway," I wink at him as I sit down beside him. He smirks and rests his hand on my thigh.
"What happened with Marlene, by the way?" he asks around a bit of his hamburger.
"She told me to back off her man and I just set things straight," I shrug, he smiles and kisses my cheek.
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