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I was glad, that during the dinner, Lauren tried to speak about different topics. She seemed worried and after the dinner, she insisted on walking me to my apartment.

"If there is anything I could help you with, all you have to do is tell me," she says and looks me strictly in the eyes. "Thank you," I whisper and then go to my room.

xXx

Next morning starts just like the previous ones – with me vomiting in the bathroom. I try to make myself presentable and then prepare myself for the meeting. During the last two months, we had four meetings that I needed to attend and I always managed to successfully avoid Eric. I just hope that I will manage to make it this time as well.

After few hours, which I spent with reading through the files and taking some notes for today´s meeting, I am finally heading towards the conference room. There are some people already, so I just sit down on my usual place, put the tablet in front of me on the table and wait for everyone else to arrive. This isn´t a leaders´ meeting, and since new initiates are coming next week, everyone, who has to do something with them, is supposed to be here. Soon, most of the seats are taken. Lauren, who is an instructor to the Dauntless born, sits to my left and Four sits next to her, close to Max, who is, together with Eric, the last one to arrive.

As they enter the room, I can feel the red coming to my face and I try to focus on my tablet immediately. Max tells us how many Dauntless borns take the test this year and then discuss the possible training plan with others.

"Ronnie, make sure all the files are updated before the Choosing ceremony and take care of the files of new transfers." I just nod, it´s same as the last year. I have to make sure that the files of the Dauntless borns, that will choose different factions are updated and arrange their transport to their new fiction. It´s pretty much the same with new transfers. I just have to visit all the factions and gather the data. The rest of the meeting is meant more for the instructors. I take few more notes and then sit silently and just listen.

At the end, when Max tells us we are free to go, I take a deep breath and head to him.

"Max, may I have a word with you privately?" I ask quietly and Max gives me a surprised look and nods. I look around and see both, Four and Eric are watching me. I just hope they won´t look for something behind it.

"What can I do for you?" he asks me suspiciously when we are alone. "I just wanted to ask," I start nervously, "if I could take a car, when I´ll be visiting the factions next week."

He raises both of his eyebrows. "And why would you need that?"

"Medical reasons," I say and then fix my eyes on the floor. I am really nervous right now, and I hope he won´t ask any further questions.

"I see," he says after moment of silence. "I will try to find you a car with a driver."

"Thank you," I say honestly and he nods. When I am quite sure there is nothing else to say I just leave the room quietly and head directly to my apartment.

Back in my apartment, I think, if it was a right decision not to tell Max. I am quite sure, he will want to know, what those "Medical reasons" are, and the last thing I want, is him to be mad at me for not telling him. But then again, I feel like the news is still too fresh to share.

About half hour later, I am on my way to have a lunch. As I enter the dining hall, I can´t see anyone I could sit with, so I just grab something to eat and sit to the nearest table. But the moment I sit down, my brother is next to me, looking at me suspiciously.

"What did you want to speak with Max?" he asks immediately.

"Nothing," I answer quickly, but he doesn't seem satisfied with this answer.

"Well, you don´t usually want to speak with Max privately," he says quietly with emphasis on the word privately and looks me directly in the eyes.

I just roll my eyes and try to keep calm face. "As I said, it was nothing. Or nothing of importance."

He still looks like he wouldn´t believe me a word a say, but he stays quiet for a moment.

The moment of silence is disturbed by Lauren coming to us. Although I am glad to see her, I can´t say the same about food she is bringing with her. The smell makes my stomach turn upside down and I have to stop breathing in order to deal with it.

Lauren probably recognized what was going on, so she started to talk to Four as soon as she noticed my expression. "Hey Four, do you want to bet, whose initiate is going to be number one this year?"

"Mine," says Four confidently. I just smile. At this moment, everything seems to be normal.

xXx

The days passed quickly and the Choosing ceremony was here. Max kept his word and founded me a car with a driver, so right after the Choosing ceremony, I visited other factions and made sure the data from all the transfers were safely in my tablet and in the paper files, that I got from other faction´s leaders. It was much easier with the car, and although it was already late afternoon when I got back to my faction, it took me just half of the last year´s time to finish it all.

I was walking through the hallway, when I was suddenly grabbed by someone else. I turned quickly to the person that held my arm and I stopped breathing. After two months of avoiding Eric, I stand right before him and I can feel my heart beating too fast from the nervousness.

"Eric," I say with shaking voice, "what is going on?"

Although his face is completely unreadable his eyes are furious. "Come with me," he says through clinched jaw with such a tone, that I don´t even dare to resist and follow him.

After few minutes, that feel too long for my liking, he slowly enters his office and I follow him obediently.

I close the door and there is dead silence in the room. "What is going on?" I try again, because I can´t bear the silence for any longer.

"I went to see Max, after the initiates came," he starts with a deadly look on his face, "and while speaking with him I saw a paper with your name in it, approving to travel by a car with a driver. Because of medical reasons," he continues and with the last sentence he looks strictly in my eyes.

Inside I am starting to panic. "I was curious, what those medical reasons were, so I went to the infirmary. The lady wasn´t really talkative, but in the end, she gave up." With this, he makes several steps, so he stands right in front of me.

"Imagine my surprise, when I found out, that the girl I spent a night with two months ago, was pregnant, and she didn´t even have the decency to tell me, although I am sure, that I am the only man she slept with, in the last five months." He shrugged his shoulders with fake calmness and put his hand into his pockets. The room is filled with another silence and I start to shake.

"Have you thought it would have been unnecessary to inform me?" he whispers.

"No, I just-"

"You what?" he doesn't let me finish. "I am afraid of you," I whisper and fix my eyes on the floor.

There is another moment of silence. Slowly, I raise my sight to see his unreadable expression. He makes a step towards me and instinctively, I step back. He stops.

He clinches his jaw and nods. "Well, you just made yourself the only person in this city, who doesn't have to be afraid of me. It is my child, too."