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"We should make this a thing," I say breathlessly as I fall back on to my chair.
Christina and I just finished our fourth song, You Can't Win by Kelly Clarkson. We stopped with Katy Perry after Teenage Dream.
But I love the message in You Can't Win. For me, it has a personal meaning, but to sum it all up; nobody's perfect. You're judged no matter what you do.
I look at the time. Only 7:37. So that's good that we didn't waste too much time. "That's was too much fun though." I say, still smiling widely. "Wait. Testing, testing. Ugh, my voice if hoarse." Christina laughs lightly. "Pretty sure mine is too." she pauses. "Yep, it is."
I stand up to go and get us both a water bottle from the "drawer of snacks." as we call it It's such an original name. "...And we're out of water. I'm gonna go and get a couple from the vending machine. Be right back." I say as I grab money out from my wallet. "See ya." Chris responds.
I walk to the elevator. Once it's in sight, I see the doors closing. I start to run/jog over. "Wait!" I say loud enough for them to hear. I see an arm go between the doors, opening it back up. I make it there a couple seconds later. "Thanks you," I say to the stranger, looking down. I look up to see who it was.
We look at each other in quizzical looks. "Four?" "Tris?" We say at the same time. "I didn't know you were in the Dauntless building?!"
"Yeah, so are Zeke and Marlene." He still has a somewhat incredulous and/or surprised look on his face from seeing me. I lean against the bator the elevator as I nod. "I knew about Marlene, we have a same class on Tuesday and we always walk home together. Didn't know about Zeke." I say somewhat distantly. Just thinking.
"...speaking of Zeke," Four says bringing me out of my trance. I look at him alert. "He's throwing a party tomorrow night just for the sake of it. I was wondering if you wanted to go, maybe bring a few friends."
I contemplate my options as he awaits my answer. "Umm, I'm pretty sure I'm free tomorrow night. So, yeah. I'll go. Zeke wouldn't mind, would he?" He shakes his head. "Nah, he was actually going to ask you tomorrow at work since you're new. " The elevator doors open and we both step out, still talking. "Okay. what time should I be there?"
"About 7:00. I'd probably get there a bit later since most people are gonna get there at that time." He informs. "Thanks for the tip. So where's it at?" I ask. "Oh, it's a house right off campus. Here," He says, pulling out his phone. He pushes a couple buttons. "What's your number?" He asks. "It's ***-***-****." He enters it in. "Okay, I'll text you the address in a bit. Okay?"
"Okay. I'll see you tomorrow?" He nods. "See you tomorrow,"
We both go our separate ways. As I'm going to the vending machine, I hear Four yell "Oh hey Tris! Wear layers!" I hear him shout to me. I look at him quizzically and am about to ask him why, but he's already gone. I continue to the vending machine and get me and Chris six waters since that's all that's left. I start to head back up to the dorm. As I'm thinking, Four starts to drift in to my mind. There's just something about him I like. He seems so open yet closed off like he's letting you know not to mess with him. Oh, and he's attractive.
But honestly, I think that was a pretty good way for him to get my number.
I open the door and go to the drawer of snacks and put the waters in it, leaving two out for me and Chris. I throw Chris' at her hitting her head. "Owww!" she pouts and throws the nearest thing around her at me. It was a stuffed animal. "Owww!" I say, mocking her. She frowns even more and we both start laughing. I go back to my desk under my bed. Then I remember about the party.
"Oh, hey Chris? Do you want to go to a party tomorrow night? You can bring Will. My friend Four asked me to go and wanted to see if I wanted to bring any friends." I ask already knowing the answer. "Of course I'll go! Do you want me to fix you up?" She asks. She always loves to do my hair, make-up and clothes when she can. "Uh, you can do my hair. I can do my make-up and dress. That okay?" I ask unsurely. "I have to approve of it first." I roll my eyes at her. "Whatever. By the way, he also said to wear layers, whatever that means." She looks at me weirdly. I just shrug.
I turn back to my computer re-typing my notes I took earlier in literature. I need to pay attention now. In my first year of college, I figured out a good way to get exercise and study at the same time.
What you do is you redo your notes so you can say them in an orderly way and organize them in to sections and record yourself saying them on your phone or something and then you can go out jogging or doing any type of exercise while listening to your notes. I think it's a pretty good idea. Sometimes you can't use if for your subject, but sometimes you can. I always do it when I'm able to. Christina stole the idea and does it herself now too. I tell her I'm about to record myself for tomorrow morning so she can shut up and not play any music or something like that. And trust me, it's happened before.
I stayed up to 11:00 last night. Pretty early for me. And pretty much everyone else I know.
I hear my alarm go off and I groan. I turn over and shut it off. It's 8:00. I look over Christina and see that she's still asleep. She's stayed up later than me I think. I reluctantly get up and change in to some of my cheap, handy-dandy exercise clothes. I put my hair in a pony tail and grab my small gym bag which doesn't have much in it. I plug my earbuds in my phone and start playing my audio notes while I put my tennis shoes on.
I head out the door and start making my way to the gym.
After about two hours in the gym, I decide to head back to the dorm and get ready for work and just hang around a bit. Christina is probably up by now.
My guess was right. She's up and at her computer. "Hey Chris." She glances at me. "Hi Tris," she says plainly. I put my stuff down by my bed. "I'm gonna go take a shower. See you in a bit." She doesn't answer. I walk to the showers and take a quick and steamy one which feels nice. I walk back and look at the time on my phone. 11:01. I got about an hour before work. I put my hair in to a french braid. I still have time, so i just lie down on my bed and play games on my phone and go on social media like Instagram. Mostly playing games. I get up after a while and leave for Kroger.
I walk back from work, kind of excited about the party tonight. I haven't been to one in a while. I think I know what I'm going to wear.
I make it back to the dorm and I see that Christina's already taken a shower and is getting ready. I go to my closet and take out one a my leggings and this really cute bright orange flowy top with spaghetti straps. It's shorter in the front and goes down pretty far in the back, covering my butt of course. I take a cheap fake diamond necklace, also adding my nude platform heels which make me a bit taller than I am. I'm Only five feet, five inches but with the heels I'm five feet eight inches. I also grab a white cammi for under the top and a (also nude) leather jacket. I also get a thin pair of shorts to wear under the leggings since Four said to wear layers. I still have no idea why.
I put it all on and I'm impressed with how I look, nodding in approval. I sit at my desk chair and pull out my small mirror beginning to do my makeup. I put on foundation, some red-tinted lip gloss, then some light brown and sparkly eyeshadow to bring out my blue-grey eyes, a thin line of eyeliner, and then mascara. I also fill in my thin eyebrows a bit. Minimal, natural makeup. I go back to the full-body mirror and look at the finished product. I don't look good, but I don't look great. I look... okay I guess. I look over at Christina. "This okay Christina?" I ask her, unsure of what her answer may be.
She turns around stopping what she's doing. Her jaw drops the slightest bit, then she starts smiling. "You look great Tris!" she exclaims at me. I look down and blush a little. "Thanks," I mumble. "Okay, now let me do your hair when I'm done. I think small beach waves would look good with that." She mumbles the last part to herself as she goes back to what she was doing. I just sit at my desk chair again waiting."What time is Will coming?" I ask her. "7:30" she responds. I look at my phone and see it's 7:19. "Eleven minutes."
After a couple minutes of waiting, she finishes and shows me her finished product. A cute red dress with other accessories, including (of course) huge heels. "You look great Christina! Will's gonna like it." I wink at her. She laughs lightly. "Thanks." She comes over and starts to do my hair quickly.
Will picked up up after Christina did my nicely attempted beach wave hair. I like it. We arrive at the house, walking up to the doors and we go in.
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