A/N- two updates in two days. Is anyone else as shocked as I am?
Thanks for mattsmithfangirl, my official proofreader, for helping me with ideas for this chapter. The that's what she said joke in this chapter is dedicated to her. She's updating tonight also. You should check out her fanfictions because she's a great writer.
I don't think I mentioned this yet, but in this story, Uriah and Zeke are twins. I know they're not in the books, but they are in this story.
This chapter took forever to write and it still sucks. Sorry.
You guys seem to want longer chapters, so that's what I'm going to try to do. And Four is NOT in love with Tris yet. He just thinks she's pretty and wants to get to know her. I don't believe in love at first sight. I'm never going to have two characters immediately fall in love in any of my stories.
Disclaimer- I don't own Divergent or any other fandom references that I wrote without realizing it.
Tris' Point Of View:
I did it. I asked the new kid, Four, to sit at my friends and I's table surfing lunch. I know they won't mind, but I am slightly worried that they won't like him. I've only had a few conversations with him, but he seems like such a great person and someone who would be really interesting to get to know.
It turns out that Four and I have five out of nine classes together. Geometry, gym, chemistry, lunch, and a study hall. I'm also kind of glad that I'll be with him for some of the day because a lot of people in this school are asses, especially to new students.
I quickly grab my lunch out of my locker and rush downstairs to Four's locker. I told him I would meet him there and show him the way to the lunch room. It also would be better if we showed up together. It would be kind of awkward for him to get to the cafeteria and just stand there because he wouldn't know what table to go to.
"Hey Four!" I call out, walking up to him.
He smiles when he seems me approaching. "Hey." He replies.
"You ready to go?"
He nods. "Yeah. Let's go."
Four closely follows me through the hall, trying not to lose me in the crowd of people rushing to get to class or lunch. This school is fairly small, the average number of students per class is much smaller than most schools, but that also means the hallways are very narrow, so when half of the school is rushing through one hall to get to or from the lunchroom, it's complete hell.
Once we get into the lunchroom, there is many less people. Checking to make sure that Four is still behind me, I walk over to my usual table where my entire group of friends is already at.
"Tris!" Shauna exclaims. "We were wondering where you were. You're normally here first!"
"This is Four," I introduce him, ignoring Shauna's comment. "He's new and I said that he could sit with us."
"Join us, Four!" Uriah says dramatically. "We're the best people in the school. And on Wednesday, we wear pink. No exceptions."
I roll my eyes as w sit down, Four on my right side and Christina on my left. "That's Uriah. He's kind of an idiot. Just ignore him most of the time. That's his twin brother, Zeke, that's Will, and Shauna, and Christina, and Lynn, and Marlene." I introduce everyone to Four, pointing to them as I say their name. "Will and Uriah are dating and so are Lynn and Mar. Zeke, Christina, Shauna, and I are forever alone."
Four laughs. "So am I."
"There were no cute guys where you're from?" Uriah wonders, earning a slap on the arm from Will. "I'm just joking, babe. You know I love you." Will smiles and gives Uriah a quick kiss.
"Eww couples." I joke, pulling my food out of my lunch bag.
"Don't worry, Tris. We'll find the perfect girl for you." Christina says.
Crap. I haven't told her that I'm straight. I don't know when I am. I just hope she doesn't actually try to set me up with any girls. I don't doubt that she will though. I know she really wants me to get with someone. She just doesn't know why I don't try with relationships.
I snap out of my thoughts as I notice my hand knock something over. Just to my luck, it was my water bottle. My open water bottle. The contents of it are pouring out, mainly onto Four. Why can't anything ever go right?
"Shit." I mutter, picking up the bottle and rushing to grab napkins from over by the lunch line. I grab a handful and hurry back to the table, trying to clean up the water, and give some to Four so he can try to dry his crotch.
I clearly have the worst luck. The moment I try to befriend a cute guy, I dump water all over him. Why do I have to be so clumsy?
"I'm so so so sorry. I wasn't paying attention. Now you're going to have to look like you wet yourself for the rest of your first day and it's all my fault. I'm so sorry, Four." I ramble.
"It's okay, Tris. Calm down." He tries to reassure me.
"No it's not. I just screwed up your first day here." I groan.
"No you didn't. Honestly, it's fine. It's just water."
"What if it wasn't though?" I ask. "What if it was something else?"
"Shut up, Tris." Christina nudges me with her elbow to get my attention. "It's not that big of a deal. Four says it's fine. Stop rambling."
I sigh and Four and I finish cleaning up my spilled water.
"Sorry for making you so wet." I tell Four.
Zeke laughs under his breath. "That's what he said."
The entire table laughs, immediately relieving some of the tension that is in the air. As annoying as they can be, I'm so lucky to have the twins as friends. They can always make an awkward situation so much better.
The laughter sparks a new conversation and we all talk and laugh as we eat until the period is over.
My last two classes in the day are history and French, which I unfortunately don't have with Four. They're also boring as hell, so I just sneak onto my phone and text Christina during both classes. We have them together, but our teachers know us well enough and know that we would spend the class talking instead of paying attention, so we have to sit on opposite sides of the room.
Christina is also texting Bryan and Jordan and they told her just to come home with me since the are already at my house with my dads. Christina is very happy about that since she hates the bus and always tries to get me to drive her home.
After what seems like forever, the bell finally rings, signaling the end of the day. I quickly grab my bag and a few books from my locker and I walk outside to meet Christina at my car.
She gets there about a minute after I do and we get in the car. She instantly turns on the radio, going through several of the stations before finding a song we both like. I turn up the volume so loud, I'm afraid that my speakers are going to explode.
We scream-sing the lyrics until I pull into my driveway. I turn down the radio, noticing how strange quiet seems after a few minutes of blaring music and screaming.
We climb out of the car and enter the house.
"I'm home!" I call out to my dads. "Your day just got better!"
We go into the kitchen where Johnnie, Kyle, Bryan, and Jordan are and I grab a box of cookies and offer some to Christina.
"Oh look, it's my favorite daughter." Kyle smiles. "And Tris is here too!"
Christina laughs at me as I just roll my eyes.
"I just ordered a few pizzas. Don't eat too much now." Johnnie advises.
I nod, grabbing another cookie before putting the box away. "We're going upstairs. You can continue you're weird adult-y talk now."
Christina follows me up the stairs, into my room and she lies down on my bed. "So Tris," she says. I recognize that voice she's using. She either is expecting something or is plotting something. I'm honestly terrified for either.
"Yeah?"
"What is it you aren't telling me? Don't say nothing either."
"I don't know what you're talking about."
"Yeah?" She raises her eyebrows at me, disbelievingly. "What's up with Four then?"
"What do you mean what's up with him?" I know what she's on about. I just won't admit that she's right.
"I saw the way you were looking at him."
"I- umm," I stutter, not knowing what to say.
"Are you straight, Tris?"
I look down at my feet and nod.
Christina squeals happily. "My little Tris has a crush! I'm totally getting you two together."
I shake my head. "Don't bother. He's probably not even straight."
"Oh well. I'll try anyway."
I groan, knowing it's no use in trying to stop her. She probably won't be able to do anything anyways.
A/N- I hope that wasn't too bad and you were actually able to not hate that.
It'll get more interesting a few more chapters into the story.
I'll try to update as much as I can during the week, but school is horrible so I don't know how much I'll be able to write. I'm going to try though.
Bye guys. Thanks for reading.
