Love at Divergent High
Chapter 4: Fun and Problems
It is now Saturday and Tobias, Zeke, Uriah, Christina, Will, Marlene and I gathered at Zeke's and Uriah's house to discuss what we were going to do for battle of the bands. My first week at Divergent High was actually all right, I had some friends in all of my classes so it was good. Tobias and I are doing good, I found out everyone calls him Four because that is his number on the basketball team, which Zeke, Uriah and Will are also part of. Christina, Marlene, Shauna and I all tried out for the cross country team. We all got in.
We are all sitting in Zeke and Uriah's living room, eating pizza and drinking lemonade which was made by their mum and I have to say it is the best lemonade I have ever tasted.
"What are we going to sing for the battle of the bands competition?" Will asks, we all look at him.
"I don't know, why don't we make a list of songs we like and that we can do, then pick from that?" I suggest. They all nod.
"How long have we got to perform?" Christina asks.
"The maximum time is fifteen minutes; you can have anything between two and fifteen minutes." Uriah answers.
"Yeah, a lot of bands do mash-ups or, if there are both boys and girls in the group, they do boys vs girls, then sing a song together." Zeke says.
"We could do that!" Marlene says.
"Yeah, us girls could sing a song then you boys, then we do a song together." Christina says.
"Great, so now we need to think of three songs that we can do together." Will says.
"Do we need to have a theme, or do we get to pick random songs?" I ask.
"We can pick random songs as long as there isn't too much swearing." He says.
"Okay. So let's make a list of some songs we like." I say.
"I'll go get some paper and a pen!" Uriah shouts before jumping up from his spot on the floor and running out of the room.
A few minutes later he runs back in and sits back in his seat. In his hand he holds some white paper and a black pen. "Let's go round in the circle saying a song we like and I will write it down." Uriah says as he takes the lid of the pen and gets ready to write. "Marlene, as you are on my right and you're my wonderful girlfriend, you can go first." Uriah says. Marlene blushes and starts thinking of a song.
"Beating Heart by Ellie Goulding." Says Marlene.
"All of me by John Legend." Will says.
"Happy by Pharrell Williams." Christina says.
"My blood by Ellie Goulding." I say.
"Troublemaker by Olly Murs." Tobias says.
"Who we are by Imagine dragons." Zeke says
"Children of the sun by Tinie Tempah and John Martin." Uriah says.
And that is how it keeps on going, we go around the circle calling out songs we like for another half an hour and then we spend another half an hour deciding what songs we could actually do. Then we spent another half an hour deciding what three songs we were going to do.
In the end we decided the girls were going to go first singing My Blood with me and Christina singing the main bits and Marlene singing back-up. The boys would then follow doing I love you by Wookid with Tobias singing and the others doing back-up. Then we will be doing Find you by Zedd together with Tobias and I singing and everyone else joining in on the 'I will find you' parts. Uriah will be doing the drums all the way through, Zeke and Tobias will be doing guitars, Marlene and Will the keyboards and Christina and I will be singing and I did the stupid thing of telling them I could play the violin so now I am playing the violin whilst the boys are doing I love you. But, I suppose now we know what we are doing we can get on with practising, the competition is in three weeks.
Though, we aren't going to practise yet, we're waiting until we go back to school on Monday.
So, now we are playing a game of truth or dare, we are already a couple of rounds in and it is now Zeke's turn. His eyes land on me. "Tris, truth or dare?" He asks me.
"Dare." I answer.
"Okay, as you are an extremely good singer I would like to dare you to sing my heart will go on by Celine Dion." He says.
"Easy." I say before standing up. Zeke puts on the karaoke machine and gives me the mic. He sits down and everyone turns to face me. The music starts.
"Every night in my dreams
I see you, I feel you
That is how I know you go on
Far across the distance
And spaces between us
You have come to show you go on
Near, far, wherever you are
I believe that the heart does go on
Once more you open the door
And you're here in my heart
And my heart will go on and on
Love can touch us one time
And last for a lifetime
And never let go 'till we're gone
Love was when I loved you
One true time I hold to
In my life we'll always go on
Near, far, wherever you are
I believe that the heart does go on
Once more you open the door
And you're here in my heart
And my heart will go on and on
You're here, there's nothing I fear
And I know that my heart will go on
We'll stay forever this way
You are safe in my heart
And my heart will go on and on"
I look at my friends faces to see that they are all crying, looking at me in awe. I put the mic down and sit back in my seat between Tobias and Christina. They are all watching me. "Are you guys going to stop crying?" I ask.
"That was amazing. You completely ruined my dare." Zeke cries.
"I'll take that as a compliment." I say.
"I knew you could sing but that was better than Celine Dion. How the hell can you sing that well?" Christina says.
"Thanks, but I'm really not that good." I say. Everyone looks at me like I have said the wrong thing. "Guys, I'm really not that much of a good singer. This game is getting boring, can we play something else?" I ask, trying to get out of the situation.
"We could play never have I ever." Uriah says as he wipes his tears away with the back of his hands. Everyone nods and wipes their tears away with their hands. "I'll go get the shot glasses and some more lemonade, we haven't gotten any alcohol." Uriah says and he leaves the room. A few minutes later he comes back with a tray of shot glasses and a large jug of lemonade. He puts them on the coffee table and sits down; everyone grabs a glass and takes it in turns to pour in the lemonade.
"I'll start." Christina says. "Never have I ever taken any drugs except medicinal ones." No one takes a shot.
"Never have I ever had sex." I say. Zeke, Uriah, Marlene, Will and Christina take a shot. I look at them, shocked. "When?"
"In your summer house on Monday night." They all say at the same time.
"Never have I ever eaten a crayon." Tobias says. Zeke who has poured himself another shot drinks it and Tobias smiles at him, and Zeke looks at him angrily.
"Never have I ever read a book and cried." Zeke says and the rest of us take a shot. "What books made you cry?" He asks.
"The fault in our stars." We all say at the same time.
"And the hunger games books." I say and they all, apart from Zeke, nod.
"And many other books." Christina says and we all, apart from Zeke, nod.
The game continues and I learn a lot of interesting and not so interesting things about my friends.
At five in the afternoon Tobias, Christina, Will and I leave the house to go home. I gave Toby a lift in my Ferrari so I am giving him a ride home as well. We get in my Ferrari and drive the fifteen minute drive back to his house.
When I pull into his driveway and stop the car he takes off his seatbelt and looks at me. "Why don't you come in for a bit? My dad shouldn't be home for a while." He asks me.
"Sure." I say with a smile on my face. I take of my seatbelt and we both get out of the car. I lock it and he leads me to the white front door of his house. He unlocks it and leads me into his home.
We walk into the rather large living room that has cream coloured walls and white furniture. We sit on the larger white sofa and he wraps his arm around my shoulders and I rest my head on his shoulder. "I love you, you know that right?" He says to me.
"Yeah, and I love you too." I say.
"Good. So, do you want to go on a date tomorrow?" He asks me I look at him with a huge smile on my face to see that he is smiling at me too.
"Of course. And where, may I ask, would you be taking me?" I reply.
"It's a surprise!" He exclaims.
"Fine. But you know I hate surprises." I reply.
We sit there for a while in a comfortable silence. "I really need a wee, I'll be right back." Tobias says.
"Okay." I say before removing my head from his shoulder. He stands up and leaves the room, he walks up the stairs and I hear the bang of a door closing.
I sit there for a few seconds, on my own, when I hear the sound of the front door opening. I look around to find Marcus, Tobias' father, staring at me with a look of hatred on his face. He storms towards me. "What are you doing here?" He asks me angrily.
"I'm here because I'm Tobias' girlfriend." I say and I instantly know it was the wrong thing to say. But before I can do anything he punches me with a lot of force. He pulls me up and pushes me onto the floor, hard, so that I am facing away from him. I hear the sound of him undoing his belt buckle and instantly know what is going to happen next. I wait for the lash and it comes, hard. I scream from the pain.
"TRIS!" I hear Tobias shout from upstairs. I can hear him trying to get the door open. More and more lashes come and it hurts. I cry and scream. All I can think about is Tobias and how he has managed to put up with this for all of these years.
Marcus doesn't stop and my vision is starting to fade. I'm losing too much blood. The pain in unbearable.
I hear the bang of Tobias kicking down the door to the bathroom and hear him running down the stairs. After a few seconds the whipping stops and I hear people shouting and fists being thrown. I hear a bang, the sound of someone falling and landing on the floor. I feel someone picking me up and I look up to see the faint outlines of Tobias. "Tobias!" I say, and that is the last thing I say before my vision goes black.
Hey guys, hope you enjoyed this chapter, please review and tell me what you think! Anyway, I have decided that there is going to be a pregnancy soon, but it won't be Tris. Tris is going to get pregnant at some point in this story but it won't be for a while yet as I have other things I want to do. Just so you know. And when I say a while I mean, a while. I want this to be a long story about their lives in High school and I may do a sequel about them in college, I don't know yet. It is my last day of school tomorrow and after that I only have four more exams and I am done with Secondary school. And I will be going to college in September. So between now and September I will be able to update this and my other fanfics regularly. Please review and tell me what you think. If you have any questions you can PM me or just ask me on your review!
