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This is a long one! Woo. I am going to try and update as much as I can in the next couple of months because I have 7 english exams and 5 others. So I will try and update at least once a week or once every two weeks!
Marlene and my laughs fill the air as we walk back to our dormitories. I really should get that apartment that Christina and I talk about but we have not crossed a single one we have liked.
"Did you see him!?" She laughs.
"You should have seen it from the top of the roof. The way he fell" I blurt out.
"Oh, no. It was so funny from the bottom of the building" We both laugh it off. A guy whose name I can't remember did bungee jumping for the first time. He fell down awkwardly. Making his name Awk.
"I'll see you tomorrow" She waves and walks away. I smile and walk into my dormitory. I look at him as he stands up quickly.
"Tobias has been worried" Christina says from the corner of the room. "I'm going to Will's" She smiles as she walks past me and leaves.
"Are you okay?" I ask him.
"I was looking for you"
"Well, you have found me" I smile, putting my hand on the wall to bend my leg, pulling off my boot and then pulling off the other.
"Where were you?" He looks down as if he is ashamed he is asking me.
"Bungee jumping" I laugh remembering Awk's moment.
"Bungee jumping?" He asks and then looks at the clock. "At eleven at night?"
"Shauna asked me" I go to my draws and pull out a night top. I feel his arms wrap around my stomach. He pulls me into his chest while I rest my hands on his hands. I circle my fingertips on his bruised knuckles.
"I'm sorry I worried you" I whisper, closing my eyes.
"Don't just disappear like that" He says into my neck. I hear the worry in his voice but also the relief that I am here. In his arms. "Especially after the conversation we had"
I turn to face him. I pull at the bottom of his top. "Take this off"
"What?" He raises his eyebrows.
"Take it off" I laugh. He slowly grabs the bottom of his top and pulls it over his head. I can see the confusion in his eyes. I pull his top out his hands.
"Turn around" I swirl my finger around in the air.
He turns, now smiling slowly. It's not what he thinks. I take my top off and my pants off quickly, nearly falling onto the floor in the process. I pull his top over my head and pull it down. It covers me except my legs and a shoulder from were the short sleeves are too big. I imminently feel better having his top on.
"You can turn now" I say. He turns, looks at his face and then his top.
"Come here" He reaches for me but I move back, smiling. I run past him and to my bed but before I can jump onto it he grabs my hips and pulls me to him. We both laugh as we fall onto the bed. Him on top of me.
His head moves down to mine and I feel my lips touch his. It was a passionate kiss, not a wanting or a needing but just a simple kiss. He pulls back and all I want is his lips back on mine. But will we go too far? I'm not ready to go any further but parts of me just want to.
"When will I be ready?" I whisper to myself, so low that I don't even hear myself.
"When you want to be" Tobias whispers gently. I feel my cheeks burn. He heard. What was I thinking? Going around saying things like that. He kisses me again and we both fall asleep.
xxx
I hear something fall onto the floor. It sounded like plastic hitting the hard floor. But it was a sound. A sound is like a warning you are not alone. Tobias and I balked up, awoken from this sound. Tobias arm automatically moves over my body while his other hand reaches out onto the lamp shade.
"What was that?" I whisper while the light turns on.
"Stay here" He whispers back. He moves his arm off my body and creeps towards the bathroom. I can't hear anything but my heart pounding. If someone was there they would have ran out by now. Tobias hand curls around the doorframe and turns on the light. He walks in and looks on the floor laughing.
"What?" I sit up.
"If we find a shampoo container scary, we have no hope in Dauntless" He walks out, smiling with the shampoo container in his hand. I force a chuckle and rethink the moment. The first thing Tobias did was put his arm on me. He made sure that I was there and that he was there to protect me. I smile feeling the little tingle in my stomach. I was his first thought.
"You okay?" He sits beside me.
"It just frightened me. You too"
"Me?" He laughs. "I weren't frightened"
I give him a look.
"Okay" He admits. "Just a little" He moves in and kisses me and then fall back asleep.
xxx
Once I jump off the train and walk to my new job in Candor. Guards greet me but quickly get back to the fence when a man walks towards his new workers.
"Only use this if you are completely, one hundred and one percent sure" A man says throwing a gun into my hand. He walks past me and hands the remaining of guns to Peter, Molly and a few others.
"You two" He points to Peter and Molly. "You will be working with Anna" He holds Anna by the shoulders and moves her towards them.
"Keep the kissin' until later, love birds" She rolls her eyes and leads the way. I hold in a laugh.
"Tris!" The man calls. He knew my name. Of course I would. "You are working with Levin. He'll show you around the fence" He pushes forward a young guy. He has light blonde hair and his eyes are dark blue. He has freckles covering his skin but the scars on his neck show up over them. I suddenly realise that this is the guy who was nicknames Awk when we went bungee jumping. He monitors his head to the ladder. We both walk over and hesitate.
"Ladies first" He says. I look at him at the corner of my eyes. I think this through. If I go first he will get the wrong Idea, climbing behind me.
"No" I huff. He sighs and starts to climb up the ladder.
Once we get to the fence I look over for the first time. It looks much like the city inside but empty. The air seems bulky and hard to breathe.
"This is it" Levin announces. "I have no idea why you picked this job"
"I have no idea why you are in Dauntless, the way you bungee jump like that" I mumble. "Awk" I smirk. He looks over to me boringly. His eyes blink slowly and effortlessly.
I look at him for the first time. He is actually a decent handsome guy. A girl wouldn't die for him but she wouldn't complain either.
"Not everyone has hardly any fears like you and your boyfriend" His voice is gentle and laded back. I look away feeling defeated.
"And, I wasn't going to look up while climbing up the ladder. I know better, with you being with Frightening Four and everything" He continues.
I burst into laughing fits then. I shouldn't find it funny but it seems like something a Candor would say. He looks over to me and rolls his eyes.
"Can I ask why Four is still with you?" Peter asks with Molly behind him. They balance on the fence as they get closer.
"Where is Anna?" Levin looks around.
"She got bored with us" Molly laughs.
"You won't last with him, ya know" Peter continues.
"Shut up" I say, strongly.
"Oh, honey, he is just keeping you until better goods appear. I mean, who would want a skinny little girl. I bet he hates it you know – hanging around with you and your homies two years younger then him. He'd rather be hanging around with the older guys who scout good looking 'woman'" Peter laughs. Molly walks closer laughing. Her laugh is a hideous horse laugh that I want to smack right out of her.
"Just ignore them" Levin whispers to me.
I push Molly's shoulders with my hands. Her laugh turns into a scream as her body is thrown back off the fence and onto the other side of the city. Peter looks down at her body falls and hits the floor and then he looks back to me. I look at my hands. I pushed her. I pushed her over the fence. She could be dead. I've killed her.
"HELP!" Levin shouts to the other guards. The other guards turn their heads towards us and are moving quicker then I have seen anything. Then I remember they have probably have done this a million times. Peter swings the back of his gun into the side of my forehead. My head swings back, I lose my balance and feel my body fly off the fence. At least I am going to fall on the side we are trying to protect. I hear ringing as my body stops falling. I look up to Levin holding my hands. I look down at my dangling legs.
"Common" He pushes me up. I rest my feet on the wall and push myself up. I feel Levin's hand on my leg, helping me swing it up and back onto the fence. I lay onto the floor, catching air while Levin sits there. I watch as guards guard the premises while the others get Molly.
xxx
"Why did you do that?" I ask Levin. We walk down the corridors of Dauntless. I press all my weight onto his side, still feeling sick and dizzy.
"Do what?" His soft voice asks.
"Catch me – stop me from falling"
"Four would have killed me" He answers.
"Well then, you better let go of me before he sees" I close my eyes, feeling light-headed while trusting Levin to guide me.
Once we get to Tobias apartment his door is swung open. He looks at me, my dry bloody head, Levin and then our arms touching. He puts both hands in-between us. Levin body is thrown back from Tobias force.
"Get off her" His voice is angry and then pulls my weight onto him. "What happened?" He looks at the blood onto my head.
"Just hit my head. Awk was helping me back" I say, looking into Tobias eyes.
"What?" Tobias looks confused. "You hit it while guarding – I knew you shouldn't have picked it. I should have put my foot down"
"Peter swung the back of a gun at her head" Levin informs. I look at Levin and scoff. Why couldn't he keep it shut?
"What!?" Tobias shouts. I can hear his heart pumping fast.
"Oh, good one Awk!" I look away.
"She pushed Molly over the fence" Levin laughs. "Peter swung the gun at her. She nearly fell off the other side" His face becomes boring again.
"And what exactly were you doing?" Tobias shouts.
"Tobias stop" I say. "He caught me before I fell" I hold Tobias face so he can't look anywhere else but me. He looks me in the eyes; they are full of hurt and anger. I let go and he looks back over to Levin.
"Where is Peter?" Tobias shouts.
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