"It IS you!" Lissa said. I let her go and tucked the necklace back into my shirt.

"I don't know what you're talking about." I replied defensively. "ROSEMARIE! I knew it! And Dimitri is Dimitri BELIKOV! I knew it! I knew it! I knew it!"

"Lissa, watch yourself!" I warned her, but she continued jumping around and pointing at me.

"You two. You were inseparable! Why did I think that would change after you came here? I have to tell the others! They won't believe where you two are from!"

I nailed her to a wall, tired of trying to get through to her, "If you tell them, you will be Factionless."

That shut her up pretty quickly, so I continued while I still had her attention, "If you tell anyone, I will no longer mentor you. You will fail. You will be kicked out. Am I clear?"

She nodded, and I let her go, walking away from her and the reminder she carried.

"Rose!" Mason (or at least I think it was Mason) said. He jogged across the Pitt, running into people to get to me, "Is Lissa okay?"

"Relatively," I said vaguely. She had gotten pretty banged up, "Why?" "You took her out of training so we thought maybe..."

"Sorry, you're not losing a competitor today. Unless someone dies in the next six hours, which could be very possible considering you stepped between me and food."

"I'll keep that in mind," he said laughing. Oh, no. Not this. "So I was wondering if maybe-" here it comes "-we could go do something later on?" Whoop there it is.

"No." I went around him towards the cafeteria with the puppy on my heels. I saw a group of my friends watching the interaction from a ways away, rapturously taking in the show like it was prime time entertainment. "Why not?" He asked, scurrying back into my path.

"Because I said no." I said simply. Boys need to figure out that no means no.

"Why did you say no?"

"Because I don't have time to babysit you any more than I have to do." My friends let out a big, "OOOOHHHH!" and as they were freaking out over what I had said to Mason, I leaned forward and told him, "Trust me, you don't want to get into a relationship with your trainer."

"Are you speaking from experience?" he inquired.

I smirked at him and walked towards my friends, hoping he would never know.

"You didn't have to crush his dreams!" Christina said with a joking smile. "He's one of my cubs. I can't date him, it would be unethical."

"Well, you would know all about unethical," she said, pushing me towards the cafeteria.

The next day, I tried to avoid Mason as best as I could, but during the morning it was hard. We were doing fights and I had to watch Lissa fight to know how to train her. Unfortunately, that meant I was in the same room as Mason the whole morning.

While Christian and Eddie were fighting, he came to stand beside me. I prayed that he wouldn't do anything in front of Dimitri, but all hope was diminished when he stopped way closer to me than he should.

"We could go to the tattoo parlor Friday night, or maybe just get something to eat?"

Dimitri stiffened beside me, and I decided to ignore Mason. But, of course, he continued, "You could show me around. You seem to like it here, so you would want to do that, right? We could hang out with your friends, they seem...nice. Or if you want we could..."

He carried on until the fight was over and Dimitri turned towards Mason, "It's your turn, unless you're too busy flirting with Rose to get into Dauntless."

Everyone heard it, and everyone watched as Mason got up onto the mat, his face the same color of his hair.

"You didn't have to do that, " I said under my breath.

"You obviously weren't going to do anything."

"Sometimes doing nothing is the best thing you can do."

"More like the best thing you can't do," he said before rubbing his hand over his eyes, "You of all people should know that relationships with the trainers are dangerous. Tris and Four were the exceptions, you are not. We don't need a repeat."

"I know. I've learned my lesson!"

"Obviously you haven't. You may not be doing anything to encourage him, but you're not doing anything to discourage him. Make sure you do."

The fight was over with Mason as the winner. I knew that him winning the fight would trump his moments of embarrassment among his friends. He would be fine, but I wouldn't. Memories I had suppressed for a long time came up. I walked away from Dimitri to watch Lissa's fight closer, but really, I wanted away from that man and the memories he was connected to.