HEY HEY HEY! I'M ROBIN THICKE NOW! THAT'S NOT A GOOD THING... OKAY SCRATCH THAT, I'M STILL LUNA! VERONICA ROTH WOULDN'T PRETEND TO BE ROBIN THICKE FOR A FEW SECONDS, SO I AM NOT VERONICA ROTH AND I OWN NOTHING!
ROBERTS POV
"OHMYGOSH! IT'S RAINING!" yelled Cassia. Everyone in the dorms looked at her. Cassia sprinted out the door. A minute later, we herd a whoop. Everyone looked out the window.
We saw Cassia running and dancing through the pouring rain. Some people looked a little scared. Some people looked at Cassia, then smiled and wagged their heads. I heard someone mutter, "Freak."
I turned around to see a boy who I think came from Candor. He was looking out the window, frowning.
"Hey," I said to him. The boy looked at me. "Don't be mean," I said. I thought that people in Amity are supposed to be nice. But then again, he came from Candor, where people spoke whatever was on their mind without a second thought.
The boy snorted, "Who's gonna stop me, Stiff?" he asked, mockingly.
I never really minded that teasing that Abnegation had gotten, but I had always hated the nickname, Stiff. I started to get a bit angry. People were gathered around us.
Suddenly we heard footsteps outside and a voice.
"You need to clean up all of this water," said one voice.
"Don't worry, I will, once I dry off," said a voice that I guessed was Cassia's. The door swung open to reveal A dripping wet Cassia and an annoyed looking Winter. Winter then looked at the circle of people gathered around the Candor boy and me.
"You two, come with me," said Winter, pointing to us, not giving us a second glance. I bet that she knew that there was a conflict going on. I guess it was pretty obvious.
I gulped as Winter walked us down a hallway. Neither of us spoke. We didn't dare look at each other.
I bit my lip. They won't do anything too bad to us. They're Amity. They're nice. I hope.
Winter led us to a room and sat us down in two chairs then went to a small table behind us.
"If either of get in another argument, you will run the risk of being Factionless. Understand?" said Winter.
"Yes," we both said, nervously.
Winter rummaged around the table behind us.
"What are you doing?" the Candor boy asked.
"Making tea," said Winter.
"I don't think that's going to help," said the boy. Winter didn't answer him.
We sat for a few minutes. Then I felt a sharp pain in my neck. I wanted to smack it away...
Wait why would I do that? Why not just be peaceful? Yeah be peaceful!
I looked at the Candor boy. He was smiling a bit creepily.
"You two can go now," said Winter, giving us a small push out the door. I walked to the dorms and flung open the door. I walked over to my friends.
"Hi!" I said smiling brightly.
"Robert, are you okay?" asked Marco.
"Yeah! Why wouldn't I be?" I asked, confused at why he would think that.
"You seem... different," said Madi.
"Nope! I'm exactly the same. I'm Robert Black! No one else!" I said and laughed.
Cassia whispered something to everyone. They all said, 'Oh!' and nodded vigorously.
"Whacha talking about?" I asked. Why was Cassia whispering? She looked worried. No one should be worried! Everything was amazing right now!
"Nothing!" they all said, quickly.
"Okay! I'm going to walk around!" I said, happily.
I walked out to the apple orchards and walked around for a couple of hours, laughing and smiling. Then something changed.
It seemed like something had cleared out of my head. I shook it, then walked back to the building, where my friends were.
"Hey, Robert," said Joy cautiously.
"Hey," I said to them. "Um, what happened to me for the last two hours?" I asked. I wasn't really sure of what had happened. My memories were a little hazy.
"Winter injected you with a lot of peace serum. More than what's in the bread," said Cassia.
"Oh!" I said. "That's why I was so peaceful and happy!"
"Yeah, hopefully none of us get injected with it any time soon," said Madi. "You were kind of creepy when you were on that stuff," she said.
"Agreed," said Joy, then her eyes widened. "Oh! Hey! There's some kind of dance thing in an hour," she told me.
"A dance?" I asked. We never would have done anything like that in Abnegation. It would be considered self-indulgent.
"Yeah, dancing, you know, moving your body to music and-" Madi started to explain, but I cut her off.
"I know what dancing is," I said.
"Just messing with you," said Madi, punching my arm, playfully.
"Hey! We need to change into new clothes!" said Joy. Marco and I exchanged a look. Why did girls enjoy clothes so much?
"If that means wearing make-up and a dress, then YOU CAN'T MAKE ME!" yelled Cassia, ready to run for it.
"Oh yes we can!" said Madi. She took a step towards Cassia and Cassia started to run down the hallway.
"YOU'LL NEVER CATCH ME!" she yelled as Madi and Joy chased after her. They were all laughing.
Marco and I exchanged another look. These girls were strange, but they weren't like a lot of girls. Most of the girls who I had talked to before this were a bit annoying. I never told them that, though. But I liked these girls who I was friends with. I guess coming to Amity brought me to people who I fit in with.
xXx
Cassia didn't end up wearing a dress and make-up. I guess that she outran Joy and Madi.
There were people playing instruments and singing. There were lanterns hung on tree branches. We were outside, I could feel the warm breeze blowing and see stars beginning to come out in the sky. People swayed to the music and smiled at each other.
I felt a bit out of place.
"Huh, so this is dance," said Marco. The girls all looked at him. " What? Dancing was considered impractical in Erudite," he explained.
"Then let's go dance! You two can see how awesome it is!" said Joy. She, Cassia and Madi began to walk towards the dance floor, but Marco and I didn't move.
Joy groaned. "Oh come on! It's fun! You don't know if you like it until you try it!" she said. Marco and I gave in. The girls dragged us onto the dance floor. They began to move to the music. Marco and I copied their movement. Dancing was actually kind of fun.
"Oh! I'll make a song request!" said Cassia after an hour of dancing. She ran up to the musicians and said something to them. They musicians nodded and smiled at her.
"Yay! They're going to play it!" said Cassia smiling.
The song that was playing ended. Then the musicians began to sing. The song was a bit slow with lots of beats.
"Raise your glass, 'cause I'm not done sayin' it.
They all wanna get rough, get away with it.
Let 'em talk, 'cause we're dancing in this world alone..." they sang.
Marco, Madi and Joy were all moving to the music, but Cassia was standing still and smiling. She out looked at the orchards. Cassia looked like she felt out of place.
I tapped her shoulder and she whipped around and looked at me wide eyed.
"Do you want to dance?" I asked.
"With you?" she asked, she cocked her head at me.
"Yeah," I said, unsure of myself.
"Sure," she said smiling.
I noticed how other people danced. I put my hands on Cassia's waist. She flinched a little when I touched her but then she relaxed and put her hands on my shoulders.
We danced, Cassia softly singing the song. I noticed that she stared at the ground as we danced. Actually, she stared at the ground a lot. When we talked, when we ate, she even looked down when we walked. I guess it was just how she did things.
The song ended and we stopped dancing.
"That was the last song, everyone!" called one of the musicians. Everyone cheered for them and they bowed.
I looked at Cassia. She was smiling at the ground.
We walked back to the dorms.
"So, was dancing so bad?" asked Joy.
"It was they worst experience that I've ever had," said Marco, sarcastically. "Okay, I admit, it was actually fun," he said, smiling. I nodded in agreement.
"Yay!" said Joy, as she high fived Madi and Cassia.
Everyone in the dorm was chatting happily with their friends. Clearly everyone else had fun, too.
xXx
As I lay in bed, I couldn't stop thinking about dancing with Cassia. I felt different while I was dancing with her, for some reason.
I looked at her in the bunk next to me. Moonlight shone on her hair and her eyes were lit up as she smiled about something that I didn't know about. Cassia's eyes flitted over to me and I quickly looked away from her.
What was happening to me?
MWEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHE! TELL ME IF YOU KNOW THE SONG THAT ROBERT AND CASSIA DANCED TO! DOES ANYONE WANT TO GIVE ME AMITY PIE WITH SOME CANDOR ICE CREAM? AND IT'S FINALLY SPRINGTIME! IT'S FINALLY WARM! YESSSSSSS! I'M SO HAPPY! IT'S THE MIDDLE OF APRIL, YET TODAY WAS THE FIRST ACTUALLY WARM DAY! STUPID POLAR VORTEX OR WHATEVER THAT THING WAS! OKAY, I'M STARTING TO NOT MAKE SENSE AGAIN! REVIEWS PLEASE! STAY PIEFACEINGLY!
