chapter 7
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Preston Pov
When Tris calls lunch over to follow her i am both relieved and worried. I want Initiation to end as soon as possible but i'm worried because of Kay and Eric. We follow her into another room with a circle painted on the floor. Black bags dangle in a line from the ceiling. Our names are written on a green chalkboard. We line up each of us next to our own bag.
"Now we will learn simple kicks and punches then copy them on your bag. Eric would you demonstrate for the larger people, while i will do it for smaller people?"
"Whatever." He walks up to the bag and started demonstrating but showing off his power and superiority. These were the simple hits, I could hardly imagine him doing this to Kay as a child with more complicated moves. I look over at her, she is pale but her face shows no emotion. She is so strong and that's part of the reason I like her. I hate seeing her upset or sad. In abnegation, when we were alone, she was always loud and happy, never in front of anyone though. I could tell she couldn't stay there but I thought she'd go to Erudite, she's always been curious and smart. I hope she can get through this.
Eric finishes and walks to the side of the room. Tris walks up to the bag, demonstrating how to use your knees and elbows if your smaller. I hope Kay is paying attention, she's going to need this. I look over again, I see she has relaxed and is now focused on Tris' movements. Good. When Tris stops, we all go to the punching bags. As I punch I can get power behind my punches but no direction. I look over at Kay, i don't know why. I guess I'm just worried. She hits her bag with precision but no power. It looks like she begins with it but then she stops as if she doesn't want to hit it.
Tris notices too and comes up to her, "You have excellent control to stop all that power but we're not practicing control. Why can't you hit it?"
"Afraid of the impact," or the consequences like when she was a girl.
"Hmm, I have an idea. would you go full force if there was nothing there?"
"Probably."
"Face away from the bag. Close your eyes. take two steps forward one step back,three steps forward two steps back,"
"Tris this isn't a dance class!" yells eric from the side. Tris glares.
"Now take three steps back." Kay is now closer to the bag than before."Now elbow with your full arm not just with your elbow as hard as you can." Kay obeys and her elbow hits it with so much power it swings three inches. Now Eric jumps, good he should be afraid. Soon training ends and we are dismissed.
Kay and I walk out to the pit.
"So what do you wanna do?"
"I was thinking we could get some black clothes to get out of our Abnegation ones."
"Alright,"we walk to the clothing shop and look. There is so much diversity, yes its all black but not the same. Kay and I look I find a black tee shirt and some sort of athletic pants that fit nicely. Kay comes out in black jeans and a tight tee shirt that accents her curves. She actually has some nice curves you couldn't tell in her abnegation clothes. What am i thinking? stop it!
"I've done what I want, what do you want to do?"
I think for a moment what could I do, we do, we have so much more freedom here. Then I decide, "I want to get a tattoo." Her jaw drops.
"Okay." We go down a few stores to the tattoo parlor. When we walk in there stands Tori, the woman who gave me my apptitude test and Tris!
"Hey guys how are you?"
"What are you doing here?" I ask bluntly. She laughs.
"Training is only part time, the rest of the time i work here. So what are you doing here?"
"Preston wants a tattoo," Kay answers.
"Alright, what do you want and where?"
"I want the Dauntless symbol on my back," I decide to do it where no one can see it.
"Alright," I go lay on my stomach on the table in front of her. I lift my shirt and I feel a cool wipe then I hear a buzz. As the needle connects with my skin, it stings, but I clench my teeth. Kay looks at the art on the walls then comes over to see my tattoo now that it's almost done.
"Wow, Preston it looks great." the needle stops and I turn my head to try to see it. Tris and Kay laugh. "Don't worry, i promise it looks good." Tris puts a bandage on it and I pull my shirt down.
"Thanks Tris," we say in unison. We walk out of shop and start down the path back to the dorms. We were talking though and weren't paying attention to where we were going and Kay runs into Taylor. The other three initiates stand there in our path.
"Watch it stiff,"he shoves her to the ground. She shrugs her shoulders and stands up. As the trio walk past Mathew says loudly, "She doesn't stand a chance, I should be nice and kill her tomorrow in our fight." She taps him on the shoulder as soon as he turns to face her she punches him square in the jaw. She turns and walks away, I right on her heels.
We go to the cafeteria and sit down for dinner. A couple of people come sit next to us. One of them I think is Uriah from before.
"Hey what's up stiffs?"
"Nothing much, you?" Sometimes it amazes me how she can go from shy to completely comfortable with someone new.
"Same so how is training?"
"It could be better, I could be punching Eric instead of a bag." She says casually. Now it's my turn for my jaw to drop. She is giving too much away.
"Ha! If only he'd let you," said a girl with a bright smile,"but he's too much of a coward."
"You're telling me!" she comments.
Uriah and everyone around us just laughs more. Kay and I finish our dinner and walk out. We go back to our dorms and go to sleep, Kay doesn't cry tonight but I still hold her hand as it falls over the edge of her bed again.
Tris' POV
After work I go to the control room to visit Toby. I walk in and give him a kiss before sitting on the arm of his chair.
"So how was training today?" he asks.
"Everyone did as I expected, but Kay continues to surprise me. She starts out with a lot of power but just before hitting it she would stop. When I asked why she said she was 'afraid of the impact'."
"That actually takes a lot of control and I'm impressed but afraid of the impact? strange. what do you think?"
"I think she's done it before and something happened she doesn't want repeat. So how were your initiates?"
"Ugh," he moans,"I have twelve pompous, arrogant Dauntless borns that just want to pick a fight. No good ones this year."
"Well, I'm sure they're nothing you can't handle, after all you can handle me." I begin to kiss him passionately.
"Actually," he says when he stops for breath,"I'm not sure I can handle you." We begin to kiss again, my hands wrapped around his neck, playing with his hair. His hands on my hips holding me closer. "Alright my shift ends in a little let me check the screens one more time,then we'll go." He looks at the screens then smiles.
"What?"
"Look at the transfer dorm," he points to a screen. Kay sleeps on the top bunk of one with Preston beneath her. Her arm dangles over the edge and he holds her hand as they sleep."I don't think they know they like each other that way yet." I smile and we walk to his apartment. As soon as we're inside he turns to me and pushes me against the door closing it. His hands on either side of my head, he leans down and kisses me gently, I clench his shirt into my fists and pull myself closer. I wrap my legs around his waist. He puts his hands on my back and carries me to his bed. I release him from my legs and he continues to kiss me on my neck, taking time to kiss each raven. He brushes his nose along my jaw, his lips reach my lips again and we do an extreme makeout session but eventually we stop. He still respects my fear. We simply lay there staring into each other's for a little.
"Tris, you know I love you right?"
"Of course, I do Toby."
"Then would marry me after initiation is over?"
"Took you long enough!" I say before kissing him deeply again. I'm glad he did it casually instead of making it a big thing. Anything else would have felt awkward and strange. I fall asleep in his arms with only happy thoughts in my head.
