My eyes fluttered open and I was lying on a white hospital bed, in a bleak white room. The infirmary. What was I doing here? And with that thought my memory returned to me. The panic that filled my head as I finally walked into the ring, I didn't want to fight Alice. But that one punch, I wasn't ready yet and it sent me sprawling onto the floor where I remember crying out in pain before the black spots at the edges of my vision closed in on my sight. A doctor walked in. "Your awake then," He said "I'll have to do some checks on you before I can send you back." And before I could object he shone a bright light in both my eyes. "You are free to go back to training." He exclaimed and left the room.
When I left the infirmary I didn't go straight to training. I walked into the cafeteria and grabbed two muffins. I ate one of them before I even arrived to the training room. How long had it been since I had eaten, because boy I was hungry. I walked through the doors and saw Owen vs. Alice in the ring. I made my way to Meg, hoping not to draw that much attention to myself. "Here," I said handing her a muffin. "Where are Liv and Shannon?" I asked. "Infirmary." Meg replied. "Since when?" I asked curiously. "Since an hour ago, you've been out since yesterday afternoon. I was getting worried you weren't going to wake up." Meg smiled. "But I did." I grinned, pulling her into a hug.
After 20 minutes passed by Alice had won the fight. I don't know where this hidden talent had come from. And as soon as Owen was taken to the infirmary we were dismissed to lunch. It was kind of lonely as me Meg and Alice sat at our usual table. But our comfortable silence was soon ended, by Elis. "Um… Guys can I sit with you cuz Brooke is in the infirmary. Those damn fights." Elis muttered. When no one answered her I spoke up. "Yeah sure." And with a sigh she sat down next to me. "Well you probably already know but I'm Elis. You are?" She asked. "I'm Tasha." I smiled. "Wait a second, Tasha rings a bell… Wait! Tasha as in first jumper Tasha." Elis laughed. "The one and only." I grinned. I felt a small tap on the shoulder. When I turned around to see who it was I was pulled into a hug by Christina. "Oh thank god. Finally you're awake. I thought I wouldn't have anyone to go to Zeke's party with! " Christina smiled. "What?" I questioned. "Zeke is having a party later, and you have got to come with me! It will take your mind of things! We are going to get you a new dress and a makeover!" Christina giggled, pulling me from my seat. "Wait. Meg and Alice come too." I begged, if I had to buy a new dress and have a makeover, so did they. Christina nodded and I grabbed Meg's hand. "Erm… I'm not really in the mood." Alice said and walked out.
Tris gave all the initiates the rest of the day off, as we had finished all the fights already. So Christina made me and Meg buy a pair of black dresses. Christina took us to her apartment, and placed Meg on a chair, ready to do her hair and makeup. Before Christina could start Will walked in. "Hi." He said. "Hi." Christina smiled running up to him and planting a small kiss on his lips before returning to Meg. "So, Will and you…" I giggled. "Isn't it a bit obvious… We share an apartment." Christina smirked.
It took another hour before Christina was done with Meg, and when she was she put Meg under strict orders not to touch her makeup or her hair. Meg looked beautiful, Christina had put her hair up into a bun on top of her head and given her Smokey eyes with a dull red lipstick. She then began to work on me, it took forever. And I meant it, but it was worth it because when I was done my messy blonde hair had been curled and my makeup. I didn't know how to describe it, but it just looked great.
Me and Meg both got into our dresses. "I'll be right back!" I shouted, pulling Meg out Christina's apartment. "Be back soon! And no messing up your make up or hair!" Christina yelled. I ran down the corridor to the dorms. "Do you know where the dauntless born dorm is?" I asked a passing dauntless. "Yep, next left." He said, before I ran where the dorms were supposed to be. I barged in. All eyes in the room turned to me. God this was awkward. "Has anyone seen… Elis?" I asked avoiding their gaze. "Yeh," A tall boy with shaggy dark brown hair said. "She's in the training room…" He continued. "Thanks…" I began. "Thanks Shane." He stated. Me and Meg walked over to the training room and walked in. "Elis… " Meg shouted. "Oh, I'm sorry were you expecting Elis." Owen said emerging from the shadows. "We are leaving." I said grabbing Meg's wrist and marching over to the door. But before either of us reached the door Owen was in front of us again. "Do you mind. My cousin is expecting me." I said with a bored tone, shoving him out the way.
Before I even knew it he sent a punch to my jaw. Meg immediately sent one in return and they were circling each other ready for one another to make the first move. Owen lunged at Meg and pushed her to the ground. This was my signal to intervene. I punched Owen in the back of his head with all my might and watched as he crumpled to the floor. "What the hell?" A voice boomed.
And me and Meg both faced a confused Elis. "Well a boy called Shane told us you would be down here, but it turns out he set us up. And then Owen tried to fight us and… Well, you can see what we did. " I explained. "No, Shane didn't set you up. I always come down to the training room for extra practice, but I went to go see if Brooke had been let out of the infirmary. She had and I helped her back to the dorm. But what did you want me for?" Elis asked. "Well Christina invited me and Meg to Zeke's party, do you want to come?" I asked. "Sure." Elis smiled. And the three of us walked out the door. On our way back to Christina's apartment we noticed a figure that had been on our tail since we left the training room. And we all decided to walk a little faster. But this figure broke out into a run and then shortly after realizing so did we.
When we reached Christina's apartment we literally sprang through the door. "What was that about?" Will asked looking confused at our entrance. "Someone was following us." I stated. And with my statement three loud knocks sounded through the door. Christina jumped from her seat and motioned for us to get into the other room. Once the door shut we heard Christina open the door. "Are you hiding initiates after their curfew?" A familiar voice shouted. Eric. "No," Christina replied. "I was just about to settle down so do you mind leaving me in peace?" She added. "I'm afraid I don't believe you. I hope you won't mid me having a little look around." Eric sneered. There were a loud thud of footsteps that got closer and closer, until I heard the door click open. We stood dead in our tracks. "What are you doing here after your curfew?" Eric smirked. "Well they got lost so I was just showing them back to their dorms." Christina butted in, and grabbed us by the wrists and ran out of the apartment. "Sorry. Guys just head back to your dorms and don't come out until the morning." She whispered, before seeing us off.
We ran past the dauntless born's dorm waving goodbye to Elis. And we made it to our dorm within a matter of seconds. When we got In we saw Liv sitting with Alice, who had tears streaming down her face. "What's the matter?" I asked Alice. She nodded at Liv, who was obviously going to tell me. "Well. After losing all her fights, Shannon gave up and she decided that it was best that she left. But before she left she told Alice the real reason she transferred to dauntless. Apparently Shannon only transferred because she wanted to be with Alice, she didn't even get dauntless in her aptitude test. But this stage of training made Shannon regret her choice. And just after being dismissed from the infirmary she packed up her things and just left." Liv sighed. "I'm so sorry Alice. Thing will get better soon." Meg sniffed. "No, you don't understand. Shannon is factionless because of the one choice I made. I won't ever be able to forgive myself," Alice sobbed. "Please, could you let me be alone?" She added. And we all got up and headed to our bunks.
I stared up at the ceiling for a while and went over today's events. And before I knew it I was sound asleep.
I woke up to a startling sound of shouting. "Wake up!" Liv shouted. "We are going to be late!" Meg added. "Tasha!" They both shouted in unison. "I'm up! I'm up!" I shouted in surrender as I got up and quickly got dressed. And just as I had slipped on my shoes Meg and Liv dragged me out the room and we broke out into a sprint. We ran into the cafeteria and each grabbed a muffin and ate it quickly as we jogged to the training room. "Where is Alice?" I asked. "She said she needed some time alone." Meg told me.
When we all got into the training room we stared in amazement at Owen. He was still on the floor. Tris and Four were both shaking him awake. I stifled a laugh as he stirred and got up, I had completely forgotten that we had left him here. "Right we have some important announcements. Here are your rankings; the bottom two will become factionless." Four announced whilst flipping over the board.
Alice
Jay
Meg
Tasha
Liv
Alex
Owen
Talia
George
Adam
Shannon
That meant that Adam was factionless, because Shannon had already left. "Adam you have until lunch to pack up your things and leave." Tris told him. "For the next stage of training you will go through your fear landscape. You will each go through one of mine or Tris' fears today and tomorrow. But on Friday you will go through your fear landscape." Four explained.
We followed Tris and Four to the Simulation rooms. And we sat in silence until we were called up. "Tasha" Tris called. And suddenly the world around me didn't matter anymore, it was just me. As I walked into the room I sat down in the ice cold metal chair. "How am I meant to hide it?" I asked, they automatically knew what I was talking about. "Don't try to manipulate the situation. Calm your breathing or get over the fear." Tris said, whilst injecting me with what seemed to be the simulation serum. And the world around me became black.
I stood in a room, with four bleak white walls, but no door. Already my heart was racing. How was I going to get out? What was I going to do? Would I ever get out of this simulation, if there was no way out? I fell to the floor and tried to focus on my breathing. But how could I, when the walls were beginning to close in on me. I was going to die here. I thought these were meant to be Tris or Four's fears, not mine. I couldn't breathe. I struggled to my feet and began thrashing on the walls. I wasn't helping the situation, one last try. And with all my might I thrashed against the walls one final time. I fell to the floor and closed my eyes. This isn't real. This isn't real. This isn't real. The walls were now closing in on me at a faster rate. This isn't real! And slowly my breath came back to me. I stayed in a ball on the floor until the walls weren't there anymore.
I lunged up from my seat. "It's okay. It's over now." Tris told me and I sat back down. "The fear turned into one of your own. But you did well, you were able to calm yourself down really quickly." Four told me. I gave him a puzzled look. "It took you 6 minutes to wake up. You have the fastest time out of everyone yet." Tris explained. "But I swear I was in there for hours…" I began. "That's all part of the simulation." Four said. "You can have an early lunch. You finished way before we expected you too." Tris smiled letting me out the room.
Sorry for the long wait, here you go. ;) hope you like it let me know what you think
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