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It only took hours for the news of the new pet law to spread around the compound. As Tobias and I entered the dining hall it was all anyone was talking about. We grabbed our food and joined our usual table.
"I think we should have cool pets like... Lions." Uriah states as we sit down.
"You are such an idiot, Uriah." Shauna says, shaking her head.
"I don't think we'll be allowed lions. Maybe cats... you know, small scaled lions." Marlene says.
"Cats? Hah, only a pansycake would get a cat." Uriah scoffs.
"I think if we got a cat you'd love it, they're so cute and fluffy." Marlene objects with a smile.
"It would be so annoying with it meowing all night. What if we're allowed dogs, we'd be kept awake all night by barking." Lynn complained.
"And what about their bathroom habits, are they going to be allowed to shit wherever they want?" Uriah asks.
"No, only in the courtyard, they'll be trained not to meow and bark all the time." I state casually as I cut my steak.
"How do you know?" Uriah asks. I look up. Oops, I don't think I'm supposed to talk about this. If everyone knows about it must be public knowledge right?
"I was at the meeting this afternoon." I inform him.
"Really?! So you know all about it? What animals are we going to be getting? Can anyone have them? How many can we have? Are..." Christina bombards me with questions, everyone is looking at me with curious eyes. I just stare back at them.
"I don't think I'm supposed to say." I interrupt.
"Lame, just tell us." Uriah begs.
"I can't." I insist.
"The pet shop will be opening tomorrow morning, we'll all find out then." Tobias informs everyone.
"I bet you told Four all about it." Christina huffs.
"I didn't, I'm not supposed to say anything. I'm sorry guys." I apologise.
"Oh! Guys, you'll never believe what happened at the fence today!" Christina starts off into a story about how the gate got stuck and they couldn't let the Amity truck in for almost an hour. I was glad she had taken the attention off me. I feel bad not being able to tell my friends about the things I know. I was excited to hear about the pet law at the meeting; I'd never been able to have a pet before, it was an interesting prospect.
After dinner the boys decided they were all going to go some training, have some 'boy time'. Shauna protested about not being allowed to go but they were very strict about the 'only boys' policy. Marlene was on city guard duty tonight, Lynn was hanging out with Ashley and Shauna had headed to bed because she was working early and the boys wouldn't include her. I thought it would be the ideal time to hang out with Christina. I've been spending a lot of time locked up in my room with Tobias lately - for good reason and all - but I miss hearing her rant, bitch and gossip sometimes. I ask her to come with me to buy some new shampoo as it all leaked down the drain this morning when Tobias knocked it over in the shower and broke the lid.
As we're about to head the check out Christina calls me to where she is in the next isle over.
"What's up?" I ask coming to where she is. She's in the feminine product sections, she holding a long purple box, it only takes me seconds to realise its pregnancy tests. Christina looks over to me.
"Maybe you should get these too?" She asks. She hands me the box and I just stare at it. "Come on." She says pulling me over to the counter.
We pass the shampoo and tests to the lady at the register. She scans the shampoo then picks up the tests, she looks up at me and gives me a condescending look and scoffs as she scans that.
"Two points." She says, chewing her gum over-dramatically. I pass her two point cards and we leave the store with our things. I hated the way she looked at me, why does she have the right to judge me?
"Can I have a look?" Christina says as we head up to our apartments. I pass her the tests and she starts reading the box. As she's reading the box, we walk past a new store being set up, it's the pet store. The front of the store is covered with black tarps so people can't see through, but there's a large sign above it that says 'Pets' with a 'coming soon' banner over it. Just as we walk past a lady comes through the tarp and I get a quick glimpse inside; I can see tanks of water at the back, obviously for the fish. Just before the tarp closes I catch the deep brown eyes of a small mostly black puppy with some brown around its face and paws, I see something in those eyes; a loneliness that retches my heart. It's in a small cage, barley enough room to move even though it's only about the size of a new born baby. Then the tarp closes and it's gone, the sadness in its eyes haunts me as we continue walking, it's sullen face etched into my memory.
"It says 'you can test as early as 24 hours after intercourse'," Christina states, "When did you guys do the deed." She asks winking at me.
"Last night after the party..." I say, she nods and checks her watch. "Then again in the morning, and again this afternoon." She looks at me with raised eyebrows. "We were more careful this afternoon though." I reassure her. She smiles.
"Well, you'll have to wait until about the same time tomorrow morning then." She says. It was just before the end of breakfast... about 8:30.
When we got to our apartments Christina invited me in to hang out with her until the boys got home.
"So, I know you're not supposed to tell us anything, but I've been talking to my walking text book of a boyfriend and he was telling me all about dogs and I just can't enough of them! I remember seeing one once when my mother took me to Amity because she was this woman's layer for... Well, that doesn't matter. It was a little puppy and it was so tiny and adorable and it had these big eyes and it was just so excited... Anyway, if we were to get dogs at dauntless, would we be able to get one, or is it only people living in the Pire or something?" She asks. We live on the top level of apartments surrounding the pit, it's mostly the older dauntless that move up into the Pire, the apartments are bigger, so people usually move there when they have children. But we are on the only floor underground that are allowed cats and dogs, there's stairs in our hallway that lead directly to the courtyard. The floor beneath us aren't permitted large animals, only fish.
"It would be possible." I inform her. It's then that I realise it would also be possible for me to get a cat or dog. Christina squeals with excitement as she gets changed into a nighty, black silk dress that barley covers her ass, let alone anything else.
"It kind of sucks that you aren't allowed to tell me anything. I really want a puppy!" She says as jumps on the bed next to me.
"I know, but tomorrow you'll know as much as I do." I inform her. She squeals again.
It's after 10pm when the boys get home. Will comes in telling me Tobias has gone to our apartment, so I head home. Christina tells me she'll be waiting for the pregnancy test results at breakfast.
When I get back to the apartment Tobias is in the shower. I decided he must be lonely and quickly go to join him. It played out a lot like this morning's events, though we're still keeping responsible until I take the test tomorrow.
When I wake up the next morning Tobias has already left for his shift, in fact he was almost finished, he woke at 3am to start his shift and he was finishing at 9am. However, I had bigger things to worry about this morning.
It was 8:41am, it had been more than 24 hours and it was time for me to take the pregnancy test. I get it from on top of the dresser and go into the bathroom following the instructions.
I look at how to read the results, one line and I'm not pregnant two lines... and I am. In two minutes I'll know whether or not I'm pregnant.
Oh I am such a tease. ;) Haha.
BIG chapter coming up next, I loved writing it, got me all emotional and such, I hope you'll enjoy it. I will be posting it later today! (It's 2:21AM at the moment, so i'm going to curl up in my bed, cuddle my puppy and read someone else's fanfiction!)
-Kayla
