Hey guys! Thanks for the reviews! I am so happy so many of you read my story (and you like it) it means a lot! So here is chapter 10 please enjoy! ~N
Last chapter recap:
Caleb intervenes, "No one is kissing my little sister!"
Christina pouts and says, "Well if Tris can't kiss Four, then I dare you… Caleb to Kiss Four!"
Tris POV:
Caleb's mouth drops open and we all turn to Christina shocked. "Excuse me?" Caleb says.
Christina slurs, "You heard me Prior! If Tris can't kiss Four over here. You have to!"
Caleb shakes his head and says, "I am not kissing Four, neither is Tris." Suddenly I feel offended, he gets to have his first kiss and I can have mine?
"Caleb," I say as I bat his arm, "Why is it that you can have your first kiss and have a girlfriend when I can't? huh."
Caleb turns to me and says, "I'm older Tris anyway, and you're my little sister."
I cock my head to the side and retort, "I could say the same for Delilah, she's only a month older than me! If I knew that you were gonna be like this I would have failed initiation!" Everyone gives me a few blank stares, I look over to Four who's cheeks are bright red and his eyes are cast down wards.
"Don't talk like that Tris," Caleb snaps, "You couldn't have failed if you tried!"
I get up and wipe down my dress and smooth down my hair. "I'm leaving," I say evenly. I make my way out of the room and I hear Christina yell some thing like 'well Caleb it looks like you have to kiss Four!' I hear laughter and I make my way down to the dorm rooms. I lay down on my bunk and huff out my chest, Caleb is such a douche and a hypocrite and an asshole and a pansycake. I lay there for a while brainstorming words to describe Caleb, I hear the door open and light streams in the dark dorm room. I look over to see Delilah, she walks in treading lightly like she'll set off a land mine. She sits across me on Caleb's bed and smiles.
"Hey Tris," Delilah says quietly.
I smile and look back up at the dark ceiling, "Hey Delilah."
She asks politely, "Watch 'ya doing?"
I reply, "thinking of words to describe Caleb." Delilah nods and I add, "My favorites so far are fuck-tard and ass-wipe." Surprisingly she laughs, she snorts and covers her mouth making her laugh harder.
"Good one Tris," she says in her husky voice, "Caleb was pretty angry, I know he's being hypocritical, but your fist kiss was about to happen because of a stupid truth or dare game, so that's good he intervened." I shrug and look over to her, her hands sit on her lap and her violet eyes look intently at the ground.
"Thanks Delilah," I say, she looks you to me, and smiles lightly, "You didn't throw your self all over Caleb and you saw through his masochistic mind." Delilah lays down on her bed and looks up at the ceiling smiling, she takes off her jacket and slips under her covers.
"No problem-o Tris," Delilah offers, "I want to be your friend, not just the chick who's your brothers crazy girlfriend."
I chuckle and kick off my training boots; I slip under my covers and reply, "You don't seem crazy."
Delilah hums in agreement and pulls her covers up around her neck, "Night Tris."
"Night," I murmur, I close my eyes and feel my body finally give out after a very stressing day. I hear Delilah's rhythmic breaths and can tell she's already fast asleep, I feel like my arms are like jelly and my legs are stuck to the lumpy mattress. I can feel my body shutting down for the night and my senses slowly waning, my head goes all foggy and I think: what if I did kiss Four? His lips look plump and soft and… with that I drift off to sleep.
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My shoulder is being lightly shaken; I turn away from the person and say, "One more minute." They pull back my covers and jump on to my bed, I grunt and open my hazy eyes.
I see the outline of Christina's tall figure, she prods my stomach and says, "Get up! We are deciding our jobs today!" She doesn't look hung-over as much as I feel hung-over. I let out a groan as she pulls me out of bed onto the floor, I sit up with my legs crossed and my back against the bed frame. Chris hands me some new clothes and I get up and go to the bathroom to get cleaned up.
"Morning gorgeous!" I hear Uriah say, I laugh and sit back down on my bed where he sits. "What job do you want?"
I think for a moment and reply, "Well I might be an ambassador for dauntless, like go represent us when they go to government meetings and help with the transfer initiates."
Uriah bobs his head in agreement and says, "I might be an engineer, like help build stuff like simulation rooms and shit. Like Ava's boyfriend Blade does." I nod imagining Uriah placing together intricate machines and testing them.
Chris sits across from us and says, "I want to be a gate guard, maybe patrol the streets and the Amity farms."
"Going all country on us are we?" Will asks.
Christina snorts, "Well it would be nice to get above ground for a change and get a tan!" We all laugh and I notice Caleb hasn't shown his face yet. Delilah sits on his bed dressed ready to go for the day, she looks around the room obviously looking for Caleb.
"Where's your brother Tris?" Uriah asks. I shrug in answer. Uriah swings his legs over the side of my bed.
"After last night he was pretty angry, he walked back with me," Will says, "I'm pretty sure he slept in Delilah's bed because she slept in his."
Christina adds, "I shouldn't have dared you to kiss Four."
We all look at Chris and I quirk my eyebrows up, "Yah think?"
Uriah laughs, "I'm surprised she even remembers last night, you were smashed Chris!" We all laugh and she goes deep red. Will wraps his arm around her shoulder and kisses her cheek.
"Anyway we should find Caleb," Delilah says, "I'm getting worried."
We all stand up and make our way down to the cafeteria, Marlene and Lynn join us on the way down. Marlene and Uriah drop behind the group together whispering lightly and giggling and Lynn runs along the edge of the chasm and balancing on the ledge. Will and Chris hold hands, becoming oblivious to the world while they talk to each other and Delilah and I make small talk as we enter the cafeteria. A few people sit around picking at muffins and drinking orange juice, I grab a tray and pile on eggs, bacon, muffins, hash browns and some orange juice.
I sit down at our usual table and start eating, everyone joins me and we all start talking and laughing. A couple minutes' later Caleb walks in, he gets some food and sits down next to Delilah, giving her a kiss on the cheek. I avoid eye contact with him as we continue on our conversation.
People start shushing each other as Max stands on a table and hollers, "All initiates please follow me to choose you job!" Cheers erupt from the dauntless as we get up and follow Max out the doors. We make our way down to the chasm, up the pit stairs and to the dauntless leadership building.
Max leads us into a room with a long table and orders us all to sit down. "Okay dauntless," Max says with a smirk, "Today is the start of the rest of your lives. Today you will find a job, for instance if you get a job as a gate guard you can then be promoted from there, if you own a store you can hire people and make more points to spend around dauntless, exedra. So the first five initiates please follow me."
Uriah, Caleb, Delilah, Lynn and I make our way out of the room, following Max as he leads us down hallways and through doors. We stop at a window and Max says to a woman, "top five initiates choosing." She nods and types something into a computer, we are then directed into a small room and we are ushered to sit down.
"Tris," Max calls. I get up and sit with him at a desk, with a computer set up. "We have too much technology," He jokes has he types codes into the computer. "We take such precautions to keep the safety of our leaders and making sure that they lead dauntless just like it has been since the beginning." I nod my head as he types one more code and turns to me.
"What have you been thinking?" Max asks, "Any job in leader ship."
"I want to be an ambassador for dauntless, to go represent us when they go to government meetings and help with the transfer initiates." I answer.
Max smiles and enters it into his computer, "That's very rare to get one of those, they are called faction transfer management or just FTM for short." I get to train to help kids like me with transferring into dauntless and represent us at council meetings.
I am told to wait with everyone else as Uriah is called to Max; it takes about ten minutes to get through all of us but we all get the job we want. We are all led back to the room and the next five initiates are called in, Chris gives me the thumbs up as she walks out.
"So peeps what did you guys choose?" Uriah asks us as he plops down into his seat.
"I chose weaponry manager," Lynn answers, "I over see the construction and testing of all weapons and armor."
We all nod and Delilah says, "I got security leader, I have to watch over all the guards and manage their shifts and I get to promote them or fire them. So I am like captain of army sources."
Caleb says, "I'm training for Eric's job so I look over initiation into dauntless."
"I went for leader of engineering, so I look over the manufacture of all tech equipment in dauntless." Uriah says, "And so number one, what did you choose?"
Everyone turns to me and I answer, "I am training for Faction Transfer Management or FTM. I represent dauntless at council meetings and I handle all transferred initiates and their data."
We all make small talk as we wait out the other imitates. About fifteen minutes later Christina, Will and everyone else walk in looking happy, accept for Peter he's fuming. "Guess what!" Chris says.
"What?" I ask.
"I get to start at preparing weapons for training the initiates and then I have a possibility of getting promoted into a initiate trainer!" I squeal and hug Christina, Will grins and pats her on the back.
"What did you get Will?" I ask.
"I am a gate guard and have potential to move up ranks." He answers happily. I look over to Peter and Will says, "Peter got gate guard as well so he's not very happy." I laugh a little as he slumps in his chair and huffs out his cheeks.
"People!" Max says as he enters the rooms, "We would like to assign you into your new Dauntless homes."
We all walk down to the Pit and up a staircase to a corridor. There are a line of about twenty doors and one that ends at just the end of the hall way, we are all given a key that represents our rank number and obviously I get 1. I walk down the hallway with Uriah and find number one at the end door, I turn the key and open the door slowly.
Polished concrete floors and wooden paneled walls greet me. High windows look out to the city, the right side of the room where the kitchen is, with a marble bench tops and shiny kitchen appliances. On the left side is the lounge, with a desk and computer and windows that look out over the Pit and down to the chasm. I can tell this place was just built because of the walls in the kitchen are exposed jagged rock that look dark and freshly cut. Not to mention the strong smell of sawdust and paint.
I smile and then make my way down stairs into a hallway containing three extra rooms and a bathroom. I walk into the lounge and spot a spiral staircase leading up a level; I bounce up the steps and find a loft bedroom with an ensuite bathroom. My bed is pushed up against an exposed brick wall, I flop onto my bed and take in my beautiful surroundings. I look to the side to find a door, I gingerly get up and open it, the door opens out onto a small roof top terrace with some lounge chairs and an umbrella. Three buildings surround it but leave a gap so you can see the panoramic view of the whole entire city, I view takes my breath away.
I walk back inside very happy with myself. My new space is perfect. I walk out into the hall containing all the other members' rooms and I call out, "Guys check out my apartment!" Our whole group comes rushing towards me in excitement, when they enter my home they are all speechless, they run their hands along the walls and stare out my floor to ceiling windows.
Will inspects some touch screen panel next to my front door and he yells, "Tris you got under floor heating!" I smile and look around my beautiful house. Chris gasps as she finds my bedroom and Delilah surveys the window that looks out unto the city. Caleb sits himself on the couch and kicks his feet up into my coffee table, I shove his feet off and he grunts. Uriah hungrily opens the fridge and gasps, he pulls out a carton of beer and hands us all one.
"They even packed it with food and a whole dauntless cake." Uriah says jealously.
I crack open my beer and say, "You haven't even seen the best part." I lead them up the loft and out the door onto my terrace. They all gasp as they enter out onto the terrace and look out onto the city in amazement.
"Incredible," Marlene says.
Lynn sits herself down in a chair and sips her beer, "Lets Party."
We all cheer and Will finds a stereo built into the wall, speakers sit on very corner and blare out music. We all drink and laugh and chat.
Life in Dauntless couldn't be any better.
Hope you guys enjoyed this chapter please leave a review, my goal is to get 5! Thank you guys so, so, sooooo much again! ~N
