Chapter 10
Schedules

"The more the merrier." He grins and hands me a broom. "Have fun!"

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We finish cleaning the roof in the middle of the afternoon. We did a couple of breaks, including lunch, which we didn't ate in the roof. More people, such as Uriah, Marlene and even Four eventually joined us. It was about 4pm when I finally got back to my dorm.

"What's your schedule for this year?" Uriah asks me when we are in the stairs. When we left the roof, he said we'd escort me to my room.

"I didn't even looked at it."

Uriah starts laughing. "What a nice way to begin the year."

"The school year hasn't begun yet. I have plenty of time to see it."

He looks at me and chuckles. "Well," he starts. "When you do see it, let me know. I'd like you to be on my classes."

I blush slightly, while opening my dorm room. "I will."

Before he leaves, we give eachother two awkward kisses in the cheek, as a form of goodbye.

"Bye." I say.

"Bye." He says.

I close the door, lean against it and take a deep breath.

"Who was that?" Christina asks.

I shiver. I didn't know she was in the room.

"Uriah." I say before laying on my bed.

"Uriah?" She squeals. "Why was he here? Tell me everything!"

"He was helping us cleaning the roof. We were just chatting."

"Of course you were." She winks. "Talking about chatting, I found Will today! We'll have English and History together!"

"Uriah and I were just talking about schedules! I can't believe the year is beginning so soon."

"It's on Monday, I can't wait."

I frown at her. "Y- Excuse me, you can't wait?"

"Yea! I love meeting new people!"

She seems so happy. I don't understand how one does simply gets happy that the school year is starting.

Someone knocks at the door.

"I bet is Uriah." Christina says as she walks towards it. "Oh, it isn't. Hi?"

"Hello, is Beatrice here?" I hear Caleb. I jump from my bed and go over to the door.

"Hi! And hm, I go by Tris now. What are you doing here?" I ask smiling.

"Want to go take a walk? I've nothing to do."

"Sure!" I turn to Christina. "And by the way, Christina this is my brother Caleb, Caleb," I turn to him. "this is Christina, my roommate."

"Nice to meet you." She says as they shake hands.

"Want to come with us?" he smiles.

Christina looks at me and I nod.

"Let's go."

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"Does anyone has an extra napkin?" Zeke asks at dinner.

Christina, Caleb and I went for a walk around the school and I think I saw places I hadn't seen when Christina and I went for our get-to-know-the-school walk yesterday. I think the only way I know by heart now, it's from the cafeteria to the dorms building and from the dorms building to the cafeteria.

Everyone says they don't have another napkin, and Zeke gets up to get one.

"I haven't had the chance to ask yet, but did you guys enjoyed the party?" Shauna asks.

Some of the people at our table answer her and they start talking about it, but I don't. That question made me remember the Peter incident. I glance at Lynn. I really want to know what happened between them. And I have to figure out a way to know it.

I move my glance, and somehow my eyes end up on Four. He is looking at me. Oh wait, he is looking at me! I blush and move my glance to my plate right away. Today's dinner is chicken with rice and mushrooms. Why is he looking at me?

"Is everything alright?" Uriah leans and whispers in my ear. I just nod. I take a quick glance at Four and he is not looking at me anymore.

I feel something hit my leg hard. As I hiss in pain I turn my head to Christina. She is smiling at me besides being with her mouth full of food. I roll my eyes at her and lead my fork full of rice to my mouth.

"Did you looked to your schedule, already?" Uriah asks.

I nod my head no, since I have my mouth full of rice.

"I am planing on doing it tonight." I manage to say after I swallow my food.

"Stop by my room when you see it. We can see if we have matching periods."

Christina kicks me again on my leg. I try not to hiss at the pain.

"Yes, sure, of course I will." I smile. Yes, sure, of course? Am I crazy. That's sounds like... Ugh. "I mean, yea, I will."

He chuckles and Christina coughs twice. I try to kick her but I miss.

When we finish dinner, Christina and I return to our dorm. As soon as I close the door I start talking.

"Why were you kicking me all the time?"

"You and Uriah make such a cute couple!" She grins.

"I've met him for two days." I shake my head.

"And? I am only saying you'd make a cute couple. I'm not saying you like him."

"It was implied on what you just said."

"It wasn't, you just thought is was."

"Stop it." I say and I start going trough my stuff looking for my schedule.

She giggles. "What are you looking for?"

"My schedule."

She lets out a little scream. "You are going to see him?"

"I don't know! I told him I would, but I don't want to." I say sitting on the chair next to the desk. "Should I go?"

"Yes! You made me go talk to Will the other day. Now, I am making you go to Uriah's room."

"That's different! We were with Marlene and you were the one who wanted to go."

"Want me to call her?" she asks picking up her phone.

Marlene in Uriah's room? She sure thinks he is hot and cute and all that stuff, but I am sure if she went she would be the one talking to him. I mean, not that I mind, of course. But it's just... I don't know. He wanted me to come, I am not going to ask Marlene to join us. I guess... Right?

I shrug. "Come with me, Christina." I ask.

"What? No!"

"Why not? I was with you when you went to talk to Will!"

"It's different!"

"Why?"

"I don't know, but it is!"

"Christina, I'll not go alone."

"You have to, you said you would."

"I won't." I cross my arms and lean in the chair. She looks at me and I look at her. She narrows her eyes and I narrow mine.

"Fine." She finally says. "Just hurry up and find that schedule. I want to see a movie tonight."

I get up and return to search in my bag. I finally find it and grab her arm.

"Let's go. Next stop, Uriah's room."

"Wait, I have to change!"

"It's Uriah. And you'll be in his room. You don't need to change, no one will see you."

"He will." She rolls her eyes. "Oh wait, he won't. He'll be looking at you the whole time." She giggles and I punch her arm in a friendly way.

In our way there, we find Lauren, getting out of the boys hall. But we didn't talk to her, she seemed to be in a hurry.

"You'll be the one knocking." She says when we get to his door.

"No I won't."

"Just knock it, already. We are wasting time."

"Why don't you knock?"

And as soon as I say that, the door opens revealing smiling Uriah in black sweatpants that go down until just below his knees and a dark red shirt.

We both look at him and smile.

"Hi." We say at the same time.

He moves away from the door and lets us in.

"Tris, I think you are familiar with the room already. And Christina, welcome." He grins.

I blush slightly and Christina wiggles her eyebrows at me.

"My roommate is in the bathroom, he'll be right back." He says as he kicks the door behind him. Those sweatpants look amazing on him. "In the meanwhile, what bring you both here?"

"I am here because she forc-"

"Schedules!" I say interrupting Christina. "I came here to compare our schedules. You know, you invited me at dinner..."

"Oh. Let me just get mine. It's somewhere around here..." He says looking through the stuff in his draws as we sit on the beds. I sit in the left sided one and Christina in the right sided. "It should be here..." He mutters. "Hey, Will?" He screams.

I look at Christina and she is open eyed looking at Uriah.

"Yea?" Will yells from the bathroom.

"Have you seen my schedule?"

"Why would I, man?"

"Ops, found it. Sorry!" He yells back. "It was in the wrong draw. Clumsy me. Okay, so," He sits right next to me, and I hear the water running in the bathroom. "Can I see yours?"

I hand him my schedule. He places it right next to his and starts looking. As he looks though, his smile grows wide and I take a little of my time to look at him closely.

"It looks like we have lots of classes together." He grins. He has such pretty eyes and such a cute smile. I grin back at him.

"Great!"

We keep smiling to eachother for a while before Christina sneezes. I could tell she wasn't doing it on purpose this time.

"Can I see yours?" He asks her.

"I didn't bring it. I'm just here to be her company. Do you have a tissue?"

"Only in the bathroom. Hey Will?" He yells.

"What?"

"Can a girl go in there and steal some tissues?"

Christina's eyes shot wide open and she glares at me in shock. I just shrug.

"Whatever, I'm taking a shower and this has a curtain."

"Go ahead. The tissues are next to the sink, you don't really need to go in there. The sink is right besides the door." Uriah says to Christina.

"Nevermind, I'll wait." She smiles.

"You sure?"

She nods.

"Nevermind!" Uriah yells.

After about five minutes, I see the bathroom door opening and Christina turns her head to the door.

"Oh, hi Christina! I didn't know it was you!" He smiles approaching her. When he got close enough, he leaned and gave her two kisses. One in each cheek. Then, he sits next to her. "What are you girls doing here?"

I wait for Christina to answer but I never hear it.

"Hm, just comparing schedules." I say.

Christina get's up and runs to the bathroom to grab a tissue.

The last time I saw Will was when I had to put on with Albert for one hour.

"Oh okay. Did you went to the party?" He asked us as Christina sat next to him again.

"Yes, you didn't?" I said.

"Actually no..."

Before I could ask why Uriah began laughing and then spoke.

"He fell asleep before the party started."

"Oh, that was... A bummer." I say.

"It was. I was really excited to go, but I fell asleep. I don't know why, but I did. Uriah wasn't in the room to wake me up..."

I looked at Christina and she was still. She was just smiling and hearing us all. Weird.

"So, Christina, how's your schedule?" I say, trying to make her speak.

I now wish I hadn't because we spent the next couple of hours talking and she was the one who talked the most. When we all thought it was time to say goodbye, she'd talk again. And me and Uriah would listen. And Will would try to disagree with her, just to mock her. And she would start yelling, and they would start arguing. And then, Uriah would interfere and Christina would end up arguing with him instead. And me? I would just laugh at it all.