That night I slept at Eric's apartment. I couldn't just go back to the dormitories knowing that I had embarrassed myself into oblivion. He gave a key to his place and I was SHOCKED! It's a black key with little pink hearts all over it. It's adorable. He must have had it custom made for me. He wanted to let me sleep on the bed and him on the couch. Yah, right! Like I would let him give up his bed for me. But, I really want to sleep in a nice bed as opposed to the lumpy beds that are in the dormitories. I suggest that we sleep together in the bed. He looks surprised but gives in almost immediately. We get changed, me into one of his tee shirts and him into a pair of sweatpants.
"Do you always sleep without your shirt?" I seriously want to know because if he does, I might as well sleep here every night.
"Only when the one I love is here with me." He says it so cutely, I just can't stand it. "Do you always sleep without your pants on?"
"Only when the one I love is here with me," I say imitating him. He kissed the top of my head and we snuggled into bed, my head on his chest. I fell asleep listening to the beat of his heart.
We were woken up in the middle of the night by aggressive pounding on the door and someone yelling Eric's name. It sounds really important. Eric pulls me out of bed and holds me close as we hurry over to the door. Eric flings open the door and I rest one hand around his waist and the other on his chest. Four stands there and says something about transfers and stabbed and I instantly know it has something to do with Peter. We hurry and follow Four to the Transfer dorms. There are 4 people missing, Peter (of course), Drew, Edward, and Myra. From the placement of the bloodstain and the ranks from earlier in the day I know who was stabbed and why. I was terrified. I knew that Edward was the one stabbed because the blood stain was next to Edward and Myra's bunk and Myra poses no threat. Especially since she is on the bottom of rankings. I know that Peter is the one who stabbed Edward (probably with the help of Drew). Where he got stabbed I don't know. If Peter was this desperate to increase his rankings that he would stab his competition than I'm glad I slept in Eric's room. If I had been in the dormitories, who knows, it could have been me.
I know I need to know more because Edward is my friend. Tris was on the floor washing blood so I go over to her to get the scoop on what happened. Tris says that she was woken up with screaming, the lights turned on and there was Edward with a butter knife in his eye. How SADISTIC can Peter be? Seriously, a butter knife to the eye! Seriously!
About an hour of cleaning up with Tris later, Eric takes me back to his room and I fall back asleep with thoughts that it might have been me.
I wake up and feel Eric's arm around my waist. I wiggle out of his grasp and find Eric still asleep in his bed. I decide to make breakfast for my boyfriend. I pull out some bacon and sausage, pancake fixins and some chocolate chips to put in the pancakes. I lastly pull out oranges to make orange juice. Once breakfast was almost made I feel two muscular arms wrap themselves around my waist and a chin plop itself on my sholder. I didn't need to turn to see it was Eric. I finish making breakfast but I get distracted as Eric starts to place soft kisses down my neck so some of the pancakes burned a bit. I was going to eat the burned pancakes but he said he'd like them because they reminded him of why they were burnt in the first place. He smirked when he said that of course.
After our breakfast Eric tells me that we have to stop by the dorms so that he can announce that Myra and Edward quit in the middle of the night. I take it pretty hard. I mean two of my friends just left and are now factionless, of course I'm not gonna be happy. But the good news if that Eric says Al doesn't have to leave now.
We get to the dorm and everyone is still at breakfast. We strip Myra and Edwards bunk. Once we are done putting all the sheets away my fellow transfers are back in the dorm. Eric tells them that Edward and Myra left and all the other transfers are safe because of this. Al smiles so big that I think his face is gonna break. Also because they left everyone's rank will be moved up 1 except mine. Great. Now I'm an even bigger threat to Peter now that there is only 1 more person between him and first.
All I know is that I gotta watch my back. I'm in some deep shit here.
Disclaimer: I do not own the Divergent characters. I only own Zoe.