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Chapter XII. Blown Away
BEATRICE
I don't know why, but after Edward got stabbed with that butter knife, I just wanted to be alone. I walk out of bed and sooner or later, I find myself in a secluded hallway. I hear footsteps and loud voices.
"Hey!"
I look up to see a Dauntless born; the first jumper who was on my team for Capture the Flag, also the one with the snake tattoo on his ear.
"You're the girl who ranked first right? And the one who climbed the Ferris wheel with Tobias? And the one who broke FOUR punching bags?" I nod yes to all of them, smiling.
"Want to hang with us?"
"Where are you going?"
"Zip-lining. It's a Dauntless born tradition, but I don't think they'll mind if the first ranked initiate tags along." As soon as he says the word, 'zip-lining', I think no.
I shake my head. "No thanks. What's your name?"
"Uriah. Yours?"
"Um…I don't really have one so they call me 'Stiff'." I smile.
"That makes sense," He smiles. "Would you like to come to the Candor or Dauntless party in the Dauntless-born's dormitory? You could invite some of your transfer friends."
I nod. "Sure. When?" He smiles.
"An hour or so."
"Okay. Thanks! By the way, what's Candor or Dauntless?" I ask.
"You've never played it before?"
"Abnegation." He nods in understanding. Also, because Marcus never let me be seen by society.
"Candor is truth, which means you'll have to answer that truth. Dauntless; dare of course. The penalty is taking off one piece of clothing. Whoever's naked first loses!" He says with a smirk.
We have to strip? I either have to wear a crap-load of layers or do every dare and truth in order not to show my scars, or tattoos.
I nod. "See you there! Thanks by the way!" He nods and we exchange smiles.
I run back to the dormitory to find Christina, Will, and Al. I look around and see Christina and Will the only ones in here, talking. I haven't seen Al since the rankings yesterday. "Christina! Will! Guess what!" I yell.
"What?" Christina asks.
"You should thank me, because I got us invited to a Candor or Dauntless party in the Dauntless born dormitory. Uriah invited me, you know, the first jumper?" I smirk.
Christina squeals and Will looks excited. Christina runs up to me and shakes me.
"THANK YOU SO MUCH! EEEEEE!" She squeals. I explain the rules to them and they nod.
"How do you know what Candor or Dauntless is? I thought Stiffs don't play those type of games." Will asks. I glare at him when he says 'Stiffs'. I hate that name, but I'll have it for now.
"Uriah explained it to me." He nods.
I notice Myra and Edwards' beds neatly fixed and their box is empty. "Where's Edward and Myra?" I ask Christina.
"Edward decided to be Factionless. Myra, followed, so they both dropped out. Two other Dauntless born were cut, so Al stays in. Where is he, anyway?" I shrug.
I put on two more shirts, adding to my first and bra. I wear my training pants with combat boots, and I put my hair up in a pony. "MAKEUP!" Christina squeals. Oh no. She pulls me down into a chair and starts adding makeup to my face. I decide to stop struggling, because that'd only ruin it, and make a mess on my face.
"You know, you can't make me look pretty." I say, with my eyes closed.
"I'm not going for pretty, I'm going for striking!" She exclaims.
"Done!" I open my eyes. They stick out against my face with eyeliner and mascara. It's not much, like I hoped it wouldn't be, but it makes me look…striking.
"Thank you Christina!" We hug.
I look at my watch. "Let's go!"
-o0o-
Christina, Will, and I walk into the Dauntless born dormitory, and it reeks of alcohol. I am quite used to the smell; Marcus became drunk every day at least. "Welcome Stiff and friends!" Uriah comes up to me. "Hey!" I smile.
"Hang on."
Uriah stands up on a table and yells. "IF I DON'T CALL OUT YOUR NAME GET YOUR ASS OUT OF HERE! STIFF, MARLENE, ZEKE, TOBIAS, LYNN, SHAUNA," He pauses and looks down at me.
"Christina and Will." I whisper. He continues to yell.
"CHRISTINA, AND WILL!" Everyone grumbles but the crowd clears out. We sit in a space between the beds that have been moved for this occasion.
We sit in some deformed circle, me between Will and Christina. I look around and see some familiar faces that were on our team for Capture the flag. One of them look like a carbon copy of Uriah, except older. Another looks like a Dauntless born initiate, whose head is shaved.
"Let's get started. Say your name so we all know each other. Dauntless born, Transfers. Transfers, Dauntless born." Uriah says, pointing at me and the Dauntless born while introducing us.
"I'm Uriah." Uriah smiles. A girl on his right goes next. She looks like the girl who flirted with Tobias.
"Marlene."
"Lynn." The intimidating Dauntless born with the shaved head says.
"Shauna." The girl who looks like Lynn.
"Tobias." Will looks to Christina and I, as if silently asking us if we knew. We nod.
"Zeke." The older Uriah says.
"Christina."
"Um, Stiff." I say.
"Stiff? What's your real name?" Zeke asks.
"I don't have one." They look at me weird.
"Yeah, so we just called her Stiff. But being ranked first, she isn't much of one anymore." Tobias says. The circle nods in understanding.
"Will."
"Okay, now that we all know each other, let's play. Who's first?" Zeke asks.
"ME!" Uriah yells.
"Hmm…" Uriah puts on a mock fake thinking face that makes us laugh.
"Tobias! Candor or Dauntless?"
"Candor."
"Pansycake." Uriah mutters.
What's a Pansycake? I look to Lynn. She shakes her head with Marlene, Zeke, and Tobias.
"Don't ask. It's supposedly some old Dauntless slang which was so insulting." Marlene explains. I nod with Christina and Will in understanding.
"What's your fears?"
Tobias shakes his head and pulls his shirt over his head. I stop staring after a second.
"Zeke,"
"Dauntless." He instantly replies.
"Dare you to egg the first five people you see out in the Pit."
"Let's do this shit." Uriah hands him five eggs and we go follow him.
The first five people he sees are Eric, Max, and three other people; a boy and two girls, who all bare the pin showing leadership for Dauntless. This is going to be good.
Zeke throws the eggs quickly at them and sprints back to the dorms. We leave the leaders covered in egg yolk and follow Zeke back, laughing our asses off. We sit back down. "What the hell was that?!" Eric storms in with egg shells on his hair and egg yolk dripping down his face.
Which just makes us all laugh harder.
I fall back, laughing so hard tears form in my eyes.
As un-Abnegation as this is; it's so much fun!
"A dare." Zeke says.
Eric groans and walks away.
"Christina. Candor or Dauntless?"
"Dauntless! I left Candor!" Zeke smirks. Bad idea.
"Dare you to go out into the halls and run around screaming, 'ERIC IS SO HOT!'" He says this in a girly voice that makes us laugh. Christina blushes, but she is only wearing a dress, undergarments, and tights.
Big mistake not to wear layers. "Fine." She mumbles.
When Christina comes back from screaming about Eric and his 'hotness', we resume the game. "Stiff! Candor or Dauntless!"
"Dauntless." I reply hesitantly.
"Dare you to show us your tattoos!" I panic. I stand up and take off my shirt, revealing my second layer.
"Aww!" Christina whines.
"Marlene."
"Candor."
"Who do you like?" I ask.
She blushes. "Uriah."
Uriah grins, and they kiss.
"GET A ROOM!" We scream at the same time.
"Will, Candor or Dauntless?"
"Candor."
"PANSYCAKE!" We throw a pillow at Uriah.
"What's your biggest fear?" Will shrinks back and turns red.
"Imafraidofunicorns." He says at rapid speed. I look at Christina and we all start cracking up.
"But aren't you Erudite?! You should know they don't exist!" I say.
"Not like a cute little unicorn, like one with a deadly sharp horn," Will goes on explaining his 'deadly unicorn' fear while we just laugh.
"Shauna,"
"Dare."
"Go out into the Pit and rob us a piece of Dauntless cake, and aim a gun at everyone who looks at you." We laugh. Who knew Will had it in him for a good dare?
"Fine."
-o0o-
We all come back laughing so hard, that we're crying. Shauna had a plate of Dauntless cake and held a gun at everyone who looked at her; who was everyone in the Pit, she looked like a psycho cake maniac!
"Who wants the cake?" She asks.
"ME!" Zeke and Uriah say. They end up fighting, in the end, Uriah eats the cake. Zeke frowns.
"Lynn, dear ol' sister of mine." Shauna says.
"Candor. And don't say it Uriah if you want to be able to see straight." Uriah closes his cake-filled mouth.
"Why did you shave your head?" Good question.
She shrugs. "To show that girls are just as equal as boys." I nod.
"Zeke, C or D?"
"Dauntless."
"I dare you to run into Erudite headquarters and yell something."
Zeke laughs. "Leggo."
-o0o-
We run back into the room, laughing so much and we fall on the floor.
That was probably the best dare so far.
FLASHBACK BEGIN
We hop off of the train.
Zeke reaches the doors of the central Erudite building and pushes through them. We just watch from outside, snickering.
We look through the windows.
Zeke runs into the lobby, ignoring the protests of the Erudite at the front desk, and yells, "Hey, Noses! Check this out!"
All the Erudite in the lobby look up from their books or screens, and we burst into laughter as Zeke turns, mooning them. "AMAR STYLE!"
The Erudite behind the desk run around it to catch him, but Zeke pulls up his pants and runs toward us. We all start running, too, sprinting away from the doors.
I can't help it—I'm laughing too; in fact, I've never laughed more in my life than this whole game of Candor or Dauntless.
FLASHBACK END
Amar is apparently Tobias's initiation instructor, who died. We also learned more things about the older people in the group, like when Uriah tripped and fell into the net, Zeke had also done that in his initiation days; that's why the older Dauntless members laughed when Lynn shouted, 'I guess it runs in the family!'.
"Uriah."
"Dauntless."
"Dare you to set off fireworks in Eric's office."
"HELL YEAH!" Uriah gets up and runs toward Eric's office. He comes back and we go to the control room, where Tobias works part-time. He pulls up the video footage of Eric's office. Uriah, next to us, pushes the button on his remote and Eric's desk explodes in an array of colors. I've never seen fireworks before; they're beautiful.
But right now, we're laughing at Eric's reaction.
"WHAT THE HELL?!" He hides behind his chair and pulls out a gun, randomly firing at everything, which makes us laugh even more. We run back to the Dauntless born dormitory before Eric catches us.
"Stiff, Candor or Dauntless?"
I think about it. "Dauntless."
"I dare you to go out into the dining hall, where all the Dauntless members are eating now, and sing a song of our choice…and have us broadcast it over all of Dauntless." I cringe. I've never sang before, as it was considered selfish, and the most I did during showers was try not to scream of the burning water digging into my cut skin. "Fine." I walk out into the dining hall and stand up on an empty table. People start to look at me, questioning what I'm doing.
Uriah places a stereo system on my right and hands me a microphone. Tobias, and the others are videotaping live with a camera they got from the control room, and are streaming me to every screen of Dauntless.
I look at some of the screens in the dining hall and see myself. The music starts to play, and Uriah hands me a piece of paper with the lyrics on it.
I begin.
"Dry lightning cracks across the skies," By now, everyone in the room is silent and staring at me.
"Those storm clouds gather in her eyes,"
"Her daddy was a mean ol' mister,"
"Momma was an angel in the ground," I start to cry. These lyrics sound like Marcus and Evelyn.
"The weatherman called for a twister, she prayed, blow it down,"
"There's not enough rain in Oklahoma, to wash the sins out of that house," I fend off tears. This song feels like Marcus abusing me.
"There's not enough wind in Oklahoma, to rip the nails out of the past," My past has past. I can't change it. I gulp nervously. The whole room is watching quietly and I am being viewed throughout the entirety of Dauntless.
"Shatter every window till it's all blown away!" My voice grows powerful. "Damn, that girl is good!" Someone exclaims from the crowd.
"Every brick, every board, every slamming door blown away!"
"Till there's nothing left standing, nothing left of yesterday, every tear-soaked whiskey memory blown away!" I should forget about my abuse-filled past. But I can't.
"Blown away."
"She heard the sirens screaming out,"
"Her daddy laid there passed out on the couch," Marcus, drunk, beating.
"She locked herself in the cellar, listened to the screaming of the wind," I could've run away. I thought about leaving and becoming Factionless, but he'd find me.
"Some people call it taking shelter, she called it sweet revenge," Revenge. Leaving Marcus by transferring to Dauntless.
"Shatter every window till it's all blown away!"
"Every brick, every board, every slamming door blown away!"
"Till there's nothing left standing, nothing left of yesterday,"
"Every tear-soaked whiskey memory blown away!"
"Blown away!"
"There's not enough rain in Oklahoma, to wash the sins out of that house, there's not enough wind in Oklahoma, to rip the nails out of the past,"
"Shatter every window till it's all blown away!"
"Every brick, every board, every slamming door blown away!"
"Till there's nothing left standing, nothing left of yesterday, every tear-soaked whiskey memory blown away!"
"Blown away, Blown away, Blown away, Blown away,"
"Blown away…" I finish. I open my eyes, and I didn't even know I was crying. Everyone's jaws are dropped and their eyes are wide. They all start cheering and screaming. I look to my friends; they have the same reaction.
"DAMN! If I didn't know you could've sing that good I wouldn't have dared you it!" Uriah says.
"Thanks guys." I blush.
"Dude! THAT WAS AMAZING! HOW ARE YOU NOT FAMOUS YET?!" Christina shakes me. I shrug. I look at my watch.
"I'm going to go to sleep. We got stage two tomorrow, right Tobias?" I ask. He nods.
"Great singing, by the way." I blush.
"Thanks. Coming, Christina, Will?" They nod.
On the way back to the transfer's dorms, they do nothing but talk about how good I am at singing. I blushed the whole time.
I yawn and take a shower, letting Christina cover me and while I change too. We switch, and I crawl under my covers and cry. That song was so emotional for me, it meant my life story and me coming to Dauntless. My abusive father, Marcus. That song touched me. I close my eyes and fall asleep.
P.S The song was Blown Away by Carrie Underwood.
I like her, but I was just looking for an abuser song that wasn't 'concrete angel' because I cry everytime I hear it and the abuser is the mom, not the dad.
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