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TRIS' FRIENDS ONLY KNOW ABOUT THE CUTS PETER GAVE TO TRIS, BUT NOT ABOUT HIM RAPING HER. THAT WILL B REVEALED IN A FEW CHAPTERS DURING A GAME OF NEVER HAVE I EVER ;) (AFTER INITIATION HAS ENDED)
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Chapter XIV. Ferris Wheels
TRIS
The doors slam open and lights flicker on and off repeatedly, the other initiates groaning in complaints. "Wake up transfers! You are to meet us at the train tracks in five!" Eric's voice pierces through the dormitory.
I sit up to see Uriah, Marlene, Lynn, and the other Dauntless born flashing their flashlights in my fellow initiates' faces.
Ugh, just shine it on Peter and his group, God.
A light flickers on my face and I squint, seeing Uriah's smirking face with flashlight in hand, aiming at me. I glare at him and he just smiles innocently.
They all run out of the room, leaving us transfers to get ready for whatever the hell we're doing.
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We run to meet up with the Dauntless born, Four, and Eric. They stand alongside the train tracks with Zeke and a few of his friends. I run up to Zeke and he embraces me in a hug. "Hey Trissy,"
I release and glare at him. "Don't call me that,"
I turn back and see several boys scowling, and their eyes move from Zeke and I.
I walk back over to Christina. "Grab a gun." announces Eric.
I grab the nearest gun.
I hold it cautiously. The other initiates follow. Four, Eric, the Dauntless born, and the other members seem to already have their equipment.
"Time estimate?" Eric asks Four, their backs turned against us.
"Any minute now. How long is it going to take you to memorize the train schedule?" Four seems pretty annoyed.
"Why should I, when I have you to remind me of it?" Eric playfully shoves him in the shoulder with his last comment.
We wait in silence until the train pulls up behind Four. He pulls his hand out for me to grab. He pulls me up, and I feel a jolt of electricity.
Once I am on the train, I instantly let go and don't look at him. I hear him sigh faintly. I stand next to Christina and Will, Al across from us. The train doors close, and once everyone's inside, Four opens his mouth to talk, facing us with Eric.
"These guns are not real, but if shot, you will be paralyzed and feel the pain of a real bullet, however it will only last a minute."
A bullet?
"We'll be divided into two teams to play capture the flag. Each team will have an even mix of members, Dauntless born initiates, and transfers. One team will get off first and find a place to hide their flag. Then the second will get off and do the same."
The car curves into a turn, and I grab the door for balance, Four doing the same.
"This is a Dauntless tradition, so I suggest you take it seriously."
"What do we get if we win?" Drew shouts.
"Sounds like the kind of question someone from not Dauntless would ask." Four raises an eyebrow and glances at Eric to his right. "You get to win, of course."
Eric cuts in. "Four and I will be your team captains. Let's divide up transfers first, shall we?" Four nods. I am pretty happy; being high ranked, I am bound to be in the first few picked.
I just want to be with Christina, Uriah, and Zeke, and not Eric.
"You go first." says Four quietly.
Eric shrugs. "Edward."
Four leans against the door frame and sighs, eyes scanning us. "I want the Stiff."
I blush. Eric's smirk falters. He mumbles something that sounds like; "I was going to choose her." I shiver.
"Peter." Eric says.
"Christina."
"Molly."
"Will." Four bites his thumbnail. I realize his strategy; he's picking the faster initiates. Leaving the bulkier, stronger ones to Eric.
"Al."
"Last one left is Myra, so she's with me." Eric sounds annoyed at this, but Edward looks pleased. I can't help but smile.
After Eric and Four choose the remaining Dauntless-born and members, we have our teams picked out.
My wish was answered-Uriah, Zeke, and Christina are on my team, same with Will, Marlene, and Lynn.
"Your team can get off second." Eric says.
"Don't do me any favors," Four replies with a smile. "You know I don't need them to win."
"No, I know that you'll lose no matter when you get off."
He bites down on his lip piercings. I resist the urge to shiver. "Take your scrawny team and get off first then."
We stand and go to Four, and follow him out of the train. I feel large hands on my back, and Molly shoves me. I luckily catch my balance and barrel roll out of the train, landing on my feet. I stand and turn around.
She looks pissed, and I glare at her. We begin walking in some kind of formation.
"When your team won, where did you put the flag?" says a slutty Dauntless born, Aurely, talking to Four.
She bats her eyebrows at a terrible flirtatious act, and the way Four is reacting, makes me laugh. I look at Christina, Zeke, Uriah, Lynn, Marlene, and Will, who seem to also notice this, and we stifle a laugh together.
"Telling you wouldn't really be in the spirit of the exercise." We seem to be walking in the direction of a…Ferris wheel?
I'm fine with heights, I mean, I prefer not to be one-hundred feet up in the air, but it isn't one of my greatest terrors.
"Come on, Four," Aurely whines and throws him a flirtatious smile. She rubs her hand on Four's biceps.
I can't be jealous because of how pathetic this is, wait did I just say I was jealous?
I start to snicker with Christina, who walks next to me, at her pathetic flirting act. Four brushes her hand off and I can't help but feel happy. I smile.
"Navy Pier." We turn to the voice; Uriah. "My brother was on the winning team. They kept the flag at the carousel."
Zeke scowls. "I'm right here bro, feelin' the love." Laughs erupt.
"Let's go there, then." We follow Four who breaks out into a sprint, making us run as well. We walk across a bridge and arrive at an old rusty carousel next to a Ferris wheel.
I look at the Ferris Wheel, which towers over us.
You know that feeling you get when you just want to climb something really tall?
I'm getting it now.
My adrenaline rushes.
Four sits on one of the horses and looks up. I zone out while Will grabs the flag from him and everyone starts arguing. This is getting annoying. I look at Four, Zeke, Christina, and Uriah. We all share the same look of annoyance.
I just run up to Will and steal the flag, and run away before he can start protesting.
I run in the direction of the Ferris Wheel, and stop at the foot of the tall ladder. I secure my gun strap over my shoulder to keep it from falling.
"Tris," On the ladder, I look over my shoulder to see Four standing there with his gun placed similarly to mine.
"I came to find out what you are doing." He says calmly.
"I'm seeking higher ground. I can't take the arguing." I say playfully. He cracks a smile.
"I'm coming."
"I'll be fine, I've done this before."
"Undoubtedly."
Was there sarcasm there?
I can't tell, not with his poker-face attitude.
He climbs after me. I start to slow down and my breath picks up when we descend higher and higher.
"So tell me, what do you think the purpose of this exercise is? The game, I mean, not the climbing." He asks.
"Teamwork." I reply, trying to keep my voice steady.
He laughs.
"Maybe not." I say quietly. "Teamwork doesn't seem to be a Dauntless priority."
I struggle to hold on as the wind sways my body around lightly.
"It's supposed to be a priority. It used to be." His breath speeds slightly while he speaks.
I suddenly realize how close I am to Four. I feel safer, calmer with him here, as if we aren't climbing a hundred foot Ferris wheel.
My hand almost misses the next rung, and I notice that he is distracting me too.
"Now tell me, what do you think learning strategy has to do with…bravery?"
I take in another nervous breath. "It prepares you to act. You learn strategy so you can use it," I continue forward when I hear heavy breaths panting.
And they aren't mine.
"Are you all right?" I say, looking down at a panic-stricken Four with a concerned look painted on my face.
He gulps. "Are you human, Tris? Being up this high…It doesn't scare you at all?"
I look over my shoulder at the ground confidently, my fellow teammates looking like ants by the carousel.
My gaze sets on Four's uneasy facial expression.
"You're afraid of heights. How do you survive in the Dauntless compound?" I ask.
"I ignore it, pretend it doesn't exist." he replies.
He stares at me. And I stare back.
"What?" I notice his voice has gone eerily quiet, because of the lack of oxygen.
"Nothing. We're not high enough." I say.
"For God's sake, Stiff."
"You don't have to follow me."
"Yes I do." I sigh slightly and concede.
I climb onto the ledge and put my hand out for him to grab, and help him onto the ledge. He backs away as far as he can from the ledge crouching, while I sit with my legs hanging over the ledge.
"See that?" I is point at a faint, distinctive green light on a balcony.
I notice how close we are. His face is so close to mine, that if he'd lean any further, his nose would be in my hair. I calmly breathe.
"Yeah." I smile.
"It's coming from the park at the end of the pier. At the top of that building, on the balcony. There's bound to be several people guarding inside." He says and looks at me for a second, then remembers what we're doing.
"Okay. Um," He clears his throat. "Start climbing down. I'll follow you." We climb down slowly in silence.
I suddenly feel the absence of a metal rod beneath my feet and I hang by one hand.
"FOUR!" I scream. He looks up bewildered.
"Hang on!" He starts climbing.
Down.
Isn't he supposed to do the opposite?!
I hang by two hands now, regaining my tight grip on the bar.
It isn't hard, I'm used to holding my body weight for long periods of time in midair, especially after the chasm incident.
I close my eyes, controlling my breathing. Suddenly lights flicker around me, and the Ferris Wheel starts moving. I roll before getting crushed by a cart and onto the grassy field.
Four runs to me, helping me up.
"Are you okay?!" I nod. I immediately blush when I notice that we're holding hands. I let go and he blushes.
"You could have told me that the Ferris wheel still worked. We wouldn't have had to climb it in the first place." I say.
He shrugs.
"Well I couldn't just let you hang there. Come on, we got a game to win." He points out.
He wraps his arm around mine and we walk towards Christina and three others. I notice the absence of Will and two other teammates.
"Where'd the others go?" I ask.
A Dauntless member looks behind us, in the direction of the Ferris wheel, and her eyes widen.
"Did you guys turn on the wheel? What the hell are you thinking?! You might as well have just shouted 'Here we are! Come and get us!'" She shakes her head. "If I lose again this year, the shame will be unbearable. Three years in a row?!"
"The wheel doesn't matter. We know where they are." says Four. My breathing has gone back to normal.
"We?" Christina looks from me to Four.
"What do we do now?" Another Dauntless member asks.
Will and the others come back joining our huddle.
Four looks to me, everyone else's gaze turning to me. I gulp.
Then have a sudden burst of confidence.
"Six of us charge. Knowing Eric, he'll have more offense than defense. The rest of us flank toward the building and we steal the flag."
They nod.
"Sounds good," the Dauntless born girl says, clapping her hands. "Let's get this night over with, shall we?"
Marlene, Zeke, Christina, Uriah, and I flank around while Tobias charges the front with the other Dauntless born and Will.
Christina and I run behind Eric and his team, who seem unaware of us. I look up and the flag is at the top of another building. I run inside with Christina watching my back. We run up the stairs and I shoot Peter-I flip him off when he falls to the ground, holding his chest in pain-while Christina shoots Molly.
We run out to the balcony, and I raise the bright green, illuminating flag. Christina and I hold it together. We look at each other and smile. We reach over the balcony, showing our team that we are victorious.
"VICTORY BITCHES!" I scream, trying to rub it into Peter's ugly ass face.
It works.
Eric and his team are scowling.
We run down the stairs and are greeted with our team cheering and clapping me on the back. Christina and I hold the flag high, earning louder whoops.
Four comes up to me.
"Well done." I smile. He smiles back.
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