Hi, guys, once again thanks for reading. I haven't had much time to do this chapter so I'm sorry if it's a little late -K.F
Beth's POV;
I wake up before most of the transfer initiates, I watch as the others get up and dressed, after a while I do the same. Once again I have to wake up Ava and drag her out of bed. "Ava, come 'on!" I shout
"Not now, I want to sleep" she says the pillow over her mouth muffling her voice
"You may want to but you can't" I say gritting my teeth, still trying to pull her by the feet
"You're so mean" she says finally falling out of the bed.
"Yeah I am!" I say falling backwards from the momentum of her weight falling out the bed "Ouch" I say rubbing my lower back
"Hey," she says rubbing sleep out of her eyes "You're not Amity anymore" she says laughing "You're a meany!"
"Just get dressed" I plead, she obliges and we walk to breakfast together. I grab a blueberry muffin and Ava gabs one full of hazels. We quickly eat and head to the training room.
"Who do you think you'll be fighting?" Ava asks, I shrug. I'm not really nervous about who I fight, I hadn't really considered the possibility of me getting hurt, I'm sure at some point I will but by whom? I think I'd rather it was by a friend, I'd hate to lose to Jenson, Zara or even Zac. Tobias and Tris walk in, Tobias looks really irritated or just like his has a splitting head ache. He quickly scribbles something on the board and then flips it round so we can see, it reads;
Zac vs. Jenson
Beth vs. Finn
Evie vs. Zara
Ryan vs. Ava
"Those are your fights for today" Tris says, Tobias goes to stand next to her. Nobody moves
"Well what are you waiting for, fight!" Tobias shouts, Ava physically flinches, I can see why people find him intimidating, if I didn't know him so well I'd be scared of him as well. Zac and Jenson practically run to the ring and begins to fight. Jenson seems to have learnt from his mistake with me, he waits for Zac to attack first but he's still too slow. Zac gets a few good punches in first before Jenson hits him hard in the jaw, sending Zac stumbling back. Jenson moves forward to kick him but Zac hits out letting Jenson loose his balance. They fight for a while longer and look evenly matched until Jenson hits at Zac's jaw and Zac falls down and doesn't get up until five minutes later. Ryan looks really concerned about his friend, shame he didn't feel that same concern about Finn yesterday. I feel slightly guilty for thinking that, but still, I'm not over him being that caviller about Zac hurting Finn. I feel sort of betrayed, I honestly thought that maybe he understood... why do you care? I don't! I don't care! Yes you do.
"Beth, Finn, you're up" Tris says. I look at Finn and he looks back at me.
"You ready" I mouth as we walk towards the ring, he nods at me and I smile at him. When we get in the ring he stands still and I make a point of bouncing from foot to foot to remind him to do the same. He gets the message and starts doing what I told him, raising his arms to protect his jaw. I give a small smile. We begin, I wait for him to start. He aims out at my side, I avoid the hit and raise my knee up so it hits his stomach. I make sure to soften my blow, I don't want to hurt Finn, he moves backwards a small amount. I raise my eyebrows to ask him weather he's okay, he smiles a little and nods at me. He aims again to hit me in the stomach, he hits me but not as hard as he could of.
"Are you okay?" he mouths. I nod with a smile. We keep doing this, sharing blows that don't cause much damage, I'm sure it's not the most exciting fight to watch but we're not hurting each other and I'm actually having fun. Eventually I beat Finn by hooking my foot around his shin and pulling. He falls down to the ground and I grin. I look for confirmation from Tobias that I've won. He nods at me, Finn gets up and we walk back to the rest of the initiates. I smile at Finn.
"Well done" Ava says to me "Now all I need to do is beat your boyfriend" she says with a sigh
"I thought Finn was my boyfriend in this fantasy world you live in" I say
"Oh Erudite boy and Candor boy are your boyfriend and my fantasy world is amazing" she jokes
"Really?" I say
"Yeah, you'd love it there" she says
"I'd rather stay in the real world" I say and she elbows me and grins.
"Evie, Zara, it's your turn" Tris says. Now, I start to feel queasy. When Ryan fought Evie before he knew when to stop, when to pull back, I don't think he wanted to hurt her. I haven't forgiven him for what happened with Finn but I do understand that he had to fight Evie. The thing is, Zara isn't like Ryan, I'm pretty sure she'll take down Evie as hard as she can and laugh while she's doing it. Evie and Zara step up to the ring, I look over at Tobias and Tris, Tobias has a straight face as always but Tris looks concerned. Is she thinking the same as me? Zara and Evie begin to fight, Zara lunges forward punching in rapid succession, Evie stumbles back, blood on her face already. I hear Ava's intake of breath beside me, Evie keeps her fists up as the blood pours from her face. You have to admire her, every time she's been beaten down she's held her head up high, with pride. I swear I can see Zara smirk. Zara kicks her in the left leg, Evie flinches and bends down to clutch her leg. Zara swings her foot round so it kicks Evie in the face, Evie falls down to the ground with a thud. At least it's over. But it's not. Zara keeps kicking Evie. I turn to Tobias and Tris, Tobias looks at me. I bend my head so it points towards the ring
"Stop them" I mouth. He walks up to the ring, Zara is still kicking Evie.
"Stop, that's enough" he says pulling Zara off and away from Evie. Tris kneels down next to Evie. "You've won" Tobias says again to Zara. Zara walks back to where Jenson is, still smiling, I glare at her. That was cruel. I look at Ryan, he's not congratulating anyone now, his mouth is hanging open. Zac is standing next to him, he doesn't look nearly as shocked. I turn my attention to Finn, he looks worried, he catches my eye. Tobias picks up Evie, she looks neither conscious nor unconscious.
"That was uncalled for" Ava says under her breath. You said it. Tobias carries Evie to the infirmary.
"Ryan and Ava" Tris says trying to bring about more order. I look around and realise that I might be the only one who is appalled by what happened, Jenson and Zara are congratulating one another and Zac's talking normally, like nothing's happened, Finn looks like he excepted this to happen, and I suppose he did. Evie was always going to get beaten down and hurt in Dauntless, from the moment she kept her glasses on after the jump. Ava and Ryan are preparing themselves for the fight, they walk to the ring and I find myself considering who I want to win, I land on Ava. I thought Ryan was different when we had those first few conversations but maybe I was wrong. I'm not sure what to think about him. Ava and Ryan begin, I watch as they fight. Ryan and Ava both share blows that look like they really hurt, half way through Tobias walks back in, without Evie. Once again they look evenly matched until Ava, with a cut lip and a nasty bruise on her arm, punches Ryan in the stomach and he falls to the ground. Once Ryan has stood back up and gone back to Zac. Tobias and Tris dismiss us. Ava and I walk back to the dorm. Before we get to the door Ryan grabs my arm
"Can I talk to you?" he asks in I hushed voice. I look at Ava, I don't particularly want to leave her. She nods and says
"Go on, I don't mind" Ryan and I begin to walk down the hall
"I wanted to talk to you" he says
"What about?"
"God, it's just so... so... them two" I know he's talking about Zara and Jenson "they just make my skin crawl"
"Maybe you shouldn't hang out with them then" I say
"Haven't we been over this, I'm not hanging out with them I'm..." he stops walking and looks at me brow furrowed "Beth are you pissed with me?" Yes, yes I am. I nod "Why?" he says. I didn't know why, not exactly but when I opened my mouth my feelings just formed into words without much thought
"Because I don't know what your deal is, one moment you tell me you hate Zara and Jenson and the next your acting like them"
"What are you talking about?" he says confused
"You with Zac, laughing about how you hurt Finn" I say
"Wha... I..." he says confused and exasperated "I wouldn't want to hurt your boyfriends feelings would I?"
"Finn's not my boyfriend, and that's not even the point"
"Then what is the point?" he says opening his arms out wide
"The point is, I thought you said you joined because of justice and because you wanted to be like that Dauntless boy but laughing about hurting someone you don't even know that's... that's..."
"Don't you think your being a little sensitive?" he says
"No! Maybe. I don't know, I don't know whether that's just normal Dauntless behaviour or whether it's just you. I don't know whether I'm being too Amity about all this or just being a good person! I don't know!" I say. My back against the wall sinking to the floor.
"Hey, hey" he says comfortingly, sitting down next to me "I'm sorry. It's just... just that Zac's the only friend I've got here, who am I kidding, he's the only friend I've ever had, even in Candor. But here, he's different and it feels like I'm being pulled in six different directions at once. I like Dauntless, I really do but I still don't know whether I like Zac in Dauntless or me for that matter" I feel guilty for being so harsh on him
"You could always hang out with us" I say
"I don't think your friend likes me that much" he says laughing a little. I laugh
"Then you can always hang out with me" I say
"Isn't this what you'd call hanging out?"
"No, this is what I'd call a mental breakdown" he laughs
"I never knew you where funny"
"You've only known me three days" I say
"Oh yeah, it kind of feels like longer" he says, I smile bashfully. He helps me up off the ground, we walk around for a while and just talk. "You want to go back to the dorm" he says after a while. I shake my head
"I think I'm going to walk around a bit more"
"Okay, I'll see you back in there" he touches my shoulder and walks back to the dorm. I go back up to the roof and the ledge.
I'm sorry this chapter took my forever to write, I rewrote it so many times and I'm still not sure it's right. I'm not really that happy with it but please tell me what you thought of it. Thanks for reading, review, favourite and follow- K.F