I look at both Thomas and Kylie and sneer. Kylie manages to catch me sneering at her and asks Thomas if I was her replacement. Replacement?

"Replacement? I'm nobody's replacement!", I say, grabbing her by the front of her shirt, quickly remembering her shirt was but, I stagger back and wiped my hand off on my skinny jeans. Damn Erudite cooties...

"What is this about a replacement, Thomas?", I ask, angrily.

Thomas looks at me, worried and sighs. Before he got a chance to answer, Kylie laughs and says, "You haven't told her about us, Thomas? How you were so much in love with me? You wanted to be with me? When we first slept together?!"

My mouth fell open and I gawk at him, angrily and shook my head. I KNEW it. I ran out o the door, angry and head for the train, but I stop. I had questions. I go back into the house and say, "How? How can you LIE to me like that?"

I poke him in the chest as I spoke. This only infuriated him and he grabs my wrist.

"Lemme go!"

"Listen, Liz.", he says. "It's not what you think."

"You typical boys say that shit to make us believe you're loyal and true."

"Liz, I'm sorry."

Quickly growing bored, Kylie grabs Thomas by the hand and says, "You know you love me still..."

I roll my eyes.

Thomas says, "You've cheated on me; that's why I left!"

"Cheated is a VERY strong word..."

"Stop lying!"

"I HAVE QUESTIONS HERE!", I intervene, making me angrier.

They look at me. I come closer to Kylie.

"Are you really Jeanine's daughter? What happened in the time your mother was alive, killing all of those Abnegation members...including my grandparents...?"

"Heh.", she says with a smirk. She crosses her arms and says, "Why do you care...Dauntless?"

I eye her. "Your mother killed my loved ones...my MOTHER'S loved ones! Did your mother even care?!"

"You don't understand how the Abnegation operate. Their 'uncorrupted nature' wasn't all that was cracked up to be."

"The Abnegation….they...why are you here?"

"Planning the execution of the Divergent...speaking of which..."

She was coming closer to me. Her smirk was creepy like a devil. Thomas pulls me away from her. I seen that she had a syringe in her hand.

"You've been….injecting people.", I say. "Injecting people and killing them afterwards..."

Kylie laughs and walks off.

Before I try to stop her...

"Knock it off!"

Thomas comes behind me and holds on to me.

"Kylie, leave Liz alone."

"I don't need your help!", I yell at him.

Thomas stands back and sneers. "Stupid Dauntless…"

I glare at him, shake my head and say, "Shut up! Kylie, you're dead! You Erudites are all of the same!"

I stomp on his foot and grab Kylie. "You're coming with me..."

I push her out of the house and grab her collar.

"Look at this! The Abnegation does look crappy, but it was home to my parents!"

"If you understood what happened-"

"Which is why you're gonna tell me what the hell happened!"

"The Erudites wanted a say! Your bullshit Abnegation only wanted themselves to run government! How can someone who calls themselves 'selfless' so something like...THIS! Have you ever thought of that? Have you ever considered that maybe some things or some PEOPLE aren't what they say they are...?!"

I thought about it and came up with Marlon manipulating me.

I shake my head and sneer. "Let's go..."

I walk off, with Thomas following me.

"Why didn't you tell me about Kylie?"

"You hate Erudites, remember?"

"That doesn't mean that your relationship should be a secret from me. You've dated AND slept with her! Did you think I wouldn't find this out eventually...? Thomas. Why her...? What happened? What changed?"

"You."

I stood for a minute. Me...? What did I do...?

"Me? What-"

Thomas was walking too fast for me.

"Wait up, Erudite!"

I ran faster but he wasn't letting me near him.

As we were getting on the train, there was one more stop we had to go to next.

Erudite.

As we get near the Erudite headquarters, I get up and was about to hop off but Thomas sees me and grabs me. "Don't be damn stupid! I know your plans. Don't."

"Leave me alone!"

"You don't-"

"Know what I'm up against? I know that, genius."

I hop off. Thomas was hesitating, but he knew that he was outnumbered.

I storm off and infiltrated their headquarters, which was a library. Stupid. I head for a front desk clerk and ask for Joselyn. Slamming my hand on the table, I say, "I need Joselyn. Is she here...?"

"Not allowed to let you see her without an appointment.", says the freckled faced girl with glasses. She must be an initiate. I grab the front of her blue shirt and yell, "You WILL tell her where she IS! Tell me or else I'll kill every one in this place!"

Thomas puts a hand on my shoulder and says, "Liana, I know that she's here. Isn't there a way to contact her?"

Liana, giggling, says finally, "Sure, Tommy..."

She presses a red button to an intercom and says, "Joselyn? Yes, Thomas is here...and he's brought...a friend."

She sneers at the word 'friend'. I roll my eyes.

As she reads her book, which was The Outsiders, and I LOVE that book (don't tell people), Joselyn comes in, finally and beckons us to her office.

As we sat on her blue chairs (I mean, her whole office was blue with white polka dots; it was gross), she smirks.

"What brings you lovely people to my domain...? Especially, YOU, Thomas baby!"

She kisses both of his cheeks and hugs him, making me gag. "I's been a while, Tommy. How is the Dauntless treating ya?"

"Now? It's easy."

"And your rankings?"

"Gettin' there."

"Good; Liz! I didn't expect YOU to come here."

"We have unfinished business.", I say.

"Oh..?"

"Don't play stupid; I want answers on the Erudites and the Abnegation."

"Liz, Liz, Liz. The Abnegation are stuck-up wannabes. And how is it...that the Divergent come from the Abnegation, the lowest of all places...?"

That, I didn't know.

"Liz," she says, holding my hands. "Join us. Don't you see that people like you can take down this monstrosity we call Abnegation?"

"You mean monsters like YOU? Both you and Kylie can just kill yourselves! Yea, I've seen Kylie and she acts like you and her mother!"

Thomas pulls me away and say, "Goodbye, Joselyn."

"Bye-bye, sweetie. And tell Marlon I said hi."

"Fine."

We get out of the Erudite headquarters and head home. We get on the train and we didn't talk until we got to the compound. As we got to the entrance, Father was waiting out front. Shit...

My father was standing there with his arms folded and his eyes were slanted.

"Dad, before you say anything-"

"What the hell, you two! Where have you been!"

I look at the ground. "To the Abnegation and Erudite compounds."

"WHAT?"

"I needed answers, Daddy."

"You coulda asked ME?"

"Remember Mom's tirades?"

"You can trust me. As for YOU, Thomas..."

"Hey, I was trying to stop her!"

"Well...thank you. But, that doesn't excuse you two for leaving the compound. Liz, leave this topic alone and let me and your mother handle it."

"Mister Eaton, if I may? Do you have a some...needle syringes...?"

"Yes...why?"

"No reason."

Father guides him to where he gives him a black box. Thomas nods with approval and thanks him. I tell them that I'm going to the dormitory to relax but Thomas takes me by the hand and holds on to it. "Don't you want to see my fears..?"

I look at him. "Really...?"

Father nods at the both of us and guides us to the fear landscape. As we got there, Father kisses me and claps Thomas on the back. Thomas tells me to inject him, pointing to a spot on his neck. As I nervously inject him, he does the same to me.

"Why are we doing this...?"

"To tell you...what my fears are..."

"Are you gonna tell me what happened with you and Kylie...?"

"She cheated on me...and I saw you...when it happened."

"Am I in here...?"

Thomas chuckles and smirks. "Try to figure that out."