As I sit up I am temporarily blinded by the sun that shines so brightly through my window, it reminds me of my days in amity and sadly it reminds me of my sister. She would be having her aptitude test in a couple of months. I need to stop thinking about her, she is gone nothing can be done for her anymore. I get up and my head throbs and I try to remember last night's party… All I can recall is my vision going blurry as I dance to 'Wasted'. I must have had a lot to drink last night because as I walk over to my cupboard I realize that I am still in my dress. I sneak a glance in the mirror and am greeted by a face full of smudged makeup.
After changing into a pair of black leggings and a black tank top, I wash my face and re-apply mascara and dark pink lipgloss. I begin to jog down the stairs into the pit and make my way to the cafeteria, almost immediately I spot our table and this time everyone from Meg to Zeke is there. I slump down inbetween Liv and Christina, Liv has a plate of waffles in front of her and beside her plate of waffles is a bowl of Dauntless cake. I grin remembering initiation when I took her cake, without her noticing I take the bowl and begin to eat the cake."You were so drunk last night!" Liv laughed. "Was not." I said. "Was too, I had to take you back to your apartment!" Uriah chuckles from the other end of the table. "Ok… Well I'm sober now." I shrug. "You better be, we have to take the initiates to the fence today." Tris nudges smiles. "What are the initiates like?" Christina asks. "Some are arrogant and think that they can get through initiation without help but a small minority are ok." I explain. I look up at the clock 7:55. "We better get to the training room." Tris says standing up, I get up leaving Liv's empty bowl where it is and as I walk out of the cafeteria I hear her scream "I'll get you tasha!" Tris looks back at me, "What did you do this time?" She laughs. "Might have eaten her cake." I snigger. "Payback I'm guessing… From initiation," She asks "Four told me about the whole 'Cake situation'" I grin, "Of course it's payback."
I stand alone with Tris in the training room loosely gripping a knife. Inhale, exhale, throw. It hits the center, exact. Over the last couple of months I have been improving my aim with both knives and guns. It is one of the only things that can keep my emotions at bay when I need to express them, it has helped me through a lot of tough times. After my sisters funeral I didn't sleep for 3 whole days and nights, and all that time I spent here in the training room perfecting my aim. "Nice shot." Tris applauded me. "Thanks, what's the time?" I asked. "8:03." Tris said looking at her phone. We both grinned at each other, "Their late!" I smiled. "I think we should wake them up with a surprise…" Tris begins. "I happened to stock up on water balloons yesterday." I shrugged. "Perfect." Tris smiled. I open up the supply closet and grab the large bucket filled with water balloons. Just after initiation I might have thought that the bucket was heavy but after focusing on training I began to get stronger.
Both me and Tris stand in front of the big doors that would lead to the dorms where the initiates had supposedly over slept. Tris glanced at me and nodded, it was time to wake them up. We barged through the doors and began hurling the neon coloured balloons at the sleeping initiates. Some sat straight up in their beds in shock, their expressions were priceless! The blurs of colour that shot through the air were all aimed well and not a single initiate managed to get up without being hit. "You have ten minutes to be at the tracks or else consider yourself factionless." Tris yelled. "What! We haven't had anything to eat yet…!" Sadie exclaims. "Shouldn't have been at the party, otherwise you wouldn't have overslept." I told her coldly. Maybe it's for the best if none of the initiates turn up to any parties, because I was definitely drunk last night and I can't have them around when I'm like that… "Initiates have been banned from all dauntless parties and anyone spotted at one will be delt with." I shouted over the chaos that had erupted into the room about five minutes ago.
The wind blows my hair in front of my face and my vision is just strands of blonde in amongst the scenery of the train tracks. Uriah comes out the compound along with Four and the dauntless initiates tail them. Since our initiates are all still running round the dorms frantically we stand alone and I run into Uriah's arms. "Hey Tashiepoo…" He chuckled. I looked up at him, "Not tashipoo…." I say. "Okay Tashiepoo" Uriah smiled. "Seriously." I stared at Uriah. "Okay… Maybe not tashipoo." Uriah chuckled, as we stood waiting for the transfers and the train.
Soon enough the transfers came, I guess none of them had a desire to become factionless. "The train should be here any minute now, and we are all getting on." Four shouted, and as if on cue the train thundered down the tracks and swung past us. I had gotten used to running and jumping onto a train but the initiates struggled to keep up with the train, some of them nearly didn't get on – The transfers of course, the dauntless born were used to all this. And so was I. The quiet mummers of the initiates bounced off the metal walls in the train and it was clear that they were all talking about the initiation process, I knew it was harsh but it was efficient and we needed it. A true dauntless would pass initiation and claim their rightful place, like I did. "What do we actually do at the fence?" I asked Four. "We show the initiates what jobs are at the fence, half of them will end up there anyway," Four tells me "And I guess you might need to know that seeing a you ran off when we were at the fence." I sighed, I guess this was true. "I guess so." I said, remembering the day I saw my sister. I squeezed my eyes shut willing for the vivid memory playing in my head to go away, nowadays I tried to forget my sister It was too painful to remember. Jeanine killed her and she was gone, gone forever. I wanted to throw up, that woman had no mercy and I hated her for it.
"We're getting off!" Tris shouted over the screeching of the train before leaping out into the open, I followed her and so did Uriah and Four, the initiates tumbled out behind us. Time passed as the initiates tailed us whilst walking down the fence, I was bored out of my mind. "So, half of you guys will end up working here protecting us from whatever lies on the outside of the fence." Uriah droned on, he could make anything sound interesting and he obviously wasn't in the mood for it now. "What do we protect the inside of the fence from?" Sadie asked. "Rabid humans, we were forced to build a city barricaded from the rest of the world to stop from having the world being taken over by this in-human race…" I nod, looking as serious as I can, the edges of uriah's mouth turned up. "Oh yeah, but that was ages ago, now they tend to go for more easy targets, like the guards for instance I heared that one was 'infected' last week." He said keeping his face straight. "If it were really true then everyone would know about it, and it would have been in our history lessons." Mark snapped. "You should have stayed in Erudite, where maybe they could have learnt to accept that you would spend all day staring at your reflection in a computer screen." I said folding my arms, he would be smart enough not to answer back now. "Feisty, maybe your just jealous that half the initiates want to be my girlfriend, maybe you want to be my girlfriend." Mark chuckled. "As if, and the only things that want to date you are the parasites that crawl under your skin, I think you have more than the average person…" I sigh. Ugh… He didn't know that I would hold this against him for the rest of his life and I would possibly end up getting revenge on him years from now, when he isn't expecting it. Thinking of revenge I remembered Owen, the guy from my initiation. I had to get revenge on him, god how I hated him… His friend Luke had become factionless so it couldn't be that difficult.
After coming back into the compound we told the initiates that they had the rest of the day off. It was around 12:30 and I guessed the others would be in the cafeteria, I'd get something to eat and then begin to ask around – see if anyone knows anything about Owen.
I spotted a table towards the edge of the hall and saw Liv, Meg, Elis and Shane sitting down at it. Quickly I ran over to get a slice of cake and made my way to the table. "Hey." Elis smiled. "Hia," I grinned. "You remember initiation?" meg swallowed, "Where is this going?" She asked. "Well… I wanted to get revenge on Owen…" I smirked eating a mouthful of cake. "Great idea!" Liv chuckled. "Well I need you guys to help me; I need to know where he will be tonight." I told them, "Luke said that he works at one of the bar's in the pit, I overheard him talking about it. I could ask him if he knows Owens plans tonight." Meg suggested. "Great." I nodded. "Watch your back, I am still out for revenge." Liv smirked at me as I got up to leave. "Yeah, as if you'd end up getting revenge on me..." I said shaking my head. "I have my ways." She smiled.
After walking a couple of rounds of the pit the only bar open was 'the cave' hopefully Owen worked there. I walked through the doors greeted by the bitter smell of ethanol – otherwise known as alcohol. A small room crammed with small, round, oak tables and chairs with a long stone bar at the foot of the room turned out to be the inside of the bar, it was like a ghost town in here the only people in the room were isolated from socializing as they sat in corners minding their own business. I stalked over to the bar and waited until someone came up, "What will it be then?" A tall, muscular, dark haired man asked me. "Erm… A sprite please." I told him, he laughed. "You came here, in the afternoon, on your own, just to get a sprite… They sell them in the cafeteria you know. What else are you here for?" He asked. "Do you know anyone called Owen?" I asked over the bar. "That would be me. Anyway who are you…?" He asked crossing his arms. "Tasha." I breathed, hoping he didn't think this was any more suspicious than it already was. "Tasha… Tasha from Initiation, Tasha I beat up?" He asked looking into my eyes. "You never beat me up, I knocked you out cold and you spent the night in the training room because of it," I exclaimed, I was trying to keep my cool but it want working. "Erm, yeah I was just coming here to… Apologize, I was horrible during initiation, and I hope you can forgive me." It almost killed me saying that, but I think he bought it. "Okay. Start fresh?" He offered. "Sure." I replied. "Yeah, I should return the contents of your wardrobe… I have it all, and I accidentally told my friend to drop it over the chasm in like fifteen minutes. But seeing as we are starting fresh, I could drop them back to you?" I asked, I hope he didn't sense that I was lying. "Yeah sure, but my shift doesn't finish until 9 tonight." He said gripping the bridge of his nose. "Why don't you give me your key and I'll dump them in your apartment," I began, he didn't look like he trusted me though. "I mean if you don't want to that's fine but I doubt anyone would take you seriously with the junk you keep in your wardrobe behind the bar." He sighed, and looked into my eyes as if he could see through my lies. "That's fine, here have my key and give it back to me straight away," He glared at me passing me a silver key. "Room 35"
As soon as I got out of the bar I dialed Meg,
"I have the key to his room!"
"What... How the hell did you manage to do that?"
"Long story, I'll tell you later. But he will get suspicious if he doesn't get it back soon so meet me at the chasm with Spray paint, pronto!"
"Sure!"
Me and Meg walk together to room 35, it was a small apartment and it looked cozy, "Not bad." I said. "Well after we have dealt with it, it will be much worse." Meg grinned. We spent the next ten minutes spray painting his plain walls, it almost looked artistic. "We could be artists!" I grinned as I locked up. "Artists get big money, but I doubt we'd get money for re-decorating his apartment!" Meg sighed.
"Here." I said sliding the key towards Owen, "Thanks." He said, he was thanking me. "I never forget." I murmer. "What was that?" He asked. "Nothing." I said exiting the bar. Oh he was going to be mad when he found out what I actually did.
What do you guys think? There is alot of drama coming up with the initiates and it is going to be hillarious! - T