We'd like to apologize for not updating in like...forever. School, sports, and well life has been a pain. Plus we rewrote this chapter like 4 times. Sorry. But you get a really long chapter. So...well without further ado, a chapter with a mix of both, because that was the results, enjoy.

Chapter 29

Tris

"You have all been sent here for a reason, that reason, only you know." Mrs. Matthews, says glaring us all down, when she lands on Christina, she shrinks in her seat.

"Yes we know were bad kids, were never going to get good jobs so we just might as well start flipping patties now." Zeke says like a robot, knowing him he's probably heard this speech a million times.

She glares at him. Either she's mad that he basically took her lines, or maybe its just that. Then she smirks a bit. "I'm glad you are practicing that now Ezekiel Pedrad, every restaurant needs a good patty flipper, but no that was not what I was going to say." She paces in front of me and glares at me, even though I haven't done anything to get one her shit list until now. "This year, Dauntless and Amity are going to host the Warrior Winter Festival, so its going to be you three and three other Amity to run it."

"What-" I begin, but she continues.

"You see, the attendance has gone down in past years because everyone thinks that the whole thing is a joke."

"It is a joke." Christina mumbles.

"So that is why, I decide to have a few Dauntless and a few Amity do it together. Mostly everyone in the school looks up to you three, so it shouldn't be hard to set up. I know with Ezekiel's creativity, Christina's eye for design, and Beatrice's persuasive...," She looks at me like she's trying to find the word. "Ways," Christina snorts. "We will be able to make this a great year." She turns and mumbles something to herself, but I'm close enough to hear. "I knew I should've made up some reason for Tobias Eaton to get in trouble, then if he was here I wouldn't be stuck with Christina."

Christina coughs, "I heard that."

Jeanine gives us a really fake 1000 watt smile. "I'll send who your working with, in and you guys get started." Then she walks out of the room leaving us alone.

"I have a theory that we all weren't in here by accident." Christina says.

"Yeah I'm pretty sure that there isn't a school rule about walking in the halls with out a pass saying the direct route your taking to the bathroom." I mumble. I got detention from that, I took the long way so I can see Tobias in the band room.

"Or a rule about being late to detention, four times in a row." Zeke says.

"That is a rule." I say.

"Oh, well that's a dumb rule." He kicks the ground and the door burst open.

Three Amity kids bounce into the room. Either they just smoked something or they're on a never ending sugar high. "Welcome to the first official meeting, of The Warrior Winter Festival!" A high pitched voice squeals. A male high pitched voice too. And only one guy can get that high, and that's my neighbor. Robert. Black. Great. Freaking. Fun. Black.

"OMG, Beatrice your on this too?" His voice goes down a few octaves. Still pretty high though. I'm pretty sure I got Tobias's voice to get this high once. I threw away a moldy chocolate chip muffin. He screamed, ran to the dumpster and petted in. He claimed that it was still good like every other muffin. It wasn't good though. I pretty sure when Tobias told Zeke he freaked out too. I was the monster of the month. Tobias didn't talk to me for two days.

"Um...yeah...sure...I guess."

"This is going to be the best year ever!" Angela, an Amity senior, squeals. I'm pretty sure that Robert has a thing for her too. If they do become a couple they'd be the world's most annoying couple ever.

"Okay this year the theme is going to be 'Rainbow Way of Dreams'. And-"

"Wait, wait, wait...wait a New York second. You already have a theme and you didn't tell us yet? And you chose the most annoying dumbest, the most inconsistent little thing in the world. Seriously this is like a second grade Valentine's Day theme. 'Rainbow Way of Dreams?' Zeke could pick a better theme out of his nose." Christina says looking at Zeke who is staring at a wall picking his nose. "It looks like he's already on it."

I snort and look out the window, obviously this is going to be a long, long detention. "I got it!" Zeke shouts. "Were going to do something old, classy, and brilliant. I'm thinking black and white."

"Ohh... I like black and white that's nice." Christina's eyes shine bright.

"But...but...black and white? That's sounds depressing, there's no color in there whatsoever." The other girl says. I think she's a freshman, but I have no idea.

"There could be, but seriously if you want a good Warrior Winter Festival then your going to have to listen to us. We don't want to be here, but we don't want to go to a boring festival with the dumbest theme in the world." Christina argues.

The Amity look like there going to cry, I feel kinda bad, but yet again we saved a lot of people from a boring night.

"We can have people dress in black and white, and have old pictures of actors and actresses hanging up on the walls. It would be classic, beautiful and I think it would be a pretty big hit." Zeke says.

The Amity get in a circle and talk for like 15 minutes, Jeanine Matthews comes in during that time probably wondering if we have a theme yet. While they're talking she looks at me wondering what the hell I'm doing. I look at her and shrug, I don't even know what I'm doing. The Amity look at Jeanine and then look at us. They look defeated, but they obviously saw the genius in Zeke's idea. "Our theme is black and white." Robert says, if he had a tail, it would be between his legs.

"Okay, well you have exactly 5 weeks to plan this event so I'd suggest you get to work." She looks at the desk that Zeke is sitting at, "I'm guessing Ezekiel came up with the idea." I look at Zeke's desk, his bugger is sitting on it.

"Yup!" He smiles. Jeanine scoffs and walks out of the room.


Tobias
(The earlier that day)

"Mr. Eaton, what is my rule about food in the classroom?" Jeanine Matthews says with a menacing glare.

I look up from my hot chocolate and doughnut, "You have a rule about food in the classroom?"

She paces in front of my and looks at my chocolate doughnut. "Yes, there's no food in a science class room because of the pending chemicals around the room."

I look around the room, which isn't hard because I'm in the back of the classroom. "What I missed breakfast, its the most important meal of the day. You should know that your a teacher, your supposed to know everything, and well last time I checked, you didn't have chemistry this semester and considering physics hardly takes any chemicals, its mostly math that's applied to science, I'll take my chances." I fire back and take a huge bite of my doughnut. It even has cream inside of it, my favorite.

Jeanine growls then walks back up to the classroom. Zeke turns around and gives me a high five. I smirk and hit my hand, most teachers would give me a detention for doing stuff like that but I have a way with Jeanine. Tris turns around and glares at me, obviously not approving of my behavior. I shrug and she shakes her head. "Ezekiel and Beatrice, here's your assignment, I'll meet you in my office afterwards."

Tris and Zeke get up and walk out of the classroom, and then there were five. Its just me, Caleb, and a other senior Erudites. "Here is your assignment, go ahead and get to work on it. Oh and Mr. Eaton, please give me your cell phone, and your IPod I wouldn't want to be contacting Ms. Prior for help. I really would love to see how well you do on it without her here." I hear Caleb besides me snort, I shoot him a glare and he starts to laugh.


"How was Physics without us?" Tris asks me at lunch.

"Hell, you weren't there either was Zeke. Your brother kept making fun of me."

"Oh so your ego is only fueled when you have others their to fuel it?" Christina teases. Her and Tris laugh, causing me to blush. "So self dependent, Tris what do you do with him?"

"Lowering his ego helps." I look at Tris, she smirks at me.

"Well I'm not the one who won themselves a detention." I fire back, Christina, Zeke, and Tris all got detention for some dumb reason. Well the girls did Zeke probably forgot to go to detention again. I need to go kick his ass later, we need him for the game tomorrow.

"Fine then were all idiots, I'm sorry." She says.

"Thank you," I lean over the table to kiss her, but Uriah pulls me back.

"No PDA from you two, I swear I'm going to throw up if I hear anything mushy come from your mouth again." Uriah's been kind of pissed off this week cause Marlene has been ignoring him. I have to ask Tris about that later.

"You're a dumb ass. Does that help?" I feel Tris's foot creep up my leg and I twitch a little bit.

"Yup."

"Happy to be of service." Tris's foot is now rubbing my ankle causing me to squirm around. Zeke looks at me funny. I try to get my shit together, but ultimately fail.

"Something wrong Four?" Will asks. I clear my throat and look him in the eye, automatically going into Four mode. Screw Tris for putting me in this situation. The guys are never going to let me live this down.

"No my foot just itches and I won't stop itching." I kick Tris's foot away in attempt to make it look like I'm itching my foot. She rolls her eyes and completely ignores me.

She continues playing footsie with me, I glare at her and Christina starts laughing. I think she's on to us. Tris continues with the foot rubbing and she moves up my leg. I get so ticklish that I completely fall out of my chair.

"Ahhh...little baby Four can't handle a little itty bitty itch?" Christina coos.

"No dammit." I kick off my shoes and itch my foot. Tris laughs so hard, she falls out of her chair. Good she was the person who did this to me. "Beatrice, be careful I don't want you to get hurt from some laugh attack." I chaste. She rolls her eyes and shakes her head.

"Hardly, I already went insane before I started dating you dearest of mine."

This time I roll my eyes and make my way back to the table, Tris switches spots with Christina and they both laugh at me. As much as I love being laughed at, which I don't incase some don't know, I will get back at Ms. Prior. That girl will pay, I tell you, pay.

The bell rings and we head off to American Government next, I hate government, but having Tris there makes it a whole lot better. She takes her seat in front of the classroom, a row away from mine. I sit down in front of Marlene and stare at Tris wondering what I should do to get her back. Marlene snaps her fingers in front of my face just when I think of the perfect payback. "What?" I snap, which I didn't mean to do.

"Sorry Romeo but if you stare at Tris any much longer I think she's going to break."

I turn to face Marlene, "Huh?"

She rolls her eyes and mumbles 'men'. Someone clears their throat and I turn to the front of classroom. Tris stands in front of the classroom, she smirks at me and Marlene. Marlene smirks back, I look from her to Marlene twice and then sink in my chair, this cannot be good. Wait, Marlene is now smiling, a genuine smile too. Tris is now too. I look from the both of them again, maybe this isn't going to be as bad as I thought.

"Mr. Eaton, now that I have your attention. You and Ms. Prior, will be partnered up to do our last presentation, which will be over the security of the White House, but before you two head off to the library I would like to talk to you about your grade." Mr. Cartwright says I shrink even farther in my seat.

I clear my throat in attempt to seem stronger. "In front of the whole class?" I mumble, already knowing this is not going to be good.

"Well, no but I would like to talk to you about it and the possibilities that I see happening with it."

"Fine." I mumble.

"You two my go while I'll teach the remainder of the lessen, I know you two already have it down."

I stand up and half run half walk out of the classroom. Who wouldn't want to? No one in their right mind would like to stay for a lecture about history of the government and all that yahoo crap. I'm already too far into the government's mess to care.

Tris follows me out of the classroom smiling and shaking her head. I walk backwards and raise my eyebrows because I'm not talented enough to raise only one, that's Tris's department there. She laughs at me and I smile back, she has no idea what's coming for her. I turn the corner and still walk backwards to the library.

"Stop that, that's creepy." She tells me.

"Stop what?"

"That walking backwards and knowing where your going, its creepy. Your going to run into someone or walk down a flight of stairs."

"Well now I'm marching backwards, notice how my heals do not touch the ground. Also if I don't, who will marvel at your beauty? Someone's got to do it, and I personally hope its me every single day of the year for as long as I live." I stop marching backwards, giving her a chance to catch up with me.

"And if you do something retarded to screw it up?" She whispers.

"May I rue the day for as long as I live, for your beauty is unforgivable." She catches up to me, the distance between us is exactly 6 inches. I close the gap, 4 inches. She stands on her tip toes and puts her arms around my shoulders. Less than two inches I move my lips to hers and lift her up slightly, the space between us is still feels far, but as she deepens the kiss it starts to shrink, and shrink. She backs away leaving two inches between us.

"We have to go before some teachers catch us." I set her down, and she blushes and backs away. I move forward and tuck a piece of hair behind her hair, and we walk hand and hand to the library, both blushing when our English teacher passes by us.

When were halfway through the block we have just about all of the project done. I sit at the computer twiddling my thumbs and listening to Back in Black by ACDC. Tris steals my headphone that actually works to see what I'm listening to. "Hey!" I protest.

"I am actually working on the project, I say I get to listen to whatever your listening to on Pandora."

"I would work on it, but your not giving my anything to do."

"I know, dear you are good with computers, but you suck at other reports. That's my department there."

I roll my eyes and get pulled back in my chair forcefully. A red hair girl with black smeared around her eyes and a dark haired girl with blue smeared around her eyes stand behind me arms crossed. Nicole Zividal and Maria McDonald. (A.N. haley2017, I seriously couldn't resist, can you blame me? Plus anyone who read Free Four might remember these two girls) "Um...Nicole, hi how you doing? What are you doing?"

"This is for last year, you insensitive jerk!" Nicole slaps me across the face.

"And send this to Zeke for me!" Maria slaps me too. They both stalk away leaving me with a skeptical Tris. A skeptical Tris, is a dangerous Tris, I better watch my back now. She stares stonily at the computer screen and I start biting the inside of my cheek.

"What-Why was Nicole and Maria slapping you...exactly?" She asks slowly, I gulp, this cannot be good. When she's calm and collective while mad get ready for World War 3, Tris will kill.

"To be honest, I have no idea."

"Tobias how could you have no idea. She called you an insensitive jerk, and she slapped you! Maria slapped you! They are literally the nicest girls in the whole entire Dauntless portion of our senior class! I know you can be insensitive, but it had to terrible if you got Nicole pissed off."

I don't like the fact that she's pointing out my insensitive qualities, without even thinking I know I'm going into Four mode. The fact that I can do that so easily even scares me sometimes. "Last year, before you and me were even dating, before we were even secretly dating, Zeke made me go out on a double date with Nicole, he was with Maria. The only way Maria would even think about dating him was if Nicole could go with her. That was the deal. I apparently said something that offended Nicole and she has hated me for. So you should be getting mad at Zeke technically."

She scoffs and shakes her head. "Sometimes I wish that you can pick up some common sense and push it through your thick skull because you literally have no idea why I am mad."

"Then why don't you just tell me!" I can feel my voice rising, "Instead of making me play this sick game of yours making me figure out myself!" She winces a bit and I pull back, I definitely do not want to turn into Marcus.

"Most people are smart enough to figure that out Tobias. Now shut up and lets finish this dumb project, I don't want to talk anymore."

I open my mouth to retort, but I know the subject is final. "Fine." I mumble and rub my hand down my face, this is definitely not the position I want to be in right now. She continues to stare at the computer, and I put my head phones back in and continue to listen to my music. Welcome to the Black Parade comes on and I sigh, this song better not foreshadow, what's about to come, even though I will carry on.

"Let's go." Tris mumbles and logs off the computer I follow her back to Government and get ready for my lecture to come.


"Dude what was with the blow up in the library, its like the talk of the school now." Zeke says walking over to my locker.

"Where did you hear that from?" I ask, Four mode has been in play for a long time now.

"Freshman." Geez, if freshman are noticing then that's not good. I mean they know that Tris and I are a couple but they have bigger problems to worry about, so the fact that they are taking notice is huge.

I glance at Tris from across the hall she glares at me through the mirror of her locker, Christina seems to notice and glares at me too. Her locker is right next to me so she is able to punch me. 'Jackass' She mumbles. I look at Zeke and shake my head, we walk towards the steps to head to English which is on the Candor floor.

"Maria and Nicole are still pissed off at us, thank you very much. That's the reason that I'm in trouble. So if your not in trouble with Shauna then I will hurt you."

Zeke winces and shakes his head. We walk in silence the rest of the way, wondering what is to come.

I put my books on the table in the back of the room, that is reserved for me and only me. Zeke has one in the front of the room, ever since freshman speech, Mrs. Nixen has had to keep us separated in different parts of the room, since we can't be trusted in desks like the rest of the class.

Tris walk in and takes her desk that is five feet in front of my table. I watch her carefully, she doesn't look mad anymore, she just looks tired. Like an actual 17 year-old girl. To me, she hasn't looked like that in a long time. Ever since her parents death, she's had to grow up, a lot.

The bell rings and Mrs. Nixen walks to her podium in the front of the classroom, she tells us to sit down and makes comments about how we should be in our desks right away when we come in. "So what's our weekly portion of couples news?" She asks us and I groan and hit my on the bulletin board behind me. My 20 year-old falling apart wooden chair that I sit in squeaks, causing the whole class to look at me.

"What's the matter with you Eaton?" She asks me.

"Nothing much, I just nailed my head on you board back here."

"Take the pain like a man, and since you disrupted the class first, you can be the first one to contribute to couples news. How's your relationship?" She always like to talk about couples news on Fridays, because everyone in her class is dating someone in this class. Well I guess her second semester class only contains. Tris, me, Zeke, Shauna, Will, Christina, Uriah, and Marlene." She's always is in our business.

I bite my lip. "Fine."

"Only fine? Golly Eaton, I witnessed you and Prior making out then walking down the hallway holding hands, add some adjectives in there will you."

"Fine is an adjective." I growl.

"I'll give you that, what's up with him?"

"He and Tris are fighting."

"Oh I see, what about the other couples. Sheke?"

"Fighting."

"Urlene."

"Fighting."

"Chrill."

"Living happily ever after." Christina cheers.

"Well then, this is going to be a fun class. Speaking of which it is a fun day since you all met the due date for your A.R. books."

"What are you thinking?" I mumble we always play a game for this.

"Just Dance, I brought my son's Xbox today. Eaton, Pedrad, go do your computer magic, girls and Will you can pick out which one you want to play." I roll my eyes and walk to the front of the classroom to hook the Xbox up to the smart board. You'd think she would know how to do something with her smart board, but no she doesn't.

We play a few rounds, Mrs. Nixen makes us, guys dance to Girls Just Wanna have Fun. When class is over I try to meet Tris in the hallway, she looks like she's about to cry. That's something that I never want to see, or do I ever. She is so strong, you sometime forget that she has feelings.

"Hey, hey what's the matter? It can't be me, if it is please just do what you need so I don't have to see you this way." I say softly, she shakes her head.

"No, no, it's not you. Its just that-"She stops like she thinks she shouldn't tell me. "Its just that during break, I saw Max, and he said girl's parent's night is next week, and I came to the realization..." She trails off and starts to cry. I go up to hug her. "Its just that...I...I-I-I just can't Tobias." She pulls back and sniffs, then runs her fingers through her hair. "It's ridiculous, I haven't cried about their death until today, over the littlest of things."

I tuck a piece of hair behind her ear. "Tris, you have to show some feelings, especially over the people that you love. Not all of us can be super woman, babe. Even the strongest of people have feelings, and you are the strongest, most beautiful, bravest person I know. I kiss her forehead, and she wraps her arms around me. We stay like that until Jeanine Mathews comes searching for her, for her detention.

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