{Author's Note}
Listen to Taylor Swifts Knew You Where Trouble, while reading this. It'll help.
Tris POV
Fear simulations are less chaotic the last day. David is afraid of the number thirteen. Melissa ugliness, Carol heights, Chloe pain, Paul weakness, and Chris public speaking. Again he manages to seem very un-Candor.
I walk to the Pit, near the Chasm I see Carol. "Hey Carol what's going on?" I ask tapping her shoulder.
Her eyes look tear stained her cheeks are puffy and red. "Chloe stole my boyfriend." She says.
"Chloe stole Noah?" I ask.
She nods. "I walked in on them in the dormitory and they were- " She laughs a little. "Well it didn't look good."
I don't know what that means. And I'm not sure if I want to.
"Did you do anything to provoke her?" I ask. Chloe would probably do something like that just for fun, but it would make more sense if she had a reason.
"No, I don't think so." She says. "Oh and Eric's looking for you."
I nod. "You talked to Eric?" I ask.
She nods. I sigh. "Chloe must have seen you with him. Then she went back at you with Noah."
She thumps her head. "Duh! But why would Noah…" She sobs.
I shake my head. "Maybe it's for the best." I say with Chris' face in the back of my mind.
She sighs. "Maybe." She wipes her hair away from her face. "Are you going to Uriah's party tonight?" She asks.
Dang it! Why do I forget about everything! I nod nervously. "I have to go meet Christina, do you want to come?"
She smiles and nods.
This'll take her mind off things.
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I walk into Uriah's apartment with Tobias' arm around my waist. The speaker's blare and alcohol is all around.
"Hey! If it isn't my favorite couple!" Uriah says throwing his arms around us. I shy away from his touch. I'm wearing the black dress from last year and the death trap shoes.
"Hey Uriah." Tobias says.
Uriah turns to a large table filled with drinks. He hands me one. The strange concoction looks like a red Popsicle was run over and had someone's lunch spilled in it.
"Bloody Mary's all around!" Christina yells bouncing over to us with the same type of drink.
"Is that what this is?" I ask dumbly.
Christina laughs. "Yes. Try it it's good." She says.
I feel my nose twitch knowing it has so sort of potent alcohol in it. I lift the drink to my lips. It tastes like spicy pepper, tomato juice and some alcohol. Vodka I think.
"It's good." I say taking a sip. I break away from Tobias and look around to see who's here.
All the Dauntless born initiates except Toni and all the transfers, except David. Christina, Will, Uriah, Marlene, Zeke, Shauna, Lauren, Tobias and me are also here. It's kind of a small party, but I'm not complaining.
Uriah stands up on the couch with a microphone. "Let's do a little Karaoke! What do you say!?" Everyone cheers.
I slip into Tobias' arms. "Karaoke?" I ask.
He chuckles. "Standing up and making a big idiot of yourself."
I laugh. "What is it really?" I say with a smug grin.
"Standing up and singing to everyone." He says.
"Fun." I mumble. "I bet you wouldn't do it." I say challenging him.
He looks at me with a surprised grin. "I will." He says.
"But I pick the song." I say.
He sneers. "Whatever you want Tris."
Carol takes the microphone from Uriah and stands on his coffee table. She whispers something in his ear.
Uriah nods and runs over to his computer. I hear the beginning of a guitar strumming. Carol looks around the room a little nervous but then finds Noah's face and starts to sing,
"Once upon a time, a few mistakes ago, I was in your sights you got me alone, you found me. You found me. You found meeeeee!"
Christina cheers and I see Chris immerge from people to watch Carol. "I guess you didn't care, and I guess I liked that. And when I fell hard you took a step back without me, without me, without meeeee!"
Carol jumps off the table and into the crowd. Damn that girl can sing. "And he's looonnngggg gone when he neeeeexxtt to me and I realize the blame is on me."
She walks over to Noah and circles him vindictively, "Cause I knew you were trouble when you walked in. So shame on me now." She turns on her heel and walks to Chris, "Flew me to places I'd never been," Then she glares at both of them, "'Til you put me down, oh I knew you were trouble when you walked in, so shame on me now flew me to places I'd never been."
She runs to the table and jumps on it "Now I'm lying on the cold hard ground! OH! OH! Trouble! Trouble! Trouble!" She bangs her hands and head. "OH! OH! Trouble Trouble! Trouble!" Everyone's getting into it now.
Carol points to Chris, "No apologies, he'll never see you cry, pretend he doesn't know that he's the reason why you're drowning, you're drowning, you're drowinginginginginging." Chris looks shocked.
She points to Noah, "Now I heard you moved on from whispers on the street a new notch in your belt is all I'll ever be. And Now I see. Now I see. Now I seeeeeee." Noah looks even more shocked.
She jumps off the table and walks through the crowd, people cheering her on as she passes, "He was long gone when he met me, and I realize the joke is on me, yeah!"
She pushes Chris back a little with her hands "I knew you were trouble when you walked in, so shame on me now, flew me to places I'd never been, 'Til you put me down OH! I knew you were trouble when you walked in, so shame on me now flew me to places I'd never been. Now I'm lying on the cold hard ground! OH! OH!"
She kicks Chris back and gets in his face, "Trouble! Trouble! Trouble! OH! OH! Trouble! Trouble! Trouble!" She pushes him away and he stumbles into people completely awed by her.
"And the saddest fear, comes creeping in. That you never loved me or her, or anyone, or anything, yeah!"
She runs through people and shoves Noah onto the floor. "I knew you were trouble when you walked in, so shame on me now, flew me to places I'd never been, 'Til you put me down OH! I knew you were trouble when you walked in, so shame on me now flew me to places I'd never been. Now I'm lying on the cold hard ground! OH! OH! Trouble! Trouble! Trouble! OH! OH! Trouble! Trouble! Trouble!"
She stands on the table again and has everyone in the palm of her hand. "I knew you were trouble when you walked in. Trouble! Trouble! Trouble! I knew you were trouble when you walked in. Trouble! Trouble! Trouble!"
She tosses the mic to Uriah who's standing there with his mouth open, and jumps off the table. Every cheers for her and Noah gets up and leaves.
"You were amazing!" I say running over to her! "I didn't know you could sing like that!"
She smiles and tucks her hair behind her ear, "Well my name is Carol." I laugh a little.
"Bet it makes you feel good." I say looking at Noah who walked out.
She nods. "Yeah I guess venting my anger through song is kind of a-"
"You're singing at my wedding!" Christina yells running up to her. "You are amazing!"
Carol smiles.
I turn to Tobias. "She really made a big idiot of herself didn't she." I say sarcastically.
He smirks and points to the table taking a long sip of his drink.
We hear a new song playing and Chris is standing on the table. "This one's for you Carol," He says with a wink in his eye.
A/N
Sooooo… To many lyrics? Tell me what you think! I thought this song was PERFECT for this part of the story. I've wanted to do a karaoke scene for a while now…. So I did.
IMPORTANT QUESTION: Do you want more CarolxChris? Not that that's going to take over the story but there was like no CarolxNoah, so you want it discreet or in your face? Chris doesn't really seem like a discreet person to me…..
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