"We didn't have much stuff to move," I shrugged.
"Hey since you're all here, we should have a party now," Blossom suggested.
"Yeah, let's have a party," I smiled.
"We got training tomorrow," Apollo sighed.
I groaned. "That's right."
"One good thing about not being a top dog," said Austin.
"We don't start work for another week or so, right," Jeff hit him.
"I start work tomorrow," Hec stated.
"That's right," Noah shook his shoulder. "Our newest leader people, is right here. And," Noah raised his hands. "He is my best friend."
"Oh God," Mina rolled her eyes.
"Hey, I'm pretty sure you three can say that about each other," Noah pointed to her. "Yeah my friend is Ghost team captain. My friend is Tactical Ops captain," he mimicked a girl's voice.
"Noah you do that so well," I put a hand over my heart. "You have me convinced. Try to say 'hey girl'."
"Shut up!"
"We ought to call you No-Wanda," teased Ryan.
"No, I got it," Hec smiled. "Notalie. It's like Natalie but Notalie."
We all started laughing.
"You all just jealous because I got skills," Noah strutted around in the room.
"Well, we should let you two get settled," Mina said walking past Noah and pushing him a bit. He was about to tackle her until she turned to him. "Don't even think about it, teddy bear."
"Teddy bear," half of the guys asked.
"Did you forget I work with Marlene who is engaged to your brother," Mina pointed to Noah.
"Oh God she told you that story?"
"What story," Hec asked.
"Nothing," Noah muttered pulling half the guys out of the apartment. "We'll catch you later Ana. Bye Blossom," he yelled.
"What story," I asked.
"I'll tell you one day," Mina answered. "We should have a girls' day."
"Sounds good," Blossom hugged her after I did.
"Hey," Kimber came by me. "I heard my brother is kind of blah," she stuck out her tongue.
"I didn't even know that that was your brother until he said something to Ace."
Kimber waved it off. "Hey I was wondering if one day I could hang with you guys, well you girls. You know, I," she paused and looked down.
"I meant it Kimber," I said causing her to look up. "I'm Ghost team captain. I have the resources to find out where Elena went. I know you miss your friend."
"I do. I just want some girl time you know," she turned to look at Ace. "I like Ace but I feel…"
"I know the feeling," I told her.
It wasn't long before everyone left and it was just Blossom and I in our apartment. It had two rooms, sort of like Lauren's. One bathroom, one small kitchen and the living room, like Noah mentioned, was a decent size. But to me it was still nothing compared to Eric's.
Blossom and I were talking about our parents when suddenly there was a knock at the door. I don't know what prompted me to but I took out my handgun and so did Blossom. Because of our jobs, we were each assigned one. I had to think that maybe it was because there were no security cameras up here on this level yet and that's probably why we both freaked.
"Who is it," I called behind the door, holding up my gun.
"It's Kenny. Is that Ana?" I sighed and put dropped the gun to my side. "You girls got a nice spot," he commented when I opened the door for him.
"Everyone was just up here," Blossom said.
"No wonder the dormitory was empty," Kenny shook his head. "You folks didn't head down for dinner, so I brought this up for you," he put down a couple containers on the small table that we had.
"Thanks, Kenny," Blossom replied. "We were kind of hungry."
Kenny looked over at Blossom and I putting away our guns. "I think I'm going to stay over."
We both started to protest.
"No," he shook his head and took off his jacket. "It just wouldn't be right to leave my two best and only friends up here by themselves. I'm staying and that's final."
We ate and talked more about our jobs some more. Kenny slept over but of course in the living room. I half couldn't believe that we were going to sleep early but here we were about to sleep right after we finished eating. I had only a tank and panty on, walking around in the apartment. Blossom had only a long shirt on. It fell right past her butt.
"Um," Kenny scratched the back of his neck from the couch. "Did you folks forget that I'm here?"
"Why," asked Blossom.
Kenny pointed to her bare legs.
"Oh please," Blossom waved her hand and sat down on the couch next to him. "If you're going to insist that you sleep up here, then you're going to have to get used to it," she finished as she leaned as Kenny's shoulder.
Kenny smiled and after a minute or so I noticed he relaxed and leaned his head on Blossom's. "Thank you for trusting me that much, guys," he mumbled as Blossom closed her eyes and snuggled into him.
I leaned back against the wall and watched them for a while. It made me smile at the two of them. It was a sight to see really. One of the most dangerous initiates and yet here he was with a shy, pretty girl tucked on his side like it was natural for the two of them. I went to use the bathroom before going to bed and when I came out Blossom had gone to her room and Kenny was lying down on the couch. I think them sleeping in the same bed together would have been a bit too much too soon.
I was heading back to my room, when low and behold, the front door opened. The only problem was that I left my gun in my room.
"Ana," Eric smirked. I let out a sigh.
Then I realized that we had locked the door.
"How did you..."
"I have a key," he walked over and was about to grab me but I took a step back.
"Now why do you have a key to my apartment but I don't have one for yours," I smiled back at him.
"I asked Abigail to have them make me one," he continued to walk closer. "If you want one for my apartment," he was right in front of me and ran his fingers down my arm. "You can have one."
I was just teasing. I didn't think he would actually offer one.
"I," I started but again was silenced by a kiss. It was gentle but still left me breathless.
"How was training today," he asked pulling away.
"Harsh."
"Well then," he lifted an eyebrow at me, scooping me up. I had to fight back a small laugh coming out. "Which way to your room," Eric asked.
I nodded to the right and he carried me there, setting me on my bed and then going to close the door. I had briefly wondered how he was going to fit on here. It was a full size bed but Eric's bed was much larger. It was huge enough for him and me to playfully wrestle on sometimes. Eric took off his boots and sat at the end of my bed, motioning for me to move my feet onto his lap.
The second I did, I closed my eyes and let out a soft moan. Eric had started to massage my feet and then my calves. It eased a lot out of me to be honest. I wanted to do the same to him, so I leaned forward and asked for his feet, which he moved into my lap. My hands weren't as rough as his. Considering the training I went through, I was kind of exhausted too. But I did my best, using some lotion and my knuckles to press down into his foot. He groaned when I had been working on this one spot in the arch of his foot.
"That was the best foot massage I ever had," he told me when we were done.
"Really," I smiled when he left the edge of my bed and climbed over me.
"Well, actually it's the only foot massage I had."
"How was your day," I asked taking off his shirt and wrapping my arms around his neck.
"It was full of paperwork after paperwork. I can't complain though. Something came up at Erudite so I didn't need to go there."
"Something came up, like what," I asked nervous.
"It's nothing to be concerned about." He leaned down and we started to kiss. I wrapped both my arms around him trying to pull him closer as I hooked my leg around him also. "I missed you, my Psyche," he pulled away from my lips, trailing kisses down my neck.
"I missed you too, my Eros," I replied as he pulled away completely.
"You read the book," he asked with a small smile.
I shook my head. "I just have a feeling that something happened with Eros and Psyche and that's why he didn't follow his mother's order to end Psyche."
"Something did," he replied.
"Like what," I ran my fingertips slowly down Eric's chest.
Eric took a hold of my hand and pressed a soft kiss on my lips. Eric rolled over and pulled me to lie down against him.
"Read the book," he stated making me whine.
"You're really not going to tell me," I questioned.
"No because I want you to read the story."
I wanted to ask but my body was too tired to start another conversation with him. Today was a rather long day and I couldn't really believe that I had survived all the constant name calling or insistent crude jokes about my boyfriend and our sex life. I shifted against Eric to get into a more comfortable position.
"I hate your bed."
"I hate it too," I commented.
"Tomorrow night we're sleeping in my apartment."
"I agree," I told him, pressing a couple kisses on his chest, which made him groan a little. I leaned up and pressed one more kiss to his cheek. "Goodnight Eric."
"Goodnight," he paused and kissed my forehead. "My Ana."
Everyone was kind of shocked when Eric showed up the next morning, walking me into the training area. Eric then informed us that he came to drop off his daily schedule, which he reminded me that I would have to learn to be responsible and pick up for myself the next time. Just the way he said it too. I turned to glare at him and in that small exchanged look. I knew that I would get to see my Eric later on that night.
Blaze did as was promised. On my second day of training, he set me up on the hand scanner and provided me the codes for all the levels that only the leaders and various team captains are supposed to have access to. He also had me overlook the rest of leader's schedules and then see if I needed to schedule a Ghost team member with anyone. No matter what, Blaze required a team member to be available for use to him. So I exchanged Clark out sometimes with Taylor or Sam, which did not sit well with either Clark or Blaze.
"I trust Clark to get the job done," Blaze stated.
"Well he is still part of my team, in case you forgot," I replied.
Blaze took a step forward as if to intimidate me but I just straightened myself out. "I know you're screwing Eric," Blaze snarled quietly so the rest of the team wouldn't hear.
"So what if I am?"
"Is he really that good," Blaze questioned getting into my personal space. "You know a lot of girls left him and came to me," he whispered leaning down.
I took a step back, causing Blaze to smirk. "Well I'm not one of them. Back to the issue at hand, you'll take whatever team member…"
"I am a leader, so I outrank you."
"You may be a leader but you will get the Ghost team member that I schedule you to have," I told him. "I have taken enough lip from everyone here on the team and I was assured by Abigail that you would oversee my training not override my decisions," I sassed. "So," I turned back to the tablet. "Today you may have Clark. Tomorrow Sam will be with you. I need Clark here so that I along with the new members of the team can work with him."
"About that I don't appreciate you taking apart my team and putting…"
"Again it is my team," I whirled on him. "You train me to take over because that is what I'm doing, taking over."
"Ana," Taylor stepped forward. "We're going to start exercises."
"Thank you Taylor. I'll be right there," I told Taylor.
"Taylor," Blaze stopped him from leaving. "How are the new recruits?"
"They're not that bad as we thought they would be," Taylor smiled at me. "Of course they're still new but I think in time they'll be able to handle things on their own. If they're trained well then in a couple weeks, Ana said that I could have a small vacation."
"There is too much work…"
"The reason why I requested new members," I replied.
"You're saying that the four already here can't do it?"
"No, I'm saying that because there are other team members, they can all share the load. And yes, even take a few days off and have a vacation," I replied.
"You're redoing everything that I set up."
"Not everything. I still need to get trained by you," I gave Blaze his electronic tablet. "Now if you don't mind, I know you have a busy schedule so I don't want to hold you and Clark up. Not to mention that I have drills to run with my team. Thank you for giving me the codes."
Blaze huffed in annoyance. "Let's go Clark!"
"Bye Clark," I said sweetly. "I'll see you here tomorrow."
"Tomorrow," Clark turned to Blaze.
"Yes, you'll be here tomorrow," Blaze replied as they headed for the door.
"Bye Blaze," I called to him. He turned around looking pissed when I gave him a smile. "Oh and Blaze, I didn't appreciate that remark about the guy that I'm screwing."
Blaze stormed out of the training room. The second he disappeared Adam burst out laughing and Sam tried to hold back his laughter.
"Do you really think that was necessary," asked Kenny.
"He'll get over it," I walked over and took off my tank, leaving me in my workout bra. "Alright, let's do this."
I needed to switch Clark out. Taylor and Sam seemed to be the ones who would cooperate with me the most and that was the reason I put them there. I didn't like that Blaze didn't want Clark to bond with the team. Brandon was slowly coming around but still seemed to have this Eric-side to him. One minute I did something correct and the next I was being yelled at. Of course I would yell back. That would end up with Kenny, Scott, Taylor or Sam trying to separate us. Ace was thankful because it got Brandon off of his back. Adam was like an irritating flirt. He seemed to take Apollo under his wing and hoped to train him to become a chic magnet.
"Hey, I was thinking we make hot dogs again," Kenny offered when we were done with work. "You and Blossom do have a nice balcony set up. Granted it's not as nice as Peter's but it is still pretty cool."
"I actually had plans," I turned to Kenny who lifted an eyebrow at me.
"There are no cameras set up. What if I didn't end up staying over?"
"It wasn't my intention to leave Blossom."
"Where are you leaving me?"
We both turned to see Blossom with her head titled to the side and a small smile on her face. I went to open my mouth but she put her hand up.
"You're going to see Eric aren't you?"
"Sh," I hurried up to her and covered her mouth just as Brandon and Taylor walked pass.
"Same time tomorrow, Captain," Taylor nodded to me.
"Bye guys," I smiled taking my hand away from Blossom.
"You didn't want your team to hear?"
"No one knows about the two of us yet," I shrugged.
"What are you two waiting for," asked Kenny. "Initiation is over."
"Yes but we decided that we wait a while until people start knowing. I don't want anyone to get suspicious that he helped my ranking."
"That's bullshit," Kenny shook his head. "Any person in their right mind could see that you earned your ranking."
"I know what she's talking about," Blossom nodded. "People won't go easy on her, Kenny."
Kenny shook his head. "People should get over themselves."
"But to answer your question, yes I'm going to see Eric tonight. So it's going to be just you and Kenny tonight for dinner," I turned to her. "Sorry Blossom."
"Oh," she looked back at Kenny and then smiled. "Yeah okay, that's fine," she shrugged looking down. "Why don't we meet up for breakfast," Blossom offered. "I really want to see how your job is going."
"Thanks Blossom. It's been crazy today but I think it'll be okay tonight," I said.
"Because Eric is going to help," Kenny teased.
"Yes. I mean he doesn't have to help but I know that he will," I replied. "Wait," I stopped us from continuing on walking down the hallway. "You're trying to say something."
Kenny shrugged. "I just figured you know that he'd help," Kenny leaned down. "Help relieve some stress," he added again. "I mean with initiation being over the two of you could relieve said stress. You know, relieve," he wiggled his eyebrows.
"They already have relieved each other," Blossom shook her head letting out a little laugh.
"What," Kenny turned to her.
"I guess we'll have something to talk about tonight," she took Kenny's hand and pulled him along.
"Hey," I yelled. "I don't want you two talking about me and sex life!"
"Next time don't ditch us for dinner," Blossom stuck out her tongue as her and Kenny ran down the halls towards our apartment.
That night I had to schedule the Ghost team for the rest of this week and the following week, so I had paper work scattered on Eric's bed. He told me to not schedule anyone to escort him to Amity.
"Why?"
"It's just a meeting at Amity," he told me.
"But what if…"
"Ana, I'm going to be at Amity. You should know nothing is going to happen to me in Amity."
I let out a sigh.
"Hey," Eric called me.
I crawled over the bed and then walked slowly to where he was seated at his desk.
"What's bothering you," he asked pulling me into his lap, rubbing my lower back.
"There's something going on at Erudite and…"
"Jeanine said it's nothing."
"Do you really believe her," I asked.
"No," he shook his head. "Ana, look," he placed a hand under my chin and lifted my face to look at him. "It's a small meeting at Amity. I've done it many times by myself. Things will be okay."
Eric kissed my forehead and let me go back to my paperwork.
The meeting at the City's school, he didn't need anyone either. Eric told me that I shouldn't have to worry about that. The Council meeting though, I put Sam and Taylor with him, especially since Blaze would be travelling there. Also I wanted to work with Brandon, Adam, and Clark more. I had to get to know all of them after all.
"Can you tell me what is up with Blaze being all up in our business," I asked.
Eric turned in his chair and lifted an eyebrow at me. "All up in our business," he questioned.
"Yeah today he made some comment about us. He knows that I'm 'screwing' you," I made air quotes.
"Does that bother you?"
"A little," I shrugged.
"Sleeping with me bothers you?"
"No," I shook my head. "People talking about it," I looked down. "Especially Blaze."
"Did he hit on you?"
"I don't know," I looked away.
"Ana."
"Yes he hit on me," I rolled my eyes and looked back over at Eric. "The same time that he hit on me, he insulted you and not but one minute later he tried to discredit me as a team captain. He won't even let me work with Clark."
"Yeah those two are tight," Eric let out a sigh.
"What should I do? I gave him attitude today about not being able to override my decision and Taylor kind of complimented the new members on the team to Blaze but," I shook my head. "I don't know what to do if he persists."
"You're asking me what you should do, not what you want me to do."
I gave him a weird look.
"Did you need me to talk to Blaze?"
"No, that might just make it worst. I just," I paused. "I want to handle him on my own. If you step in they'll always question me and say that I cry to you for help."
"But I want to help make it easier for you Ana."
"Then just tell me what I should do and if Blaze goes and talks to you about it, just support my decision," I replied.
It was quiet for a while as Eric looked at me. Then he smiled and shook his head.
"Just keep doing what you're doing," Eric replied. "You're doing a good job standing up to him on your own. Honestly when I heard what you told him today, I was proud of you."
"But I… I only told you now about what happened."
"Blaze complained to Max about it."
"So you knew?"
"I was waiting for you to tell me, Ana," he smiled. "Abigail and Four believe that you could do this. I believe that you can do this. From what I heard half the team respects you and that's not including the half that you bought on. Put them into the mix and that means that a good seventy five percent of the team believes you're doing a good job."
"I can guess who makes up the twenty five percent," I sassed.
"These things take time," Eric replied. "Just keep being Ana," he smiled. "I trust in Ana."
"Thank you," I whispered.
"What else you got," Eric walked over and sat down beside me in his bed.
"You have your own work, mister," I tried to push him off but he stayed there.
Eric proved so helpful that night in sorting out the scheduling that I was able to finish that in time to help him with one of his reports.
"No," he pulled the report from my hand.
"Yes," I went to grab it again. "You helped me and I'll help you."
"The reason I helped you wasn't to get help in return," Eric pointed out.
"Yes but I believe that a relationship is about giving not just taking," I shifted in his lap. "I mean I'm not an expert on it because I'm new to the whole concept but I think this is one of the things that they meant when they said about giving and taking. Besides," I leaned in and gave him a soft kiss. "I want to help."
Eric cupped my cheek when I pulled back and stared into my eyes. I swear we could get lost in each other. Our foreheads rested against each other as he rubbed my back slowly and I lazily traced my fingers on his neck tattoo. It wasn't long until his computer beeped, signaling us to get back to his work.
"I like this," I said as we slipped into bed after.
"Are you talking about the bed? Because seriously I do not like your bed," he chuckled.
"Everything," I replied as his arm brought me closer to him. "Us working on our paperwork together and being in your bed, yes your comfortable bed," I said as he smiled and kissed my forehead. "Then finally getting to be with you after a long day, I like all of it."
"And to think, you had decided on staying somewhere without me," he stated.
I wanted to argue and I guess he could tell, because he silenced me with a kiss. I really did enjoy all of this. Eric and I just creating our own world together and for a moment we were lost in it. I closed my eyes, hoping that every night with him would be like this.
I had been presented with case after case the next day. Taylor and Samir began feeding me leads that they had and I noticed that Brandon and Adam ended up taking Kenny, Ace, Scott, and Apollo for a run without us. I think because they knew that something had to be discussed with me in private.
"We have Kenny as the main suspect for these," Taylor placed a couple files on the table as I sighed.
That's what this was about.
"I'll look into these, personally," I told them taking it.
"Just to let you know," Samir's hand gently was placed on mine as I grabbed the files. "Some of these cases, those girls are factionless now. They didn't want to stay in Dauntless. Two of those are actually boys, young boys," Sam added which would have sunk my heart more had I not been told by Kenny himself. "One of them also is factionless. These two cases right here," he motioned to a small stack. "They led to Kenny also but the two girls denied that it was him."
"So there would have been five cases against him," Taylor stated.
"But there are only three," I replied.
"For now," Sam added. "We're not sure if he threatened those two into silence. We want you to be confident that you are okay with him being on the team. We'd hate for him to have threatened you into this position."
I never thought people were capable of such things. I was raised thinking that Amity was too kind, too happy or too concerned about the welfare of others. I had led a very sheltered childhood, I think. Away from all this depravity and deep down inside it made me miss it.
"He didn't force me into putting him on this team and I understand what you folks are saying," I replied as Sam's hand moved and I gulped at one of the pictures in the file.
"You two are friends now, aren't you?" I nodded again at Taylor, closing the file. "You think he didn't do it?"
"I can't say right now," I responded softly. I know Kenny was manipulated but he still played a part in the crime.
"You know what," Taylor hit my knee. "I think that this calls for a night out."
"No," I shook my head. "I really couldn't. I have so much paperwork to catch up on," I looked around at the files.
"Come on," Taylor pulled me up. "We just told you that one of your best friends is responsible for a few of the assault cases here in Dauntless. We'll go get a drink and…"
"I'm a light drinker," I answered.
"Oh yeah that will not do. I will not work under a Captain who can't hold her liquor," Taylor teased.
"What's going on," asked Brandon walking in with the rest of the team.
"We're going to do some team bonding," Taylor smiled as everyone groaned. "At the bar," he announced making half of the guys cheer.
Apollo didn't feel up for it but the guys convinced him to go and let loose.
"Maybe Bree will be there," I shrugged.
"What," Ace shouted. Apollo put on a small smile and scratched the back of his neck. "Dude," Ace slapped his back happily. "You and Bree? Why didn't you say anything?"
"Come on," Apollo pushed him off. "No," he shook his head. "She and I just talked a lot in Erudite. There's nothing…"
"Yeah you are blind," I let a laugh out.
"No, trust me, Ana," protested Apollo.
"Trust me," I turned around to face him with a smile.
Adam wrapped an arm around my shoulder. "This is the first time we got a girl to give us pointers, man," he punched Apollo a little. "We should take the advice while we got it."
"Anyway," I moved Adam's arm. "If we see her tonight you should talk to her," I shrugged. "You never know."
"I don't know," Apollo continued. "It's Bree. She and I are just friends."
"Who's Bree," asked Adam. "Have I met her?"
"No, thank God," I rolled my eyes as we left the training room. "You Adam, you don't get to go and talk to Bree."
"I'm going to help my man with his game," Adam hit Apollo's back.
"Knowing you," started Brandon. "You'll ruin it for the boy," he pushed Adam away.
Blossom and I had just received our credits and decided to dress it up for our first party as Dauntless members. I didn't enjoy the fact that I was going out without Eric but he told me that he would meet up with us later to pick me up and bring me back to his apartment.
Hec and Noah were there and wondered when they would finally see our teams partying with their team captains. Noah bought us our first round of shots. Seeing Apollo and Bree talking on a separate table made Ace buy me a second round.
"How did you know about Bree," Ace asked me over the music.
"We were talking about it," I answered.
Ace gave me a look.
"What? Girls like to talk about guys," I stated before we took our shot.
"Remember you can't really handle this," Blossom put an arm around me and guided me away from the Hec, Noah and Ace only to get bombarded with Taylor and Adam.
"We're over here," Taylor pulled me over.
I had a few more shots with the guys on the team. They were trying to insist that I tell them who my boyfriend was. Of course I refused which only resulted in them continually buying more shots throughout the night. I had danced with Taylor, Sam and surprisingly even Adam.
"Your boyfriend might get upset," Adam said as we were laughing and making our way back to the table.
It just so happened that I looked up and caught Eric's eyes looking over at me. He was with Dillon up on a higher level having a beer, watching the Dauntless below us. Eric actually had a small smile on his face when our eyes caught one another. I pulled my ponytail out and let my jacket fall off my shoulders slowly. Eric shifted and I knew that he would 'punish' me later.
"Yeah," I smiled turning back to the table. "He is upset," I sat down as Kenny shook his head.
"She just loves getting punished," Kenny replied.
"You're that kind of girl," Adam teased.
"Shut up," I pushed him.
"Hey is he here," asked Adam looking around.
"He's got to be if she just did that little performance there," Brandon said.
"What performance," I innocently questioned.
"Please," Sam chuckled. "You were teasing him."
"She was," Kenny agreed.
"No I wasn't," I pushed Kenny who chuckled and finished his beer.
"Here we go," Taylor came back with another round of shots.
"Really," I shook my head.
"Yes, really," Taylor handed me my glass.
Our glasses hit the table top for perhaps the ninth time tonight. Actually I have no idea how many shots the guys had bought me so I can't say for sure if it was the ninth time. At one point, Blossom and I were dancing up on a table top. Someone tried to hit on me and I was thankful for the team below.
"Back off Ian," Taylor pushed some guy away from me.
"Why is she yours?"
"No but her boyfriend is over there," Taylor nodded off into some other direction.
"Actually he's over there," Blossom giggled as we both fell into one another dancing.
"Where," Adam's head turned in that direction.
However he was too drunk to notice those blue-grey eyes staring back at the Ghost team captain dancing on the table.
It wasn't long until Bree was up there with us, along with a couple girls from Blossom's team. I was downing the alcohol or more like the alcohol was downing me. Somewhere between dancing in the middle of Hec and Noah I was dramatically pulled away and slammed against someone's chest.
Immediately I looked up and giggled. "Eric," I leaned up to kiss him until he moved his head. "What's the matter," I asked playfully trying to kiss him again. Eric moved his head again. "Are you mad at me?"
"We're in the middle of the Dauntless bar right now," was his answer before he pulled me out the door.
The lights were shining all over the place, music was loud and there was smoke shooting out at the moment. Something told me that no one would have noticed Eric grab me and pull me out of the bar.
"You know that's a semi-safety issue back there," I pointed out.
"No one noticed a Dauntless member get kidnapped," Eric smirked.
"No, they didn't," I pouted before pulling on his hand causing him to stop. "I don't mind my kidnapper though," I mumbled. "He's so handsome and kind."
Eric chuckled. "Now I know you had too much to drink."
He continued to pull me along before I could undress him right there in the hallway. Eric had walked me back to his apartment. Well he did his best to walk me back. I was half leaning on him and whispering into his ear about how handsome, smart, kind or brave he was.
"I really like your tattoo," I touched his neck.
"Mm hm," Eric mumbled.
"I just want to lick it," I giggled as Eric shook his head.
It was well into the night we had just turned down Eric's hallway when he reached for his key. I blame it on the alcohol because at this moment, I pulled the key away from him and sprinted down the hall.
"I'll race you!"
