Chapter 2
Once every had jumped Tobias and a woman lead us into a dark tunnel where the walls were made of stone and the ceiling curved. It was so dark, and it didn't help that people in front of us were wearing black. Suddenly we stopped causing me to almost bump into the person in front of me.
"This is where we divide." The woman says. "The Dauntless-born initiates are with me. I assume you don't need a tour of the place." She gives a smug smile before beckoning toward them to follow. Uriah and Marlene give me a small smile and wave before breaking away. Lynn gives me the fakest smile I've ever seen. They all away and disappear into the dark hallway. I get a look of all the transfers. There were ten of us, two Abnegations, three Erudite, and five Candor. Tobias then stood in front to address us.
"Most of the time I work in the control room, but for the next few weeks, I am your instructor." He starts. Control room? He never struck me as a computer person. He must've noticed my expression because he started tapping against his leg. When I was around ten, I came home excited because I had learned to use Tap Code. Since Marcus wasn't home, I told Tobias about it and we both used it when we wanted to talk about something, but Marcus was around. "My name is Four." I scrunched my brows in confusion.
He typed an E, then an X, P, L, A, I, N. Then he paused before tapping in L, A, T, E, R. Explain Later. Okay then.
"Four, like the number?" A Candor girl… Christina asked,
"Yes." He says. "Is there a problem?"
"No."
"Good. We're go into the Pit, which you will someday learn to love. It—"
Christina snickers. "The Pit? Clever name."
Tobias walks up to Christina and leans his face close to hers. His eyes narrow, and for a second he just stares at her. "What's your name?" he asks quietly.
"Christina," she squeaks.
"Well, Christina, if I wanted to put up with Candor smart-mouths, I would have joined their faction," he hisses.
"The first lesson you will learn from me is to keep your mouth shut. Got that?" She nods.
Four starts toward the shadow at the end of the tunnel. The crowd of initiates moves on in silence.
"What a jerk," she mumbles.
"I guess he doesn't like to be laughed at," Tris reply. I admired Candors for their honesty, I really did. But I didn't admire them saying everything that popped into their heads, It was annoying. If this Christina girl was like that 24/7, I'm not sure how well we would get along. He opens a set of double doors. As soon as we walked in, I understood why it was called the Pit. It is an underground cavern that was extremely large. There were areas for food, clothing shops, recreational activities. Instead of white light illuminating the area, it there were orange and blue lights. The roof of the Pit was glass. Everywhere people were wearing all black. But no one seemed to be above the age of fifty five. Were there no elderly in Dauntless? Suddenly a group of kids run past us and I can't help but smile. This place was amazing.
'If you follow me, I'll show you the chasm." Tobias says waving us forward. I snapped out of my thoughts and followed behind him. Where he leads us is darker than the other parts in Dauntless. There is a sound of roaring rushing water and hitting against- most likely- rocks. On one sides the water was calm, the other side was violent. One side had a rail, the other had had a sharp fall.
"The chasm reminds us that there is a fine line between bravery and idiocy!" Tobias shouts. "A daredevil jump off this ledge will end your life. It has happened before and it will happen again. You've been warned."
Across the Pit was a gaping hole in the wall, which led into a dining hall. As soon as us transfer enter, people start clapping, cheering, even stomping. In the center of each table was food with utensils to take them out with. Not finding the friends I had made on the train, I find myself sitting next to Tobias while Bea- I mean Tris, sits on the other side. I hope it didn't look odd that the only two Abnegation initiates were sitting at both sides of him.
The food that was serving was weird looking and circular. It sat between to round bread slices.
"It's beef." Tobias nudges Tris and I. "Put this on it." The red sauce he was talking about smelled like tomatoes. I hated tomatoes. That's probably why he handed it to Tris first.
"You've never had a hamburger before?" Christina—who was sitting on the other side of Tris— asked.
"No." Tris is that what it's called. "Is that what it's called?"
"Where's the ham…" I ask innocently. Christina snickers, while Tobias tries to hide his laughter with a cough.
"Stiffs eat plain food." Tobias says. I shoot him a glare.
"Why?" Christina asked.
"Extravagance is considered self-indulgent and unnecessary." Tris and I say in perfect unison. It sounded rehearsed.
"No wonder you two left." Christina smirked.
"Yeah." I said rolling my eyes.
"It was because of the food." Tris finished. We started to sound like twins who finished each other's sentences. It was weird. I could see Tobias trying to hold back a smile. Suddenly the room fall quiet as a young man with long hair, and countless piercings walked in. He had a menacing look on his face that should intimidated anyone, but I had seen more intimidating looks. Plus he was good looking. If he had shorter hair and less piercings, he'd be extremely good looking. I could also see a beginning of a tattoo sleeve that peeked below this shirt arm. The way he scanned room made it obvious that he was once an erudite. His eyes finally landed on our table.
"Who's that?" Christina hissed.
"His name is Eric." Tobias told her. "He's one of the leaders."
"He's a leader? But he looks so young." I said. He was no older than Tobias's age.
"Age doesn't matter here?" Tobias told me gravely.
He finally reached our table and he grabs my arm and pulls me up from my seat.
Dic—
He pulls me down onto his lap. The whispers in the room get louder. One of his arms wraps around my waist. So when I try to stand up he pushes me back down. Yet he was gentle, it was weird. You'd think he'd have a tight grip on me and he would squeeze my waist or something but instead he just makes his lap another seat. He doesn't touch me anywhere else. I didn't know if he was trying to be a gentleman or a dick. Or both.
"Well aren't you going to introduce me?" He asks.
"This is Tris, Christina and Trina." Tobias tells him. By the way he says my name, it obvious he was disturbed by all this.
"Ooh two stiffs. We'll see how long you two'll make it." He smirks.
"Oh trust me, we'll be here for a while." I retort.
"Excuse me?" He spat.
"You're excused." I shot back nonchalantly. He glares at me harshly. I reply with a sarcastic smile.
"Whatever. Anyway, what have you been doing lately, Four?" he asks.
Tobias lifts a shoulder. "Nothing, really," he says. Not possible, Tobias got extremely tense
when Eric pulled me into his lap.
"Max tells me he keeps trying to meet with you, and you don't show up," Eric says. "He requested that I find out what's going on with you."
Tobias looks at Eric for a few seconds before saying, "Tell him that I am satisfied with the position I currently hold."
"So he wants to give you a job." The rings in Eric's eyebrow catch the light. So that's what this is about. A job to be a leader perhaps? Why doesn't Tobias accept it? It seems to be a good offer, not to mention he could get major points from it.
"So it would seem," Four says.
"And you aren't interested."
"I haven't been interested for two years." Wow two years?!
"Well," says Eric. "Let's hope he gets the it, then." He takes his arm from my waist and I jump up immediately. Throughout the whole conversation, Tobias's eyes were flickering between both Eric and me. Eric claps Tobias on the shoulder. As soon as he walks away far enough. I sit back down and slouch.
"Are you two… Friends?" Tris asks. God no.
"We were in the same initiate class," he says. "He transferred from Erudite." Called it! I guessed both his age and previous faction right.
"Were you a transfer too?" Tris asked.
"I thought I would only have trouble with the Candor asking too many questions," he says coldly. "Now I've got Stiffs, too?" Here, ladies and gentlemen, we have Tobias avoiding his past along with his emotions the best he can.
I started to take a drink of my water.
It must be because you're so approachable," I say flatly. "You know. Like a bed of nails." Oh my god I choked. I did the best to keep my composer and swallow the water.
I watch the two have a stare down before he says, "Careful Tris."
"FOUR!" Someone yells.
"TRINA!" I hear… Marlene shout. I stand up and follow the sound of her voice. It's also the same table Tobias was called to. At the table was Uriah, Lynn and Marlene along with two others. A boy and a girl, both around Tobias' age.
"Okay Four stand here." The girl, brown hair and brown eyes, instructs. She has him stand sideways to the table. Then she steps toward me.
"I'm Shauna, Lynn's sister. Could you stand her for me." She points to a place behind Tobias. "Please face his back, perfect."
She took several steps back.
"What are you guys–" Tobias started.
"Hold on." The other boy who was at the table said. "They have the same face ships."
"And ears." Shauna adds.
"And cheekbones." Marlene put in.
"Different nose though." Lynn comments.
"Hair is the exact same color." Uriah says.
"Could you two turn toward us." The unknown young man requests. Were they on to something? Tobias didn't have to tell me, I knew nobody could know we were siblings until initiations was done. It would look extremely biased if everyone knew and I did well. We both turned counterclockwise.
"They turned in the same direction." Shauna muttered.
"Look at their lips."
"Look at their eyes."
"What are you guys doing?" I finally asked.
"Well," Uriah asked. "We noticed you two have an uncanny resemblance. Not to mention you two are extremely fast runners."
"Plus Four, you're six feet and Trina you seem to be around 5'10" you're both tall." Shauna said
"What are you getting at?" Tobias asked.
"Are you too siblings?" Uriah's look alike asked.
"No." Tobias and I answered.
"I'll take that as a yes." Shauna says. I sighed and walked up to the table.
'You guys can't tell anyone." I told.
"Especially you Zeke." Tobias says sitting down next to me. Zeke, that was his name. Was he related to Uriah? Perhaps they were siblings.
"I won't but word travels, and if someone noticed what we did, news will spread." Zeke shrugged,
"I bet Eric already way he pulled you on his lap Trina… and Four you looked like you were going to murder him. I bet he did it to piss you off." Marlene rambled.
"But how would he know you were two were even from the same faction, wait… Trina is from abnegation then…" Uriah gaped.
"Did you just put two and two together?" Lynn shook her head. But then realization came onto her face. "Eaton… Marcus Eaton, Katrina Eaton, you're the abnegation leader's son." For a second panic flashed in Tobias's eyes. He must've thought Lynn figured out his real name.
"Four why didn't you tell me?" Zeke gaped.
"I didn't want to." Tobias deadpanned. The conversation went on abount us being siblings and how I survived being siblings with Tobias. Finally the transfers had to leave to go to the dorms. While I was walking to join the group of transfers, I thought about life in Dauntless. It was crazy, loud, but also full of energy and life. Maybe I could make it here.
