Chapter 4 - Exploring

A/N: Here is chapter 4! Hope you enjoy it! I'm thinking of making the next chapter Jeanine's POV but for now enjoy and read and review!

Disclaimer: I don't own Divergent or the characters - I am not that fantastic.

Marlene's POV

We walk away from the sand that everyone is used to and head to the small woods the island has. Excited, I skip off ahead towards where Will and I came before. Who knows what time it is now, we have no source of time here. It didn't take us long to wake Uriah up and he seems very awake considering he just got out of bed. He insisted on having at least one of his pop tarts for breakfast before we set off. I walk back towards him and whisper, "Race you to the apple trees?"

"But I don't know where they are!" He objects.

"Does it matter?" I argue and set off running towards the apples ahead of us. Despite his objections, he comes running after me and almost overtakes me but I sprint at the last minute and pass the first apple tree a few seconds before he does.

"YES!" I exclaim and we both start picking apples whilst panting after a long sprint. We shove the apples into the backpack with my name on it and turn to find the others filling up our two water bottles from the small lake we found. Zeke is filling one, Lynn is filling another. Tris and Will are looking around the lake. I turn to Uri and put my fingers to my lips, telling him to be quiet. He just nods, I think he has guessed what I am going to do. I tiptoe up behind Lynn, trying to make as little noise as possible and when I am close enough, I shake her shoulders and shout "LYNN!"

It makes her jump and she gets up and kicks my shin. She glares at me and I run away laughing her chasing after me until we reach a row of trees and I slump down next to one laughing. Lynn sits next to me, also laughing. We sit there enjoying the moment until Zeke comes and helps us both up, telling us we have to move on.

We keep walking until we reach a part of the island that Will and I didn't explore. We see the mouth of a cave and we decide that Tris, Uri and me will go into the cave and try to find anything useful.

It soon becomes clear in the cave that we will not be able to go much further without a source of light since we can barely see anything now. Uri jogs up to the surface and comes back with a stick that is on fire at one end.

"That was fast. I didn't know you could do that" I say. Uri just shrugs and says, "Well, I can." and we keep walking through the cave. I pick up some of the smaller stones as we go and put them in my backpack. They might be useful for something. We keep walking until the walls start to get smaller and we can walk no further. When we do come to the end, there is a cardboard sign there which says, 'You are being watched. - JM'. As if Jeanine wasn't creepy enough. Uriah holds the light up to the wall and we see dozens of moths flying around us, attracted to Uri's light.

"Good job Chris didn't vine in here with us. Or Four for that matter" Tris comments. Neither me or Uri understand what she is talking about, but we don't know Christina or Four as well as she does.

We turn around and get out of the cave significantly quicker than we got in and tell the others that there wasn't really much to see, except for the reminder from Jeanine that we are being watched at all times. When we tell them this they just laugh and I realise I'm not the only one who thinks it doesn't matter if Jeanine is watching our every move.

We head back a different way to the way we came and I pick some flowers on the way because I feel our tent needs some decorations.

When we finally reach our tent, Will, who is leading the way, gestures for us all to stop and then to be quiet. I can't see over Zeke's head so I ask Uri for a piggyback do I can see what is going on. I jump onto his back and see Christina, Four, Shauna and Peter all stood stretching clothes between their arms and close to the ground, looking like they are trying to trap something but I can't see what it is. I try to get a better look and then it hits me. It's a crab. I hold in a laugh when I see what it is and how determined they all seem. They seem to be doing ok. Moving closer to the crab until it doesn't seem to know where to go. We all just watch in silence as they mutter things like, "we will get you" and "almost there" in serious, tired voices. They seem to have the upper hand over the crab until Peter tries to throw the t-shirt he is holding over it and it takes advantage of the gap and runs away before they can trap it. They all instantly sigh and Christina says,"Too early Peter! We talked about this!". Peter says nothing but still has a smug expression on his face. It is only now that Shauna turns and notices us.

"Oh, hey guys. Um how long have you been here?" She says, looking embarrassed.

"Since you started getting closer to the thing" Zeke tells her.

Four looks at us, exasperated.

"That was the third crab that ran away today! " He says, clearly irritated.

"There will be more" Tris says, trying to calm him down.

They also tell us that they have managed to get a lot more wood, catch 3 more fish and expand the tent by moving it to a different area in the trees where we can have a higher roof and the blankets can be fully stretched out.

We light a fire and exchange stories of crab catching and exploring caves whilst we eat a meal of fish and apples. As we're talking and laughing, I fill one of the empty backpacks with sand to make a kind of pillow. I put it behind my head and lye back in the tent and I keep thinking about how life on this island might not be so bad. But for now I stare at the stars ahead of me and let myself drift off to sleep.

A/N:Thanks for reading! Please review! I will try to update as soon as I can! :-)