Chapter 8

Tris POV

Marlene and I shop till we drop. And then we give our bags to Peter and continue to shop some more. I even made Peter pay for most of it. Eventually we decided that we have enough new clothes to last us about three years.

Peter drives us back to Dauntless University in his car, which is now full of shopping bags. I look at him while he drives and feel a flash of sympathy. Then I remember what he's doing "secretly". Yeah, he deserves this. Or maybe he doesn't and I'm just an extremely cruel person. I'm fine either way.

We get back to DU and I give Peter a quick peck I the cheek before racing off towards our dorm room with Marlene. When we open the door Oz and Christina are there both doing different things. Oz is sitting with a laptop on her lap and apparently playing a video game while Christina is failing at cooking something in our mini kitchen. Which is pretty sad considering our mini kitchen consists of a cabinet, a microwave, and a coffee machine. (AN: I'm sure there's an actual name for those coffee machine things but I don't have enough energy to open a tab and search what it's called. Deal with it.)

"We're back!" I shout. Christina stays where she is, next to the smoking bowl of something.

"Did you get anything cute?" Christina shouts back. I don't know why we are pretending that we have to shout through a whole house when really or dorm is about the size of a bedroom.

Oz doesn't seem to notice us at all. I go over to her and snap in her face a few times. She just bats my hand away. I look at Christina. She shrugs.

"She claims she has used up all her functioning in society hours. Then she started playing minecraft. Hasn't said two words since." Christina says. (AN: MINECRAFT! Letting me be antisocial since whenever I started playing!)

Oz suddenly shuts her laptop. This startles everyone. She turns to us in robotic way.

"I'm going to bed." I didn't notice that it was 10:30 already. It's still not too late but I'm feeling tired.

"I agree." Christina says through a yawn.

"Count me in." Marlene says.

"I'm exhausted." I say, catching Chrissy's yawn.

We all climb in our own beds and eventually drift off one by one. I fall asleep second last of all of us.

Goodnight.

Oz POV:

I wake up at around midnight. I see Tris drift off. Once I'm sure she's asleep I get out of bed. A night walk will put me back to sleep.

I wander through endless corridors. There is always somewhere to turn. Sometimes there's a fork in the road. The first door to the outer world I see I go through. That was worded quite strangely. That makes sense considering I'm half asleep.

The night air is cool on my skin, making me shiver. I get goosebumps, but I enjoy being out here. I hug myself while walking through this little garden. I sit on a bench, thinking I'm alone. Unfortunately, I was wrong. Oh how I wish I was alone.

A figure joins me on the bench.

"Hey, Sugar Toots," he says. My god, he just keeps getting more and more obnoxious.

"Hey, Cow," I say in a dull voice. I turn to face him.

"Why are you out here at such a late time of night?" he asks.

"I couldn't sleep. You?" I ask.

"I couldn't sleep?" he says.

"Why? Ex girlfriends chasing you through your nightmares?" He chuckles a little at this.

"Yeah. They're all screaming at me for cheating." Now I'm laughing.

"So you're a cheater?" I ask.

"I'm not proud of it but I couldn't really care less, you know?"

"I guess I sort of understand. You still shouldn't cheat on girls. I'm sure if you maybe gave them chances you might like them. Some of them are wonderful people. Like Tris." I say.

"Others are -What did you say?- girls who starve themselves because they're insecure." he says while grinning. I grin too.

"Yup."

We must sit out there for an hour. We don't do much, just small talk. Maybe he's flirting with me, maybe I'm flirting back. I'm only a quarter awake so I have no clue. I'm the first to retreat to me dorm, leaving Peter out there all by himself.

I return to our dorm and fall on my bed with out a second thought.

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I wake up in the morning at half past nine. The first thing my brain registers is the smell of smoke. Christina must be cooking. I see Marlene and Tris in cute outfits. They must have gotten them yesterday with Peter.

Peter.

I can hardly remember our conversation last night. Something about ex's and cheating. Maybe a little flirting. Whatever. No harm done. I think. But then again, not remembering it is never a good sign.

I should be more concerned about this subject but I smell toast. It may be black, burnt, crumbling toast, but toast is still toast. And I'm hungry. I rip a piece out of Chrissy's hands.

Mmm, black toast.

I DID IT! I ALSO WROTE A REALLY EMOTIONAL CUPIDS TROUBLES CHAPTER! I haven't updated that yet though. Whatever, I wrote it.

HAPPY FOURTH OF JULY! I SKIPPING SWIM TEAM TODAY! HAHA MOM! I BEAT YOU AT YOUR OWN GAME! Oh, and if you're not from America HAPPY JUST ANOTHER DAY! :)

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