Hi! My friends have been reminding me over and over again to update so this chapter came up a day early. Thanks to Maryam99, Alpha, Bella, Diverauntless4610 and everyone else for reviewing. A slice of dauntless cake for all if you come to visit. And without any more ado, we'll get on to the story!
Christina's POV
It spins and spins and spins and spins etc. Five minutes later it stops, landing on… me!
'Yay!' I think. "Truth or dare?" Uriah asks. I am not a wimp, and I want these Dauntless-borns to see it. Especially after I'd lost to Molly. So I say,
"Dare! Bring on your best Uriah." Uriah grins at me.
"I dare you to go and dramatically propose to Eric and let Tris record it. If he refuses to ask him why."
"WHAT!" I scream. "Why Eric of all people?!"
"Because it will be fun- are you too scared to do it?" He asks mischievously.
I glare at him. "Fine I'll do it, but you have to video."
So Uriah and I leave to find Eric. We find him in the pit. Inwardly, I am terrified. But I do my best to look calm on the outside. I walk up to Eric; go down on one knee and say,
"Eric my sweet-heart, from the moment I saw you I fell deeply in love with you." He gaped at me with an odd mixture of disbelief and fury. "While I was hanging over the chasm all I could see were your eyes that some may consider ugly but which I totally adore. All these days I've been waiting to tell you, I love you. Will you marry me?"
"WHAT?" Eric screams.
"Please?" I plead innocently.
"No! No! No! No! NO!" Eric yells jumping up and down, stomping his feet.
"Why?" I ask faking hurt. By now, a small crowd had gathered around us.
"BECAUSE I'M IN LOVE WITH MAX!" Whoa! I sure didn't expect that…
There is a pin drop silence. And then everyone goes "Ooooooh" together. Eric's face changes colour. First red. Then white. Then purple.
"YOU!" He screams turning to me. Uh oh.
"C'mon." I feel a tug on my hand Uriah and I race back to Zeke's apartment laughing.
"How much of that did you get on film?" I ask, when we pause for breath outside the door.
"All." Uriah smirks, opening the door. As we step in we are met with excited questions and exclamations.
"They're not dead!"
"How was it?"
"How'd he react?"
"One question at a time guys." I say "And as for how it went, why don't you'll watch Uriah's video." So we watch the clip. Uriah has recorded the entire thing on his smartphone. Eric's face is priceless!
"Post it on YouTube!" Marlene says, gasping for breath and giggling at the same time. Uriah does so as Tris gapes in admiration. Just then we hear a loud ponding on the door. "OPEN THIS DOOR! I know you are in there!" Uh oh...It's Eric. We look around wondering who should open it
"I'll do it." Four says finally. He opens the door. A panting, sweating, bull-like figure stands there. His eyes have a dangerous look about them.
"Eric.' Four says evenly. He really is brave. I think in admiration.
"Let me in Four. I know they're in there."
"Who?"
"That Christine girl and Uriah. Those two pipsqueaks made me the laughing stock of the entire faction!" Pipsqueaks! We are so not pipsqueaks!
"And all the other factions. You're on YouTube…" Uriah's voice floats out, slightly muffled by Marlene's hand. That boy seriously has a deathwish.
"AAURGH! I'm going to kill all of you!" He screams.
"No." Four says coolly. "But we're playing truth or dare. You can join, or get lost."
Eric sulks. "Fine." He says coming in.
Tris's POV
We all watch awkwardly as Eric comes and sits down, glaring daggers at Christina and Uriah. Honestly, I expected him to refuse to play. Four was really brave talking to Eric like that. I'm sure I could never do that. But then they had been initiates together… Anyway Four would make a great leader. He had told us that he didn't want that job on our first day, but I wondered what the reason was.
Eric's growl pulls me out of my thoughts. Christina has spun the bottle and it has landed on Eric. Uh oh…
"Um... truth or dare?" She squeaks nervously. Eric glares at her and chooses dare. "Um, I dare you to-" Christina seems to be fighting a battle within herself.
"Hurry up!" Marlene says.
"Okay, okay. I dare you to hang over the chasm for five minutes." She grins evilly. "My revenge."
"Fine, but no videoing!" Eric says.
We all trail after him towards the edge of the chasm. Four tries to help him but Eric brushes him off and hangs over the edge. His hands grip the railing so hard the knuckles are white.
1 minute later
"And he is still hanging on!" Uriah has taken on the role of an announcer. I miss the next bit of announcing as I think of how Christina hung on. Almost falling off… the next I hear is,
2 minutes later
"Eric holds on tightly. His dauntless side is very noticeable at this stage, but will his hands slip? Do you have any comments Eric?"
Eric growls. He can't say anything much. All his concentration is on holding onto the railing.
3 minutes later
His hands are wet by the spray and he is hanging on by his fingertips. Will he fall? I wonder. Uriah seems to be wondering the same thing, for he says,
"Hands wet by the spray, you're in a slippery position Eric. What d'you think folks? WILL HE FALL?"
No one answers, but I could hear Christina's thoughts as clear as if she was saying them aloud; slip, fall, die.
"Answer me people!" Uriah whines. "What do you think Tris?" He asks me. I consider the question. Sure, he deserved to suffer and I did hate him, but he was a human after all and I didn't think he should die. After all he had not been said to have killed anyone yet…
"I hope he doesn't die," I say and Christina gives me a look. All the others stare too. Four looks surprised but also satisfied. "But, it serves him right he got punished." There are some nods at this.
4 minutes later
By now no one is talking. Even Uriah is silent. I glance at him. He is taking pictures of Eric.
"What are you doing?" I hiss at him. Unfortunately my hiss is rather loud and everyone turns to look.
"He only said no videoing." Uriah says.
"You've gotten Tris's deathwish" Christina says.
"Doing crazy things is in my genes." Uriah says snapping another photo if Eric. "I was born that way."
"Hey guys," I say looking at my watch. The old watch is the only one of my Abnegation things I still had. "Five minutes are up."
We pull a trembling, angry Eric up. "You- you!" He starts to shout only to be interrupted by Peter who suddenly came running towards us. I stared at him with disgust. He was the one who had stabbed Edward in the eye with the butter knife. I still dreamt about that awful incident. Peter was one person I wouldn't mind killing.
"Um Eric," He says prodding him on the arm.
"What?" Eric snaps.
"Uh, Max asked you to come to his office." He says setting off a chorus on 'ooohs' that are cut short by a single angry glare.
"I hate all of you!" Eric says. Then he turns to Peter who is still here. "Well, you gave your message now get lost!"
"Also I wanted to say, you and Max make a cute couple." He says before darting off, leaving us all shocked.
"Well, I'll be going." Eric says uncertainly. He walks off unsteadily in the opposite direction.
"We should get back." Lynn says. I almost jump in surprise at the sound of her voice. I think this is the first time she's spoken. Her voice is not as deep as I would have thought. So we set off towards Zeke's apartment talking and laughing at the photos.
To be continued…
