Eric's arms wrap around my waist to steady me before I fall. I meet his gaze and he smirks at me.

"Watch where you're going initiate."

"Yeah, sorry. Thanks Eric." I go to move away but one of his arms is still around my waist so I raise my eyebrows as if to say, "what now?" He stares at me intently before he slowly removes his arm.

"Sorry, you're just so…different."

"Well the passage of time tends to change people."

"Indeed it does," he half smiles. "now get out. This is when I work out and I don't need any distractions."

I laugh and step around him to exit the room. I'm almost at the dining hall when I suddenly stop in my tracks.

Distraction?

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Once again I am the last initiate in the dining hall. I slid into a seat next to Mya, Justin wasn't there. Mya passes me a hamburger but I shake my head politely and grab an apple and some vegetables.

"Shelby, you like, barely eat, why?" Mya asks. I turn and reply, "Trust me I like food," Snickers are heard around the table, "I just don't eat meat is all." She nods in understanding and returns to her food.

Spencer, a boy who also transferred from Erudite nudges me with his elbow, "You have no idea what you're missing out on," he says with a smirk.

After I finish eating I head into the pit and go into one of the clothing shops. I only have two pairs of clothes and they're both dirty now. Some new ones would be nice. I look around and a woman with black hair and pink stripes in it walks up to me.

"Hey initiate, need help finding something?" She smiles.

"Yeah I just wanted to get some clothes for training and leisure activities."

The woman, whose name is Claire, leads me to a rack where I pick up two black pairs of pants and a few black tank tops. Claire also talks me into getting a black lace dress that cuts off at my knees. She smiles at me and takes some points off of my account in the computer.

I head back to the dorm and drop my stuff off. Justin is sitting on his bed tying his shoes when I walk in. I sit next to him.

"Hey you, where were you at?"

He looks up and around the room, his eyes scanning over Caleb and Sam before scowling. "I'll tell you later, let's get out of here."

"Cool, I was just about to head to the tattoo parlor, wanna come?"

Justin jumps to his feet and grins, "That is perfect." When we walk out of the dorm I turn my head towards him. "Okay, spill. Why'd you look so pissed at Caleb and Sam?" I question. He sighs and puts his arms behind his head. "They just…ugh! It's so petty. Caleb was just making comments about training today. He said that it's cute that I keep the same pace as my girlfriend, and he said some other things on the way to the dining hall. I swear I wanted to hit him, so I just went to the dorms."

It's then I realize how much I have been with Justin since coming to Dauntless. We've basically been together every minute so I see why people would think we're together. I lightly punch his shoulder. "It's okay Justin, they're just mad that they aren't as in as good of shape as we are," I put my arm around his shoulder, "Anyway, I don't think you're quite my type." I laugh. He smiles and we walk into the tattoo parlor.

"So Shelby, you going to get a tattoo, or a piercing?"

I look around at all the glass panels lining the walls covered in designs for tattoos. I'd love to get one, but I think I'll wait.

"I'm getting some piercings." A man with tattoos covering both his arms takes me into a back room. I get two piercings, one in my bottom lip and one in my nose. Both studs. After I'm all done I go into the room next to the one I was in where Justin was currently getting a wolf tattooed on his back. It wasn't that big, it took up about three quarters of his right shoulder blade.

"It looks good," I say. "Very Dauntless."

By the time we walk into the dorms I'm totally beat. I crawl into bed and I'm asleep as soon as my head touches my pillow.

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I wake up at about the same time I did yesterday and followed pretty much the same routine. Shower, get dressed, wake Justin up, get breakfast, and head to training room. When we walk in today Four and Eric are finishing loading guns that are on a table. Targets line the opposite side of the room. When the last initiate walks in Eric begins, "Today, if you haven't noticed, you will be learning how to assemble, load, and fire a gun." He showed us the easiest way to take apart and put the guns together which was simple enough.

"Now I'm going to demonstrate the proper was to fire a gun. Pay attention if you wish to do well." I studied his stance carefully. The distance he kept his feet apart, the way he kept his shoulders square with his hips. "Now go get a target and start shooting."

Justin and I walked to the targets furthest to the end. Me on Justin's Left, and Mya on his right. I practice my stance, becoming comfortable with it before I realize I'm the only initiate who hasn't shot yet. Down towards the opposite end of the row I see Eric and Four slowly walking down, observing the initiates. I turn towards my target.

Inhale, aim, exhale, fire. I repeat in my head. I shoot and my first shot makes it in the third circle from the center. I sigh and go again, repositioning my feet and shoulders. My second shot makes it in the second circle, one away from the center. "Ugh!" I let out in frustration. Suddenly I hear a quiet chuckle and turn to see Eric smirking at me.

"Having trouble initiate?" I'd say it was an honest question, but he asked it to spite me.

"Nope. Don't worry, I'll get it," I say back. Once again I turn toward my target. I hear heavy footsteps and an arm snakes around my waist. Eric turns my hips so they're perpendicular to my target. Then he kicks my feet apart a few inches. He steps forward and I can feel his breath on my ear, "I'm sure you will," he starts. He put his other hand on my shoulder. "Now shoot."

He steps back and I can still feel his body heat. I fire and this time I hit the center. I can't contain the grin that spreads across my face as I turn to Eric but something stops me. All the initiates were watching me. Some with shock, others with excitement, and some with envy. I was the only initiate, besides Justin and Caleb who had hit the center.

Eric's back to leaning against the wall, wearing his signature smirk and I smile a little. I mouth two words to him.

Thank you.

A/N- This chapter was really fun and easy for me to write. I love chapters like these! I think I'm going to make next chapter Eric's POV. And I want to play a game (Creepy smile) even though it's sort of just a guessing game. I want to see if anyone can guess my name and age. So leave a review and guess! That'd be nice. If you win I'll let you pick an event to happen in this story. I'll upload soon! :)