hey i am so sorry that it's been so long. My target is to post at least two chapters per month. Anyways on with the story...

Tris POV

i wake up to light streaming through the window. In a pool of my own blood. Now I remember what happened last night,

I clamber through the window; the door was locked again. I am about to flop down onto my bed when my door is swung open. There stands Caleb

"there you are you bitch!"

he punches me. Catches me off guard. I take a swing at him getting him right in the nose. I hear a satisfying crunch. Then he pulls out a knife.

coward.

then he stabs me in the side. Not hard enough to cause any serious enough damage or to make me bleed out just enough to make me feel pain. An artificial wound. He then starts to etch things into my skin. Patterns. A sick and twisted form of art. I'm screaming in pain.

I've never felt this amount of pain before and all I can think is that this has all just escalated. My parents and Caleb have never done anything physical before. Just enough to be classed as emotional abuse or neglect. I last about half an hour and then pass out due to pain.

I get up and look at myself in the mirror. Bruises on my face, arms and neck. I then look at the patterns that he etched into my skin on my arms and stomach. After I have taken a shower and brushed my teeth,i dress in jeans and a long sleeved top that shoes off my tattoo. I then put makeup on my face and blend it into my neck to hide the bruises.

I decide to leave my hair down though in hopes that it will further help to hide the damage. I slip on my shoes and a black hoodie as well as grabbing my bag. Before I leave the house I also snatch an apple to munch on whilst walking to school. Pain is all I feel as I walk. Pure pain.

Soon enough I arrive at school. I see the gang waiting at the entrance. I don't think they'll notice me as I have my hood up and everything. But Four does and points me out to the rest of them. They all look at me with worried expressions.

Shit they know something's up.

I still try to slip past them, but Zeke grabs my arm. I Yelp out in pain. Worried he lets go immediately. I take this opportunity to walk past them all and head to first lesson.

i get to art and sit at the back. It takes about five minutes for the rest of the class to get here. When my 'friends' walk into class they all sit in the row in front of me as there are no seats next to me. Which I made sure of. I know it was rude but I don't feel like talking today, not after last night. Once lesson starts and we are instructed to "draw something that represents an emotion.", Christina turns around to face me.

"Are you ok Tris? Look I get if you don't want to talk to us, especially me, but we are worried about you" I don't answer. "Please Tris..." She almost begs. I just go back to my work. She lets out a sigh of frustration.

"Fine, but you're still sitting with us at lunch. Plus I have all of the same lessons as you."

Then everyone else tries to get me to talk. Even Lynn! By the time Four tries I've had enough. "Will you all please just shut the hell up?!" I whisper shout. "It's not you guys I promise! Just some shit things happened last night and I do not want to talk about it and you are all just making it worse so will you do me a favour and stop?!"

I can't believe what I have just said. I might have just pushed away the little friends that I have.

-time skip-

I am on the bus on my way to the pit.

Today I didn't sit with any of my new 'friends' at lunch.

In fact I didn't sit with anybody.

i skipped lunch.

I just didn't want to face them. I mean I could get away with the not talking thing in class. But in a room full of people. No teachers. And no escape route without every person seeing and judging me. There was no easy I was going there.

in fact I don't know if i'm even going to school tomorrow.

I don't even know what I'm going to do now.

Hey I know it's short and I know that I keep saying that I will make them longer but I have had a lot on and now I can only update on my iPad which is not great for for some weird reason. But hopefully in a few months my laptop will be working again. Until then please review and watch out for the next chapter.