Chapter 2:
TRIS POV:
By the time the bell, that tells us we need to be in class, rings I'm just walking through the door, and luckily everyone is standing in the front of the class ready to be seated. Mr. Eric walks in and I don't bother looking at my classmates because I'm sure they aren't noticing me so, what's the point. I stand patiently waiting for him to give us seats but when he see's that we are all standing in the front of the classroom he looks around confused.
"Why are you all standing? Is there something wrong with your seats?" He questions raising both of his eyebrow walking to his desk in the back of the classroom. The class doesn't say anything and we all sit where we want.
Luckily I get the the back corner seat just before another girl almost sat down in the seat I got, then I bend my head down into my folded arms. I listen as Mr. Eric announces that he wants students one by one to give the class their name. I will be going last of course so I leave my head down, blocking out the sound of voices until I hear people talking at the start of my row.
"Hi. I'm Cameron." One kid on the end says.
"Hello, I'm Kate." Another girl says and I lift up my head because the next person is the one next to me.
"I'm Four." Four says emotionlessly and that is the first time I've heard him speak. His voice is deep and has that male tone to it, and it's a little raspy but only to the point that makes it sexy as hell. I feel shivers go through my body as I think about his gorgeous eyes and his voice just brings it all together.
I can't believe I'm actually crushing on someone that, I am positive, would never like me back. Not to mention I met him today and don't know if he's a total dick yet, like most boys in my grade.
I stand up quietly and say, "Hey, my name is Tris," then I take my seat again and listen as the teacher drones on and on again about the procedures in the classroom. The class is about and hour and ten minutes long and my next class soon comes. I listen closely for the bell as the last minutes of class passes and the bell finally rings. I get up from my seat and quickly walk to my next study, Social Studies with Mrs. Hing.
As I walk in I notice Four following me close behind, and after about five minutes of waiting for the teacher everyone gets loud. Four soon turns around so that he's facing me and with his sexy voice he asks, "Do we have every class together?"
I smirk a little and say shyly, like I promised Chris I WOULDN'T do, "I don't know." I give him a small smile and look away trying not to get lost in his amazing, deep, ocean blue eyes.
Mrs. Hing then walks in and takes her seat in her desk, "You guys may sit where ever, I don't care, just...thank me first."
"Thank you Mrs. Hing." We all say totally off sink.
"Oh my god never call me that. My name is Mrs. Lauren to you." she states in a serious tone.
I sit in a corner again and this time I watch as Four comes and sits in the desk besides me, not fully looking in my direction. Class continues the way any will today, teachers going through the do's and dont's of the the classroom rules and procedures. That's mainly what I have to look forward to today. Halfway through the period I almost fall asleep and decide that my best option to stay awake is to take a bathroom break and rinse my face off. So I go, and as I leave the classroom I can feel the eyes, of Four, staring at me from behind.
Lunch is right after second period, but I stay back after the bell goes off, waiting for Four to leave, but he sticks around, pretending to pick up his books slowly and dropping his pencil. I roll my eyes and give up on waiting for him to leave first, so I grab my purse and push my way out the door. I hear his heavy footsteps clumping on the tile floor behind me, walking in the same direction as me. I begin to walk towards the girls bathroom in hopes to sit in silence and eat my lunch, like any loser would, but as I'm about to walk into the bathroom door I feel his big strong hands grab my arm, but gently for his size.
"Hey, why are you going in there?" He asks, letting my arm side away from his grasp, but I can still feel the ghost of his hand and shivers are sent up my back.
"What do you think? It's the bathroom." I say as bravely as I can without my voice wavering, but he looks me in the eyes causing my head to hang, being shy again, trying to hold eye contact.
"I think you already went to the bathroom. And I also think you are going in there for the remainder of lunch, which is for a another whole 45 minutes." Four explains, sighing as I nod my head slightly. "Well isn't Christina your friend? Why aren't you sitting with her?"
I think about my answer for a second, pondering if he would actually care to listen, and I decide against it, just a fast nod to the first question skipping over the second as I walk towards the lunch room, Four in tow. Soon he catches up to me and leads me to the lunch table, where he sits beside Zeke and on his other side is Uriah. I plop down next to Chris deciding not to eat my lunch, because the worst thing I could possibly do is look like a slob.
Chris looks at me and stares for a while and when I'm asked questions I manage a simple nod or shake of my head in yes and no, but nothing beyond that. Finally I feel Christina yank my arm up with her as she walks away from the group with no words as to why I'm being taken. We walk to a corner table nobody sits at and she takes a seat placing me across from her.
"What's the deal Tris? I tell you all about all my friends, they surely want to be friends with you and your not saying a word to any of them." She complains glaring at me. I take a deep breath, ready for the truth to flow from my mouth.
"Chris, I don't know how to act around people other than you and my family, who have all known me for a while. I don't know how I even got you to talk to me, let alone be friends with me. I don't fit in with your crowd, they are good looking and are all dating and play sports and so much more...I do nothing but sit around, not pretty, with no boyfriend to boost my confidence." I admit with my head hung just like when I was talking to Four.
She thinks about what I just said for a while, "You know, Four is single. See your not the only one, and I think most of us know that he is going to stay that way for a while. Sweetie you will get a boyfriend if you act like you want one, be outgoing and yourself, trust me all the boys will come running."
"What do you mean he's going to stay that way for a while?" I ask about Four, ignoring the part about me and my love life.
"Um...You know...he just, well he is hot and all but, we have constantly tried to get him to tell us the tiniest things about him, take his real name for example, we tried asking through truth or dare, through 20 questions, and many more coming out with nothing but that he likes to be called Four and nothing else. If he can't open up to us, he either will have to find a really patient girl or someone who makes him trust them right away." She explains thoroughly sighing at the end. I do to and she finally gazes back at me. "Please just be more happy."
"I guess." I mutter as she stands from the empty table both of us making our way back to the original. All eyes are on us, well all the eyes at our table, as we sit back down and the only person I seem to make eye contact with is Four, soon enough he looks down at his, now, empty tray.
I can't help but smirk a little bit, maybe he's shy around me too...then I shake my head releasing the thought. Like he would really actually be embarrassed to look at me. He's probably just bored.
Throughout the rest of lunch I am more social than previously, and before I know it I'm being invited to Zeke and Uriah's back to school party, which I guess almost everyone in the school is coming. It's this friday, and we continue to talk about how it's going to happen and what's going to be there, until the end of lunch. Apparently the 'Penrad brother's parties' are legendary.
The rest of my classes are all the same, walking into them with Four beside me, sitting in the back (Four following) and then listening to the teaches giving instructions. By the time it's last period, the only period I have with Christina, I want to skip school, but Christina and I have art today, Tori is the teacher for that class.
As soon as I walk in I realize I'm the first one in there, except for Tori herself. I plop myself down in the back row, saving the seat next to me for Christina, when Tori decides to ask me multiple questions.
"So Tris, I hear you've been doing really good at drawing recently. Is that true? Did you spend the whole summer with Christina?"
"I guess you could say I've gotten better at free hand drawings, and yes Christina and I are really close now." I smile at her and she smiles back. She doesn't talk anymore than that and we sit in an awkward silence until a few students come rushing in. Then more come, and more, and more, and just like always, just as the first bell for the last period rings, Christina is running through the door sliding smoothly into the seat next to me. She waves at me and then the Tori tells us about what's going to happen this year, painting, drawing, and projects.
"Alright class, I know it's the first week, but I want to see how good you guys are and see the things we need to work on, so I'm going to put you in groups of two and you will have to work, outside of class, on a drawing project. The drawing must contain, five symbols that you make up and mean something, and It must contain some type of background that is interesting." She explains and ideas begin to flow through my mind of different things I could do, and I'm silently praying that Chris will be my partner. "So the partners will be, Drake and Hayden, Samantha and Derek, Christina and Sydney, Lauren and Josh, Ryan and Hunter, Four and Tris…"
My head whips around, what?! When was he in this class!? Questions float around my head as my eyes try to find him. They land on the tall, muscular figure in the front of the room, who is currently turning around and looking for me. We make eye contact for a few seconds and I can feel the goosebumps rise on my arms as his deep blue eyes suck me in. I quickly look away and take a deep breath, this will be fun.
Forty-five more minutes of listening to Tori talk about our project and finally the last bell of the day, dismissing us, rings. I sigh in relief and quickly run to the front of the school where my brother should pick me up.
"Do you want to meet today, like right now? Or do you want to do the project some other way?" He asks startling me a little bit. I turn sideways to face him, my brother still no where in sight.
"Um...if you really want to get it over with we can do it today." I state and he nods his head. "Then is it at your house or mine?"
"Yours." He says back quickly and a little harsh. "I mean if thats alright...my house is...unavailable."
I silently wonder what he means by 'unavailable' but whatever it means he's insistent that it not be at his house. My eyes wander his body, for the fourth time today, as he looks out into the parking lot searching for his car. Four has obvious muscles that bulge through his t-shirt, and his face has it's own special features, like his lips, with a spare upper and full lower lip, also his nose is slightly hooked. It all works for him, they make him look tough and many other qualities.
"It's fine." I say shaking my head, looking for my brothers truck thats just now pulling up. "My house is available, but if you could, could you save me from a horrible ride with my brother and take me to my house, then you can come inside to to do the project."
"Sure, I'll save you from that horrible ride."
I roll my eyes and as Caleb pulls up I knock on the window, motioning with a finger to roll it down, and he does.
"I'm going to ride with Four home, okay?" I ask, saying it more like a statement than a question.
My brothers eyes study Four, glaring at him as he does his check. "Fine."
Mentally I'm glad and jumping with joy, but outside I just do a quick nod of my head and Caleb drives away, both me and Four wandering into the parking lot. I follow him and when he begins to get on a death trap I freeze.
"No way in hell am I getting on that." I say putting both my hands up slowly starting to back away.
Four smirks while looking down at the one helmet in his hands. "Do you want to get home or not?"
I murmur some cuss words as I swing my right leg around the motorcycle grabbing the helmet from Four's hands, that were out, handing it to me. He turns on the engine and I jump at the sound of the machine coming to life. Hesitantly I wrap my arms around his waist, the melting sensation happening all over again.
"Just don't kill me, okay?"
"Don't worry. That would be the last thing I would want to do to you."
With that he takes his foot of the road, backs out of the parking lot, and we're speeding to my house.
So this is the new chapter! Its really long chapter but I know it took a long time to update so I hope you liked it! And i like updates that are really long so...:) I hope you liked it and please review I love to read them! Review!
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