I entered through the door into Victor and I's small apartment. I strided past the small kitchen area and TV, all the way up the stairs to the balcony overlooking the table. I fell back onto my twin bed and sighed. Victor was rarely ever home. At 14 he started getting into girls and by 15 rarely spent time at home and I often times catch myself wondering what life would be like if all this didn't happen. I quickly shake it away though, thoughts like that are too sappy for Dauntless.
I shook all thoughts of Rachel out of my head and went back down the stairs and heated up some water on the stove.
The lock started jiggling and Victor, my 18 year old brother, stepped into the room.
"Hey there Antoine," he smirked as I dropped two hotdogs into the boiling water.
"Don't call me that," I replied through gritted teeth my eyes meeting his in an icy glare.
"Fine then Toni what are you going to do stuff me in your hotdog water?" he laughed he always made fun of me for cooking but how the hell else are we supposed to eat?
He just continued laughing flipping his shaggy blonde hair out of his face. We didn't look very much alike but we both had deep blue eyes. It's Victor way of making girls fall for him, he gives them a look and their heart is a puddle. Yet, Victor is tan and blonde, whereas I am pale with almost black buzz cut hair, a few faint freckles dotting along my cheeks and nose.
"Where were you?" I asked my brother he was gone for 2 days and I wondered who he was with.
"Well," Victor started, "I went to Abnegation and met this gorgeous redhead."
"Abnegation!?" I asked aghast.
"That is what I said; her name is ah, oh wait, crap, Lila? Lily? Lexi!" he replied trying to remember the girls name.
"She's going against all of her Stiff values and worse of all it's for a scumbag like you," I spoke shaking my head.
"Ahh see I'm not a scumbag I-" He replied.
I cut him off before he could continue, "Yes you are."
"No I just like my girls," He laughed winking as I handed him a hotdog in a bun I wished was poisoned.
"Same thing, just a scum to me," I spat back, taking a bite of my meal.
Victor rolled his eyes in response smiling an annoyingly confident smile.
"Okay then Casanova," I said coolly ending the argument so that we could eat without further irritation.
When Victor was done eating he spoke again, "Alright, I'm going to go see what's up in Candor."
"Her name's Liz," I sighed it was quite pitiful that I had to remember the names of my brother's girls.
"Thanks bro!" He laughed and left unaware as my eyes bore a glare at his back.
Knowing he wouldn't be coming back tonight I turned on the TV flipping through channels until the drone of the audio lulled me finally to sleep.