Hey Guys! This chapter is longer one than usual. It should make up for chapter 3. (yes, I kept track) That's probably because I want the next chapter to be Truth or Dare and there's a lot I have to get in before that. Thanks to all who have already given me Truths/Dares but I am still taking more. Anyway, on with the chapter!
Disclaimer: I do not own divergent, Veronica Roth Does
Tris' POV
I woke up in the morning excited. I'm not sure why, Oh, I remember. I'm going to see Tobias. I hope his back is okay. I think I might like him. There is no way he likes me though. He was the one who on the first day treated me like I was someone who was going to never give up on becoming his boyfriend. I don't want a boyfriend that is only with me to look cool. I want one that likes me for me. The reason that I like Four is all because of his Tobias side. I think that he is more himself and a lot nicer. Maybe I can get Christina to help me. I will talk to her at school. I get out of my bed. I realized I have softball tryouts today! I am so excited, I love playing softball. I am on a travel team already there tryouts were right before school started and I heard back from them the day after the last tryout. I am going to be their pitcher and shortstop. I am left-handed, one of my biggest challenges has been proving to my coaches that lefties can play shortstop! (A/N I am doing this right now too!) Every single year that I have played softball, this year I have been playing since I was five. On my first travel team, 12U, I hit 6 homeruns in one season. That's when my number became six and also when I became six on the field. That really helped me because it got rid of my name, Beatrice. So once I became famous I didn't want to be known as Beatrice so six became my name all the time. Now I go by Tris. Everyone thinks it stands for Trisha, Patricia or something like that. I never bother to correct them. I took a very quick shower and brushed out my hair. I didn't bother to dry it, it was sunny outside and it could dry on it's own. I put on my jersey from last year, with the number six of course, baseball pants, socks, sliding shorts and put my hair in a ponytail. There are tryouts before school and after school. I ran downstairs to grab a muffin and headed out the door to walk to school.
I convinced Christina, Shauna, and Marlene to try out. Christina is trying out for second base, Shauna is trying out for center field and Marlene is trying out for 3rd base and she wants to be the back-up catcher. This should be good for me because Christina and I will probably work well together when communicating at shortstop and second and Marlene and I will work together well as a pitcher/catcher duo. By now I am at the end of our street. There is still another 15 minutes until I will make it to school. A car pulls up along side me. It looks like Four's. They slow down until they are going at the same speed that I am walking at. Yes, it's Four.
"Trissy!"
"Trissy? Really Tobias?"
"Yep," he said popping the "p"
"What do you want, Toby,"
"Toby?"
"If you can call me Trissy, then I can call you Toby," I state arms crossed.
"Whatever, do you want a ride?"
"No thanks, I'd rather walk,"
"Then I'll just drive as slowly as you are walking next to you. But, I'm warning you, you're going to be late for tryouts if you keep walking that slow."
"How do you know?"
"I'm going to the baseball tryouts," he says smirking.
"Oh, fine." I hopped in the car. I sat in the passenger seat and looked over at Four. "When did you become Mr. Nice guy instead of Mr. You only want to be my friend to be my girlfriend."
Keeping his eyes on the road he said, "When I realized you aren't like other girls."
I remembered that he said he played baseball, "What position are you trying out for?" I asked.
"Catcher, you?"
"I am trying out for shortstop and pitcher." I smiled, "I am going to go out on a limb here and ask if your number is four, is it Toby?'
"Yes, I got the nickname when I hit four homeruns in my first season, 12U." I almost fell out of my seat laughing."What? What did I say?"
"My numbers 6, I picked it when I hit six homeruns my first season, in 12U." His eyes almost popped out of his head.
"That was you!" he exclaimed.
"What?"
"At the end of my season, my coach told me that I held the record for the most homeruns. Then he got back to me and said that a girl in California had hit six. Even though it wasn't the record, it was the second best and so that nickname stuck." He became really quiet then and said, "You should tell the gang, they'll be shocked."
"The only problem is that then I will have to tell them that I'm Beatrice Prior."
"Oh, that's a problem. You know, I've heard that Zeke is going to play Truth or Dare at his party. Maybe I can give you a truth at the beginning to tell everyone. I can ask Zeke to go first."
"That's a pretty good idea. As long as all the people in the room are the people in our group."
"Yeah, he kicks anyone out that's not in the group."
"Great, that's what we'll do." I said, my feelings a mix of nerves and excitement for that moment tomorrow.
"Oh and Tris, do you want to come train with me after school, for baseball or softball?"
"Sure, that sounds fun." I said trying not sound too overeager, but I mean who's not going to be excited to have some time with their crush doing one of their favorite activities.
"Okay, that's awesome because I've never been able to train with anyone because I'm too serious about it, I think that you maybe the perfect person to train with. I'll pick you up schooll? We can go for a run and then head to the indoor practice place over at the dome."
"That sounds awesome," I said, impressed that that was his training schedule.
He pulled into the parking lot and said, "Good luck with tryouts, see you in Spanish."
I grabbed my bag and jumped out of the car. I shouted, "You to! Bye!" over my shoulder. I ran to the field where the girls were trying out. I still had ten minutes before tryouts began. I found Christina, Marlene and Shauna were standing. I walked and said, "Christina, can I talk to you in private for a minute?"
"Sure," we walked away from Shauna and Marlene and under a tree.
"I need help," I said, "I have a crush on Four,"
Her eyes widened, "Oh no, he never goes out with anyone and rejects every girl. Lauren, was in our friend group before. She asked Four out and he said no. Then Four got really mad. She practically got kicked out of our group." She paused for a second, "He was so mean to you before, why do you like him now?"
"I had to work on a project with him, I saw a completely different side of him then I was introduced to last night."
"Well, Zeke does have a Truth or Dare party tomorrow, I can try to help you then. Try to get some time alone with him before that."
"Well, I am training with him after school. Would that count?"
"Wait. He's training with you?"
"Yeah, what about it?''
"Four never trains with anyone! Even guys!"
"Well, what he told me this morning in his car was that I seemed like the type of person that takes it seriously enough to train with him."
"One, how does he know and two you were in his car?"
"Yes, he picked me up this morning when he drove by. And to answer your other question you will find out tomorrow."
"Your situation is sounding better and better by the minute." After she said that the coach blew his whistle for the start of practice.
"C'mon girls! Since the girls coach, Tori, is sick today, you will be having a joint tryout. All the pitchers and catchers over here now. Everyone else head over to the girl's assistant coach, Alex," Tobias, Marlene and I walked over to Coach Amar. "Are any of you trying out for another position on the field also?" Only Marlene and I raised our hands. "What is it,"
I said, "Shortstop."
She said, "3rd base."
Coach Amar then asked, "Will you be attending the tryouts after school also?"
"Yes," we said in unison.
"Good, this tryout you will be trying out for Pitcher and then after school you will tryout for you field position." He turned back to the rest of the pitchers and catchers. Pair up with a catcher. Tobias went to catch for Uriah and I went to pitch to Marlene, even though she just trying out to be the back-up catcher. I completed my warm-up, then when it was my turn to pitch in front of Coach Amar I through my fastball, change-up, drop ball, and rise ball. I had to hit the corners, high and low, pretty accurately for every pitch. My fastball was coming in 58 MPH. I have a feeling that Marlene and I will both make it as pitcher and catcher if we do at least average for the rest of the tryouts. I glanced at Tobias and saw him staring at me too. It was pretty funny because he was staring at me at the same time that Uriah was pitching. He almost got nailed in the face. Lucky for him he has fast reflexes so he saved his face. I smirked at him, made sure he saw it and then went back to pitching.
Four POV (Sorry I won't do this very often. I just felt like I had to put it in)
I was watching Tris pitch for a while. She was really fast and consistent. I got lost in watching her pitch. The fast softball pitchers always confuse me with their motion. Many boys don't have any respect for softball pitchers, but you have to respect that windup when you see it. She finished pitching in front of Coach Amar. She's definetly going to be one of the top pitchers for the girl's team. Marlene too for that matter. She looked over at me and our eyes met. Suddenly her eyes flickered to Uriah and a scared look crossed her face. I glanced over and saw Uriah's pitch flying at my face. I quickly moved my glove up just in time to avoid getting hit in the face with the ball. I glanced back to Tris and saw her smirking. I felt color rising to my cheeks. My eyes flickered back to Uriah. He was walking to me.
"Dude, you gotta stop staring at Tris. Do you have a crush on her or something?"
"Like you weren't staring at Marlene."
"You're avoiding the question. You like her!"
"Maybe I do, just pitch." He walked back to the mound and began throwing again. As soon as Coach Amar finished with the last softball pitcher he came over to Uriah and I.
Tris POV
I saw Uriah go up to Toby and say something that made him mad and embarrassed. He blushed deeply and walked away from them talking. I watched Uriah pitch to Tobias. Tobias is one of the best catchers here. I've always had a special respect for catchers. It's the one position I have never played. I never like catching. It wasn't much fun for me, so I just tell my coaches that that's the one position. I absolutely refuse to play. I watch him and Uriah tryout and am sure that they will both make it as the main pitchers and catchers. Before I knew it tryouts were over.
The rest of the day passed uneventfully, unless you count Uriah dumping chocolate milk on Zeke's head interesting. (It was hilarious)
Then I went to the tryouts after school. We got 5 strikes in batting practice. I hit three homeruns, Four only hit two. Ha! I'm going to get to rub that in his face later. You did have to feel bad for Shauna and Will though. Shauna had Four hit those two homeruns over her in left and Will had me hit two over him in center and one over the right fielder, whom I don't know. Then I played shortstop. I had no errors and did really well, I think. After the tryouts, Coach Amar told us that we would all be able to see if we made the team in our Gym period. Great! That means everyone in our group will find out at the same time.
I waited for the boys outside of the changing room with the girls. All the boys walked up to their girlfriends, or obvious crushes, (In Uriah's and Marlene's case) Four walked up to me. We walked out to his car. He drives over to the dome. We sit in silence, but comfortable silence. We arrive and he parks in the parking lot. We get out and run around the neighborhood that the indoor practice is located in. The run takes about fifteen minutes. When we come back we do some quick batting practice. That didn't take long because we basically had a homerun derby in this dome. Some of the people that worked there were getting really tired of our ongoing competition. So we decided to move on to fielding. First, I stood at shortstop and he hit grounders, line drives and pop-ups to me. He was making me work really hard. When I was out of breath, we switched positions. I tried very hard to get him to miss it but he was doing really good making my task almost impossible. Finally, we agreed to do some pitching. I would pitch to him and he would catch for me.
He said, "Wow! I knew you threw fast, but I think you might be really close to Uriah. And he's the fastest pitcher on the baseball team. He also gets the advantage of throwing overhand rather than of underhand.
I was shocked that he said that, "Thanks! Most guys don't compliment girls because they think they are better than them."
"Well, you would notice I am not like most boys."
When we finished up he drove me home and I went inside. I checked my phone and saw I had a text from Christina.
C- Girl! Get over here and we are going to get you clothes for tomorrow. You have to look good for Four. All the girls are going to go shopping at 5:00. I glanced at the clock on my phone. I had fifteen minutes to get over to there and go shopping with them. So basically an hour of torture.
When I arrived at Christina's house the girls were just leaving.
Time skip to end of shopping.
That was so tiring. The shopping seemed like it would never end. I finally returned to my house 2 hours later. I just collapsed on my bed and fell asleep.
The next day I went to school. I was so excited to find out if my friends and I made the team. I got another ride from Four. I have a feeling it's going to become a regular thing now.
Time skip to Gym
I walked out of the changing room with Shauna, Marlene and Christina. We met the boys and ran over to the team lists. I scanned the girls list, finding my name next to pitcher and shortstop, Shauna's next to center, Marlene's next to third and backup catcher and finally Christina's next to second. I smiled and turned around to all the girls with faces as happy and excited as mine. We met up with the boys who had all made the team too. All the girls hugged their boyfriends/obvious crushes. I just high-fived Four.
Time Skip to Party
I walked in the door of the house with Shauna, Marlene and Christina. Zeke opened the door and let us in. The smell of alcohol hit us, None of our friends will be having any, if we intend to stay on the team. All the girls went up to there boyfriends. I walked up to Tobias.
"You look good Tris,"
"How many drinks have you had?"
He smiled sheepishly, "None,''
I blushed and looked down. "Thanks," I mumbled. I looked around and noticed all our friends were dancing too.
Apparently, he did too because he said, "Beatrice Prior, may I please have this dance?"
"Sure," I said. I pulled him onto the dance floor just as the song A Thousand Years came on. We danced to it and then sat back down and talked while watching other people make a fool of themselves.
After and hour of observing and talking, Zeke stood up on a chair and shouted, "If your name is not Shauna, Uriah, Marlene, Will, Christina, Four or Tris, get out!" Everyone filed out except for our group. Zeke clapped his hands together and said, "Truth or Dare time everyone!"
Oh yeah! Truth or Dare next chapter! I can't wait to start writing it! I am still open to accepting more Truths/Dares. I'm happy that I could put some Four/Tris moments in their. (The dancing and training) I am so excited to get them together. They will most likely get together next chapter. Review with suggestions. Thanks to my editor HazelandAugustusForever you do not have to read not proofed writing. :-) This chapter is just over 3,000 words so you all get a really loooongg chapter today. I apologize for all the time skips, but I didn't want too much extra stuff. I apologize if you don't like softball and had to read this, R&R
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