20th Chapter!
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Disclaimer (That I KEEP forgetting): I DEFINITELY do not own Divergent. No matter how much I wish that I could have thought of it, I will probably never be as talented as Veronica Roth.
Uriah POV~ OH YES! IT'S HAPPENING! This should be fun to write
"Uriah is da bomb!" I shouted as I jumped onto my board. My feet missed the grippy part of the board at the last second. Hmm... I thought I had that calculated perfectly. I tumbled off the side and flipped into the water.
I felt the waves from the water as a few more people jumped in. I decided to give them a bit of a scare. I swam deeper and sat on the bottom, holding my breath. How long do you it will take for them to notice that I'm gone? I began to hum the Little Einsteins theme song.
I've never been much of a swimmer. I can't hold my breath much longer. Who knows how long I've been down here. Could be anywhere from a few seconds to a minute. I opened my eyes and saw a figure that looked like Marlene a few feet away, I was still underwater. I swam over to her and grabbed her foot and began to yank on her leg. I could hear her screaming. I swam away and popped out from under the water.
"URIAH!" she shouted. Well... So much for being discreet. I saw my board floating away. Oh shoot. I have to go get that. The wind is blowing so much that I'm not sure I'll be able to reach it.
"Hey Four!" I shouted, he's a pretty good swimmer. He turned to look at me.
"Yep?"
"Can you help me reach my board? It's floating away."
"Really? That's what happens when you mess around! And, by the way, why are you still here? GO GET IT!" I began to swim, scared of what he would do if I didn't. A few seconds later I saw him swimming next to me, then ahead of me. Even though he was way behind me when I was talking at first. Ugh... Why does he have to be so strong?
He grabbed it and brought it back to me. I got on stood up, I was a little wobbly at first, but I eventually got it figured out. The other guys showed up at my side and we moved around in a little formation. Yeah... The girls scare me... The girls were doing the same thing. They were in a square with Marlene and Tris in the front and Christina and Shauna in the back. I ran my hands through my green hair. Suckers! I got the best color! Thanks Mar! Although Unicorn pink could be fun too. We saw that all the boats had cleared out of our cove, they must all be on a snack break. I only fell off once! And that was because I was messing around. I was lifting one foot up and down moving back and forth and the entire thing flipped over, then I reached over and grabbed onto Zeke to steady myself, unfortunately, he was NOT a solid, balanced object so we both fell into the water. He landed on top of me. We resurfaced and he gave me the death glare. I could see everyone else over the top of his head either covering their mouths with their hands or giggling to themselves.
I quickly got back up on the board and avoided Zeke's eyes that were burning a hole in my head. Apparently, he does not appreciate getting wet even though he is wearing swim trunks and we were in a lake for Pete's sake!
We kept paddling. I saw a frog up ahead.
"Look guys! It's a frog!"
"Uri... Sometimes I worry about you... That's a turtle!" Shauna said.
"What? Well too bad... I wanna say my joke anyway. What happens when a frog's car breaks down?"
"It gets toad away" Will said with a smirk.
"Hey! Since when do you have a sense of humor?" Christina asked.
"Uh... Since now!" Said Will.
We kept paddling until we reached the beach section in front of the forest. I saw a small fish in the middle of the lake, swimming all alone.
"Hey guys! What's the difference between a guitar and a fish?"
"Umm... No idea," said Marlene.
"You can't tuna fish!"
Everyone groaned, "Uriah, did you hit your head when you fell into the water?" Zeke asked.
"Nope! What makes you think that?" I asked innocently.
We got off the boards and walk up the sand. I love the feeling of sand beneath my toes. It feels like a bunch of little bugs walking around of my toes. I tried to explain that to Christina once… Let's just say that didn't go down very well.
"So… Are we going to take a walk or what?" Shauna asked.
"Yes! Let's go!" Zeke said, excited.
I led the way, skipping into the woods. I grabbed Marlene's hand and took her with me. I could see Zeke's eyes doing a 360 out of the corner of my eye.
I kept skipping forward until we turned a blind corner and I saw something really large and dark brown. It was about 20 feet away.
"Holy flaming, flying, fudge nuggets," I heard Zeke mumble behind me.
"Eeeeeeeek!" Someone was letting out a high pitched scream. I turned around to glare at them until I realized that it was me. Well… You can't blame me… I practically ran into a BEAR!
Marlene reached over and clamped her hand over my mouth. What do we do now? I'm pretty sure I learned about this in Boy Scouts. I turned around for help. Everyone looked just as scared as me… So it looks like I better start thinking.
"Guys! Get closer to me. If we stand close together we will look more intimidating. Stand tall," They did as I said.
"Okay, I'm going to whisper, take a step when I say so, but NOT a big step. Baby steps guys, baby steps."
"It's probably looking for food," Will said.
"If we just leave it alone we will be okay."
"Little step, little step, little step," I repeated for what seemed like an eternity.
We were now about 100 feet away from the bear.
"Almost good now guys, you can take larger steps now. Walk all the way back to the boards," I said. We walked until we could see the beach. Once we got back on the beach we all, without speaking, ran to the boards and got on them. We started paddling away and no one spoke until we were a good 100 feet into the lake.
Special thanks to a guest, Malaika, for that suggestion of the bear.
Who's on spring break? I'm on spring break!
I will probably update a few more times :-)
Any suggestions for what's next?
Should the guys blame the girls? Girls blame the guys? Should they act like nothing happened?
Any more suggestions for pranks?
And thanks to my awesome editor who will one day rule the world, FourFearsForever
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Any guesses on who wrote that?
R&R
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