I go on to the Pit and meet up with Four. He greets me with a lovely, sweet kiss. I'm sure glad we don't have problems. Hopefully everything works out alright with Cole, Lynn, Christina, and Will. I do NOT want the Dauntless compound to turn into the Jersey Shore compound. I never liked drama. It was an act of selflessness in Abnegation. Just about everything was. Once, I even got in trouble for buying shoes. In my defense, my old ones were ugly and old and I had to get another pair! Hand in hand, I walk with Tobias to the Chasm. We lean on the rail, looking over the view of the crashing water. People would think we're crazy to love this view, but it's one more thing we have in common. We stay there for a bit before getting a bite to eat and returning to the Chasm. His watch beeps, and he claims he has to go. He leaves me with a goodbye kiss and goes on his way. I can't help but continue to stare over the view of the Chasm.
"What'cha doin'?" I flinch and almost fall over.
"Uriah! You almost literally scared me to death!"
"That's my job, sweetch – you know, I'm not gonna call people that anymore. I'm changed!"
"Oh, really?"
"Yes, really!"
"How have you changed?"
"No more dumb jokes!"
"Ah. So you'll give up pop tarts."
"NEVER!" He takes a pop tart out of the box in his back pocket and throws it at me like a ninja star. "MWUAHAHAHA!" He runs off, and I pick up the pop tart and chase after him, laughing. I lunge the pop tart at him and he dramatically pretends to get shot. "I've been paralyzed! From the waist down! Heeeelpp!" He uses his arms to crawl as fast as he can. That's when Caleb is standing there, lunging Uriah up, forcing him to stand. "Thank you good sir! But you've delayed my escape!" Before he can start running, I grab onto his shoulder and raise an eyebrow. Then I turn him around, throw the pop tart at him, then start to run, but realize by brother is here for Visiting Day.
"Caleb!" I run back over to him and give him a hug, and Uriah awkwardly invites himself into the hug. I laugh, but Caleb gives him an 'are you crazy' look. "Uriah!"
"What?" he says, munching on a pop tart. I'm pretty sure it's the one that fell on the floor.
"You almost escaped!"
"And I would've gotten away with it if it weren't for you meddling Stiffs!" I roll my eyes and introduce Caleb to Uriah and vice versa. "Hello, K."
"Don't call me that." Caleb says nonchalantly. He probably has that nickname in Erudite.
"And just why not?"
"Don't like it."
"Ah, but you see, my dear Kaykay, it is not about what you like!" Caleb says in a Yoda impersonation.
"Dude… You're not very funny."
"I know, right? I really have to work on my jokes. Or it's just your vibe affecting me." Even Caleb has to smirk at that as I laugh. I introduce Caleb to the rest of my friends, and leave Four for later. Uriah runs up after me breathless, wanting to say something.
"Tris.. I… Have better jokes now!"
"Oh yeah? Shoot."
"First one. That awkward moment when a GPS tells a gay guy to go straight!" I don't understand that one. "You don't get it? Oh right, you were Abnegation. When you're gay, you like someone of the same gender. The opposite of gay is straight." I feel dumb for not knowing that, but I laugh anyways. "Next one. What bees make milk?" I'm stumped about this one.
"Which ones?"
"BOO BEES!" He yells so loud I bet the whole Dauntless compound and then some heard him. I literally start rolling on the floor for two reasons. One being that the joke was funny, and the other being that he just yelled out "Boobies" in the middle of a crowd and now everyone is staring at him. "YOU HEARD ME! MOVE ALONG! Next one. Yo momma so ugly she makes blind children cry! Also, yo momma so –"
"Uri…. OK!..." I say between laughs. "Did you look these up?"
"Hail naw, I looked these down! Ok, forget that one. That was just… horrible. No, they're original!"
"Wow! That's really funny!" I could almost see a light bulb pop up above his head.
"I'll see ya later, Tris!" he says as he runs off to the dorms. I realize I haven't seen Lynn in a while, so I go over to her room. She isn't there. Neither is Marlene. I wonder if they went on a trip. That must be why they didn't come to Truth or Dare. I continue to patrol the hallway, looking into each dorm. I see Peter watching porn and Will laying face down on his pillow. I continue to my room and see Christina laying face up on her bed, hugging one of her pillows. I'll deal with her later. I continue to Uriah's room and see him violently typing on a computer. Also, I see Zeke playing on his PSP and Cole on his laptop, playing Minecraft. I continue to Lauren's room, where she and Shauna are arguing about something. I proceed to Four's room, where he's alone. He's always alone in there, since Zeke, for some reason, likes to sleep and hang out in Uriah's room. That's why they moved an extra bed in there. I enter Four's room and see him on the computer, playing around on Youtube. Right now he's watching Nyan Cat. I stealthily creep up on him and cover his eyes, spin his chair around, and kiss him.
"Is it Shauna?" he asks.
"Say WHAT?"
"Kidding." We both laugh and I uncover his eyes to kiss him again, then leave and check out Christina. Once I enter my room, I ask what's going on.
"Tris, what should I do? I'm probably going to break up with Will, by the way." That explains Will.
"Really? He seems bummed about that."
"Yeah yeah, but you know what he's done."
"True. Continue."
"Well, at the end of truth or dare Cole asked me if I love him. I said yes, and I asked him the same question. That's when he dropped out. He said he couldn't give me an answer."
"I think you should just accept that Cole is dating Lynn."
"I do! But it's just…"
"Christina, you know what to do."
"You're right. I do. Thanks Tris. Here." She opens up her Skype and shows me the conversation.
"Awww! That's sweet of him. I think if he weren't dating Lynn, he would definitely date you."
"Yeah, yeah. Move it along." I do as such and go over to Uriah's room next.
"What'cha doin', Uri?"
"You inspired me to do something no man has ever done in Dauntless before!"
"Which is…?"
"I'm going to do stand-up comedy!"
"You should totally do that."
"I know, right?"
"So Cole, what are you up to?"
"Nothing. I'm bored."
"Do you know where Lynn is?"
"In her room?"
"Uh, no. And Uriah, Marlene isn't there either." This gets their attention.
"Did they leave a note? They probably just went to see their parents or something."
"Not sure. We can check." All three of us go to their room and don't see any written response. But on Marlene's laptop we see a map of Chicago. And on the map, there is a path that starts at the Dauntless compound and ends at the fence.