After dinner, Four walks me back to the dorm and the other transfers still weren't back," Well night, I gotta find the other transfers," Four says rolling his eyes and walking back down the hallway. I spin on my heal and turn to my bed, I sigh and sit on the mattress before wondering what i'm wearing to bed. I sit up and look around the room wondering what is in the other basket across from the other girls one. I walk over and find it's the pj's. I find my size and get changed.
I can't tell how dark it is outside so I look to my watch, the only thing I kept from Amity, to see it's already 10:30 and Four hasn't came back with the other initiates so I figure I should go to bed.
I wake up a little while later to yelling and slamming in the hallway outside the dorm. I figure this happens every night in Dauntless so I try to go back to sleep but that's when the doors burst open and the three transfers come stumbling in. They look drunk and their yelling to talk to each other and I try to cover my ears to try to go back to sleep when they start shaking my bed and lift me out of it," Put me down!" I yell as the biggest Candor lifts me over his shoulder. " Quiet down Amity someone might hear you," He says not putting me down carrying my out of the sleeping area to the showers. " Put me down!" I yell elbowing his temple and he drops me. I freak as my head is going straight for the ground so I try to spin around making me land on my elbow. I yell in pain as I feel the bone crack but I force myself up and run out of the room.
I'm running down the hallway and I can hear their heavy steps right behind me. I'm not looking where i'm going and turning random corners when I run into someone that feels like a brick wall and I'm knocked to the ground. The shock from the fall is enough to make my arm feel like it's being put on fire. I scream out and hold my arm, I fall over to my side on my good arm and feel tears run down my face. " What the fuck?" The man says sounding familiar and I hear the footsteps coming closer.
I freak and try to stand up as they get closer only making my arm hurt even more. I start to fall again when the man picks me up," Who is chasing you?" The man asks and I try to answer but they round the corner right before I answer. The man looks at the three transfers in front of him," Are you the three missing transfers?" He asks," Skrew off and give us the girl," The biggest ones says. " What happened to her arm?" The man asks and I hear the tone of his voice changing to anger as they aren't answering his questions," Why you worried about it? Leave the girl and go back to where you came from, now," One of them answer and the man holding me puts me on the ground next to the wall.
I try to stand but I can't without my arm becoming worse than what it is, I see the man slowly back up with his hands in the air. I try to scoot after him as I hear the footsteps coming after me, I close my eyes as I expect them to grab me again but nothing comes. I open them to the sound of flesh hitting flesh and I see the man knocked out the biggest one and is working on the other two. As he dodges and moves out of the way of the hits with ease I get small glimpses of his face. Shaved hair on the sides of his head, the top of it is blonde, I see two shiny things above his eyebrow, the smirk that I saw earlier. Is that Eric? I start to watch the fight again and I see him getting tired of dodging so he hits the medium sized Candor in the jaw and he hits the floor. The small one runs away after the second one goes down.
I try to get up again and I work through the pain and manage to get to my feet. I start to walk the way I think the infirmary is as I hear him walking up behind me," Where are you going?" He asks sounding annoyed, now I definitely know it's Eric. I don't answer him so he walks next to me on my good side and walks me to the infirmary, we don't talk the entire walk down there until we get there. I walk towards the door but stop and turn back to him," Thanks," I say and walk through the doors.
The next morning in training I have a cast on my right arm as I walk thru the doors and the only one inside is the small Candor that ran away last night. Fou and Eric are standing in the middle of some sort of ring, I look over to the small Candor who is almost a foot taller than me. He looks over to me then at the cast and a shadow of a smile is on his face, Eric clears his throat making us both turn back to him," Since there was an incident last night with the two other transfers," Eric looks over to the other Candor," They won't be joining us today for training. And Amity's arm is broken so she can't run, shoot, throw, or fight so she can't participate in training until she is medically cleared," Eric says turning back to me. He looks at the cast then turns back to Four," But that doesn't mean ranking is going to change, even though we only have four transfers one will leave after the final test no matter what. Ana will not be ranked until she can participate but if she does well she will be ranked respectfully," Four says taking over.
Since I couldn't participate in training Four had me walk around the training room along the wall and watch as Eric "trains" the smallest Candor as I see him doing the battle rope exercise which I find hilarious. I see Four watching and he turns to look at me and gets an amused smile on his face as he tilts his head to indicate that he's talking about what Eric has the Candor doing. " Is that as fast as you can go? Pick it up initiate!," Eric yells as the Candor struggles to pick up the ropes. Eric turns to look at me and I turn away and keep walking my laps.
Once lunch time hits I have reached thirty laps around the giant room, and the Candor is dead on the ground in a pile of sweat panting like a dog," If you think that was hard wait til after lunch," Eric says walking past him. He kicks the Candors hand out of his way and walks past me, I get a smell of his cologne which smells woody but not too much to make it overpowering, it also smells slightly sweet. I watch the Dauntless leader walk out the door as Four taps my shoulder. I turn," I'll help you with your lunch," Four days and I follow him out of the training room.
We have a thing called pizza for lunch that day, but I also grab an apple with a small amount of carrots just in case Eric decides to take my food again. Four grabs my tray for me and we sit at the same table as yesterday, I see Eric walk into the room. I watch as he goes and grabs his own tray and leaves the room with it, a part of me feels discouraged that he left the room but I'm mostly happy. " What happened to your arm? And I know it has to do with the two Candors in the infirmary and that other one in the training room," Four asks as he takes a bit of his pizza? I think it's called pizza…" Um well long story short, the bigger one dropped me and I landed on my arm, I ran out of the dorms and then I don't know what happened to the two Candors but I find myself outside the infirmary and I get this fancy cast put on it," I say, telling most of the truth," Mhm, how about we try again and you tell me the whole truth?" He says looking over to me.
It seems Four is my only, dare I say it, friend I have here? Which is weird since we haven't even really talked about anything, we just kinda got along after the other three transfers left the dorm last night. I'm about to answer him when he looks down to his watch and he says it's time to go back to training. I sigh deeply and throw my tray away. I follow Four to the training room.
We enter the training room to see Eric ended lunch early for the Candor, FOur and me walk into the room to see Eric sprinting across the room and forcing the Candor to keep up. As Eric runsw I can see the determination to keep going faster and even though it looks like he is going as fast as he can, he manages to go faster. I find it amusing on how fast Eric is going compared to the Candor," Speed it up initiate!" Eric yells somehow in all one breath. As Eric runs by again I can see that he is enjoying this and he isn't even trying, the Candor is on the other side of the room by the time Eric reaches Four and I's side. Eric looks at me and gives me one of his smirks before he turns to run the other way," Let's go initiate! She can run this fast, I think you can!" Eric says and I blush. Four looks over to me with a questioning look, I turn and walk away before he can ask any questions.
They continue this for another five minutes before eric finally stops, the Candor goes to stop but eric tells him to keep going," Nope, you still have laps to do. I passed you five times, so go do ten laps," Eric says sending him away. Eric passes me to sit on the chair in the training room and AI see him only sweating a little bit and he is slightly out of breath," Speed it up!" He yells out and I see the Candor struggling but he speeds up anyways. I smile and watch him run his laps, when he finally finishes he collapses on the ground the same way he did after the ropes this morning. " What are you doing? Hurry up and get a drink we got more in about two minutes!" Eric yells as he stands from the chair and heads over to what looks like an area where you do pullups with the Candor not far behind him.
Eric has had the Candor doing pullups for twenty minutes now, once he can't do anymore he goes to the ground and does as many pushups as possible. I start to get bored so I try to speed up my walk some more which makes me do a slight jog but not enough to cause Four to yell at me. I want to speed up more but if I do I'll draw attention for going too fast," Are we almost done?" The Candor asks and Eric looks down at him," Are you serious? " Are we Done?!"" Mocks eric as he drags the Candor to the ring in the middle of the room," Get up!" Eric yells. The Candor struggles but manages to drag himself up enough to where he is barely standing on two feet. " If you can beat me, we'll be done. But if you can't, tomorrow is going to be twice as worse!" Eric says with a wicked smirk on his face. The Candor straightens himself up and fixes his stance the best he can since we haven't learned combat yet. Just before they start Four taps me on my shoulder and says the doctor wants to check up on my arm. I sigh looking forward to watching and follow Four out of the training room. As we're walking out of the room the last thing we hear is a fist hitting skin," Ow!" Yells the Candor as I hear him fall to the ground," Shut up and deal with it, there's more than that if you don't put up defence!" Yells Eric," Get up!"And the doors shut behind us.
My updates are probably going to start slowing down because I start school Tuesday, but I tried to make this one longer. How is it going so far? I would really like to know, so please review… All of the divergent series belongs to Veronica Roth.