"Ok… What is your real name?"
Four takes his jacket off.
"Really?" says Uriah.
"Yes, really."
"Now, to continue the game… Zeke."
"DAUNTLESS!"
"Ok… Um… You will tell me how many people have you got in your phone book, and then, I will tell you a number between one and the number of people you have saved in your phone book, and you will call the person under that number and tell them that you are in love with them and keep the conversation long, blabber nonsense, try to be romantic. Oh, and you have to call the person even if he's a dude."
"Ok, cool!" Zeke agrees immediately.
"How many contacts do you have?" Four asks.
Zeke grabs his phone and answers "27."
"That's a lot! Anyways, let's say… 6!" he looks at Tris who smiles a little.
"Ok… shit, that's Edward! Well, I guess he'll just get another prank phone call!"
"Wait – Edward? Edward the initiate? You have his number?" Christina asks.
"Yes, yes I do. I have, like, everybody's number!"
Zeke calls Edward. The phone rings for some time.
"Hello?" Edward finally picks up the phone.
"Hello? Edward? Yes, hi, it's Zeke. Listen, I'm calling to tell you something that I wanted to say a long time ago but never had the courage. And if I don't say it now, I'll go crazy because of all these feelings I'm keeping inside. Here goes… Edward I am in love with you!" Zeke yells and the others quietly laugh.
"I am in love with you! I always have been and I always will be! There! I said it! And, Edward, oh, Edward, please tell me you feel the same because your love means all to me, your love is my life and if you say you don't love me you'll break me to pieces because... what I feel for you is a feeling that happens once in a million years, it's something extraordinary, it's love like god intended it to be! Heavens know it, I know it, so please, take me!" Zeke dramatically finishes off and ends the phone call. When he does, everybody is rolling on the floor and laughing.
Then, somebody knocks on the door.
"I'll get it!" Zeke says. He sees Edward.
"Zeke, what was… are you guys playing truth or dare?" he asks.
"Yeah, wanna join?"
"Sure!" Edward sits down and so they continue the game. "I'm guessing it was Zeke's turn now, right?"
"Yes. And now it'll be yours. Eddie, m'man- Candor or Dauntless?"
"Dauntless!"
"Ok… I dare you to belly dance through the entire Hips Don't Lie!"
"What's 'Hips Don't Lie'?"
"An old song. Doesn't matter. Just belly dance!"
"Alright, here we go!"
Zeke puts on Hips Don't Lie and Edward starts awkwardly twisting his stomach and shaking his hips. Everyone giggles at the ridiculous scene. But Edward seems to be really getting into the groove! His belly dancing improves by the time he gets to the bridge. He finishes off graciously, with a bow. Everybody applauds and laughs. Well, not Peter and Eric, of course.
"Wow, belly dancing is fun! I think this is not the last time you will see me dance!"
"Oh, Edward the belly dancer! That's new," Tris comments.
"Yes. And now it's my turn, right? Let's see… Tris!"
"Me!"
"Yes, you. Candor or Dauntless?"
"Hmm… Dauntless!"
"Kiss the guy you'd most like to date from this room!"
Tris blushes a little and looks at Four. She raises her eyebrow, questionably. He seems to nod a little. She walks over to him and kisses him, maybe a bit too long for a dare.
"Are we missing something, Tris?" Christina asks after Tris returns to her seat.
"I don't know!" Tris smiles and shrugs.
"One of you better pick Candor soon!"
"Maybe we will! Anyway, Will- you know the question!"
"DAUNTLESS!"
"So many Dauntlesses! When will somebody pick Candor? I'm running out of dares here!"
"Come on, Tris! You can find something!"
"Ok, ok! I got it! Pretend to be a werewolf and howl- pretend to have a transformation… in the Pit!"
"You couldn't just stop at the transformation?"
"No. Also, our camera crew- that's you Shauna- will video record!"
"Yes! Camera crew Shauna got a job!" Shauna exclaims and gets up. "Come on, Willy, let's go!"
They get to the Pit and Will pretends to look at the moon. He looks at his hands as if claws were coming out of them. "I'M CHANGING!" he yells theatrically and falls to the ground. He starts screaming and howling, while everyone in the Pit looks at him like he's wacko. Shauna steps closer to him and zooms in the camera.
"No! Step aside, fool! You are in grave danger, girl- I AM A WEREWOLF!"
Shauna giggles and obeys.
"I… I am not changing… I am dying! NO! MY WEREWOLF POWERS!" Will says and drops to the ground. "Shh, Shauna! Shauna!"
"What?"
"Pretend to drag me out of the Pit, so it looks believable!"
Shauna grabs Will's arms and drags him into the apartment.
"What is going on?" Zeke asks.
"He wanted to finish the scene properly so… You know what, just watch the video!" Shauna says and gives him the camera.
"Here she is! You better take her home and not let her near any drugs!" suddenly, Max enters the apartment with Grace. He leaves slamming the door behind him.
"What happened?!" Martine runs over to Grace.
"Nothing. I told the nurse we were playing Candor or Dauntless, but Max was still convinced I was drugged and that I got some sort of a medicine."
"Idiot."
"So what happened?"
"Well, so far Four didn't want to tell us his name, Zeke told Edward he loves him, Edward joined us and belly danced, Tris kissed Four and Will pretended to be a werewolf," says Christina.
"And I missed all of that!"
"Well, my turn now- right? Al- C or D?" Will continues.
"Candor."
"If you could switch factions, which faction would you move to?"
"Not Candor… Not Erudite, not Abnegation…"
"So you'd be Amity?" Grace asks.
"Apparently I'd be Amity, yes. But I'm not sure."
"Choose!"
"Fine, I'd be Amity."
"PANSYCAKE!" yells Uriah.
"Would you cut it out?" asks Will.
"Are we ever going to finish this game? I want to see some challenging dares! I want to see someone win!" Uriah says.
"That'll be me," says Zeke.
"I don't think so!"
"Stop it, you two! Eric, Candor or Dauntless?"
"Dauntless."
"Go to the infirmary and convince a doctor you can't hear a thing!"
"Really?"
"Come on, it'll be fun! And I'll witness since it was my dare!" Al says getting up.
"Wait! Don't forget to video record!" Marlene says handing Al a mini camera.
So Al and Eric head to the infirmary and Al hides behind a corner and starts recording.
"Doctor! Doctor! Help me! I can't hear a thing, doctor, help!" Eric sounds unconvincing.
"You really can't hear anything?" the doctor asks, looking concerned.
"What was that?" Eric asks, still sounding unconvincing.
"Oh my! Quick, come to my office here, EXCUSE ME! DEAF MAN COMING TROUGH!" the doctor says grabbing Eric's arm. Al returns to the apartment since he figured out Eric was gonna be stuck at the infirmary for a while.
"Guys, the doctor actually bought it, Eric is now at his office, probably still pretending he is deaf."
"Oh my!" Tris says.
"Well, I think we should continue without him. We do that everytime somebody gets stuck at the infirmary which weirdly enough happens a lot." Says Al.
"Who wants to continue?"
"I do!" says Lauren.
"Lynn! Candor or Dauntless?"
"Obviously Dauntless!"
"I dare you to stuff a whole bag of potato chips in your mouth!"
"I'll try, but I don't think it's really possible!"
Lynn goes to the kitchen and returns with a bag of potato chips. She starts stuffing them in her mouth but she can't put all of them in her mouth so she puts her shirt off.
"All right who should I-" Lynn starts talking, but is distracted when Eric bursts into the apartment.
"Quick! Quick! Help me find something to hold the door!" Eric starts panicking.
"He found out you weren't really deaf, right?" Al smiles.
"Yes, and now he is chasing me around the Dauntless compound with a knife."
"I'll handle this." Says Zeke getting up.
He's not back for a while.
"What is taking Zeke so long?" says Lynn.
"Oh no! What if the doctor got him?" says Marlene.
"Don't be ridiculous!"
"But Lynn what if it's true?"
"Yes Marlene, it's true. Zeke was murdered by a doctor, because that's such a common way of dying, and totally realistic, too!" Lynn says sarcastically.
Then, Zeke comes in.
"Where the hell have you been for such a long time?" Shauna asks.
"Well I couldn't find the doctor at first but when I did I told him it was just an innocent Candor or Dauntless game and he understood."
"I'm so glad you're alive!" Marlene says.
"Wait- you actually thought the doctor was trying to murder me? Come on! Who on Earth would do that!?"
Marlene shrugs.
"Told ya!" says Lynn.
"So are we gonna get back to the game or what?" says Uriah.
"Ok so it was my turn... Four! Candor or Dauntless?"
"Candor"
"Do you sing when you're in the shower and if you do, which song do you sing?"
"Do I have to?"
"Yes! YES! Answer! WE WANNA KNOW!" Uriah laughs.
"Fine… I sing… No, sorry, I can't do it."
"Do it! Do it!" suddenly, everybody is cheering.
"OK! Ok… Here goes… I sing… Fancy."
"NO! Really? Fancy? By Iggy? I would have NEVER guessed!" Uriah seems amazed.
"SHHH! Don't talk too loud, I don't want the whole Dauntless compound to hear you!"
"Well, you don't, but I do!" Everybody laughs.
"STOP IT! It's my turn now… Christina, Candor or Dauntless?"
"Candor."
"What is your worst fear?"
Christina takes her shirt off.
"Tris! Candor or Dauntless?"
"Dauntless!"
"Get in the shower with all your clothes on!"
Tris gets up and walks into the shower with all her clothes on like it's the most natural thing in the world. She comes out, soaking wet, and Uriah gets her a towel.
"Well that was fun!" she laughs.
"Anyways… Shauna, C or D?"
"Dauntless!"
"Hmm… Stick a pillow up your shirt, go out to the Pit and yell "The baby's coming!" and similar nonsense."
"Ok."
Shauna and Tris head to the Pit where Tris pulls out a camera.
And Shauna starts screaming "The baby is coming! THE BABY IS COMING!"
"I'm going into labor, please, help!" she screams so everybody can hear her. She acts like she's in pain and she's quite believable. "Can somebody PLEASE take me to the hospital?!"
"OK, Shauna, I think that'll do!" Tris says and giggles.
Shauna gives her a thumbs up and looks at her stomach. "Whoops, false alarm! False alarm!"
And they return to the apartment.
"Alright, pansycakes, I feel like we need to spice this up a bit. Give trickier dares or we'll never finish the game!" says Uriah after they sit down.
"But how DOES this game end?" Tris asks.
"Well… I don't know, actually."
"What if we give an option to quit the game after you feel like you have taken too many clothes off?" Zeke suggests.
"You mean like, if your in underwear and you get a dare that you really don't wanna do, you can quit?"
"Yes, but you have to leave the apartment and not come back, so you can't watch the game anymore!"
"And the winner is the last person left in the room!"
Everyone eventually agrees on that.
"Ok. Um… Uriah! C or D?" Shauna asks.
"D!"
"Wait… I gotta come up with something good… Put on a blindfold and drink a special sauce I'm going to mix for you!"
"No problem!"
Uriah puts on a blindfold and Zeke leads Shauna to the kitchen. "Got any Tabasco sauce?"
"Do I?"
"Good, lots of that! Now, do you have any chilly peppers?"
"I think so… here, take all of them!"
"Yes, ALL!"
"Now I will need ketchup! Oh, and mustard!"
"Here you go!"
"Good! Now, let's see… do you think it would be too evil if I put some truth serum in there?"
"Naaahhh! Go ahead!"
Soon, Shauna is done and she brings Uriah the mystery drink.
Uriah takes a sip and almost pukes it out.
"EEWW! What in the world did you put in there?!"
"Well if I told you it wouldn't be much of a mystery drink, now would it? NOW DRINK SOME MORE!"
And so he does. This time, he almost chokes.
"Hot, HOT! WATER, I NEED WATER! ZEKE, BROTHER, BRING ME WATER!" Uriah panics and automatically takes off the blindfold.
"Pansycake!" Zeke yells and Uriah looks red, from anger and Tabasco.
"Shauna, you're dead!" Uriah says. Unfortunately, he failed the dare so he takes his hoodie off. He doesn't mind it since he wears a T-shirt under it. "Ok… Edward! Candor or Dauntless?"
"Dauntless."
"Ok… Go play Seven Minutes In Heaven with someone who I will pick, blindfolded!"
"Oh, god…"
Uriah puts on a blindfold and spins in circles. He starts walking around, until he touches somebody on the shoulder…
Peter.
Ok, people. This game of C or D will be over soon, but I'd like to continue writing this story, at least for a little while. So, if anybody has an idea about what could happen next, please tell me.
And BTW, I know that technically, since this is the future, Four probably wouldn't know Fancy, and Zeke wouldn't know Hips Don't Lie but I just thought it would be really funny if they did, so... Yeah, I just wanted to make that clear.