Chapter 5
Four and Tris were so wrapped up in the laser gun fight that they didn't even understand what the time was. As Four looked at his watch he cringed slightly. It read 2:00AM.
Fours POV.
"Hey I think you should head back to the dorms now." I shouted. We were still playing and there are only glow lights around the laser zone to make it harder for the other team to see each other. Tris is still hiding from me, ready to jump me at any moment. I heard a slight breath behind me and knew exactly where she was hiding. There is this slight slot that most of the new comers use to hide in, so I creep up to the hiding spot and reach in and grab a slim writs. I hear a yelp and when I expose Tris she looks surprised that I found her. Tris just smile at me. "You found me from luck." She says still smirking and then the smirk is gone as she rubs her wrist and looks at it almost as if she's thinking about something else. "I'm sorry, did I hurt you?" I question. Wait why did I ask that, she's going to get beaten to a pulp in initiation, pull it together Four, I think. Tris just shakes her head and looks up at me, the smile creeping back to her lips. "You do know that it's 2:00AM right?" I say. She looks a little worried. "Well I'll be getting nagged by my sisters as to where I was but, it was worth it." She replies. My stomach warms a little as she says that and it takes every ounce of me not to reach out and hug her. No Four, you bearly know this girl. It's like I am having an internal battle with myself.
I walk Tris back to the dorms and we say good night. There was a moment before she entered her room where she stares at me and then winks and smiles. I just shake my head when the door is closed but catch myself smiling as I make my way back to my apartment.
Tris' POV.
I walk back to my dorms with Four in conftable silence hoping that he wasn't suspicious about why I looked so gloom when I rubbed my wrist. I don't want him to know that my farther used to beat us or that the last gesture my farther did was grab my wrist. I do not want pity. As I walk in the room I wink at him and smile. Kind of like my own little 'Thank you' for taking me to the laser rooms.
When I close the door my smile immediately fades away as I turn to see my two sisters are standing up in the PJs staring at me with their hands on their hips. Fuck. I thought they would have been asleep like everyone else in the room. "Where the hell have you been!" Nicole shout-whispers. I make a face like I have just sucked on a lemon and say. "Well I bumped into Four and he-." Of course I didn't get to finish my conversation. "Wait. You what? Did he take advantage of you?" Rachel said looking more and more angry by the second. I laugh, obviously too loud because some guy shh's me. With my sisters still seething, neither of them seamed to take into consideration that they need to be quite for the other initiates. "What happened?" Nicole asks. "Nothing, honestly. After I went to the toilet he invited me to a game of laser. Then after that we came back here." I say justifying myself. They both seem to think that my answer is good enough so shrug and go lay on their beds. We have the three beds on the end and I plonk myself on the one furthest to the door. And sadly furthest to Four. No, stop thinking like that Tris.
Rachel's POV.
Eric booms in to our dorm entrance with a massive pot in one hand and a wooden spoon in the other clashing them together making the worst ear splitting noise. "Get you lazy asses up initiates. We have training to do." Eric say with a smile and then carry's on with the clashing. I role on my front and put the pillow over my head, whilst everyone else gets ready. I can hear footstep coming my way but honestly do, not, care. Someone lifts up the side of my pillow and I see Erics face. "Hey Pumpkin, want to get up and join the rest of us." He says in a manner that a mother would say it to a small child. I mumble something like a no and he gets the gist. I smile to myself knowing that he can't do anything to physically get me out of bed. Until I felt a numbing sensation going down my back and scrambled out of the covers and stood up. As I got to my feet I saw ice cubes scatter across the floor. I also notice no one else in the room. That is until I turn around and see Eric standing there with a bucket of water. "Dude what the absolute fuc-" I don't get to finish my sentence because in that moment the bucket of water is emptied over my head. As I scrub my eyes to get rid of the water, I look up at Eric who is clutching his stomach laughing at me. I hate it when people laugh at me, so I smirk at him and then wrap my arms around him and press my body to his. As I step back I see my imprint on his clothes, he obviously didn't think it was to funny and just glared at me. I started to laugh but slipped on the water straight on my ass and he stares down at me looking amused. "Get changed initiate." He says.
"Make me!" I reply, anger vivid in my voice.
"Well if it was the old Dautnless way then I would, but with Toni in charge she changed the rules to only use force when really necessary."
"I bet you only poured water on my because you're a perv." I say. He smirks at me and there is a certain look to his eye which I can't tell what it is.
"Listen initiate, are you going to coöperate or will I take matters into my own hands?" He asks.
"No, I'm not doing shit for you. And my names Rachel." I reply stubbornly. He just raises one eyebrow, then to my surprise extend a hand to help me up. I stupidly take it not expecting what happened next. He pulled me up and then threw me onto his shoulder and started towards the training grounds.
Eric set me down and I saw the rest of the group staring at me surprised. I was still in my PJs which was a black tank top and black shorts. All of a sudden I felt exposed and embarrassed. "OK, so Rachel has failed to follow my instructions so our first task of the day is team work," Eric said, pulling out a long hose from the wall. Like the one that would be attached to a fire truck, obviously there for safety reasons in case of a fire. "Rachel stand on the mat over there." He asks. Not wanting to feel even more stupid this time I did as I was told. "I need the help of four other initiates." Four other people held the hose supporting it in their arms, Molly being one of them people, smirking at me. As I saw the look on her face it came into recognition of what he was about to do. Before I could run or move I felt the freezing cold water blast at my body and I flew back off the mat from the pressure of the water and was winded when my back smashed onto the floor. The water went and I just lay there in defeat. Eric is standing next to me. "Had enough yet stiff? I have other ways of straightening out your attitude." He said only so I could hear, which was still loud enough to hear since I was now on the other side of the room away from the group. "Trust me buddy, I've had every bad way possible of someone trying to straighten me out." I say thinking of all the times with my farther. He frowned slightly and I realized I shouldn't have said anything so I cut him off with what he was about to say. "Well at least I got you to say my name at the beginning when you need the assistance from the others." I say smirking. "Yeah and I got you to stand on the mat, so it's a draw." He replys. I narrow my eyes at him and get up seeing that his shirt is staring to dry. Before he realizes I a strip off my dripping wet top and shove it down his shirt. "It's 2-1 now." I shout behind me running off towards the dorms to change.
Erics POV.
I grunt in frustration. This girl has problems. I grab her wet top and chuck it to the floor. She is going to wish she didn't do that.
Its been five hours of no-stop sprinting for the initiates. This is the way I will get Rachel to comprehend. Next up I tell them that they have to climb a twenty-foot rope and ding the bell at the top. I know no one will do it because their bodies are not yet strong enough and It will just give them rope burn. We still have a couple more hours to cover before they get to leave for the rest of the day. Seeing Rachel suffer was pretty fun, but I think I have broken her enough for what she did seeing the rope burns on her hands so I decide to make the last activity some knife throwing practice.
As I show them the correct way of throwing a knife they start immediately. I watch and see that Nicole is probably the best one in the group seeing as she can only just about hit the target where no one else can yet. I see Four come through the doors looking slightly bothered. I was wondering where he and Toni had been today but that will be a conversation for later. I watch Four watching the initiates and I see him stop next to Tris. I know he is getting a thing for her but I will just have to look the other way. I know it is not supposed to happen between initiates and instructors but that boy deserves to be happy, he's like a brother to me.
As I watch the initiates leave for the showers and dorms I begin to walk to Four. "Hey, where were you and Toni today?" I question. " Well we were dragged into an imitate meeting, something about a group of Abnegations plotting on specific people in the Dauntless compound. Honestly I think it's a bunch of bull. We have no feud between Abnegations people so I won't believe it until I have some solid form of truth from this roumer." Four replys. I just nod. "Why wasn't I called to the meeting?" I say. "Because we knew you could handle the initiates and you needed to train them. Anything interesting happen today?" I smirk at this question thinking of all the tit-for-tat things between Rachel and I today, it has been quite amusing and I'm not really one to find much amusing. "No, nothing interesting today." I retort, still feeling that smirk tugging at the right side of my lips.
One thought still scratches the back of my mind though, what was Rachel talking about when she said that someone else had tried sorting out her attitude?
So, Four and Eric are getting slightly suspicious of what happened with Tris and Rachel. Did you like the humor in this chapter or would you rather it be a more serious themed. Things will start to get more serious next chapter anyway, but when ever it says Rachel POV or Erics POV usually it will be something funny.
Please tell me your thoughts on this chapter, I sadly didn't get any review last time so i cried in a corner. (Joking) :)