Title: Fourtris
Disclaimer: I do not own Divergent it belongs to Veronica Roth!
Warning: Just to be safe I am rating this T, probably won't need it, but just in case.
A/N: Okay so this chapter got away from me a little bit and it could have been two chapters because of its length, but I decided just to give you all of it! Thanks for the reviews, favorites, and follows! And if you have an idea that you would like me to try in this story PM me and I'll see what I can do! :) Enjoy!
Chapter 4: Fulfilling the Bet
Tris' POV
"Tris!"
I open my eyes to Zeke's face six inches from my face. "What are you doing?" I whisper loudly.
"Get up!" Zeke says with a grin.
"It's four in the morning! Go away!" I say through gritted teeth.
"Can't do that. I need your help and you have to do what I say!" Zeke replies.
"Seriously? What don't you bug your girlfriend?" I ask. This is not happening right now.
"I already did! Now it's your turn. Come on, get up and get ready!" He says.
"No, go away." I say as I tried to turn away from him, but he stops me. I'm surprisingly a little sore from all the paintballs. I guess that's possible after getting hit with a million of them.
"I'm trying to be nice by letting you at least change, but I can just take you the way you are." Zeke says with excitement in his eyes.
I groan and sit up. He isn't going to leave me alone. "I really hate you right now." I say as I get out of bed, feeling stiff.
Zeke chuckles, but leaves the room so I can change. I can't believe it is four in the morning and Zeke is making me get up because of a stupid bet!
"So what is it you want me to do?" I ask with a glare at Zeke.
"You are going to clean my apartment." Zeke says with a grin.
"What? You get me up at FREAKING FOUR IN THE MORNING TO CLEAN YOUR ROOM!" I yell
"Shhh. You're going to wake people up." Zeke says with a chuckle.
"Wouldn't want to do that." I say sarcastically. "So what did you make Shauna do?"
"I had her do my laundry at one in the morning. She didn't really appreciate that." Zeke giggles.
I roll my eyes. "So why four in the morning?" I ask with annoyance, which doesn't seem to faze Zeke one bit.
"Well you have training later and it was fun making you wake up early. Also I have to take advantage of this bet and I doubt Four will take advantage of it." Zeke explains.
I roll my eyes, but smile at the mention of Four.
"Is there something going on between you and Four?" Zeke asks.
"What? No." I say quickly.
"Hm. Ok." Zeke says, but doesn't look convinced.
He puts me to work cleaning his apartment, which smells like beer and dirty clothes while he goes back to sleep.
7:30 am
"Let's go get breakfast." Zeke says.
"Let me guess you want me to get your breakfast?" I ask as we walk out of his now, clean apartment.
"If Shauna is not there, yeah." Zeke says with a smile. I roll my eyes and yawn.
We walk to the dining hall and of course Shauna is nowhere to be found so he makes me get his food and mine. I give him his food and turn to go to my table, but no one is there yet.
"Just sit with me since your friends aren't here and mine aren't here either." Zeke says. "I doubt Shauna will be here for a while." He adds with a grin.
"Ok." I say as I sit down across from him and start eating my breakfast as I lean my head against my hand.
I'm not sure what exactly happen or how long it had been when I heard a conversation.
"What did you do to her?" I hear Tobias say. When did I fall asleep?
"Made her clean my apartment this morning, at four in the morning." Zeke explains without any shame.
"That's just cruel." I hear Tobias say, which makes me smile. "I'm going to go get my breakfast. I'll be back."
"Hey just wake her up and let her get it." Zeke says. I really am getting sick of this.
"Uh no. Let her sleep. You do realize she has to start practicing her fear landscapes today at 8, right?" Tobias says.
"Yeah, that's why I got her up earlier and she wasn't happy about it." Zeke says.
I hear a sigh and footsteps walking away before it's quiet again. Did I even eat breakfast?
10 minutes later...
I wake up suddenly and see that the table is full of people. When did they get here?
"Well hello sleepyhead." Zeke says with a chuckle.
I look over to see that Tobias is sitting next to me and he is already done eating. "When did you..." I start.
"Get here? A while ago. You probably should eat, you only have about 10 minutes till training." Tobias says softly.
I nod, but then put my head on my hand again as I pick at my food again.
"Oh that's what she did last time before she fell asleep." Zeke says.
"I didn't fall asleep." I mumble with my eyes closed.
I hear chuckling, but I don't open my eyes.
"Where's Shauna?" I hear Tobias ask Zeke.
"Oh I woke her up at one to do my laundry and she went back to bed. I doubt I'll see her for the rest of the day." Zeke says with a frown.
"Oh my goodness." Tobias says with a chuckle.
Tobias' POV
"That's when you went and got Tris?" I ask.
"Yep." Zeke says. "You should have her clean your apartment, she did a really good job."
"I'm not going to have her clean my apartment." I say. I look over at Tris who now has her head on the table, again. It doesn't even look like she ate anything, but she looks like she could use the sleep more than breakfast.
"Is there something going on between you two?" Zeke asks.
"What? No." I say quickly.
"Huh. That's exactly what she said when I asked her." Zeke says.
"You asked her that?" I say.
He nods with a grin. "Well I have to head to work. I wish I could make one of them go to work for me." Zeke says as he gets up from the table.
"Ok, I'll see you later." I say.
"You may want to wake her up soon." Zeke says with a smirk as he leaves.
"Tris." I say, but she doesn't wake up. "Tris." I shake her shoulder.
"I'm awake." She says quickly as she sits up. I chuckle. "When did he leave?"
"While you were asleep." I say.
"I wasn't..." She starts, but I give her look that stops her from finishing her response.
"Throw your stuff away than head up to the fear landscape room." I say.
"Its already time?" She asks.
"Yep." I say as she starts to close her eyes again. "Hey, hey. No falling asleep again."
"I'm going to kill Zeke," She says as she stands up and grabs her tray. I chuckle.
"Did you eat anything?" I ask as I get up too.
"I don't know." She says. "Doesn't look like I ate anything." She adds and I smile.
"There you are!" Christina says interrupting us.
Tris turns towards her after she throws her stuff away and I head up to the fear landscape room ahead of them.
"What happen to you?" Christina asks.
"Zeke." I hear Tris say in an annoyed voice. I can't help, but smile as I listen to them talk as they walk behind me up to the fear landscape room.
"What did he make you do?" Christina asks.
"Clean his apartment...at four in the morning." She answers.
"Eww. Four in the morning? That's why you look so tired." Christina says. "Why didn't he make Shauna do it?"
"He already made her do his laundry at one in the morning. I think she will probably hide from him the rest of the day. Come to think about, I am going to be hiding from him too." She says and I bite my lip to keep from laughing.
"Good plan." Christina responds.
After all the initiates arrived, I explained that they would be going through Lauren's landscape again. They would each go through the same fear they went through last time to practice. I saw a little panic go through Tris' eyes when I told them. Last time she got Lauren's kidnapping fear, which struck a cord with her since she had just recently almost been thrown over the chasm by those low-lifes. Unfortunately, her fear is one of the last ones so she will have to wait most of the morning for it. She looks like she could fall asleep standing; she already has yawned five times and we just got started. Hopefully, she can last until her turn.
*****FOURTRIS*****
Tris' POV (after she goes through her or Lauren's fear)
The lights come back on and I sink to the floor. That went better than last time; at least I didn't totally break down. I was able to calm my heart down after a little while. It wasn't my best time, but it was a whole lot better than last time when Four stopped it.
The door opens and Four walks in. "Better Tris." He says in his instructor voice.
I nod as I stand up and follow him out of the room. I can't help, but yawn again as I walk out. I see him glance over at me as I do with an amused look. I haven't been able to stop yawning throughout the morning besides when I was in the fear landscape. "Was that a little boring for you?" He says after a moment.
"No." I say with a frown.
He turns to everyone. "Ok, we will finish up after lunch. If you already went through yours, you are done for the day. I suggest you take the rest of the day trying to think of the possible fears you may have and strategies to overcome them." Tobias says.
We all start heading to the dining hall, but Tobias holds me back until the rest are gone. "Why don't you go to my apartment after lunch and get some sleep? It will be quieter there and you can avoid Zeke." He says with a smile.
"Are you sure?" I ask.
"Of course. You are my girlfriend, remember?" He says with a grin.
"Thanks." I say with a smile.
He briefly touches my cheek before saying, "go get some lunch, I'll see you later."
I nod as I try to keep the smile from my face before heading to the dining hall. I quickly grab lunch and sit at my normal table.
"Did Zeke get to you?" Uriah asks.
"Yes." I say with a scowl. "He isn't around, is he?" I say quickly as I look around.
"No. I haven't seen him come in yet." Uriah says with a laugh.
"Warn me if he does." I say seriously. I start eating my food quickly, I'm not chancing running into him. "Wait a minute was is he only bothering me?" I ask after a moment.
"Oh he figured Will and I would bother Christina and Marlene. And of course he would bother Shauna, but he figured Four wouldn't take advantage of the bet so he decided to make sure to include you." Uriah explained.
"Oh he is too kind." I say sarcastically.
Uriah laughs. "Well he has plans for you this afternoon after hearing that we have the rest of the day off."
"How'd he figure that out?" I ask him with a scowl. "And why me, why not Shauna?" I complain.
"He can't find her." Uriah says with a smirk.
"Well isn't going to find me." I say as I eat a couple more bites and stand up.
"Good luck. He just walked in." Uriah says.
"What? Oh I have to go!" I say as I quickly throw my stuff away and head to Tobias' apartment.
I manage to make it to his apartment without getting chased down my Zeke. I open the door and walk in. It's weird being here without him, but I'm a little too tired to care. I kick my boots off and lay on his bed.
Tobias' POV
"Four! Wait up!" Zeke yells.
I stop and turn towards Zeke as he runs up to me in the pit. "What Zeke?"
"Have you seen Tris or for that matter, Shauna?" Zeke asks.
"I haven't seen either of them." I say.
"Do you know where they might be?" Zeke asks.
"How would I know?" I ask.
"Well this sucks." Zeke complains.
"Why don't you go find Marlene or Christina?" I say.
"Oh that's an awesome idea!" He says as he turns to go find one of them.
"What are you wanting them to do?" I ask out of curiosity.
"I haven't thought of anything yet, but I will! You may not be taking advantage of this bet, but I am!" Zeke yells to me as he walks away.
"You're crazy, you know that, right?" I yell at him.
"You wouldn't have me any other way!" Zeke says.
I shake my head and continue off to my apartment where I'm hoping that Tris is. I open the door quietly just in case she is sleeping still. I close the door and look over to my bed to see she is asleep.
I walk over quietly to see that she must have fallen asleep as soon as she laid down because she hadn't even bothered to get under the covers. I grab a blanket and lay it over her before kissing her forehead.
I smile before going over to the couch to watch some TV while she sleeps. There is an episode of an old TV show called Friends that I decide to watch. It's a good show just a little crazy and they have a different way of life than I am use to, but it is interesting.
Tris' POV
I hear a laugh and wonder if it is one of the guys from my dorm telling jokes or something. This doesn't smell like my bed, it smells familiar, but not my bed. I open my eyes and see that I'm not in bed. I'm in Tobias' bed and I smile because he is here, that was his laugh. He must have put this blanket on me too because I certainly didn't.
I slip out of the bed and walk over to the couch where Tobias is watching TV.
"Well hello beautiful!" Tobias says, which makes me blush. I sit next to him and he puts his arm around me bringing me closer to him. "Sleep well?"
"Yeah, what time is it?" I ask as I lean my head against his shoulder.
"4:30." He responds.
"What? No, I couldn't have slept that long!" I say.
He chuckles. "Zeke was looking for you earlier, but I sent him after Christina and Marlene."
"Thanks. What did he want me to do this time?" I ask.
"He hadn't thought of anything yet." He says with a smirk.
"Oh my goodness." I say with a groan. "What are you watching?" I ask after a moment.
"Oh it's called Friends. It is a really funny show. They are a little weird, but it's a good show." Tobias explains.
"Ah that's why you were laughing." I say with a grin. I haven't heard him laugh much and especially not a relaxed laugh like that.
"Yeah, they are hilarious. Just watch and you'll see." He says with a smile, but then I feel him kiss my head.
I smile as I close my eyes.
Tobias' POV
I laugh. "I told you it was funny." I say as I look down at Tris. "Tris?" I smile. That didn't take long; she fell asleep again. I grab the blanket on the couch and I drape it over her to keep her from getting cold.
I go back to watching my show as she sleeps. It's nice to have her so close even if she is sleeping. In a couple more days, we won't have to worry about hiding our relationship. The day after tomorrow, they go through their fear landscapes and then find out their rankings later that day.
"It's over already?" Tris asks in a sleepy voice.
"Yes, you slept through it." I say with a grin.
"Oh sorry. Waking up at four in the morning really messed me up." She says.
"No need to be sorry. There's another one coming on now. Do you think you can stay up long enough to watch it?" I tease.
She looks up at me with a scowl, but then kisses me. I pull her closer to me and deepen the kiss. It's like she is my other half and when we are together I'm finally whole. She pulls away slightly with a smile on her face and I ask, "what was that for?"
"Does there have to be a reason?" She whispers.
"No." I say as I close the gap between us and kiss her again.
"I have been wanting to kiss you since I kissed you last." I say once we break apart. She leans against me again.
"Really?" Tris asks.
I kiss her again. "Really. Now are you going to watch this with me or fall asleep again?" I ask with a chuckle.
"I won't fall asleep." Tris says in a slightly offended tone.
"We'll see about that." I say with a smirk.
"So who are all these people?" She asks after a moment.
I go on to introduce her to all the characters and what I know of them so far.
"Sounds interesting." She says with a grin.
"It's really funny!" I say seriously.
She kisses me on the cheek and smiles. "I believe you."
"Well you should!" I tease before we continue watching the episode where Joey, Chandler, and Monica are on the beach. Joey built the hole and Monica gets stung by a jellyfish. The only way to help with the pain was to pee on her leg.
"That's gross!" She says and I laugh.
We start laugh hysterically as they explain to their friends what happen on the beach.
"Ok. Ok. This show is hilarious!" Tris says after the scene ended and we were able to stop laughing.
"Told you!" I say with a cocky grin.
She gives me this look that clearly says 'seriously' and I just smile back at her.
"Just admit that I was right." I say after a moment. If there is one thing that I have learned over the last couple of days is that she is stubborn and will not go down without a fight.
She narrows her eyes and I can see the stubbornness creeping in. "Why would I do that?" She asks after a moment of hesitation.
"Because it's true. Just admit." I say.
"I'm not going to do that." She says with a grin.
"Oh really?" I say with a mischievous grin before I stand up and pick her up only to lay her down on the couch.
"What are you doing?" She asks after a moment.
I ignore the question and start to tickle her. She laughs and it is the cutest sound ever. "Stop, please stop!" She says through her laughs.
"First, you have to admit that I was right, then I'll stop." I say with a grin.
"Never!" Tris says.
"You are so stubborn!" I say as continue to tickle her, but she tries to get away so I pin her down.
"Please stop, Tobias!" She yells in between her laughter, which has caused her to cry.
"Not until you admit it." I say without stopping.
"Please!" She says with a puppy dog look that if I was a weaker man, it would have gotten me to stop, but I tend to stick to my word.
"Nope!" I say with a laugh.
"Ok, ok. You were right!" She yells after a little bit and I stop.
"You are so cute." I say before closing the gap between us and kissing her. She deepens the kiss and I feel her hands tangle into my hair as I put my arms around her waist. The episode of Friends continues on in the background, but we are so lost in each other that we forget about it. It was only until I heard the start of a new episode that I realized we had been making out the last half an hour. I pull away with a smile and slide off of her so we are both lying side by side on the couch. "Wow. That was great." I say as I catch my breath.
"Yeah." She breathes and I can see the smile on her face. She leans over to me and kisses my cheek. "It was great." She says before kissing me again, but this time on the lips.
After a few more minutes, I break away from her. "Although I would love to continue this, we really should go get dinner." I say.
She scrunches her face up in a frown. "Yeah I guess you right." She says.
"Whoa, did you just admit that I was right without me having to pry it out of you?" I tease.
She elbows me in the side before getting up. "Ow." I say even though it didn't hurt.
"You know you are just as stubborn as I am." She says with a smirk as I get up.
"That's probably true. Let's get to dinner. Your friends are probably wondering where you are."
"Yeah, probably." She says with a sad expression that I don't understand.
"Hey, come here." I say as she starts to walk towards the door. She comes back over with a confused look on her face and I just lift her chin and kiss her once again. "I'll see you later."
"I'll be looking forward to it." She says before she leaves my apartment. I smile as I turn the tv off and start to make my way to the door. I can't wait till we can be together without worrying what other people think. It would be nice to be able to sit together while we ate and not have to sit at different tables. It was nice to have her sit at our table even if she was asleep the majority of the time. It was still nice just to have her be there with me. The world is so much better with her by my side.
*****FOURTRIS*****
Tris' POV
Marlene, Shauna, Christina, and I all sat together for dinner and talk about how Zeke had managed to bother each of us throughout the day.
"You know although, I didn't appreciate getting up at four in the morning to clean Zeke's very gross apartment, it wasn't as bad as I thought it would be." I say with a smirk.
"That's true I was expecting for them to be bothering us all day long with all kinds of stupid things." Christina says.
"Uh oh." Marlene says. "Maybe we spoke too soon."
"What? Why?" I ask as I turn to look where she is looking to see Uriah, Zeke, Will, and Tobias walking towards us. "Would it be too late to run?" I ask.
The girls shake their heads and we pick up our trays and rush to the garbage to throw them away. Thankfully the dining hall is really crowded and the boys were having a hard time getting to us. "Run!" I say as I see the boys coming towards us. I'm not sure what they are planning, but it can't be good.
We run and run down halls and more halls. I don't even know where we are anymore because of all the turns we took. "I think we lost them!" I yell out of breath as I turn back to look to see no one is behind and then we turn the corner to see the Uriah and Tobias coming towards us so we turn around to run the opposite way to see Zeke and Will coming from the other way. "Crap. Where do we go?" I ask the other girls, as the boys get closer effectively trapping us in the hallway.
"We could try to run for it!" Marlene says.
"I'll try anything, but I'm going this direction away from Four. He seems to always get me!" I say and we all go the opposite direction of our men.
I run for the space between the wall and Zeke, hoping to be able to get by him.
"Get her!" I hear Tobias yell at Zeke.
Just as I get to the space, Zeke steps in front of me and puts me in some kind of restraint that I would have no clue how to do. "Let me go!" I scream.
"Not a chance, little one!" Zeke says as I struggle against his hold.
"Little one?" I ask with a glare that he can't see. He walks me forward and I can't do anything about it because my feet are off the ground.
"Yep. I kind of consider you like a little sister. In fact, I think I'll adopt you as my little sister, you would be so much fun to bother all the time." He says as I continue to struggle against him.
"Let me go, Zeke!" I say, but he ignores me. That's when I realize that all the other girls got caught as well. Shauna had been caught by Tobias and was struggling like me.
"I think this belongs to you." Tobias says with a chuckle.
"Ok, why don't you take this feisty one?" Zeke answers and I scowl at them both.
"Sure." He says with a smirk at me.
Zeke let's me go, but doesn't let my arm go and I try my best to get away from both of them.
"Where do you think you're going, missy?" Tobias says as he grabs my other arm and puts me in the same hold that Zeke had me in just a minute ago. My feet are still off the ground and my arms are wrapped across my body.
"Let me down!" I say to him.
"Not a chance." Tobias says and although I can't see his face, I'm pretty sure he is smirking.
"Ready, Men?" Zeke asks and they nod with excited smiles on their faces.
"What are you guys doing?" Shauna asks in an annoyed voice as they start to walk down the hallway.
"Oh you'll see." Zeke says evilly.
I groan and I hear Tobias chuckle behind me. This isn't going to be good.
"We were talking and we thought we hadn't really taken full advantage of this bet so we decided to change that." Zeke says.
"What does that mean?" Christina asks in a very annoyed voice.
"That we aren't done with you guys yet." Will says with a huge grin.
Will is holding Christina bridal style and Uriah had Marlene over his shoulder while Zeke and Tobias were restraining Shauna and me. After a while I realize that they aren't taking us to any of their apartments, but to the floor where all the important offices were located. "Where are you taking us?" I ask after a moment.
"You'll see." Tobias says in an amused voice.
I groan again and then my eyes get wide as I see we are at the offices of the leaders of Dauntless. What is going on?
"Oh you found them. Bring them in here." Max says in a stern voice as he glares at us, meaning the girls, and motions for us to be brought into the conference room.
"Sit. Now." Max yells at us girls. The boys let us down and we quickly sit in the chairs opposite of Max. The boys go to stand behind Max and smirk at us. I scowl at them.
"I would wipe that look off her face, Beatrice." Max yells at me and I see the boys trying really hard to keep their laughter in.
"Sorry, sir." I say shyly. They got us in trouble with Max? This is so mean.
"Your friends did the right thing and told me about what you four girls have been up to for the last month. And I have to tell you, I am shocked and horrified that you would do such terrible things." Max starts. What did we supposedly do?
"Excuse me, but what exactly did they say that we did?" I ask confidently, but then Max turns to glare at me.
"Beatrice, I would suggest you stop asking questions or else the punishment will be worse." Max says in a quiet , but dangerous tone. I gulp he seems serious. I see Tobias shaking his head with a smile on his face.
"Now, where was I before I was rudely interrupted.." He glares at me and I gulp again. "Oh yes, the only reason you four aren't factionless right now is because of these guys pleading with me to goes easy on you. You should really thank them." I scowl at the boys as he says this because whatever we supposedly did wasn't true and they made it up. "Beatrice!" Max snaps at me.
"My name is Tris here." I say defiantly, getting annoyed that he keeps using my real name.
Max glares at me and I really wonder if he is going to make me factionless. There is a long silent pause as he stares at me. This isn't good. Crap. Crap. Crap. "Beatrice. I'm the leader of this faction and I will NOT be talked to like that. You will have extra punishments and I will be talking to your father." He says quietly in a stern voice that makes me shiver. Talk to my dad? Extra punishments? This is not good.
"So since your shenanigans went on for a month your punishments will last for a month. First, you will start by doing the dishes and cleaning the dining hall every day after dinner starting today. Next, you will be free every Saturday for a month to do whatever odd jobs I have for you to do. You will report to me at 7 in the morning to get your assignments. I'm very disappointed in you girls and will expect an apology from each of you before the end of the month. Now, Shauna, Marlene, and Christina you may head down to the dining hall. The staff is waiting for you." Max says sternly. He didn't say my name. Crap. This isn't good! If I could only keep my mouth shut, I wouldn't be in this position.
I see Zeke, Will, and Uriah walk out with the girls, but Tobias stays with Max and I. "Shut the door, Uriah." I gulp. This isn't good. Max turns to me and I have to look down.
There is a long silence that becomes increasingly uncomfortable as the time goes on. "Beatrice, what do you have to say for yourself?" Max says breaking the silence.
I have to restrain myself from saying what I really want to say. "I'm sorry for being disrespectful." I reluctantly say.
"Well I should hope so, Beatrice. For your disrespectful behavior, you will be helping out Eric and me when you aren't training or working."
"For how long?" I ask, but regret when he glares at me and I'm sure my face pales.
"For as long as it takes." He says in a cold voice. "Four, will you escort Beatrice to the kitchen. I'm afraid I don't trust her to get there on her own." He says like I'm a six-year-old.
"Of course." Tobias says and I stand up, feeling a little wobbly from the confrontation. They are so dead. I'm so mad right now. It's not even funny.
We walk out and down the hallway without saying a word. If I talk I may say things I will regret so I am not saying anything. I'm not even looking at him.
"Tris." Tobias says, as we get closer to the kitchen.
I ignore him.
"I'm guessing you are mad at me." He starts.
"Guessing?" I ask with a glare at him.
"Ok, you are mad at me, but you have to understand something." He says.
I stop and turn abruptly towards him. "How in the world could anything that you or any of the other boys could say could make this okay? This is totally over the line! And it was more of a prank than part of the bet!" I practically scream at him. Yes, I'm mad, well more like infuriated with all of them.
"I understand that you're mad, but just wait for everything to play out. And what I was going to say was that this wasn't my idea and if I would have known that it would turn out this way I would have put a stop to it." Tobias says calmly.
"Oh and that makes it all better that it wasn't your idea? And what do you mean, let it play out? Thanks to you and the rest of the idiots, I have a month's worth of washing dishes and cleaning the dining hall along with whatever we are going to have to do on Saturdays! Not to mention that I have to be around Eric for who knows how long and Max is going to talk my dad, which I don't understand isn't it faction before blood? And why can't he just call me Tris?" I fume with a scowl on my face.
"To be fair, you got yourself in further trouble for talking back to Max. You need to learn to shut your mouth when you are dealing with people with authority." Tobias says which makes me even more anger.
"I wouldn't have gotten myself into trouble if I hadn't been put in a situation where I was being accused of doing who knows what because no one ever explained what that was we were getting in trouble for in the first place. So excuse me for wanting the reason behind the punishments I was being accused of so that I could understand how to defend myself." I shout at him. I can see that he is getting angry at me, but I don't care I'm looking for a fight now.
But, instead of fighting with me, he takes my arm and leads me into the dining hall. "I think you need time to cool down. We can talk about this later. They are in the kitchen." He says in a low, controlled voice.
I glare at him, but he returns my glare with one of his own. "Fine." I say and turn for the kitchen. I hear a sigh as I literally stomp to the kitchen. I am furious right now.
I walk in to see Shauna, Christina, and Marlene washing and drying the dishes. "There you are. We were getting worried about you." Marlene says as she sees me.
"What happen?" Christina asks as she probably can see how angry I am.
"I have to help Eric and Max when I'm not working or training." I say after a moment.
"For how long?" Christina asks.
"He said for as long as it takes." I say through gritted teeth. "I'm going to kill them."
"Oh we will get them back for this don't you worry, Tris." Shauna says.
"What do I need to do?" I ask. I need something to do before I start punching the wall to get my anger out. I start helping by putting the dry dishes away.
"Did you ever figure out what we did?" Marlene asks after a few minutes of silence.
"No. Whenever I tried to ask, I got in trouble." I say with a frown.
"It's suspicious that he didn't tell us what we were being accused of. It makes me wonder if he is in on this prank." Shauna says.
"Maybe he is. When I was yelling at Four, he said to wait to see how it played out. What do you think that means?" I ask the other girls.
"I don't know. Did he say anything else?" Christina asks.
"Well to be honest, I was to busy yelling at him to let him talk much." I say with a guilty look on my face.
"Yeah, we heard you yelling, but we couldn't tell what you were saying." Christina says with a laugh.
"Well he told me that I needed to learn to keep my mouth shut when talking to the leaders." I say with a scowl just thinking about it.
"Well..." Christina starts. "He is right. You have to be careful around them. You wouldn't be in as much trouble if you hadn't said anything to Max."
"So you are on his side?" I ask as I started to get angry again even though I understand what they are saying I just don't like it.
"Not necessarily, I just understand what he is saying. And remember Four is your instructor too, so you should be careful the way you speak to him as well. Remember you just got in trouble for slapping him." Christina reminds me. She doesn't understand that Four and I are dating so it is a bit more complicated than that.
"Yeah that's true, but what they did was over the line." I say.
"I know a whole month of punishments and how in the world do we apologize for something that we did if we don't know what we supposedly did in the first place?" Shauna says.
"I forgot about having to apologize. This sucks. We need to start planning how to get them back for this." Marlene says.
"You know what I'm really annoyed about? It's that this is not part of the bet. This is a prank!" I say as I slam a dish down on the pile. Good thing they are sturdy plates because it would have broken if it wasn't.
"I know. The other boys were being so cocky as they came down with us." Christina says.
"What? Don't they realize that this was totally over the line? Oh I really wish I could punch them all in the face." This time I slam a dish down even harder and I hear the glass breaking, but don't register that it broke the plate.
"Tris!" Marlene yells.
"What?" I ask.
"You're bleeding." Marlene says as she comes over to me.
"Oh. I didn't realize I had broken the dish." I say as I grab the pieces of plate without thinking and accidentally cut myself again.
"Hey, hey. Just leave it. Here I got it." Christina says as she takes the plate under the broken plate and throws the pieces in the garbage.
Marlene wraps a towel around each of my hands to hopefully stop the bleeding. At least we were almost done with the dishes. "I'm sorry guys. I shouldn't be so angry right now." I say feeling bad. I'm not the only one who got screw over in this little prank.
"It's okay, we are all angry. We understand." Marlene says. She takes the towels off of my hands to see how bad the cuts are. "You are going to need stitches. Why don't you head to the infirmary?" She says.
"I'll wait till after we are done here. I don't want you guys to have to finish alone." I say as I stand up ready to help.
"You won't be much help with your hands cut up like that. Go get them stitched up and then you can help us." Shauna says.
I hesitate, not liking that because of my anger I am causing them to do more work.
"Go!" Marlene says as she pushes me towards the door.
"Ok, I'm going." I say with a small smile. I have some good friends.
I walk to the infirmary hoping I don't run into anyone especially the four boys because if I did, I may just start a fight with them, bloody hands or not.
I walk into the infirmary and one of the nurses walks up to me. "What happen?" She asks.
"I need stitches, I cut my hands on a broken plate." I explain. They are really starting to sting and I hate the idea of stitches.
"Okay, come sit over here so I can look at them." She says as she directs me over to a bed. I sit on the bed and she unwraps the towels from my hands. "Yes you will need stitches and some pain medication." She says before she gets the needed supplies to stitch the cuts up.
I wince as she starts to stitch up the cuts on my left hand and jerk my hand back out of instinct. "I'm sorry." I say as I put my hand back out to her.
"It's okay." She says, but takes a firmer grasp of my hand before starting again.
It takes about 15 minutes for her to finish stitching up my cuts and then another couple of minutes wrapping my hands up in gauze and medical tape. "Ok, here is some pain medication. Only take it if you need it and just follow the instructions on the label." She says.
"Ok, thank you." I say before leaving for the dining hall.
I walk in to see Marlene and Shauna sweeping while Christina washes the tables. I go over to Christina. "I can help you." I say.
"Okay, but maybe you should put some gloves on so you don't get your bandages wet. I think there are some in the kitchen." Christina says with a smile. Why aren't they as grumpy and mad as me? I walk into the kitchen and grab some blue rubber gloves to put on over my hands.
I start helping Christina, but my hands are killing me. I push through the pain and keep going until we had washed all the tables. "Now what do we need to do?" I ask as Marlene and Shauna come over with their brooms.
"Just have to mop." Christina answers.
I groan as I look at the size of the dining hall.
"It won't take too long if we all are mopping." Marlene says as we walk back to the closet with the cleaning supplies.
I keep my gloves on because I am pretty sure I have reopened my cuts and don't want the other girls to know.
"Good there are four mops and buckets." Christina says as she starts to fill the buckets with water and soap.
We each grab a mop and bucket. I wince as I pick the bucket up because the weight of it pushes into my cuts on my hand. Why did I have to go and cut myself?
We all start mopping from a different side and leave a path way in the middle to finish at the end. When we were about half way done, the boys show up to my annoyance.
"How's it going ladies?" Zeke asks and I am about to pounce on him.
"Shut it, Zeke!" Shauna yells at him.
I turn away from them and continue to mop the floor despite the aching pain from hands. It is getting increasingly more painful and more difficult to hold the mop let alone mop the floor. I can tell that I am further behind than the rest of them. I'm so lost in the pain from cuts that I don't hear the conversation going on until Uriah yells at me. "Tris! I asked you a question. Or should I say Beatrice." He says with a laugh and I turn to give him a death glare. He is barking up the wrong tree.
His grin is wiped off his face for a second before he says, "why are you wearing those gloves? Is it so you don't rough up those hands of yours?" He asks with a grin.
"I think I already accomplished that." I say with a scowl. I take the gloves off and show them my hands, which causes them to gasp.
"Tris!" Marlene says as she runs over to me. "Why didn't you stop? You reopened all of your cuts. You need to go get them stitched back up." She says sternly.
"No, they are fine." I say as I start to put the gloves back on, but by now Four is over by us looking concerned.
"Uriah. Finish mopping for her. Come on, Tris." He says in his instructor voice.
"But..." Uriah starts, but stops when Four gives him the death glare.
I let him lead me to the infirmary even though I wanted to say I didn't need to go, but he was acting more like Four the instructor than Tobias the boyfriend so I didn't argue.
"What happen to your hands?" He asks, as we get closer to the infirmary. His voice is softer and concerned.
"I broke a plate." I say and he looks at me with a confused yet amused look. "I was mad and I slammed it down on a stack of plates. I didn't realize I broke the plate or cut my hands until Marlene came over. Then I wasn't thinking and started to pick the pieces up and cut myself again." I explain with a sheepish look.
"Hmm." He says as he tries to hide a grin. "You were mad?" He asks, this time he isn't able to hide his grin.
We walk into the infirmary and the nurse looks at me then the bandages, which causes her to scowl at me. "What did you do?" She asks.
"I was washing tables and mopping." I say shyly. "You didn't say to not use my hands."
"I'm sorry I figured that was implied." She says sarcastically. "Sit." She commands with a scowl.
Tobias chuckles and I glare at him. "This isn't funny." I say, but for some reason I'm not as mad as I was before.
"Did you even take any of the pain meds I gave you?" She asks.
"No. You said to only take them if I needed them." I say seriously.
"And you didn't need them when you were breaking up all the stitches I just put in?" She asks.
"Well I forgot about them." I say after a moment. She wasn't as nice the second time around.
She unwraps my bandages and Tobias comes close to me. She first takes out all the stitches that I had broke and then re-stitches the cuts up. Then she re-wraps my hands before looking at me sternly as she points a finger at me. "Now, don't use your hands to do anything that will put strain on them like washing tables or mopping. Also take the medicine it will help, you have to be in a lot of pain right now." She says before standing up. "Come back tomorrow to let me check on them." She adds as we start to leave.
"Ok, thanks." I say.
"Come on, you need to take some of that medicine and get to bed." Tobias says as he leads me down the hall.
I roll my eyes; he is being a bit over protective. "I don't need the medicine."
"Yes you do." He says softly. I can tell that he is honestly concerned for me so I don't push him. Then I realize he isn't taking me to my room, but to the dining hall again. Everyone was waiting for us when we got there.
"Good you're back." Zeke says, but then looks at Tobias. "Do we have to tell them?"
"Tell us what?" I ask, I'm still furious with all four of them.
"Yes, we do." Tobias says.
"Ok. Well we weren't going to tell you till tomorrow, but you really aren't in trouble. Max was just playing along with us." Zeke says reluctantly.
"Wait, so we don't have to clean the kitchen for a month?" Christina asks.
"No, it was just for tonight. That was just to scare you. Also you don't have to do the extra jobs on Saturdays." Zeke explains.
"So we aren't really in trouble?" I ask.
"Well you may still be in trouble. Your extra punishments weren't part of the plan so those actually might be real. I'll ask him tomorrow." Tobias tells me with a grimace.
"What happen after we left you with Max?" Uriah asks with a chuckle.
I glare at Uriah, which surprisingly made him stop chuckling. "I'm suppose to help Eric or Max out during my spare time." I say.
"For how long?" Will asks.
"For as long as it takes." I mutter.
"For what?" Uriah asks.
I shrug. "Until she learns to be respectful and control her tongue or more correctly her temper." Tobias says, looking at me like my instructor more than my boyfriend.
"That long? Geez that could take years!" Uriah laughs and I roll my eyes.
"I'll talk to him tomorrow see if I can get you out of it." Tobias adds.
"Thanks." I say shyly.
"It's getting late, let's head back to our room." Christina says as she grabs my arm. "Oh and here's your medicine. You left it in the kitchen."
"Maybe you should stay away from plates when you're angry, Beatrice." Zeke says with a wink at me. That's it.
I run and tackle him to the ground. "Don't call me that! My name is Tris!" I yell at him. Before I have chance to do anything else, two strong arms are pulling me off of him.
"Zeke get out of here." Tobias says from behind me. He is holding me around the waist and my feet are once again off the floor. Everyone else leaves us as well as I struggle against his hold on me.
"Let me down." I say after I stop struggling. He sets me down and picks up the medicine I had dropped on the floor.
We walk towards my dorm and he opens the medicine. "I'm fine. I don't need that." I say when we get closer to my dorm.
"Well you have to take it anyway because I'm telling you to and it's part of the bet to do whatever we say." He says with a cocky grin.
"I'm going to be so glad when this bet is done!" I complain as I take the pills he is offering to me and swallow them with a drink from the fountain.
He smiles. "Are you still mad at me?" He asks after a moment.
"Yes, but not as much, mostly I'm mad at Zeke." I answer.
"Go easy on him. He really is a good guy just a bit crazy and he really likes you."
"Yeah, he likes to bother me." I say in an annoyed voice.
Tobias chuckles. "Why don't you go get some sleep? I'll see you tomorrow."
I look around to make sure no one is around before I hug him. It's been a long, crazy day and I just want to be with him for a moment. I feel his arms wrap around me and I feel a light kiss to my head. Before I know it, he is pulling away from me. "Goodnight, Tris." He says with a smile before heading to his apartment.
I stand there for a moment longer, all my anger gone and replaced with a deep longing to be going with him to his apartment instead having to stay here without him. Only a few more days till initiation is over and then maybe we won't have to hide our relationship. I turn and go into the room feeling exhausted and ready for bed. I hardly even look around before I lay on my bed and fall asleep thinking about Tobias.
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P.S. I had to keep reminding myself that I was writing this story once again because I was getting mad at Tobias and the other guys. :) Hope you liked this very long chapter! :)