Deniah POV
Being new to this faction, I was scared. Until Gabe. Until he came and changed my life completely. I left my brother in Amity. My old boyfriend went missing. My father was murdered for being Divergent. It's hard to be me.
The next day
I wake up early, trying to get some practice in before training starts for the day. "Hm. Are the others awake?" I ask quietly to myself. I pick up a knife and start throwing. Then a boy comes around the corner, his left shoulder bleeding from a large cut. He stops mid-laugh, his face frozen in the middle of a good chuckle. "Well, you must be another new initiate, yes?" He asks me. I turn to face him. "Is it not obvious? How'd that happen, eh? Tried to kill a rabbit or kiss a cat?" I say gesturing to his shoulder. He looks up at me. "No, tried a new fighting style for close combat while falling. Had a knife with me and I hit the ground and in the knife went. So don't try that… ever." He says with another small wince. "Take these. They'll help." I throw him a bottle of painkillers. "I'm Deniah Jollen. You?" On my way to sit down next to him, I grab some water and pass it to him. He pops a pill in his mouth and takes a sip of water. "Going free running in Erudite. Coming?" he says getting up. I head out the door, calling over my shoulder. "Sure, but I'm not sure you can keep up!" He sprints our after me, yelling, "NEVER UNDERESTIMATE ME!" I look over my shoulder to see him pounding after me. "Alright, maybe you can keep up, but I wasn't even running." I sprint off the edge on to another building with ease. "And just asking, you single?!" I called. He jumps off the roofs into a long alleyway. "Now what would bring this question up while we're free running?" I stumbled a little, and he used this to jump up to a higher roof and get ahead. I blushed furiously, attempting to hide it. "I-I mean- um- never mind!" I say quickly. He stops, and the motion brings me to a halt too. He comes down and looks at me, slowly coming closer until our noses are a foot away. "I assume as you asked me, you care for me as I do." He says with a smile that seemed to burn at my heart. "Wh-what? What d-do you mean?" I say, my words falling out in a rush. "In the time we've been running, I've grown fond of you. Anyway, you should be getting to training now. Catch you later!" He replies. He takes to the roofs and hops his way back to headquarters. My neck tingled from where his breath touched me. My heart pounded hard as I watched him until he was simply a small figure in the distance. I figured he was right, I should probably get to training now, so I ran after him.