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P.S. I REWROTE THE SCENE BETWEEN PETER AND TRIS IN ABNEGATION! TRIS WAS R-A-P-E-D BY HIM NOW. BECAUSE THIS WILL BE A NO-WAR AND I HAVE PLANS!
Chapter XIII. He's Not My Boyfriend
TRIS
The next day, we awake to Eric's loud, stern voice piercing through the dormitory.
"Initiates! Meet me by the train tracks in five minutes!" I groan, matching the chorus of groans coming from my fellow initiates, and sit up.
"Why?" I blurt out.
He glares at me. "Why do you think?"
I roll my eyes and scowl. "That's why I asked," I snap. "Gee, I thought you were smarter than that dumbass." I say under my breath, but Christina bursts out laughing.
Eric rolls his eyes and walks out of the dormitory.
After Christina, Will, and I get ready in four minutes, we run to meet up with the other initiates at the train tracks and stand behind Four and Eric, who have their backs turned against us.
I hear a horn, and I break into a sprint, I jump onto the train and I help up Christina, who helps up Will. I can tell he's still sore from fights yesterday.
We ride in the car with all the other initiates, Eric, and Four. When I see Peter and his group limping, I have to refrain a laugh.
It doesn't succeed.
"What are you laughing about Stiff?" Peter snaps.
I smirk and nudge Will and Christina. "Oh nothing. Except, I'm just proud of our handiwork."
"BURN!" Christina yells, and the car booms in laughter. Edward fist-bumps me. He did help with the problem, he whooped Molly's ugly butt.
"Am I going to have to listen to your bickering all the way to the fence?" Four snaps.
It's amazing how fast the car can be engulfed with silence.
No one dares to say a word.
But Christina being her normal Candor self blurts something out.
"What do you think is out there? I mean, beyond the fence?"
I shrug. "A bunch of farms, I guess."
She rolls her eyes. "Yeah, but I mean...past the farms. What are we guarding the city from?"
"Monsters!" I tease and make hand motions. She smiles and rolls her eyes.
-o0o-
I zone out until the train wheels screech and the whole train car stops with a jolt forward. We hop off the train car, but before I can get off the train, Peter tries to shove me, but I turn around at the last second and trip him, resulting with him falling off the train face-first.
Christina, Will, Edward, and I burst out laughing. Myra is way too caring for everyone, even people as bad as Peter. I would never be.
"Follow me." Four beckons us forward. We do as told, and he stops at the gate with Eric.
"If you don't rank in the top five at the end of initiation, you will probably end up here. Once you are a fence guard, there is some potential for advancement, but not much. You may be able to go on patrols beyond Amity's farms, but-" He is cut off by Will.
"Patrols for what purpose?" His voice drips with curiosity.
"I suppose you'll discover that if you find yourself among them." Eric adds in.
"As I was saying," Four continues. "For the most part, those who guard the fence when they are young continue to guard the fence. If it comforts you, some of them insist that it isn't as bad as it seems."
"What rank were you?" Peter asks.
"I was first." He replies, looking at him levelly in the eye. Eric looks down and scowls slightly at the ground.
It really isn't hard to believe. Just looking at Four, you could tell how much he belongs in Dauntless.
"And you chose to do this? Why didn't you become a leader?"
His job isn't that bad. I'd love to scare the shit out of some initiates.
"I didn't want to." His voice goes flat.
We are led to the next gate. Four talks to the woman guarding that gate, and they talk for a bit.
I see an Amity truck to our left and I notice a familiar looking boy hop off of the truck.
"Beatrice?" I turn around.
"Robert?" Once I see him, I'm surprised how handsome he actually is. That beauty had to be hidden in Abnegation, just like mine.
His kind hazel eyes and curly blond hair stand out with his grey shirt and blue jeans. If Abnegation is being threated with articles from the Erudite, it's Caleb's, Robert's, and my fault. Susan didn't transfer.
He embraces me in a hug, the traditional Amity greeting. I hug back.
"Beatrice? What happened?!" He asks, referring to the large bruises on my arms from fights and from hanging from the chasm.
"Just Dauntless initiation."
"How are you?" I ask.
He smiles. "Just great! Amity initiation is so much fun!"
"So Beatrice, how are you?"
"Beatrice?" I hear a nasally voice say. I turn around to be face to face-well, face to dog-with Molly.
"Is that your real name, Stiff?"
"What did you think Tris was short for?" I snap.
"Oh, I don't know...weakling?" She touches her bruised chin, courtesy of Edward.
"Oh wait, that doesn't start with Tris. My mistake."
"There's no need to antagonize her," Robert says softly. "I'm Robert, and you are?"
"Someone who doesn't care what your name is," she snaps. "Why don't you get back in your truck? We're not supposed to fraternize with other faction members."
"Why don't you get away from us?" I snap.
"Right. Wouldn't want to get between you and your boyfriend," She says and walks away smirking. I blush.
Robert gives me a sad look. "They don't seem like nice people."
"Some of them aren't." I clench my fists that I want to put into their faces.
"You could go home, you know. I'm sure Abnegation would make an exception for you."
My blood boils. "What makes you think I want to go home?" I belong in Dauntless.
And Erudite.
And Abnegation.
You know what, Divergent brain, shut up.
"You think I can't handle this or something?"
He shakes his head. "It's not that. It's not that you can't, it's that you shouldn't have to. You should be happy."
"This is what I chose. This is it." I say. I look over his shoulder to see that the Dauntless guards have just finished up examining the Amity truck.
"Besides, Robert. The goal of my life isn't just...to be happy."
"Wouldn't it be easier if it was, though?" he says.
Not if I'm Divergent.
Before I can answer, I feel a pair of lips on mine and my eyes widen in shock. The soft lips pull back and Robert looks at the ground, blushing. I blush and avoid eye contact.
"I-I had to do that. Just once." (AN: GALE! HG MOMENT THERE FANGIRLIES! P.S. REMEMBER THAT ROBERT USED TO LIKE TRIS)
I nod, and he hops back into the truck, next to an Amity girl playing a banjo, and the truck drives away.
I stand there, shocked. It could've been inferred that he liked me, but I never knew it was true.
If I had stayed in Abnegation, we probably would've been married, and Susan and Caleb would've married too.
The Dauntless guards close the gate and lock it behind them. The lock is on the outside. I frown.
Why would they lock the gate from the outside and not in the inside?
It almost seems like they don't want to keep something out.
They want to keep us in.
I push the thought out of my head.
I look up and see Four standing in front of me.
"I am worried you have a knack for making unwise decisions," he says with venom in his voice.
Is he jealous?
He probably thinks Robert is my boyfriend after he kissed me.
I cross my arms.
"It was a two-minute conversation."
"And a kiss."
Yeah, he's jealous.
"I don't think a smaller time frame makes it any less unwise," he continues with eyebrows furrowed. He touches the corner of my bruised eye with his gentle fingertips.
My head jerks back but his fingers remain, the spark erupting.
He tilts his head and sighs. "You know, I don't think that during your fight against Peter wasn't just fighting. It was personal." I gulp.
"What do you mean? Lots of things could be personal for me. Like when I had to hang from the chasm and you weren't there, could that have been personal?" I snap.
He sighs. "It wasn't something I wanted to watch."
What's that supposed to mean?
He clears his throat. "Looks like the next train is here. Time to go, Tris."
He walks away leaving me stunned.
Just a little bit less than when Robert kissed me.
I catch up with Christina who pulls me up onto the car and helps up Will. Eric closes the car door and we ride back home, mildly talking.
"So, Tris, I saw you kiss that Amity boy. Ooooooo!" Christina says grinning, wiggling her eyebrows suggestively. I see Four in the corner of my eye frown.
I overhear Peter and his gang talking about Robert.
Molly must've told them about Robert being my 'boyfriend', and it didn't help that he kissed me.
"No. He's a neighbor from Abnegation. And he kissed me. AND WE ARE NOT DATING." I say loudly, so everyone else who believed the rumor hears.
Christina frowns. "But he was H-O-T HOT!"
I smirk. "Hotter than Will?" He blushes and Christina blushes.
I stick out my tongue at her, and she does the same.
"Ladies, ladies, calm down." Will says separating us.
"Will, calm down, are you on your man-period or something?" I say playfully and Christina bursts out laughing.
"Not funny." He says.
I crack up.
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