Chapter 2:

It is the first time I excessively consume alcohol. I get drunk. The alcohol is a rather unpleasant bitter taste, but after a while I barely notice. There is heavy music echoing through the Pit. Everyone is dancing, drinking, cheering, laughing, celebrating their new Dauntless members. I sway around drunkenly to the music, laughing at the jokes and holding on the Tobias for fear of falling over.
"I think that gone straight to your head." Tobias says as he turns to face me, after catching me as a almost fell down, tripping on my own feet. I laugh.
"I ti-ink so." I hiccup, he chuckles at me.
"I'm going to put her to bed." He tells Christina. She thanks him again for finding a room for her and Will. He tells Zeke we're going and asks him to keep an eye on 'them' meaning the other initiates.

It's weird being drunk. Everything sways, I feel strange, but not in a bad way. It's hard to describe, fuzzy? Tobias helps me as we stumble up to his apartment. I find his stubble very funny for some reason, I laugh at it and he laughs at me.

We reach his room and he lets me go momentarily to close the door. I turn to look at his bed, It has never looked so bouncy. I ran at it jumping just before I get to hit, spinning and landing on it on my back. I land on it and bounce high. I laugh joyfully. I like being drunk.
"Careful, Tris." Tobias says chuckling.

Tobias lets me bounce around for a little bit, then forces me to have a shower. He runs the water and leaves for me to shower, guaranteeing that he'll be just outside if I need him. I undress and get into his large white tiled shower. The water feels amazing on my clammy skin. I use his soap that smells like sandalwood and musk, lathering my body in bubbles. After I'm clean I step out of the shower, it'd seems to have cleared my head, but the alcohol is still taking affect. I just have time to wrap a towel around me before slipping on the wet floor a falling to the ground, catching myself, stopping any injuries, I just lay on the floor and laugh at my clumsiness. There's a loud knock on the door Tobias calls "Tris, are you okay?" His voice is thick with concern. I just continue to laugh, the door creaks open.
"Can I come in?" he asks, through the barely opened door.
"If you want to." I say between laughs. "I could use some help getting up." I admit. He opens the door and step in, he immediately find me on the floor smiling up at him. He smiles back an chuckles.
"How'd you get down there?" He asks, raising an eyebrow. An innocent look appears of my face as I shrug. He chuckles again and reaches down to help me up. He grabs one of my hands as my other grips my towel, keeping it closed and myself covered.

Tobias tells me to borrow whatever I want to sleep in and goes to have a shower himself. I open his draws, and unsurprisingly, everything is black. I choose one of his tshirts and put it on. I was going to find some shorts, but they'd all be too big, they would just fall down. Tobias is much bigger than me, his shirt reaches halfway down my thighs. I decide that his shirt and underwear will do just fine and crawl into his bed. It's so comfortable and warm I fall instantly to sleep.

I wake the next morning too a head splitting ache, it feels like something is hammering my brain. I'm wrapped in Tobias' arms. We are in his bed, in his apartment. I feel slightly disorientated; I don't recall going to sleep last night. It'd hard to think with the pounding pain in my head, last night the rankings were announced. There was a celebration. There was alcohol, oh, alcohol. I've heard that after you consume excessive amounts of alcohol you wake with a headache and feel ill, there's a name for it I don't quite recall.
"Good morning." Tobias greet sluggishly, voice thick from sleep.
"Not the best." I respond, raising my hand to my temple. He smile as a nuzzle my face into the crook of his neck.
"You have a hangover?" He asks. Hangover, that's what people call it. It is very unpleasant.
"Yes." I respond and groan. Next time I think about drinking, I just have to remember how I feel right now, I really do not like this.
"That's not good. We should probably get out of bed." He suggests.
"I don't want to." I dispute. I don't want to move, I don't want to leave his arms, I don't want to lose his warmth, I just don't want to move at all, it will make my head hurt more.
"Neither do I. Today is the day you'll choose your job with Dauntless though, which is very important. That begins at noon, and it's eleven." He explains. Woah, eleven? I haven't slept in this late in... I don't think I have every slept in this late. We should defiantly get out of bed. I groan as I roll to the edge of the bed. I through my legs over the edge and brace myself as I sit up slowly. I hang my head as a fresh wave of pain courses through my head.
"I like that look." Tobias says looking down at me. He's walked around the bed to my side, he looking down at me. I remember then that I am only wearing his t-shirt. I have never been this exposed in front of him before. It doesn't bother me as much as I thought it might. I am covered up in the important places. In fact I'm the direct opposite of him, only wearing his t-shirt and he is wearing only a pair of thin cotton pants that are slightly too long, dragging on the floor. I can see the band from his underwear pop over the top. He is shirtless, the hard planes of his chest bare, the Dauntless flames creeping forward.
"I like yours." I never thought I would admit I enjoyed seeing Tobias in a lack of clothing. I love watching the ways his skins pulls over his muscles, very clearly outlining the six distinct muscles in his abdomen, the 'v' shape that practically points to... a part of him I really should not be thinking about. His body makes my flustered in a way I have never felt before. It terrifies me that my mind in contemplating the other parts of his body I'm yet to know.

After getting dressed back into my own clothes in the bathroom, brushing my hair and washing my face to remove the smudged eyeliner, Tobias and I walk - hand in hand – too the pit where almost the entire faction had gathered. I spot Christina and Will and guide Tobias over to them. Before I can say a word Max's voice booms.
"Today, our newest members will be choosing their career path here at Dauntless. Their rankings will determine their choices. A list of jobs has been written on the board, we will proceed by rank, when you are called please come forward to the board and make your decision. First, out highest ranked, Tris." Max looks to me as someone pulls a sheet away from the board four options a written with ten corresponding spots for names. It also shows how many points you get allocated a month in doing a certain job, this is the currency of the Dauntless faction. It reads,

Dauntless Leadership (50 points)

City security (45 points)

Control Room (45 points)

Weapons manufacture (40 points)

Perimeter guard (40 points)

Factionless monitor (35 points)

I had been thinking yesterday that I wanted to become part of the Dauntless leadership, to be the one who represents Dauntless among the faction meetings, to be able to communicate with other factions. Possibly interact with my family, my father is in Abnegation leadership, maybe I could see them again. Would my father even want to see me after I abandoned them? He didn't come on visiting day, maybe is was just too soon for him. Everyone is looking at me now, I have to make a choice. I don't know if I choose Dauntless leadership if they'll let me choose how i'm involved in it. There only one spot because one of the elder Dauntless leaders past away a few months ago. We all know you don't grow old in Dauntless. I walk up to the board and grab hold of the chalk. I raise my arm, and print Tris beside 'Duauntless leadership', a loud cheer roars from the crowd. I can only hope now that they will allow me to choose what branch of leadership I would like to be involved in.

The rest of the new members choose their jobs, Uriah chose after me, he chose 'Control room', which doesn't surprise me seeing as thought that is where his brother, Zeke, works. Will and Christina both choose perimeter guards. It's not the most desirable job but for both of them it was that or Fanctionless monitoring. To stand around all day with guns pointed at the Fanctionless hoping they don't try and kill each other or break any rules.

After we had all chosen our future, the crowd cleared out and went back to their daily activities. Max and Eric also leave, Lauren and Tobias are for what seems for the final time, our instructors.
"Okay," Tobias says, stepping forward and dropping my hand. "There are three options for housing here at Dauntless, two for transfers. You can choose to live again with your families if you are Dauntless born, this option is free of charge and obviously if you are a transfer you don't have that option. Otherwise there are shared rooms that can live up to ten comfortably, much like your initiate dorms, these will cost you two points a month or personal apartment for one a two people, these are five points a month." I had never thought about this, was I going to get my own place or was I just going to move in with Tobias. I shouldn't just make the assumption that he'd want me too, maybe he dosn't. I guess I'll just wait and talk to him about that later.
"If you chose to live with your families, all you have to do is go to the record office and tell them. You can always change your mind in the future." Lauren instructs. Two of the Dauntless born initiates leave, obviously choosing to stay with their family. "If you are interested in sharing come with me, if you would like personal apartments, go with Four." She continues, she turns and heads for the dormitories. Uriah, Lynn, Marlene and the one remaining Dauntless born I don't know the name of leave with her. It seems ironic that it is only the transfers remaining, Christina, Will, Myself and Peter.
"Okay, come on." Tobias says and heads in the general direction of his apartment. "Did you guys want to stay together in the one I found for you last night?" Tobias asks Christina and Will. They don't even pause, they've obviously though about this.
"Yes." They answer in unison, smiling at each other.
"Well, that's easy. I'll have to take you guys all to fill out forms, so just tag along while we find somewhere for Peter." Tobias answers. We stop walking at the beginning of a hallway.
"Pick one." Tobias instructs Peter. "Any one with a Red marker on the handle." Peter walks off down the hallway, opening doors, stepping in for a moment and moving on. Tobias grabs my arm and pull me aside away from Christina and Will, just out of earshot for them.
"What would you like to do?" He asks me. I just stare up at him. I don't want my own apartment, I have a feeling I would just spend all my time in his apartment anyway. "I guess this is supposed to be a little more formal, but did you want to live with me?" He smiles as he asks me. He seems to like the idea. I don't think he's asking me because he thinks that what I want, I think he really does want me to live with him.
"Yes." I say reaching up to kiss him.
"139." Peter says, coming back up to us. Tobias breaks the kiss and smiles at me.

We all go to the record office where the other initiates have already arrived. They are scattered around the room filling out forms. It's a small room with one black desk topped with a single computer, several filling cabinets line the wall behind the woman sitting at the desk, she is short and curvy with long black wavy hair and a singular silver ring in her left nostril. We all finish filling out our forms, Tobias adding his apartment as my address. I love the idea of living with him, never having to sleep alone again without his arms wrapped around me.

"Got your own place, Tris?" Uriah asks, coming up to me as we begin to leave the record office. Tobias come up on my other side wrapping his arm around my shoulders.
"She's staying with me actually." Tobias says, almost proudly. Uriah's eyes widen.
"Really?" He asks. He smiles. "Awesome." He says simply. I would certainly count Uriah as a friend. He's very funny, kind and positive.
"Four has a roommate." A voice comes from behind us, startling me. "Well, I'll be." It's Zeke. We turn and he has a big smile on his face.
"What would you like, Zeke?" Tobias asks.
"Actually, I need your girlfriend." He replies, looking to me. I can't help the warm fuzzy feeling I get when he refers to me as Tobias' girlfriend.
"Me?" I ask, taken aback. Why could Zeke need me?
"Yeah, the leaders want to talk to you about your new job." Zeke Explains. This is going to be a very important meeting, my future depends on this conversation.
"They're in Max's office." He turns to Tobias, "I'm guessing you can show her where that is." Tobias nods and Zeke leaves, after clapping Uriah on the shoulder.

Tobias shows me to Max's office, when I get there, it's only Max. I was expecting there to be all the other Dauntless leaders there.
"Come in, Tris." Max invites. "It's nice to see you Tobias, feel free to join if you would like." I am very thankful Max told Tobias he can stay, i don't want to say anything wrong or, i'm not really sure what I could do, but i was this meeting to run smoothly. Tobias can make that happen.
"Thank you, Max. It'd good to see you too." Tobias says, Max smiles at him briefly before turning his attention back to me.
"Have you thought about what exactly you would like to do with leadership?" Max asks.
"Yes." It's true, i have done a lot of thinking, "I would like to be the ambassador for Dauntless."
"That currently comes under my duties, which are certainly plentiful..." He ponders, looking off into space. He turns back to me. "If that is what you wish, I would be glad to mentor you into that position. One less duty on my plate." He answers with a sincere smile. I'm not sure how old Max is, maybe early 30's. He face has developed wrinkles, particularly evident when he smiles. He is what constitutes as 'middle-aged' in Dauntless. You don't live far past your 50's, if you do; you are kindly kicked out to live Factionless.

He agreed. Max has agreed to let me have the job I desired, I will speak on behalf of Dauntless to the other factions. I'd like to think I am the kind of person you can't be corrupted, I think that is a very important quality for someone that holds influence and power.

Max will be pretty much have me tag along with him to Dauntless leadership meetings and to the faction meets where the ambassadors from all the factions meet at the hub to discuss important issues. I'm very happy with the outcome of this meeting, i'm glad that I might be able to make a difference.

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- Kayla