Chapter 9
"That looks like something… IT LOOKS LIKE FUN! CAN I JOIN IN?! Please?" Christina says with puppy dog eyes.
"Uhhh… yeah I guess." Replies Lynn whilst dancing around the living room of my house with Marlene on a spinny chair and doing Marlene's makeover and she looks pretty fantastic to be honest. "Oh. My. God. Did Tris do your makeup Chris?"
"Yes. It is pretty amazing isn't it. I love the little flick you did at the corners of my eyes."
"And I thought that I had completely messed it up!"
"Well, you didn't. Now can we get on with our drinking game? Please…" Then we all look at each other and look back at Lynn's puppy dog face and we all nod and she squeals. "Well, we are going to play never have I ever followed by the are you nervous game. Sound good?"
"Yeah," I say, "But how do you play either of them." I think that people forget that I come from Abnegation. Then Lynn starts to explain.
"To play Never Have I Ever all you need to do is say 'Never have I ever…' and then state something that you have never done before and if you have done that then you have to take a drink for example, if I said 'Never have I ever… been to another faction's headquartters' then everyone who has would have to take a drink. And to play the are you nervous game you have to get someone to start at the bottom of you and ask you 'are you nervous?' you have to answer with no until it gets too difficult to say no and then you give up and the person who goes the longest without saying 'yes' wins the game. Get it?"
"Yeah." I say. "Let us begin."
And we do. "I will start." Says Christina. "Never have I ever been into the control room here." Lynn and Marlene take a drink.
"Never have I ever tasted alcohol." All the others take a drink but they look astonished "In Abnegation, they do not drink at all. Alcohol that is."
"Never have I ever met Marcus Eaton." Me and Lynn take a drink and I look questioningly at her
"Well, he came here on my visiting day but I have never quite worked out why he was in Dauntless not in Abnegation."
"And he used to come round my house for tea every week because my Father worked with him and I knew his son because I would go out into the street when Marcus came round my house for tea and I would go to his house because he wasn't allowed out very often so I would go and talk to him. When his father got back he would stall him in the hall whilst I climbed out of his bedroom window and got out to my garden where I was actually supposed to be." I say.
"Anyway, Never have I ever won more than three fights in initiation." Says Marlene. Lynn takes a drink.
"Never have I ever seen Marlene's apartment." Says Chris and Lynn and Marlene (Obviously) take a drink.
"Never have I ever met Uriah/Lynn/Marlene's family." I say and Lynn takes three drinks and so does Marlene and Chris takes one.
"Never have I ever broken something. On my body that is." Says Lynn and Marlene and Chris take a drink and I just sit there feeling smug.
"Never have I ever known someone transferred to Erudite." Says Marlene and I take a drink.
"Never have I ever kissed an Abnegation." Says Christina. At that I have to take three drinks.
"Never have I ever fallen off that building that the dauntless climb after school the one outside the upper levels building." I say and only Marlene takes a drink.
"Well, it was the year before last and I was climbing it then I fell and some Abnegation went and got the nurse for me."
"I KNEW YOU LOOKED FAMILIAR!"
"Was that you Tris?" asks Marlene
"No." I say sarcastically "Yeah it was anyway I couldn't just leave you there but I was so impressed when I went to get the nurse because I was imitating the dauntless by doing all of those flips and everything to get there and I didn't even get a graze from it. I always knew that I didn't belong in Abnegation but I knew that if I could get the courage to pick dauntless at the choosing ceremony then I thought that I would have earned my place for multiple reasons. Some of which I will not tell you at this moment in time.
"Moving on. Never have I ever answered something in class." Says Lynn. Mar and Chris take a drink.
"Well, in my class I was like a grey splodge in amongst a sea of blue and black and white. I was the only Abnegation in the top set for pretty much everything… except faction history. That subject gave me the creeps."
"Never have I ever been on the roof of dauntless in only my underwear." Says a little bit tipsy Marlene. Lynn takes a drink
"Never have I ever shouted at my siblings." Says Christina. Me, lynn and Marlene take a drink.
"Never have I ever kissed an Erudite." I say and Chris takes a drink.
"Never have I ever had sex." To my great happiness nobody takes a drink.
"Never have I ever met anyone who transferred to abnegation." I take a drink. "Who did you know?"
""Well, do you remember the Erudite at the choosing ceremony? The only one to transfer? It was my best friend that convinced him to transfer to Abnegation."
"Now tell the whole truth Tris." Christina says with a patronising look.
"Well… my uhhh… my… my Mum was Dauntless and then she and my dad fell in love and transferred to Abnegation together."
"Never have I ever been completely knocked out." Says Lynn. Me and Marlene take a drink and smile at each other.
"Never have I ever kissed Zeke." Says Marlene and Lynn smiles sarcastically and takes a drink
"Nobody can know about this. Understood?" because we know what will happen if we don't we all nod.
"Never have I ever fangirled about something." Says Chris and I take a drink.
"Never have I ever kissed Will on the lips." I say looking at Christina. She takes a drink. By now she is getting quite drunk. I think I am more drunk though.
"Never have I ever gotten so drunk that I cant remember what happened." Christina and Lynn take a drink.
"Never have I ever had less than 7 fears in my fear landscape. I have been through since the end of initiation. Four let me."
"That is not fricking fair! I have 6! I hate you Lynn."
"Wait, I need to go to sleep because it is 5 in the morning and I have a meeting in the morning. Get out and we can start a new game with everybody playing ok."