I really did not like our uniforms. They were black, maroon, and dark gray. Christina seemed to notice as I played with my shirt and tried to adjust my plaid skirt in the mirror.

"It's fine. I don't like using the uniform either, but hey," she said while rolling her eyes. "It's sort of school policy."

I grabbed my bag and followed her downstairs to meet up with Tris and Marlene. Marlene hugged me tightly and kept apologizing.

"I knew I shouldn't have told her," whispered Tris.

"Told her what," questioned Christina.

"As you can see, I didn't tell her," I said nodding towards Christina with a smile.

Tris laughed and pulled me away before Christina couldn't question us further. I remembered that Aidan said they tried the same thing with Tris last year. She probably didn't want anyone to look at her any differently, just like how I was feeling at this exact moment. We decided to skip breakfast in the cafeteria and head straight towards the assembly hall. People were so loud in there. We sat down towards the front because they all apparently had to make a short appearance on stage. About a few minutes later, all the guys came to sit behind us.

"You okay," asked Uriah.

I turned to see all of them had the same expression of concern played on their face, except Eric who looked away when we made eye contact. Figures everyone would know.

"Yea, I'm good. Uriah and Four," I said as I looked at them both. "Thanks for helping Tris get me back to my room." Four just smiled and nodded. I couldn't begin to think how he felt reliving the moment with Tris probably in his mind. That's probably one reason why he rushed over to help Tris with me.

"It was no biggie. Just glad to see you're okay," said Uriah smiling.

I looked over at Aidan who gave me a stern look and then nodded towards Eric. I gave him look telling him that I really didn't want to talk to him. Aidan began with another strong stare down. I let out a breath, knowing he wouldn't let up.

"Thank you too Eric," I said quickly and softly.

He looked up at me and right when his mouth opened to say something I turned around and threw myself back in the chair. I guess I was still mad about what I saw the second day I got here and I wasn't about to just forget it.

Sure enough the assembly started with Principal Max Phifer giving a small speech about the upcoming year, welcoming the new students and ensuring how he would be proud of us. Several class counselors went up, along with coaches and student captains, such as Shauna, Tris, Lauren, and Molly.

Elections would start next week for class and club presidents, along with tryouts for fall sports. This week, they wanted all of us to get used to our classes first.

I walked to the science building between Drew and Uriah. In the front of us walked Eric and Peter. That's exactly how we sat in class, with Eric in front of me, Peter and Drew to the right and Uriah on my left.

After we got out Eric and Drew walked me up to the top floor where the math classrooms were. I noticed I was between all the guys again. Aidan in the front, Eric to my right, with Zeke and Four on my left and Drew just in front of Eric. Aidan rarely let me get out of my seat. I couldn't even walk over to talk to Lauren or Marlene.

When I got up quickly to hurry away to the social sciences and government building, it finally hit me, Aidan really was really going to have me under watch. Right on my tail was Zeke and Eric. I grabbed Marlene and told her to hide me. Shauna came up beside us and asked what was wrong.

"Distract your boyfriend, so I can get away," I whispered to her as I pulled Marlene along in the class.

We sat down towards the left side of the classroom and let out a breath of relief when I saw Shauna guide Zeke a couple seats in front of us. My victory was short-lived, because there Eric came to sit down behind me.

"Really, you all don't need to do this."

"Do what," he said trying to ask oblivious to what was going on.

"You know what I'm talking about," I snapped at him. He just smiled and leaned back in his chair.

"Sorry, I don't like to assume things about people," he said while his smile turned to that flirtatious look I saw the first day we met.

I turned around in my chair trying not to think about how that smile made me feel. You're angry with him, remember? I know Gollum!

I was somewhat glad that I could walk with Marlene to lunch. Of course, Aidan's football squad was right behind me. I sat down by Lauren who could tell I was upset. I told her about yesterday and how Aidan was being overprotective much. She laughed it off and agreed that she would get Peter to back down.

Fourth period was probably my favorite class. I had mostly the girls in there, with a couple of Aidan's friends, not to mention Eric who would occasionally glance in my direction. On the way to Fifth, Eric was waiting outside the classroom.

"Are you in all of my classes?"

He smirked and then nodded. Great, I thought to myself. The one guy I seemed to dislike so much, I had to see almost all day!

"Look," he said stopping me before we reached the next class. "I know you're trying to decide on whether you trust me or not."

"I don't trust you! I don't even like being by you."

"Are you sure? Yesterday, you couldn't really take your hands off of me," he said as he stepped closer. If he threw that smile on his face, I knew I was probably going to melt inside. I forced my eyes to the ground.

"I was drugged, genius. Besides I know you're only doing this because Aidan told you all to watch over me when he's not around."

"Well, thank you for thinking I'm a genius," he said jokingly. This time I had to look up at him. Aw! That stupid smile! "And yeah, Aidan did ask some of us to watch you." This time his smile disappeared and his face softened. "You're his sister. He just wants to make sure that you're safe. Can't really blame him for that now can you," he finished almost whispering it to me.

I never thought I would hear him speak so caring and soothing. Man, he was good.

"Even if you don't like being by me, can you at least put on a smile for your brother, before we get into class?"

I looked away. I didn't want him to make me smile. Or did I? He must have seen my dilemma, because his hand brushed my cheek. I smiled slightly and so did he. But he didn't end up moving to take me to class. It was like we were both stuck there in the hallway. I reluctantly turned to glance towards the classroom door and saw Aidan inside.

"Thanks," I said softly then turned back to him. His smile was different, it was kind. "For being Aidan's friend," I finished. His smile went away and he looked down and nodded.

When Aidan looked up, I mustered a smile and sat down next to him. I tried my hardest to focus on the class syllabus and outline for the year, but my mind would drift to the boy sitting behind Aidan. I still had one more class to go. And that class had Eric.

I was somewhat glad the last class was PE. We were assigned lockers and uniforms. Not to mention that in there were the applications for various sports. Christina already filled out one for me for cheer. She just needed my signature which I reluctantly signed. I grabbed the application for Volleyball and handed it to Lauren. She said she told Drew to ease up too, but also warned me that Aidan probably wouldn't be happy that I was attempting to escape secret service protection. Tris asked if I would be into basketball in the spring and I told her I might do softball.

I met a few other girls and then we took a tour of the track and football field, the gym which altered as volleyball and basketball courts. Not to mention we walked by the tennis court and even the pools.

We didn't see the guys until after the bell rang. Lynn took me to library after to sign me in so I could get access to the computers and other resources there. I went with Myra, a girl I met from PE to the student services office to pick up my ID and lunch card. She was so sweet. She took me down to the college center to see what I had to do to finalize my application for DU. I never thought I would be so exhausted. As I made my way back my dorm room, I scrolled through my phone. There were eleven missed calls, four from Aidan, four from Christina, one from Tris, one from Lauren, and one from Edward. Then it hit me that I didn't tell Aidan where I was going.

Right before I opened the door to get into my room, I heard yelling from the stairwell. I wasn't going to turn around. I just wasn't. But somehow my feet didn't listen and neither did my hand. I was moved to the stairwell and opened the door to find Eric with another girl.