Chapter 3
Chocolate Cake

After that, I close the door and lead my hand to my forehead. I am such an idiot.

.xx.

I open my dorm room, to see Christina unpacking her stuff.

She was hanging her clothes on the closet.

"Hi Bea!" she says.

"Bea?" I raise an eyebrow.

"Don't you like it? I mean, Beatrice is such a long name to call." She picks up a black dress and hangs it, not looking at me.

"I prefer Tris over Bea."

"Tris?" She looks at me, this time. "I love it! How did you thought of that so quickly? I've been here all morning trying to shorten you name and the best I could think of was Bea."

"My brother is the only one who calls me that. Since we were little kids." I grin

"You have a brother? Is he cute?"

"Christina!" I laugh "He as a girlfriend!"

"I was just asking, god." She grins. "The last school I went was all girls. Can you imagine that?"

Actually, I can. My class last year was only girls. It was such a weird town. There were classes only for boys and only for girls. But I liked it there, though.

"Nooo!" I say trying to look shocked. "How did you survive in there?"

She just throws a black long sleeve shirt at me.

I gave her, her shirt back and went to the bathroom.

After doing what people usually do in bathrooms, I get out, still buttoning my jeans.

"Oh Tris." Christina says shocked.

"Wha-" Before I can finish the sentence, she drops all the clothes she has in her hands to the floor and before I can even ask her what's wrong she runs towards me, and tucks the left side of my grey shirt in my high-waisted jeans.

"If you are wearing high-waisted jeans, at least show them! I thought they were regular jeans. What's the point of wearing high-waisted ones if you wear them like regulars?"

I don't even bother arguing, I just look at her.

"Don't look at me like that." She smiles. "It's not like I changed your whole outfit."

My eyes widen as I remember what happened earlier with that boy.

"Christina?" I ask shyly. She looks at me.

"I accidentally entered the dorm of a boy when he was about to change."

Her eyes widen and her jaw drops.

"Are you serious? When?" she rushes towards me. "Was he cute?"

"Like 5 minutes ago. And yes, he was. He had such a cute smile!"

"I ran into a boy this morning, he was so cute I almost died."

"Maybe we ran into the same guy!"

"I doubt that. What was his name?" She asks raising an eyebrow.

"Oh, about that..."

"YOU DIDN'T ASK HIM HIS NAME?" she yells.

"I forgot! I don't usually end up in the room of a boy. I was embarrassed! It's not like you asked your guy for his name." I roll my eyes.

"Well," She says grabbing my arm. "we are going over there. And oh, mine it's Will."

I stop her, not allowing her to get out of the room.

"No we aren't. I don't even know the guy. Unlike you and your boy."

We were interrupted by a bell ringing.

"LUNCH TIME, NICE!" Christina says, forgetting about all the boys we were just talking about.

Again, she grabs my arms and leads me to the stairs. The hallway it's full of people dressed in black, yelling and talking, all headed to the stairs.

I grabbed her arm also. I don't want to get lost in here. I don't know anyone in Dauntless besides her.

When we reach the fourth floor I notice that no one takes the elevator.

"Are we really going by the stairs?" I say loudly to Christina.

"I don't know," She yells also. "but I guess so!"

She tried to say something else, but I could only hear the noise the Dauntless were making.

When we arrived we saw nothing but a huge lunch line.

We joined the same line that all the Dauntless joined. I looked around and saw 5 lines. Since all the Dauntless were together, I guessed each line stands for each floor.

I look for Caleb but I can't find him. I just see a bunch of people.

"My sister told me Dauntless chocolate cake is the best." I heard a girl say behind me.

"Really? I need to try it!" another girl said.

"Chocolate?" Christina says, turning to them.

"Do I know you?" the girl with shaved hair asked.

"Not yet." Christina smiles. "I am Christina."

The girl with the shaved hair just rolls her eyes, but the dark blonde girl next to her smiles and says "I am Marlene, and this is Lynn."

"This is Beatrice." Christina says pointing at me. "I mean, Tris."

"Hi!" Marlene squeals.

"Did I heard Lynn correctly? There is chocolate cake in here?" Christina asks.

Lynn doesn't says a thing, she just crosses her arms in front of her. But Marlene shoves her with her elbow.

"Just be nice this year, Lynn. About the chocolate cake," she turns to me and Christina "her sister is a senior, she told her Dauntless have the best cake in the world."

"I can't wait to try it!" Christina says with a huge grin on her face.

"What's chocolate?" I say.

Christina, Marlene and even Lynn turn to me.

"Are you kidding me?" Lynn snaps. "Are you even human?"

"My parents never bought chocolate. They only bought organic stuff. Blame them, not me."

Christina throws her right arm on my shoulders and points to someone's tray passing by at that moment.

"Now that's chocolate."

"And I am guessing that is the chocolate cake?" I say

"Exactly." Marlene says and Lynn just rolls her eyes.

"Did that guy had a pizza slice on his tray?" Lynn quickly said.

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After a long time of waiting in the line and bonding with Marlene, it was finally our turn. Yes, bonding with Marlene. Lynn refused to talk to us for some strange reason. She just stood there with her arms crossed.

Christina was the first to get her tray, and I was second.

I picked out a slice of pizza, some green salad, and a slice of chocolate cake. I also grabbed an apple, in case I didn't like the chocolate.

I followed Christina to a table, and sat in front of her. Marlene joined us, but Lynn disappeared.

"What is wrong with Lynn?" Christina asks Marlene.

"She is always like that. Don't be bothered, she'll end up being nice eventually."

"Where is her, anyways?"

"She is probably in the seniors table next to her sister." Marlene pointed to the table.

I looked there, and there it was. The boy whose room I entered.

Christina followed my gaze and looked at me. I could see in her expression what she was thinking about, so I just nod.

"Who are they?" Christina asked curious.

"Okay, so." Marlene started. "Lynn is sitting next to her sister, Shauna. Shauna is next to her boyfriend Zeke. Zeke is next to his little brother Uriah. The other ones I don't know."

"Uriah..." I repeat. He was the boy I met earlier. He was smiling.

"Yea, he is so cute." Marlene says.

The other ones Marlene was referring to were a black haired guy with greasy hair and lots of piercings in his ear, a girl with beautiful black hair, and another boy with a tight black muscle t, that kind of showed his muscles. I couldn't see their faces, because they were with their backs turned to me.

"Should I go there?" Christina says, looking in the other direction. I turn, following her gaze and I see Caleb across the room.

"Why?" I ask.

"Will is there. You know? The one I met this morning."

"You should definitely go there and say hi!" Marlene says.

"Should I?"

"Yes!"

"Really?"

"Yes!"

"Want us to come with you?" I ask.

"Pleaseee!"

"Fine. Let me just finish my food." I grin.

"Marlene, don't you dare eating the cake before us!" Christina said.

Marlene laughed and places her fork on the tray, waiting for us to finish eating.

I was the last one to finish.

"Ready?" Christina says looking at us.

"Set?" I say and the three of us placed the fork near the cake.

"Go!" Marlene screams and we all take a chunk of cake and place it in our mouths.

"Tes-ix amuzng" Christina said with her mouth full of cake. She swallowed it and repeated. "This is amazing!"

"I know, right?" Marlene said. "What do you think Tris?"

Both Marlene and Christina widened her eyes when they saw I had already finished my slice. I was wiping my mouth.

"It is delicious!" I say and both laugh. "Now, it's time to say hi to Will." I look at Christina and she looked at her hands.

"Do I really have to?" she said shyly.

This was the first time I saw her this quiet.

"No. Bu-"

"Yes!" Marlene squealed. "Yes, you have."

She got up and basically dragged Christina with her. And Christina grabbed my arm and dragged me.

A couple of feet away from their table, Christina cleaned her throat.

"Hi." she said when arriving to his table.

Will turned his head to us and smiled.

"Hi, Christina."

It was Uriah! \o/
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