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Chapter 8
The Morning After

He opened his arms and Christina hugged him.

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We returned to our dorm at about 4am.

While I went to the bathroom to brush my teeth, Christina lied in her bed. She fell into a deep sleep as soon as we stopped talking. She didn't even changed her clothes, removed her make up or brushed her teeth. I only took off her shoes because I thought that would be uncomfortable to sleep in.

If I was at home, nothing like this would have happened. This was the latest I ever stayed up, and a part of me doesn't want to sleep. It wants to stay up and see the sunrise. But as soon as I get in my bed and my head lies in my soft white pillow, I drift off.

I wake up in the morning with the annoying sound of the bell. I take my pillow and place it tightly over my head, uselessly trying to stop the sound.

When it finally stops, I throw the pillow to Christina, yawning.

"I don't know what I'll do if they wake us up like this every day." She rolls off her bed and get's in the shower.

I decide to make my bed and call my parents, since I didn't call them yesterday.

Christina is singing some song I haven't heard before, and I knock at the bathroom door.

"Can I use your phone?" I scream

"Sure! It's on the bedside table."

I thank her and I dial my house number on it.

"Hello?" I can't help the smile that spreads across my face. It's my mom who answers the phone, and just by hearing her voice I feel like I'm home.

"Hey mom? It's Tr- Beatrice."

"Oh, honey! How was your first night there? I thought you were going to call last night."

I couldn't tell her I went to a party until 4 in the morning. But I didn't want to lie either. I told her I was busy getting to know the students and the school, which isn't a lie. So, I didn't technically lied. I just didn't tell her the whole truth. But I still feel bad about it.

Me and my mom talked for about 5 more minutes. Then, Christina got out of the shower and it was my turn.

"Mom, I have to go. I'll call you later. Tell dad I said hi."

"I'll tell him. You go and have fun. I love you."

"I love you too." I say before I hang up.

"Was that your mom?" Christina asks, combing her damp hair with her fingers.

"Yes, it was. I miss her."

"I know you do. But don't worry, she can visit whenever the visit day is."

"And when is that?" I ask.

"I don't know. But we will soon. Classes start in... 5 days?" she smiles. "Now, go take a quick shower, if you want to have breakfast today!"

I smile back at her and go have a shower.

By the time I am finish, Christina is fully dressed and is applying something to her lashes.

I quickly get dressed and put on my combat boots.

"You have no idea how happy I am to have those on my feet again." I tell Christina, who is now making her bed.

She just giggles and I brush my hair and put it on a high ponytail.

When we arrive at breakfast and get our trays, Uriah calls us to join him and the others in his table. As I go towards his table, I brush past Peter's. He places his foot in front of me, and I nearly hit it. I glance at him, but he just keeps talking to a girl with short hair, weird nose and crooked teeth like it's not his fault that I almost tripped.

I place my tray on the wooden table and sit next to Uriah, with Christina in front of me and Marlene on her side. Next to Marlene, is Four, Lauren and Eric. In front of Eric there is Lynn. Next to her, is Shauna, than Zeke and Uriah. And then me.

Lauren as dark circles under the eyes. They are so dark that her make up doesn't covers them completely. She is the only one who looks different, the other ones are good as new. Which is odd, because she left pretty early. I look around the room and the most part of the Dauntless look like they didn't have any sleep. Most of them are probably hangovering.

Christina picks up her muffin and takes a bite, Uriah takes a sip of his milk and I spread some butter on my toast.

No one is really talking today. They are all tired from yesterday. I don't blame them, most of them left after I did.

Before I left the party yesterday, I told Zeke I'd help him today cleaning the roof. And today, I don't really feel like cleaning. But since everyone is in a bad mood for being waken by an annoying bell I don't think there will be much people helping.

"Aham" Someone cleans their throat loudly in the middle of the room.

We all stare at the person. It is a black haired tall man who looks about 40. He is dressed in a black suit and has a black tie.

"Hello, and welcome to this school." He greets us. "My name is Jack Kang and I am the headmaster of this school. I hope you enjoyed you first night here, specially the Dauntless floor, since they had a welcoming party yesterday."

He rambles about the school, the classes and everything else for quite a bit. He also told us that the "food" bell rings 3 times a day on week days and 2 times on the weekends.

Before leaving, he wishes us a good school year.

"I've heard that speech for about 4 times. Doesn't he ever changes it?" Zeke says after yawning.

"The only thing I think I'll be remembering is the fact that the bell doesn't ring on weekends mornings." Christina says picking up her tray.

After the breakfast I head to Caleb dorm.

"Hey, sis!" Caleb greets me with a smile, after he opening the door. "Come on in. Fernando went to the library."

His dorm is very similar to mine, besides being a little bit only differences I notice are the blue blinds, the light blue bedding and the bookcase near the window.

"Hi Caleb." I giggle a bit. "How was your night?"

"It was great. Fernando and I played something called Sudoku. It was quite funny, actually."

Sudoku? I've never heard of that.

"What's that?" I ask, intrigued, sitting on one of the beds.

He goes over to his bookcase and takes of a little book. He opens it and shows me. In my opinion, nothing about that was funny. I just saw a bunch of squares and numbers.

"You have weird tastes." I say looking through the pages. They are all the same.

"Well, we had fun. We couldn't sleep because of the loud music. Speaking of it, did you went to the party?"

"I did. I had such a fun time. I met seniors, danced, and wore heels!"

I didn't know if I should tell him about the alcohol, but I took the risk.

"That must have been fun... I'd pay to watch you walk in those."

"It was." I grin remembering all the laughing at the end of it. "Hey Caleb? If I tell you something, do you promise you won't tell our parents?"

"Did you kiss anyone?" He quickly asks open mouthed.

"No! I tried alcohol." I say almost whispering.

"Why would I tell them that? Did you liked it?" He asks, not shocked. I thought he was going to be all protective and scold me for doing such a bad thing. My parents, especially my dad would have scold me.

"Yes, I did, but at some point my throat started burning."

"That's normal." He says.

That's normal? How does he know?

"Have you ever tried it?" I ask

"Of course. When Susan and Robert were home alone we used to do drinking games." He giggles.

What? I am shocked. How did they do that and I never knew?

"Don't act so surprised." He says.

"Why didn't I knew about that?"

"Oh. Susan never told you?"

"As you can see, no. You guys could have asked me to join."

He laughs. "You are my little sister, I don't want to see you wasted."

"You are just a few months older!" I throw a pillow at his chest and we both start laughing.

Nothing really exciting happened this chapter, but it was needed. I needed to introduce the headmaster and bring Caleb back to the story, among other little things you'll understand after.

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