Chapter 19
Kissing

I am in great company and feeling great. I don't really care about how much I have to wait.

.xx.

"You are dismissed." Amar said.

"See you next week." Tori added.

Amar says he doesn't want us to call him Mr, because it makes him think he is old. I've only had two classes with him, but I like him a lot. I've never thought I'd say this, but those year gym teachers might be my favorite ones. Amar and Tori are the ones who give us gym. Amar is a real teacher, and Tori is just a trainee.

It is now friday and I'm leaving gym with Christina and Marlene.

What I like about having gym in last period is that I can go to my dorm right away, take a shower and take my time. I don't have to take it in the locker room, rushing myself to get to the next period. And what I don't like about having gym in last period while being in a project with Peter is that he always wants to do things his way. So, today, I'll have to rush my shower to meet him. Not the most pleasant reason, but we are almost done with our report. I can make an effort for that. We ended up choosing a theme, my theme, after a lot of arguing. And finally, after almost a week, we are almost done with it.

The three of us head to the locker room and grab our stuff. We don't even change clothes, because there is really no reason to it.

"My legs hurt." Marlene whines.

"My head hurts. I need some sleep." Christina says.

"My ears hurt. I'm sick of listening to Peter." I say.

We pretty much just complained about whatever hurts the most until we reached our dorms. Marlene dorm is closer to the main door than ours, so we left her there and continued our way.

"Don't forget to lend me your history notes." Christina says Marlene before we head to our dorm.

When we arrive there, Christina drops her things on the floor and gets into the bathroom.

"No way, Christina!" I yell at her. "It's my turn."

"No it isn't. You showered first this morning."

"Because you wanted to be lazy and stay in bed."

"Doesn't matter. The shower is mine!" She yells as she turns on the water.

I let out a frustrated sound and sit on the chair, to do my science homework and if I have time, to copy my english notes. I do my science homework pretty fast, since it's about the theme Peter and I are doing the report on.

When I'm in the middle of copying my notes, Christina gets out of the bathroom, her hair soaking wet, water dripping all over the floor.

"You could at least have dried you hair with your towel." I say as I make my way to the bathroom. "I'm not going to clean that up."

She sticks her tongue out at me and walks towards the closet.

I'm already late, so, I just take a quick shower, grab the first piece of clothing I see, much to Christina's displeasure, dry my hair with my towel and I'm out the door with my science book.

I run down the stairs, until the main hall, forgetting there is an elevator for those kinds of situations. In the main hall of the dorms building is a common room, where a big variety of students, spend their free time. The room is incredibly big, and it's never full. Dauntless usually chill by the pool table or foosball. There are a few who love to bet money and play poker or truth or dare. There is always lots of girls from the Amity floor, playing games I don't understand and then there is the people from Abnegation floor. They are always together, but they don't talk much. There is also a lot of bookshelves, but no one ever uses them, because the ones who actually read and enjoy studying spend their time in the library. Like my brother. Today, there is a new group of people I don't usually see in here. They seem to be debating about something and gesturing their hands a lot more than I do on a regular basis.

I quickly find Peter, in the place where we usually sit.

We have been coming here all week, to do our report. A couple of days ago, after the library incident, I was with Uriah, Christina, Marlene and Will after dinner and we were looking for a place we could hang out in. Uriah and Will have been in this school for years, and they know almost every corner of it. Since Peter has a laptop and the room has places where we can plug it in, we have been coming here almost everyday.

If my partner was someone normal, we would have finished this report two days ago. But since he isn't, and we don't do much besides arguing with each other, we haven't finished it. Yet. Mrs. Matthews must have been really happy the day she assigned us the project, because the due date is Tuesday. When Zeke found out, he said we were, and I quote, "lucky bastards", because she never assigns projects with a due date of a week.

"It took you long enough." Peter said as I dragged myself into the room.

"Christina's fault. Not mine." I say, plopping down on the couch next to his.

"I don't care whose fault it is. We still have to finish this. I could be banging someone right now, instead of being here with you."

"What is wrong with you? There isn't anyone who would like to spend their free time in the same bed as you. Just spending time with you is awful enough."

"I never mentioned a bed. And you wish. We are talking about me, not you."

"Let's just finish this already. I'm getting nauseous."

He let's out a dry laugh and opens the file of our report, while I open my book.

.xx.

One hour and half later we finally finish the report. It was about time. I knew he was evil, twisted, selfish and rude, but I didn't know he was also a pig. If I had to listen to him being a pig again I don't know what I'd do.

"Finally." He says as he saves the report and shuts down the computer. "Now go back to the hole you came from and get out of my sight."

"Rude much uh?" I say rolling my eyes. "I hope Mrs. Matthews never pair us again."

"Why are you still talking to me? The report is over. We don't need to speak again." He says getting up.

"I'm glad." I say before leaving the room.

I go back to my dorm, to finish copying my notes.

"Christina?" I call as I open the door.

"Oh, Tris! Hi. Hm, where have you been?" She asks, sounding a little nervous.

I go into the bathroom and take my shoes off. Christina and I established a new rule two days ago. When we take our shoes off, we have to keep them in the bathroom. Otherwise, the hallway will get too full. And she doesn't want to sleep in the same space as her shoes... I get out of the bathroom and go into the actual room.

"I was with Pe-" I start but then I see that Christina is in her bed, her legs crossed indian style with... Will. He is across from her, also sitting in the bed. She has her hair in a total mess, which is nothing like Christina, and Will has red smudged lipstick near his mouth. They have a book in the middle of them. I can clearly tell it's my french book. Christina doesn't even have french. She chose to have spanish. "ter... I just came here to... change shoes. You know how boots can kill your feet right?" I giggle a little, realizing what was going on in there. I go to the closet and take a pair of black converse. Which are Christina's. I sit on the floor, put them on and make my way to the door.

I'd usually be uncomfortable with a boy in my room, but in these past few days, my friendship with Will has grown. We sit next to each other in advanced history. I like to think of him like another older bother, that looks nothing like me. And has weird conversations.

Before I got out of the room I can't control myself and say, "Hey Will? Red lipstick suits you perfectly."

I ended up going to visit my brother, who, surprisingly, was not in his dorm. I was about to go look for him in the library, but I remembered I was kicked out thanks to Peter. So, I went to Marlene dorm.

"Hey, Tris!" she greets me in the door. "Come in."

I enter and sit on one of the beds. I notice she has notebooks all over her bed.

"Oh, you were busy? I can come back another time, if you w-"

"Oh no, no. I was trying to do my spanish homework. But I suck at it. I'm glad you are here. What brings you here, by the way?"

"I just needed to escape my dorm for a while. Christina and Will were there. I kind of interrupted a make out session. I didn't want to be the third wheel."

She let out a huge scream. "Are you serious? Did she finally kissed him?"

"To be honest, I've no idea who kissed who. All I know is that he had red lipstick all over his face." I shrug.

"I can't believe it!" She says as she grabs her brush. "Do they think they'll start dating?"

I look at Marlene and she is brushing her hair. She is so gorgeous, with her light eyes and light brown hair. She looks like she doesn't even care about her appearance, but I know she does. Marlene looks are so simples, it doesn't even look like she wears any make up.

"I don't know."

"I think they should. But maybe not now... Let's be honest, they've known each other for like a week. Isn't that too soon?"

"It is. But we all live together. We are constantly in the presence of each other. It's different."

"You're right. It seems like we known one other for longer than a week."

I nod in agreement. It's true. Everything she said.

We hear the bell, stating it's dinner time. She quickly puts her shoes on and we leave her dorm.

"Hey," She says elbowing me. "Want to see if they are still in your dorm?"

I nod and we go over to my dorm. When we arrive, Marlene puts her ear against the door. After a while she turns to me and says, "I think they left, already."

"Maybe we should too. I'm hungry."

"Let's go then. I think the dinner today it's lasagna." She says happily.

This story is going to longer than I originally expected... Yay?
This chapter was originally 3k words, but I thought I should cut it in half because... Well, I don't know why, but I think it's better this way.

Okay okay, I know I'm a horrible person. You thought it was Tris kissing someone right? Please forgive me. But I can assure you that is pretty close too, sooooo... *wink*

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