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CHAPTER 4
FOUR POV
Mum left six months ago. I thought I would miss her but I don't. Sometimes I do. I don't want to miss her but it's hard sometimes. It's hardest when I see how sad it makes Charlie. And it's hard when I see dad get sad. It doesn't happen often and he seems a lot happier the last couple of weeks. I saw him having lunch with a really pretty lady the other day and he looked really happy, I just hope she doesn't take him away from Charlie and me. I was really scared that when mum left that dad would make me go and live with Marcus but he promised he would never do that too me. He said, "Four I love you, you are my son and I will always be here for you." It was the best news ever. He is really the best dad ever. Zeke and Uriah don't have a dad but they have a great mum so now I'm more like them but in reverse.
I hate thinking about mum; it gets me angry and sad all at once. I hate her for leaving and I don't know what I did that was so wrong that she would leave me. Not that I want to be factionless, I don't understand why she did this to me, to us. I get all mixed up when I think of her. She's my mum and I love her. But then I think I hate her because she is gone. But then I love her again because I wouldn't have Max as my dad if it wasn't for her. Then I hate her again because Charlie gets so upset and cries for her and that makes me sad. Then I think of how much I love Dauntless and I love her again, I wouldn't be living here if it wasn't for her. So I try not to think about it because I just get confused. Dad said I will understand it better when I'm older. But I like being eleven so I don't want to be older, but I don't want to be confused by it either. Now I'm just making myself even more confused. I usually go and sit at my hiding place near the chasm when I get like this. I like to hear the water and it means I don't have anyone bothering me. It also gives me a break from Charlie.
Charlie still cries for her sometimes. That makes me really sad when that happens. I love having her as a sister, just sometimes she is so noisy, and I like the quiet. Now that mum isn't home she goes to day care while dad is at work. She loves going to day care, which means that when I get home from school I can hang out with Zeke. Dad got us a housekeeper which is really cool. It means I don't have to cook or clean like I did when I lived with Marcus. If mum wasn't home, which was often, than Marcus would make me cook him dinner and clean the house. I shudder at the memory, I never did it right and I would usually get beaten for it afterwards. If mum came home he would let me be, if she didn't then I would be locked in the closet upstairs.
Dad doesn't seem to mind that mum has gone, not all the time anyway. He seems happier, although he is always happy when Charlie and I are around. Except when I'm getting in trouble for something Zeke and I have done. This happens a lot. We don't mean to do the wrong thing it just sought of happens. Like last week. We found this old board game called Snakes and Ladders. Zeke and I decided we were going to make our own version of it. The Snakes and Ladders board would look awesome on the rock climbing wall in the pit. So I borrowed some black spray cans out of dads shed and we waited for everyone to go to bed and then we went down to the pit and spray painted the numbers, snakes and the ladders onto the wall. It looked so cool. Hana Zeke's mum has this square thing she puts her feet on when she is sitting on the lounge. Zeke borrowed it and we painted the numbers on it so we could use it as a dice. We have one person for every game be the dice roller and that way when we are at the top of the game we can see what number has been rolled.
All the kids in Dauntless thought the game was awesome but the grownups were not happy. They don't think that us kids should be able to play our game; they want the rock wall all to themselves. I don't even get why I got in trouble really. It is awesome and it's a fun way to play snakes and ladders. Lucky that dad showed me how to not be afraid of heights while rock climbing the pit. He reminded me that I had a harness on and showed me how if I didn't look down it wouldn't scare me. I just can't look down when they roll the dice for me. Otherwise I know I will freak out.
So even though I got in trouble we are still allowed to play the game. Dad made up a timetable so we get an hour after school where we can play and also we can play before ten in the morning on weekends. Dauntless don't usually get up early on the weekends because they are partying late at night. But we did have to promise to share the game with other kids. If we didn't dad said that he would paint over it so it would be gone. So we didn't really have a choice, but it makes us look cool so I can live with that. Or it's more Zeke; he wants everyone to think his cool. I don't really care if they think I'm cool. I try not to get attention; I don't like it that much.