CHAPTER 16

FOUR POV

Last night was insane. I can already feel by the pounding in my head that we had a pretty wild night. I still have my eyes closed but I can feel a warm body next to me and something or should I say someone is lying on top of me. How the hell did that happen?

I hear a moan coming from beside me and I decide I better open my eyes and inspect the damage. I open my eyes to find that I am spooning Zeke. What the hell! How did this happen? I move my head ever so slightly, any fast movement will find me rushing to the toilet to vomit I think. I move my head and find my face covered in some body's hair. I lift my head up and see that is Shauna lying on top of Zeke and me. This is weird I have no idea how I got here or how I ended up in this position.

"Zeke," I say. Nothing. "Zeke wake up," I say a little louder. I really don't want to have to raise my voice right now. So I start to shake Zeke's shoulder.

"What? What do you want?" he asks.

"Open your eyes," I say.

Zeke opens his eyes and turns his head. "What the fuck? How did this happen?" he says.

I'm laughing now although it really hurts, the little drummer in my head feels like he is hitting the side of my skull with a sledge hammer. I hope no one got a photo of this; we will never live it down.

"Shauna, wake up," says Zeke.

She tries to roll as she is moaning and she rolls straight off Zeke and me and onto the floor. "Ouch, that hurt," she whines.

Zeke and I are now sitting up and laughing at Shauna. She is sitting now and rubbing her head, she has the worst bed hair ever, wait till she looks in the mirror. She will totally freak out.

"Oh my god," she yells as she points to me. "Look at your hair."

"What?" I ask and then I feel for my hair. It's gone. What? What? Crap what is going on. I jump out of bed as quickly or I should say as slowly as my body will let me and head for the mirror. I look in the mirror and all my long hair is gone.

Zeke starts laughing. "Don't you remember we played dare last night? Todd dared you to cut your hair like an Abnegation," Zeke says still laughing at me.

"Crap, why did you let me do it? Why didn't you stop me?" I say. Not at all happy with my new hair cut.

"Four take a closer look," says Shauna. What the hell is she on about? "You look hot." I stare at her with my I am going to burn holes into your eyeballs any minute. "Seriously, take a closer look. You're not just hot, you look really hot." I look back at the mirror but all I see is me with a hell of a lot less hair.

"The girls are going to go nuts over you. Not that they weren't already, but now, wow you are going to get some action," Shauna says. I moan at the thought of this. It's not that I don't like girls I'm just not interested in any of that. The girls here are too pushy and I never know what to say to them.

A few weeks ago I went on a double date with Zeke. My date lasted five minutes before she was hitting me with her handbag and walking off in a huff. I didn't even know what I had done wrong. Far out, what am I going to do?

I turn back towards Zeke and then I notice his leg. "What did you do?" I say to Zeke while I am pointing at his leg. He looks down and there is a black plaster cast around his leg.

"Shit, how did that get there?" Zeke asks.

"How the hell would I know?" I say.

"There's a note attached to it," says Shauna.

Zeke picks up the note and reads it to us. "Dear Mr Pedrad, please come to the infirmary once you have sobered up. We need to re-x-ray your leg as we could not get a clear image last night due to your intoxication. Hope your hang over isn't too severe this morning. Doctor Simon."

"When did I even do this? Man we must have got up to some crazy shit last night," says Zeke.

We all just look at each other and start to laugh. Then we look at Shauna's arm. "Oh no," I say.

They can both see me looking at Shauna. "What?" she asks.

"Look at your arm," I say.

Shauna looks down at her arm and she sees it and screams, "NOOOO!"

There is a tattoo on her bicep that reads: I love Zeke forever in a big red heart.

This is so funny, she will probably kill us for laughing at her but still it will be worth it. "I'm going to have to go and see Tori. See if she can do something about it," Shauna says.

"First I think we should get Zeke back to the infirmary and get his leg looked at. Then I would really love some breakfast. Wait can we do breakfast first? I am starving. Then after breakfast we can do Zeke's leg and then we can go to the tattoo parlour and see what Tori can do with that tattoo."

"Maybe you should keep it," says Zeke. "I think I look really good there on your arm."

I don't think that was what Shauna wanted to hear. She has a huge crush on Zeke and he has no idea. I know she isn't ready to tell him yet she is scared he will just want a play thing like he usually does with the girls he dates. Hopefully he will wake up soon and realise how good they would be together.

"Maybe I will," she says. "Though it will probably cause you a few problems Zeke."

"How's it going to cause me problems, I think it looks awesome," he says.

"Who's going to date you when I have your name tattooed on my arm? I don't think any of your little girlfriends are going to be happy about it," she says.

"I don't care what those girls think, they don't mean anything anyway. Maybe I will just have to date you instead. I mean if I'm already on your arm then maybe."

Zeke is cut off from saying whatever he was about to say by Shauna crushing her lips to Zeke's.

"Does that mean we can take going to the tattoo parlour of our to do list?" I ask.

This breaks them apart and they are too busy staring at each other to take any notice to what I have just said.

"Come on, I'm starving," I say.

We walk out of the dorm room with Zeke and Shauna holding hands; well they are trying to hold hands while Zeke walks with the crutches he found next to his bed. We walk into the pit and we see are group of people standing around the rock climbing wall looking up.

We look up to see the funniest sight ever. Uriah is asleep or maybe past out in a harness hanging from the wall upside down. Zeke, Shauna and I burst out laughing, it is the funniest sight. I'm wondering how he got there when Hana Zeke's mum comes up to us. "What did you do to my baby?" she asks. We have no idea what she is talking about, how are we involved in this.

Just then Amar walks up with a grin on his face. "Great night guys," he says. "How are you all feeling today?"

"Amar how did my baby get up there?" Hana asks pointing to where Uriah is hanging. Amar looks up and bursts out laughing. "Don't you guys remember?" says Amar. We all shake our heads, completely clueless,

"Well Hana, Zeke and Four decided to play snakes and ladders last night. Uriah was with them so they made him put a harness on so you wouldn't get mad. But Zeke fell off the wall and he didn't have a harness on and by the looks of it you broke your leg. So I think when we rushed Zeke of to the infirmary we must have left Uriah up there," Amar says whilst trying not to laugh.

Zeke and I burst into laughter and Zeke says, "so he has been there all night?" This just makes us laugh even harder.

As we are starting to calm down dad appears next to us. "Nice hair cut son," he says. I'd forgotten all about my hair cut with everything else that has been happening around me this morning. It was a very eventful night it seems.

"Hi dad, yeah it would be good if I remembered how I got it," I mumble. Still not sure if I like what has been done.

Dad just starts laughing at me, "well you might not have a Dauntless hair style any more but you definitely partied like you belong in Dauntless. Now we just have to try and find a safe way to get Uriah down. I am dreading when it's his initiation, if he can get in this much trouble now what's going to happen in two years time." He is laughing and he puts an arm around Hana's shoulders and says to her, "come on, let's go and try and get your baby down safely Hana."

As he starts walking with Hana he turns and says, "Don't forget you have job choosing later today."

I nod my head and say, "let's go eat. I don't want to be anywhere near Uriah when they finally get him down."

"I agree," says Zeke. And we walk over to the dining hall for some much needed food.

I dropped Zeke off at the infirmary; it seems he wasn't the only broken bone they couldn't look at properly last night. The waiting room is full of other Dauntless members with casts on their legs and arms. It would be comical if it wasn't so serious. I suppose I should be grateful I only got a haircut. I decide not to stay with him, there are enough people there to keep him company, plus I would really love to talk to dad before I have to choose a job.

I walk up to my apartment. Technically it's not mine anymore but it will always feel like home to me. I walk in the door and see Charlie and mum sitting on the couch.

"What happened to your hair?" shouts Charlie as she runs over and gives me a hug. "It's not pretty anymore." She is now running her hand over the side of my head and has a screwed up look on her face.

"It's not that bad Charlie and I can always grow it again," I say.

"You look really handsome Four," mum says.

"Thanks," I say. What else am I supposed to say to that? I've never talked to anyone about the way I looked before. I didn't even used to brush my hair before. I just let it do what it wanted.

"Is dad around?"

"He is in his office, trying to get everything ready for this afternoon," mum says.

"I'll go and look for him there then."

I am about to leave when mum says, "Four you need to choose what is right for you. Not what you think everyone else wants. You have to live with your decision. Really think about what you want, dad will be proud of you no matter what you choose."

"Thanks mum," I say. And I mean it; she is always there with good advice just when you need it. "Are you cooking tonight?"

"Yes, come around about seven," she says.

"Cool, thanks, see you later. Bye Charlie," I say. I give Charlie a hug and walk out the door and towards dad's office.