CHAPTER 27

FOUR POV

I took the initiates for a run this morning. Thought it would be a good way to clear my head. It is warm in the city this time I year. We get back and everyone has worked up a sweat. "Make sure you rehydrate," I say. I realise I don't have my water bottle with me. Damn I'll have to go and get one. "Take ten minutes; I'll be back in a second."

I walk out of the training room and jog up to my apartment to get my water bottle. I get back to the pit and I see Zeke, Amar and the Dauntless-born transfers all walking into our training room. What has happened now? I think what the hell have they got themselves into now. If Zeke is here it can't be good. Then I remember. Crap! What was Zekes' dare?

I'm not sure I am going to be able to ever describe what I am seeing properly to anyone, ever! "What the hell did you do to them?" I ask.

The Dauntless-born initiates are in fits of laughter along with Lauren and Amar. Zeke is on the floor rolling around, I'm wondering if whatever is going on with the initiates has affected him too. He is trying to say something but I can't understand a word he is saying because of his laughter.

"Peace serum," says Uriah.

"WHAT!"

"Zeke dared me to put peace serum in the transfer's water."

I look over to the water dispenser and see Tris has just refilled her bottle and has started to drink it. I run over and take the bottle out of her hand.

"Four," she whines.

"How much did you drink Tris?" She holds up two fingers. As she holds them up she is moving them across her face like she is in a trance.

"What the fuck am I going to do with them in this state?" I ask. Who I'm asking I don't know. The transfers are all drugged and everyone else is hysterical with laughter.

I look at the transfers and I see Molly and Peter dancing, I think that is what they are trying to do. They aren't exactly coordinated. Christina and Will have started making out, I'm going to have to try and stop that or they will probably be doing things in public that they will regret when they get off this high. Tris is still standing in front of me watching her fingers move and now she is giggling.

Al is just standing there. It doesn't look like he has had any of the peace serum. "You okay Al?" I ask. "Yeah I already had a full water bottle so I didn't drink any of that," he says while pointing to the water dispenser.

Drew has curled up in a ball and looks like he is asleep. Edward looks like he is okay too but Myra who has a small framed body is singing to Edward and skipping around in circles. I have no idea what I am going to do with this lot. I am going to have to find out how long this shit lasts.

I drag Tris over to Zeke and the others. I am not going to let her out of my sight. She has drunk at least two litres of this stuff and I don't know how long she is going to be like this. Zeke has gotten off the floor. "What were you thinking, you idiot?" I say to Zeke and clip him over the back of his head with my hand.

"Amar can you stay here and look after them? I need to go and ring Johanna in Amity and find out how long this will last. Uriah how much did you put in the water?"

"It was two vials, Four," he says.

"Lauren take your initiates back to your training room would you?"

"Zeke stay here and make sure no one and I mean no one drinks anymore of that water. That means you too Zeke. Don't touch it," I say. "And Zeke, I will know if you have had any." I know he would like to try the stuff he has hinted about it for years.

I pull on Tris's arm. "Come on, you are coming with me," I say as I drag her along with me up to my office. I need to get some answers.

I sit Tris in my office chair while I try and find Johanna's phone number in Amity. Tris has found that the chair can spin and is sitting there spinning around and around. She will probably fall off in a minute.

Dad walks into my office just as I'm about to dial the number. "What did you do to your initiate?" he asks.

I shake my head. "I didn't do anything. Bloody Zeke dared Uriah to put peace serum in the water dispenser in the training room. Now I have a room full of drug fucked crazy people," I say.

Dad's reaction isn't what I was expecting. He bursts out laughing. "I've been waiting for this day," he says.

"What day?"

"The day when you have to be the responsible one after one of your mates dares goes wrong," he says. Still laughing at me.

I pinch the bridge of my nose trying to think how I am going to deal with these guys until they come off their high. "I'm about to ring Johanna and find out how long the stuff lasts," I say. Then there is a loud thump and giggling, "I fell off Four," Tris says.

Dad looks at her and then at me. "Go back down to the training room, I'll talk to Johanna and then I'll let you know what to expect with this stuff," dad says. He hasn't stopped laughing, which is just really annoying at the moment.

"Tell her there was two vials put into half full water dispenser," I say. "Come on you. We are going back to the training room." I pick Tris up off the floor and start to carry her bridal style.

"This would be a really good time to give me a kiss Four," Tris says as we are walking out of my office. This starts my dad off with another round of laughter. I just shake my head. "Good luck son," he says.

"Come on Four don't you want to kiss me?"

"I'm not going to kiss you Tris. It's really not the time," I say. God I wish I could kiss her, if only she knew how much. No don't think that way. You need to figure this out.

Then a strange grin comes across Tris' face. "That's why you like me!" she exclaims. "Because you're not very nice either! It makes so much more sense now," she says.

"I don't think this is the time Tris," I say.

"I like you, too," she says. She is going to be so embarrassed when she comes down from this. I really hope she is still talking to me when this is over.

I'm trying to get us back to the training room but Tris is kicking her feet up and down. If I wasn't so worried about what this is doing to her, I would probably find it funny. "I think you should walk," I say. I put her down on her feet and she says, "Noooo, give me a piggy back ride."

Tris then proceeds to jump on my back and is giggling. I grab her legs so she doesn't fall off as we walk across the Pit. Tori is coming out of the tattoo parlour and gives me a strange look.

"Hi Tori," says Tris. In a bubbly voice that sounds nothing like she usually does.

"Hi Tris, Four. New training techniques?" she asks.

"No Zeke dared Uriah to put peace serum in the water and my initiates are all high on it," I say.

"Good luck with that Four," Tori says as she walks off laughing. I am getting funny looks from of a lot of the Dauntless. It reminds me of when we found Uriah hanging from the rock wall. I suppose this is a great way for him to pay me back for leaving him there that night.

I walk into the training room and Zeke is near the water dispenser with a bottle in his hand. "Hey! Get away from that," I say. "You've caused enough problems, I'm not having you high as well."

Drew is still asleep on the floor; Molly is still dancing only it is by herself now. It looks like Peter has come down from his high and he doesn't look very happy about it. Which makes me laugh. Christina and Will are still all over each other; thank god they still have clothes on.

Dad walks into the training room. "Johanna said that it depends on how much the person has taken and their weight. She said it could be an hour or it could be three or more. She couldn't give you an exact time frame."

"Great, what am I supposed to do with this lot now?" I say in frustration.

Dad just shakes his head and laughs, then walks out the door.

"Okay, Edward can you look after Myra for me please?" He nods. "Peter you stay here with Molly and Drew. Zeke take Christina and Will to your place," I say.

"Why my place?" Zeke asks.

"Because it is your fault they are in this state and I don't want them grinding on the training room floor. Take them to your place and look after them," I say.

Zeke hangs his head in defeat and says, "Okay." He walks over to Christina and Will and convinces them to follow him.

"What should I do?" says Al. "Do you want me to look after Tris?"

Is he kidding me? There is no way I am leaving her with him. I know he would never do anything inappropriate but I do not want the girl I like hanging out with another guy while high on peace serum.

"No thanks Al. I think I need to find somewhere quiet for Tris to calm down and it may take awhile. She had a larger dose than everyone else. I will look after her. You should probably practise your knife throwing Al," I say. The guy is useless with a knife. He could use all the practise he can get.

"Okay young lady, you are coming with me," I say. Tris is still on my back.

"Young lady," Tris laughs. "You're so funny Four. Why don't you seem so scary today?"

"Must be all the water you drank Tris."

"Oh I liked that water. Can I have some more?"

"Not today Tris." That reminds me I need to get rid of the rest of the water. I walk over to the water dispenser; there isn't much in there now. These guys drank almost half the dispenser. I take it off and I pour the water down the drain. Hope there aren't any animals down that drain or they are going to be buzzing.

I reach my apartment with Tris still on my back. She has not stopped talking the whole way here. Lucky for me she is having a conversation with herself, she almost babbling the way she is talking. Maybe I should bring Jed over; they would be perfect company for each other at the moment.

I enter the apartment and I take Tris upstairs to my bedroom. I'm hoping she will lie down until this stuff wears off. I am going to be in for a long afternoon if she doesn't. I deposit Tris on the bed and I say, "Get some rest Tris; you have had a busy day."

"Aren't you going to join me?" she asks.

I gulp. This is not something that I was expecting out of her mouth.

"I don't think that's a good idea Tris," I say.

"Please," she whines. "I promise I will try to sleep if you stay with me."

I have no self control; of course I want to lie down next to her. I am having a heated debate in my head whether or not to do this when Tris grabs my arm and pulls me onto the bed. I land straight on top of her. She starts to giggle. I'm glad she is finding this funny because I am feeling really . . . I don't have a word for it. I know I'm not uncomfortable, being this close to Tris is like a dream come true but I also know that while she is still in this state I have to move.

I move across the bed and lie down next to her. She moves across and lays her head on my chest and her arm across my stomach. Thankfully it only takes a few minutes and she is asleep taking me with her a short while after that.

TRIS POV

I wake up and I am in a darkened room. How did I get here? I start to get my bearings and I realise that I am sleeping on someone's chest. What the hell? Then I start to remember. I let out a moan as I think of the peace serum. I raise my head just enough to see that it is Fours' chest that I am lying on. I know I should get up, that I shouldn't be in this position. But instead I lie my head back down onto Fours' chest.

He starts to stir. I don't know what I should do. Part of me wants to run out the door but there is another part of me that is willing me to stay. I'm like a magnet and I can't pull myself away. I moan again, this is so embarrassing; Four is going to think I'm a lunatic.

I feel the rumble of his chest as he lets out a small laugh and the vibration of his chest as he asks me how I am feeling. If only someone could open the floor and suck me into it at this moment.

"I am so sorry," I say. "You must think I'm a lunatic."

"No Tris I don't think that," he says. "But you were really funny."

"How did it happen? One minute I was having a drink and the next. Well you saw what happened."

"Uriah put peace serum in the water dispenser. It seems as Zeke was being arrested last night he gave Uriah the final dare for the night," he says.

I sit up quickly and look at Four. "Are you kidding me? I will kill both of them when I see them," I say. Now I'm angry.

"Calm down Tris. Its okay, you didn't do anything bad. It is just another fun night of crazy dares from the Pedrad boys. Just remember to think up a really good dare to give Uriah next time," he says.

"Come here," he says. And he pulls me back down so my head is back on his chest and he has his arm around me. I want to stay angry but I can't. I am lying on a bed with Four. That is not something I could have dreamed would ever be possible. I don't know why he has me here or why he wants me here but I get the feeling that it's what he wants.

Now I am getting nervous. I was so caught up in what had happened. Now all I can think of is where I am and who I am with. I hear Fours' heart beating in his chest and it is beating just as fast as mine is. Is he nervous too? Why would he be nervous he must have had plenty of women? He is so handsome and all the Dauntless girls are always swooning over him.

"What am I doing here Four?" I ask.

"You seemed to have had the most serum. I wanted to make sure you were safe. So I brought you back to my place so I could keep an eye on you. I tried to get you to go to sleep but you refused," he says.

Oh God, I remember, I told him I wanted him to come to bed too. Can this get any more embarrassing?

"I'm sorry Four. This is so embarrassing," I say.

I can feel the smile on his face, even though I can't see it and I can hear it in his voice. "I'm not complaining Tris. It's probably the most peaceful sleep I've ever had and I didn't even have any peace serum."

"What time is it?" I ask. I'm starting to get hungry and as much as I don't want to move I know I can't stay like this forever. I shouldn't be here like this; if my parents could see me right now they would both be having heart attacks. Dad probably would have had two heart attacks and a stroke by now.

"It's just after eight," Four says.

"I should go, I've taken up too much of your time today already," I say. I start to move and Four squeezes my side. "Don't," he says. "Stay a little longer." I can't breathe and my mouth has gone dry. He wants me to stay. I don't understand why, why he would want me to be here with him. I put my head back down on his chest, I feel like I am going to melt into liquid or burst into flames all at the same time. I love just listening to his heart beating, the shallow breathes that he is taking in. By his breathing and heart beat I can tell he is as nervous as I am feeling. How is that possible? This is Four. Dauntless prodigy.

"Four."

"Yeah."

"I'm really hungry."

He lets out a chuckle and says, "We probably should go and get something to eat while the dining hall is still open."

I lift myself off the bed and a shiver runs through me. I'm cold after having the warmth of Fours' body next to mine.

"Cold?" he asks.

"A little"

He walks over to his walk in robe and pulls out a sweater. "It's the smallest one I've got," he says, handing me the sweater.

I pull it on and it swims on me but it has his scent on it and there is no way I am taking it off.

We walk down stairs and as I reach for the door handle Four spins me round to him and kisses me.

FOUR POV

We walk into the dining hall together. I don't really think it matters that people see us together. I am sure the rumours have already spread through Dauntless of how my crazy initiates were acting today and the fact that I was carrying Tris throughout the compound. I shouldn't really be mad at Uriah and Zeke. I got to spend time with Tris and that kiss. Wow, I could spend the rest of my life kissing that girl. And the fact that I slept soundly, peacefully for the first time ever. I don't need peace serum, Tris is the only drug I need.

"Dude, where have you been? I have been looking for you for hours. I knocked on your door and there was no answer," Zeke says.

"I fell asleep, mustn't have heard you," I say.

"And you missy," Zeke points to Tris. "Where have you been?"

"With Four," she whispers and starts to blush.

"What! What have you two been up to?" Zeke cries out.

"Zeke calm down. We fell asleep, that's it now drop it," I say forcefully.

"I can't calm down, those two," and he points to Will and Christina. "they had sex in my bed Four."

"You let them have sex while they were high on peace serum? What is wrong with you? I told you to look after them!"

"It was after," whispers Christina. She has gone red in the face. I didn't think Christina knew how to whisper. Seeing her embarrassment is quite funny.

"What?" I ask.

"They had sex after they came down from their high," says Zeke. We have all started laughing now, not at what Christina and Will did but at how Zeke is reacting to it.

"It's your fault everyone was high Zeke," I say. I am laughing as I say it. "they would never have been in your room if you hadn't dared Uriah. So really you can't blame anyone but yourself."

"Do we know how everyone else is?" I ask.

"Yeah, it didn't take too long to come down. Although last I checked Drew was still asleep in the training room. Lauren told us to just leave him, better to let him sleep it off she said," Uriah says. "I think Edward had a bit of trouble with his girl, only for the fact it took her so long to come down. But they both looked alright when they left here a little while ago."

"So when are we going to play dare again?" asks Lynn.

I give her one of my menacing stares and she says, "Maybe not for a while ha."

We all burst out laughing. Last night overall was a blast. I'll have to go to the control room tomorrow and see if I can print out those pictures of Zeke dressed as a woman. And I do have to admit that the peace serum dare was genius, I just can't let Zeke or Uriah know that. They probably already know it, the whole compound is talking about it. I think it will be talked about for quite a long time.

"How did you get the peace serum Zeke?" I ask.

"I had to go out to Amity a few weeks ago to check their cameras for them. Anyway I got talking to the cook. Did you know they put peace serum in their bread? That's why they are so bloody happy all the time. The whole community is drugged. Anyway I asked if I could have some and he gave it to me."

"Do you have any left?" I ask.

"No, I only got the two vials. Well I got three but Shauna and I used one of them."

I just shake my head. Only Zeke!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY Basketball 20. I hope you have a great day;)