Hey everyone. I know it's been a while since I've updated and I'm sorry for that. I'm back at school and I have new classes to study for and I'll try and update as soon as I can. If you have ever seen Age of Adaline I'm going to get a scene from the movie. I decided to change the story from Four X OC to and Eric X OC.
I own nothing. Everything belongs to Veronica Roth.
Angela's POV
Did the man in front of me just call me by my mother's name? I don't know this man but apparently my mother did at one point. My mother never mentioned any of her friends that she had growing up. I just stand there staring at the man with a shocked look on my face.
"Angela actually." I say.
Max continues to stand there in shock. After a minute Eric asks "Max you ok?"
Max shakes his head, and walks towards us while saying "Sorry it's just you look like this old friend that I once knew Amanda Eastwood. We were really close."
This guy was close with my mother? My mother doesn't care about anyone but herself and how much money we have.
"That's my mother's name." I say.
Max and Eric look shocked and Max smiles. "Really? How is she? I heard after she met her husband she changed."
"She did. She doesn't care about me or what I'm doing. All she and my father care about is money. Sometimes they would beat me until I was unconscious." I say.
Max's face falls. I think he never imagined it to be that bad. "Eric, take her to the infirmary after this please."
Eric nods. I can't help but feel sorry for Max. I have a feeling that he had feelings for my mom and she chose my father over him. I never knew about my parents past before they had me.
"So what do you know about my mother?" I ask.
Max gestures to the couch next to his desk. I walk over to the couch and sit down on it. Eric sits to my right and before Max can walk over to desk and sit in his chair, there is a knock at the door. Max goes over to the doo and opens it. I see Four standing on the other side of the door. Max invites Four inside and Four comes over to the couch and sits down to my left. Max walks to his desk and sits in his chair.
"Your mother and I were best friends since we were children. We were inseparable. Then as our choosing ceremony was approaching, your mother wanted freedom from the factions and wanted to leave Chicago. She met your father when they were 14. They both wanted out of the system and out of the city. I told your mother how I felt and she rejected me. I went to school the next day for the aptitude tests and she never showed up. I returned home and found out that she and your father had run away the night before." Max says looking at his hands.
"She just left? She never said goodbye?" I asked shocked.
"Your mother got her wish, she left everything behind. I never saw her again. I thought that they died after they got out of the fence. Never made it anywhere outside of Chicago." Max says.
"My mother never told me where she and my father came from. If I had aunts, uncles, cousins or grandparents. It was like they didn't want me to know where they came from." I say sadly.
Max rises and walks over to the couch I'm sitting on and gives me his hand. I take his hand and get off the couch. Max pulls me into a hug. I hug him back and feel safe in his arms. Max releases me from the hug and says "Your family will be happy that you're here."
"My family?" I ask confused.
"Yes, your grandparents and aunts." Max says smiling.
"How many sisters did my mom have?" I ask.
"She had three older sisters who all chose dauntless. They are all married and have kids. Your grandparents are still around." Max says looking through the files.
"My mom said she was 16 when she was pregnant with me." I say.
Max drops the files and looks at me shocked. I think that's the reason she took off in the first place. My mother said I would have never fit in the world she grew up in. She said that there were too many rules that you would have to follow to belong in that world.
"Your mother was pregnant when she left?" Max asks shocked.
"Yeah and my parents married shortly after they arrived in Missouri, they lived there for 19 years. They became lawyers and only care about money. I thought that they would stop being selfish but I was wrong. I ran away because I was sick and tired of the way they were treating me so I decided to head to where my mother said she grew up." I say.
"I'll let your family know that you're here but for now Eric will take you to the infirmary so we can see how bad the abuse was." Max says.
Eric gets off the couch and heads towards the door. I follow Eric out the door, through a series of hallways to the infirmary. Eric explains to the doctor my situation while the nurses check my vitals and everything. The nurses notice a bunch of scars on my body from the beatings my parents did. The doctor said that I was fine to leave two hours later. I get dressed and follow Eric to the cafeteria.
"So where in Missouri did you live?" Eric asks after a minute.
"Springfield." I say focusing on my surroundings.
"So where are you staying?" Eric asks.
"I don't have a place to stay. I stayed at Four's last night." I say as we get closer to the cafeteria.
"I'll talk to Max about you being able to stay in my apartment." Eric says looking at me.
I look at him shocked and say "That's not necessary."
"I want you to come live with me in my apartment while Four and I train you." Eric says while we enter the cafeteria.
I look at him shocked. H leaves to go sit at some other table while I go sit next to Christina at her regular table. I tell the gang about my day and they all have shocked looks on their faces. They can't believe that my mother was dauntless and took off before her choosing ceremony.
"So where are you staying while you're in dauntless?" asks Uriah.
"Eric wants me to move into his apartment with him while he and Four train me." I say.
Zeke, Four, Will, and Uriah all do spit takes after I finish my sentence. Everyone looks at me like I'm crazy. I guess Eric is the kind of guy where girls would say no if they were asked to live with him.
"What?" I asked confused.
"Eric would never ask a girl to move in with him unless…." Uriah says while sharing a look with the others.
"Unless what?" I ask.
"Unless he wants to marry a girl or is in love with her." Uriah says looking at me with a smirk.
I give him a look that says are you kidding me? I got a feeling that I was being watched. I look over at the table that Eric is sitting and see that he is staring at me. I start blushing and everyone notices.
"What?" asks Tris.
"Nothing." I say.
Everyone looks at the direction I was looking and notice that Eric is still staring at me. Everyone starts laughing when my face turns a deeper shade of red.
"Stop laughing. It's not funny." I say.
"I knew it! Eric has the hots for you and wants to make you his." Uriah says laughing.
I get up from the table and walk out of the cafeteria. I walk towards Max's office. I think about my past boyfriends and think about what jerks they were. My parents tried to hook me up with their co-workers teenage sons. They were all rich and all they cared about was having family and having all boys. I couldn't stand them and told most of them to go to hell. I started to date some bad boys at my school and I knew that my parents would never approve.
I felt a hand on my arm and I turn around and see Eric standing behind me.
"Where are you going?" Eric asked.
"Max's office. I need to find my own apartment." I say.
"Is it something that Four's table said?" he asks.
"They said that you don't let anyone move into your apartment unless you want to marry her or you're in love with her." I say while continuing to walk to Max's office.
"I don't but I just want to see where this might go." he says walking next to me.
I stop and stare at him with shock.
Yeah so I will try and update whenever I have free time.
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