Tris the trainer

Technique

Tris pov

After all of the initiates walk out of the training arena to go to lunch, I walk to the control room to find Zeke. We are going to go find Shaunna and go to our spot beside the chasm with. I find him in the control room making out with Shaunna. I walk up to them laughing. They pull apart immediately with a embarrassed look on there faces. When they realize that it's me they just start to laugh to.

"I guess we don't have to go looking for Shaunna" I say between laughs as we start to stand up to leave.

We are walking to the pit when I see Four with Will, Al, and Christina. They are talking about school with there old Factions. I decide to scare them. I tell Zeke and Shaunna to go and I will meet them there.

I walk up behind Four and in my scary trainer voice I say "you are in this faction now and I don't want to here about your old faction. Ever." They all stare at me in shock with big eyes. Until I start to laugh. They start to nervously laugh too as I walk away.

I hear Will whisper/yell to Four "you lovveeeee her, you can't keep your eyyyyeeeessss of her" and I think I hear Will fall to the ground as four says "shut up" in a serious way.

I walk away with my face red and go meet Zeke and Shaunna in our secret spot.

~~~~~~~time laps to after lunch~~~~~~~

After the initiates are done lunch, I walk them to the fighting room. It's a huge room with a wood floor that is cracked and creaky. There is a large circle painted in the centre of the room. On the left wall is a chock board we use for writing the initiates names and who they will be fighting.

On the other side of the room are some old punching bags. I walk over to the punching bags and motion for the initiates to follow me.

"As I said this morning," I say "next you will learn how to fight. The purpose of this is to prepare you to act; to
Prepare your body to respond to threats and challenges- which you will need, if you intend to survive life as a dauntless"

As I look at each initiate individual I am looking for strengths and weaknesses. I will find more when they start to practice.

"We will go over technique today, and tomorrow we will sort to fight each other, so pay attention. Those who don't learn fast will get hurt." I name a few punches, demonstrate them in the air then on the punching bag. I do the same with kicks.

I tell them to go off and practice. I am pacing behind them noting there strengths and weaknesses like I said I would earlier. I am looking at Four, and try to think of any weaknesses. He is super strong, and has a lot of power behind his punches and kicks. One of the things I notice is his lack of confidence. I walk up to him and say "you are doing great, but you need to have more confidence," I put my hand on his abdomen and say "keep tension here." And I walk away.

I dismiss them for dinner and walk away. I am thinking about Four when I walk out. How I got to put my hand on his muscled abdomen, His eyes, I haven't really had a conversation with him, but he seems really nice, selfless, and brave. The perfect Dauntless. My thoughts are interrupted by Shaunna and Zeke walking my way. They come up to me and say in unison; "do you want to go punch stuff?"

"Defiantly" I answer with a smile

Maybe I can get the thoughts off of Four for just one night.

Thanks for everyone who reads

Stay brave, Heather