Divergent: Becoming The Monster (Eric's Story)

Chapter 6: Truth In Alibis

As the sun rose and flitted making contact with the windowpane, my eyes flicked open I felt a rush of emotions to quick and to strong to decipher them all it just felt like a whoosh through my lungs and heart. I felt a strong flow of shame as I looked down the tangled shining brown locks a lit in the sun in a way I'd never seen that I was just stroking last night made guilt swell inside. She was asleep curled into me.

I was dauntless. I was a leader, the set example of a soldier, remaining cold unfeeling for my faction. That is who I am, not this soft shell of my former self. I had protected her. That is all and now it was time to say goodbye.

"Hey," I said abruptly with roughness underlying. Her green eyes fluttered open. She looked up at me still a bit groggy.

"Eric." She rubbed at her face clearing the reminisce of sleep. 

"Get up." I spit in soft harshness a masked look of carelessness on my face.

She pulled herself from me in a wounded motion, wrapping the blanket tighter around her. I got to my feet strutting as if I felt some sort of superiority that just wasn't there.

"Eric. I know we... well we can't be friends, but... we don't-don't have to hate each other." She stammered over her words but there was a strength to them I hadn't expected in an Amity,

"I don't hate you." I said evenly turned away from her pulling my shirt off the crate.

"Well good." There was a sort of uncertainty in her tone and I knew what I said would be sure to make her more certain.

"I just don't care about you." I was pulling on my shirt as the words dripped from my mouth sounding evil even to my own ears.

There was a pause that made the hair on my arms stand up straight. I couldn't breathe.

"I understand." It was spoken in such definitive tone that I knew that she would leave her distaining me. It would be better that way. I finished collecting my belongings. I turned and saw her fully clothed and putting her hair up the leather band. She looked at me evenly. I stifled the urge to look away.

I held my head high and began to walk towards the door. She placed herself in front of it chin tilted up and mint eyes intense.

"Get out of my way." I had meant for it to come out stronger.

"You may not care about me. But I care about you. And I thank you for sharing these moments with me. We will go our separate ways. I will think of you often. But you have nothing to worry about. I will leave you be." And with that she leaned up on her tippy toes and pressed the softest of kissed to my lips.

As she pulled away I felt my bones become almost hollow.

As she went to reach for the door handle, I resisted the urge to grab and stop her.

"Wait until no one will notice you leaving." And then she was gone.

She was gone and I was empty again. 

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