Dauntless Born

Chapter 3 Visit

The night of the ceremony, they tried something different. When the initiates were out of that little thing, was when I heard it. Four. He was going by a name, designed by how many fears he had. That was the last time I really saw him for a while. I mean yeah, I'd run into him while younger Dauntless kids were 'playing games.' But I wouldn't really see him or get the chance to talk to him.

These games were designed to get us used to the Dauntless life style. I was old enough to start mildly fighting, but I hadn't yet reached the weight requirement. Anyway, I had really wanted to tell Four who I was. I had mentioned it to Tori at one point, who strongly advised against it. You don't want to start something Kacie. You don't want to start something you can't handle in the end. I frowned some, she always said there was something more going on with him, but wouldn't ever really give me a straight answer as to what. Something that could make him emotionally unavailable to you. It made my stomach feel strange when she said that. Why would he not be emotionally unavailable?

I did a spinning roundhouse kick into one of the hanging punching bags. It swung back at me and almost hit me. I looked over. Four was practicing. I shook my head. it'd been a couple weeks now. And his form hadn't gotten any better. He needed to get better, or he was going to lose the fight against Eric. Right so the Erudite boy was now insisting everyone call him Eric. Apparently based on what the Candor boy Sean had said, he hated his full name and even asked to be called Eric in Erudite, but his dad didn't like it.

I fixed my earbud and took another round at it. I wanted to hit the weight limit to actually start fighting. I was literally turning twelve in a couple of days, and I would be the only twelve year old not fighting. It was bad enough to be the shortest, but worse to be the smallest, only coming in at a whopping 63 pounds sopping wet. You had to be at least 68 pounds to start small fights, anything over, you could go into a little more hard core fights. I heard Amar talking to Four. I fell backwards, turning to my left side as I fell hard as the bag which hadn't been moving hit me hard. I laid there for a minute, my vision doubling and ears ringing. Two people ran over, someone rolling me over. I saw Amar. He knelt over me and said something. Kacie, wake up! He snapped some while snapping his fingers. I blinked hard a couple of times before sitting up. What happened?!? I shook my head some. I don't- I felt the side of my head. Know. I said looking at my hand, which had blood on it. Come on. He stood me up. Remember Four! Is she gonna be ok?!? He snapped some and Amar nodded before taking me up to his apartment.

He sat me on the bathroom counter and started poking and dabbing blood of with a Q-tip. You hit the ground pretty good. He said and I kinda just shrugged. What had you so distracted? I just looked up at him. My brother. I thought but I knew I couldn't say it. But why shouldn't I? I sighed some and reached into my pant's pocket as he put a butterfly band-aid on my temple. I handed it to him and he looked down. When were you going to tell me? I asked and he just looked back up. Where did you get this?!? He snapped some and I shrugged. Kacie- Why didn't you tell me the truth? HOW LONG HAVE YOU HAD THIS?!? Since I was nine. He was angry. I want to tell him. No. He snapped and I frowned some as I took the bracelet back and jumped off the counter. Why not?!? He is trying to leave his past behind all you would do is dig it back up! It felt like a punch to the gut. It was a sharp pain. I felt my eyes burn. He didn't want me. Just like my mom. I stared at my feet. You gotta promise me you aren't gonna tell him anything. I nodded some and he nodded once. Good. He said before walking out.

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I hung around the Chasm. I was still upset. I didn't know if it was because the fact my brother wouldn't want me since what Amar was saying about him leaving everything Tobias Eaton behind being true, or if it was because I knew he wouldn't want me. I felt someone some what ram into me. I grabbed the railing and fell to one knee. Watch it kid. I looked up at Eric glaring standing up. Maybe you should watch it. I snapped he squinted. Seeing as YOU are the one that ran into me. For the first time he didn't have his glasses on. Maybe he couldn't see me? I stared at him making eye contact longer than I wanted to, but I saw it shift. Contacts. He was wearing Contacts. I raised an eyebrow. What you got there? I felt my stomach drop. Nothing. He reached and grabbed for my bracelet. WAIT! I backed up holding it away from us, but he was still bigger, and still had a larger wing span. He snatched it from me. Eric give it back! I whined some, he just rolled his eyes at me and looked down at the bracelet. The name and date I could see it through some of the lighting he was using to read it.