Learning to Let Them In | Fourtris

Chapter 8

Tris POV

I keep running, ignoring everyone calling after me. Eventually, I find a dark hallway that I don't think anyone uses anymore. Either that, or no one knows about it. I don't have a problem with either situation.

I start walking now, convinced that no one is following me. I see several doors, and I try to open each one. Every door is locked except for the one furthest down the hallway. I open that one and walk in. It's dark and empty. It looks like really tiny. In fact…it looks TOO tiny to have been an actual room. I think this must lead to another room somehow. Maybe I'm wrong…but I don't think I am.

In Tori's house, I found a secret passageway leading to an awesome little room. It's not very big, but there were beanbag chairs and rugs. It was homey. I go there if I need some alone time. I think I'll probably go there today. Most likely. I don't ever get comfortable though. I don't deserve it. I shoved the chairs and rugs into a corner and left them there to gather up dust.

I found the room not too long ago. It was in the middle of the night when I had just woke up. I woke up because of my daily nightmare. I was trying not to wake Tori up, so I went out to the hallway and ran my fingers along the walls. As I was running my fingers across, I felt a little bump in one of the panels. I stopped and took a closer look and saw that there was a faded outline of a shape. I tried to pull it open.

I did get it open, but when I did, a big cloud of dust blew out of it. I left it open and got a rag, then went back to it and cleaned it up a little. Once I did, I saw a really tiny light at the bottom of it. I decided to investigate. I climbed in and started heading towards the tiny light. Once I got there I saw the little room. It was really cozy and made me feel peaceful for just a second. But then I remembered that I shouldn't deserve peace or coziness and shoved the rugs and bean bag chairs into a corner. I made sure to make it all black. Including the walls. It's the only color I will wear anyways.

Snapping out of my thoughts, I start searching for a crease or a crack in the walls. I mean, there has got to be a secret passage in here! The room can't be THAT small...can it?

I search for about 20 minutes and I almost give up when I feel a crack in the wall that doesn't run the same way as the other panels do. I start to push on it, but it won't budge. I try pulling, but it will won't budge! What else is there to try!

I think a little bit, then I think of sliding the panel. I've tried everything else so it has to be this! If this doesn't work then I must've been wrong about this passage way! I try sliding it to the left and the right. Back and forth, back and forth. I eventually hear a little creak, and start sliding harder.

I work on it for quite awhile, and it eventually opens enough for me to get through. I'm not sure whether to climb in or not though...if I go in I'm afraid I will never come back out. If I leave it open though, no one should close the door and it most definitely will not close on its own, judging on how hard it was to get it open. I decide that I will climb in. I mean, what have I got to lose? Absolutely nothing. Except for my life. But I would actually be grateful if this tunnel took my life. I wouldn't have to live my shitty life anymore. But I can only hope.

I start climbing in, and I'm lucky I don't eat much, because if I did, I wouldn't be able to fit in this thing. I start crawling farther and farther into the darkness and after a long, LONG, time, I finally see a light glowing of into the distance.

The tunnel ceiling starts to slant up, just enough so I can stand and walk the rest of the way. I keep moving, and I hear water. Water? I climbed all this way for WATER! Well, that's just my luck. Bad luck. It probably will never change.

Maybe I'm wrong…I mean, if this was kept a secret, surely there is something amazing. I think? I sure hope. I start walking again. I follow the sound of the water and I soon realize that this must be big, because the water now sounds like a waterfall or maybe even something bigger. I start to think about of all the things it could be, and at first I am thinking about turning back to the tunnel, but I have had enough cowardliness in my life already. I don't need to display anymore. With this thought in my head, I start to pick up my pace, hoping that it will be something worthwhile.