Dauntless Brothers

[Chapter 42] Sculpture at school.

The starting is really crappy :(

When I leave my room, I run into Evelyn who is leaving too.

"Good morning." She says with a smile.

"Morning." I reply and head towards the door.

"You have school today, right?" She calls after me.

I turn around to face her. "Yeah. I do."

"Alright! Then have a good day!" She says with a wave.

I give her a smile and leave. No matter what I'll never be able to get used to this new side of Evelyn's.

I go to the dinning hall but find Zeke at the entrance. "What are you doing?"

"Waiting for you. Come on." He starts walking towards the tracks.

I decide to remind him. "I still haven't had breakfast."

"No problem. Marlene has taken care of that." He tells me.

"Marlene?" I ask, confused.

"We're going to do something today before school." One look at my face makes him add. "Don't worry! You'll understand!" We wait for the train and then jump on.

I stare out the door but suddenly I feel an urge to look at Zeke. He has a mischievous grin on his face.

"This can't be good." I say out loud to no one in particular.

"Huh?" Zeke asks.

"The last time you had this look on your face was when we played Candor or Dauntless."

"So?"

"So, whatever we're going to do can't be good."

"It is good! It is extremely good! Though, this is my definition. Yours would be crazy."

"What?!" I scream. Zeke nods in confirmation.

"The only thing which I call crazy are Dauntless extremes!"

"I know. What we're going to do is one of the Dauntless extremes."

Saying this he jumps off which makes me realize that we've reached school. I brace myself and jump off. The conversation in the train makes no sense to me. When I look around I find a couple of students from Erudite scattered around. But the only other students are clothed in black.

The group consists of people I know. I join them announcing. "Zeke already gave me a sneak peak of what's in store. So, before anything else. I say that this is a bad idea."

"Come on Four! Don't be a party spoiler!" Christina says.

I groan. "Fine. What are we doing?"

After a few minutes we are all standing in front of the metal sculpture in front on the school building.

While Zeke explains the rules I look up but I can't see its top. I would have a heart attack if I climbed it.

"It's simple. We'll all climb it, one by one. The one to go the highest wins."

"I'll go first." Lynn says.

Everyone cheers as she starts to climb.

I look away and walk over to Tris who is watching her climb. When she notices me, she turns her attention to me.

"Hey! Are you going to try?"

"No way. Zip lining almost killed me. I can't afford this." I reply. She laughs and says. "Well, I will."

I start to protest but she stops me. "No! You can't stop me. I'm going to do it anyways."

"Fine. Just be careful." I tell her and she nods in reply.

"This is as far as I can go!" Lynn shouts. I look up to find her half way up. Wow! For me that's almost as high as death.

The moment she climbs down, Uriah starts to climb and the cheering starts all over again.

I stand behind Tris and put my arms around her waist with my heading resting on her shoulder. She leans back into me as we watch Uriah climb higher.

His foot slips a few steps away from the spot Lynn reached so he has to come back down and goes out of the competition. "I'm going next!" Tris shouts, running out of my embrace and to the base of the sculpture.

She starts to climb and this time I don't dare to look away. She keeps climbing and keeps going higher and higher. Soon she reaches Lynn's spot and goes higher up. My breathing hitches and the cheering gets louder. Some spaces up she shouts down.

"This is as far as I can go!"

"Alright! Then come back down!" Zeke shouts.

She follows his instructions and starts to climb down but she's still high up when her foot slips and she's left dangling from one hand. She screams and at once I run forward.

"Tris! Jump!" I shout up at her.

"What?! Are you crazy?!" She screams back.

"I'll die catching you! But I won't drop you!" I hear Christina 'awww' behind me. I want to punch her but I can't leave Tris.

"Come on! I promise!" I call up at her.

"Alright! Count to three!" She shouts back.

"One!"

"I'm slipping!"

"Two!"

"I'm letting go!"

"Three!"

She lets go and comes hurtling into arms. She buries her face in my shoulder and I hold her. She's gasping for air.

Zeke finally says. "I don't think anyone else wants to go, so the game's over."

I set Tris down on the ground and Christina shoves a bottle of water in her hand, forcing her to drink.

"We have our winner! Tris!" Everyone thumps her on the back and congratulates her. She looks up once and gives them a smile before burying her face in my shoulder again.

This is not a good chapter. At least no one of my best.

The next four chapters are going to be a long event broken into chapters so I'm going to be updating them one after another in four days.

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