One Night Stand || Divergent / Eric

2. Tattoo's And Piercings.

Song for this chapter // Lost Frequencies - Are You With Me

I followed the other initiates to the training area. But I couldn't concentrate. Eric had just killed that boy. He just bought his gun right up and bang, he was gone. Just like that. Surely I should have been the one to die.. I did push the boys buttons after all.

"You five! With me!" Eric called, pointing to me, peter and three others. I nodded and followed Eric. "I hope you like running.."

I groaned loudly, although I didn't mean to. It was supposed to be an eternal groan but oops.

Eric turned around, his blue eyes studying me.

"You can run an extra lap for that, uh," He paused as if waiting for me to fill in my name.

"Sam.." I answered. He opened his mouth slightly and shut it again before turning around and carrying on walking. Peter nudged me hard and snickered. "Touch me again and i'll rip your throat out." I told him as I glared at him.

Peter stopped laughing with his friends and a girl sent him evils. Peter noticed and looked over at her.

"What are you looking at stiff?" Peter asked her, she looked away, shocked at his comment.

"You can leave her alone too," I informed him. He walked in front of me with his friends, letting me walk beside the girl.

"Thanks for that, you really didn't have to you know." She said making me shrug.

"I wanted to. Us girls have got to stick together." I flashed her a smile which she returned, "so what's your name?"

"Tris, what's yours?" She asked.

"Sam." I answered. I would like to talk to Tris more but Eric stopped, the training room was big, we were now standing along the far edge.

"Line up, one by one you're going to do a length as fast as you can. If any of you don't manage to get back here in under 20 seconds you'll be doing 15 extra push ups." Eric informed us.

I furrowed my eyebrows as I got in line. 20 seconds, to run all that way? That's ten seconds there and ten seconds back.. It wasn't possible.

"Go," Eric ordered and the first person left, it was one of Peters friends, Charlie I think his name is. He had long legs so he managed to glide along at a steady pace. But as he reached us again, Eric pointed at the ground.

"22 seconds.. 15 push-ups, now." He ordered. Charlie dropped to the floor and began his push ups. He seemed to be struggling after the first one. Meanwhile, Peter was next. He sprinted off, I turned to Eric.

"Is this even possible?" I asked. He looked at me and kept his cold hard stare.

"With the right motivation initiate, anything is possible." He answered just as Peter got back. "19 seconds, well done."

"Beat that!" Peter challenged before he moved to the back of the line.

Eric's words played back in my head. 'With the right motivation initiate, anything is possible' He was right. I could do this. And what was my motivation? To survive? To win Eric over? Maybe if I ran quicker then Peter I'd impress him.

"Go!" Eric shouted and I sprinted off, I didn't think I was going to make it but I knew that Eric was my finish line and he was less then 20 seconds away, so I ran like never before. I reached the far wall, using my hand to stop me running straight into it, then I turned and ran for my life. As I saw Eric, Tris, Charlie, Peter and the other boy getting closer and closer I imagined that someone was after me. That's how I ran faster. As I got back I pretty much barged into the wall, I was going too fast to stop. I wanted to collapse.