One Night Stand || Divergent / Eric

7. Mixed Signals.

Beyoncé feat. JAY Z - Drunk In Love

I explained everything to Christina and Tris, even though they weren't surprised about Peter and Charlie, what they said after it made my stomach drop.

"That explains it then." Tris stated. I furrowed my eyebrows as I studied her.

"Explains what?" I asked, do they know something I don't? Yes.

"Eric has feelings for you, that's why he went absolutely mental in front of everybody when Four told him and Max about he incident in the bathroom." Christina explained. I dropped my fork on the table, my lips ajar as I stared at her.

"He what?" I asked slowly, was I hearing this right?

"Yeah, just went all out and almost shot Charlie in the middle of the food hall, Max and Alex had to escort him out, think Candy's taken Peter and Charlie somewhere safe until training, there Four's going to be watching them." Tris added, I gulped hard as my eyes diverted from Tris to Christina and back.

"Man did he put up a hell of a fight!" Christina said excitedly.

"I don't know what you've done to get him to like you, but Charlie really pushed his buttons by hurting you. You should have seen it.." Tris laughed. I wasn't laughing.

"I'm glad I wasn't there, just hearing about it is overwhelming." I said quietly as I stared at the table.

"What? I thought you liked him?" Christina whispered. I looked up at her and rolled my eyes.

"Yeah, you know that I do." I sighed.

"Then what's the problem?" Tris asked. I shook my head.

"We can't be together, at least not yet. I actually have to be a dauntless member if it's going to be acceptable. I'm an initiate and he's a leader... I am nothing, and he is-" I paused, sinking slightly in my seat. "He is everything."

"Shut up, Sam." Christina answered, I looked up at her, surprised at her sudden outburst.

"You are not nothing, now stop all this depressing talk. He can wait less than 3 weeks for you, alright? If he can't then he's not the one for you." Christina said, her hand rubbing my arm gently.

"You're right." I admitted, "uh, I'm just so confused!"

"Why?" Tris asked.

"He keeps pushing me away, making out like he doesn't like me, like he doesn't want me. But then he goes and pulls a stunt like this with Charlie and Peter... And the train, he could have left me on that train, I'm sure he would have if it were either of you two, but no, he carries me to his apartment. I'm getting really bad mixed signals right now. So I think I'm just going to take a step back and let him come to me..." I explained, yeah, I nodded, it was a good plan.

"You're right, maybe you need a little space to concentrate on initiation." Tris agreed.

"Speaking of initiation.." I grumbled noticing other initiates getting up and leaving.

"We've gotta go," Christina added. We got up from the table and left the food hall, we had a laugh and joke about Peter being a total knob as we wandered through the halls towards the pit. As we walked into the pit I noticed that we were the last ones. Four rolled his eyes as he saw just jog up to the group.

My heart jumped in my chest as I jogged past Eric. His arms crossed over his chest as usual. I knew his eyes followed me as I went past. While we were standing listening to four I took this time to tie my hair up in a pony tail.

"The dance is tonight," he began. I furrowed my eyebrows. Dance? "This does not mean that you will get off training early, it means that you'll work hard and you can leave when I tell you you've worked hard enough. If you miss the dance, so be it. I doubt you'll want to spend the night with Erudite anyway, and if you do, you're in the wrong faction. Right, 5 laps of the training hall to warm up once we get there." He finished. I was at the back of the group. I guess that was a bad idea, Eric was also at the back. I attempted to disappear with the other initiates but a hand on my left arm stopped me. He held me back for a few moments, when we were a few feet behind the group he let go of my arm and we walked side by side.