Second Chance

Chapter 7

I just shook my head at her. She was so dramatic sometimes. But that is something I love about her. She never made my life boring. My life has changed in a short period. But I know that I would not change it for anything. Since I started attending this school, I have begun to find myself. It has been the best thing in my life.

It has been a busy month. I am still training with Four. It is different. He has been nicer to me. Every day, I feel like I am falling even more for him. He has been helping me a lot. I am so head of my defense class because of Four. We go running every day. We now run to the gate and back to dauntless. It is tiring, but it is refreshing. I always now look forward to running in the morning.

I woke up to my alarm going off. I jumped out of bed and got changed into my running outfit. It was a Saturday, so everyone was asleep. Also good with Saturdays is that I get to run longer with him. I ran down to the Pit where he was waiting for me to come.

"Ready." He asked me when I approached him.

"Yeah." I said. Then we headed out. It was quiet at first, but then I broke the silence.

"So, are you ready for the visiting day?" I asked him. We stopped at Candor faction to take a short break. He handed me water, and I took it.

"Kind of." He said, not looking at me. I could tell I hit a touchy subject. "What about you? Are you ready to see your parents again?"

"Yeah, I am ready to see them. I also get to see a great person, too." I said.

"Nice. Come on, we might want to make a move on it if we want to keep it on schedule." He said, starting to run.

I ran fast to catch up to him. It seems like he did that to just make me stop talking about it. When we finished running, we walked back into Dauntless together. He looked at me weirdly.

"What?" I asked him.

"Nothing. Oh, I almost forgot. We are not training today. I thought you needed a break. But don't get used to it. We will still run every morning. But until visiting day is gone, we will not be training. Okay?" He looked at me.

"Okay. That sounds fine, but if you don't mind me asking. Why is that?" I asked him.

"I help a lot around here during the visiting day. So I can't do both. But don't get used to it. This is probably the only time you will get this break." He said.

Then he walked away from me. I just shook my head and headed to my room to shower and change. I walked into Chris, sitting on her bed waiting for me. I found her a lot of times like that. She just wants to know what is going on.

"So, how was your guys' run this morning?" She asked me. You could tell she was hoping something happened this time. She always hoped something would happen. But nothing does.

"It was good." I said.

"Just good? That it? Nothing really happened?" She asked me.

"No, except he said I will not be trained until after visiting day. But we will still run every morning." I told her.

"Nice. Now we can hang out more." She said to me.

"Yeah. So does Four do a lot to help prepare for the visiting day?" I asked her.

"Yeah, he does. He helps out the headmistress and Max mainly." She said.

"Oh, okay." I said with a pause, trying to make myself busy.

"Why do you care?" She asked me.

"Just wondering. He just told me he did." I said, getting my things together for my shower.

"You want to make sure he wasn't lying. You want to get to know him. You have a crush on him, and it is growing." She said mockingly.

"What, no! Don't be silly. I am going to take a shower." I said, heading into our bathroom.

"Okay, but we are not done talking about this." I heard her demand before I shut the door.

When I finished my shower, I got into clean new clothes. Chris was not in the room. I blow-dried my hair and put it up in a ponytail. Then I walked to the Pit. I found my friends hanging out in the Pit.

"Speak of the devil." Edward said when I sat down.

"Hi." I said, looking at everyone confused.

"Listen here, everyone." Max yelled. We looked up to see Max standing there.

"So visiting day is coming. So you know what that means. If it is up to me, I wouldn't care. But it is the school that wants this done. We need to keep this place clean and spotless." He yelled at us.

Then, everyone walked away. We have been cleaning since the day Max talked to us. I didn't do much cleaning except help my friends with their rooms. Oh my gosh, Will is so messy. He makes a pig pen look clean. It is a day before visiting day.

"I'm so excited for tomorrow. I can't wait to see my parents." I said excitedly.

"You are probably the only one except the freshman." Chris said to me with a laugh.

"Why is that?" I asked them.

"You get used to it after a while." Lauran said.

"Oh, okay." I said. For that whole day, we hung out. It was fun. When I went to bed, I thought about how I couldn't wait for my parents to see me. I heard my alarm going off and a noise from Chris's side.

"Morning, smiley." She said to me.

"Morning. What are you doing up this early?" I asked, getting ready to go running.

"Couldn't sleep, so I thought, get up." She said.

"Okay. I'm going running now." I said, walking out of the room.

I walked to the Pit to see that Four was not there. Where is he? I am never early. Is he not showing up today?

"Sorry, I am late." I hear Four's voice and see him coming towards me.

"It's cool." I smiled. I am just happy he's here. "So ready to go?" I asked him.

"Yeah. Let's go." He said. We ran in silence for a while until we took a break at Erudite today.

"So why were you late?" I asked him.

"Just was." He said, not giving me another reason. Then we ran to the gate. When we got to the gate, he was smiling at me.

"What?" I said to him.

"Want to race back?" He smiled at me.

"Sure." I said, and then we got ready.

"Ready... Set... Go!!!!" He yelled, and we started to run back to Dauntless. When we were running, a crowd formed to watch. We were neck to neck near the end. I looked over to Four and saw that he got this smirk. He stopped for a second. I looked back to see Four not there, and then I noticed Four ahead of me. I started to run to catch up. It was neck to neck again until.....