Cruel//Eric Divergent

13~Love at first fight

"I just feel like I'm floating, and nothing can bring me down today!" I say to Alex and Emma at breakfast while grabbing my food.

"And why would that be Addi?" Alex asks with a smirk on her face and a quick glance over at Eric, who was looking straight at me and responded with a small smile. Em and Alex are the only ones I've told about the kiss last night.

"You know why that would be, so wipe that annoying little smirk off your face," I say with a grin, finally digging into my food. Emma and Alex sit down next to me and we are joined by Tris, Christina and Hanna who all look at me suspiciously, wondering why I'm so happy today. We talk about random things until we realise we should start walking towards the training room. Today we are doing our final fights, which added with the points we got last night, will help determine if we are above the red line. So far I have been sitting in about 2nd or 3rd, but I think creating the winning plan might push me up into first.

I walk into the training room and give Four a wave, which he responds to with a grin of his own. Soon the door opens once again revealing Eric, and all conversation dies down, while my smile grows bigger upon seeing him.

"Initiates, listen up! Today is the last day we fight, and the last day to secure your pace above the line," Eric says with no emotion whatsoever.

"Our first fight of the day is a rather interesting one actually, it's between Addi and I," Eric says while most of the initiates look at him in shock. I simply nod, eager to prove I can take him. Hopefully. I step into the ring and start to stretch as Eric takes a leisurely stroll into the ring, with a smug expression, completely comfortable in his victory. Guess I'll have to prove him wrong.

Eric starts cracking his knuckles as I watch and cringe.

"Can you not do that?" I ask with a scowl and a shudder, while he simply smirks at my discomfort. Asshole.

"Why? Does in make you uncomfortable, sweety?" he asks in a condescending tone, while giving me an fake angelic smile, luckily lay no other initiates are paying attention. I just scowled some more and changed stretching positions. I have the feeling that he finds amusement in my annoyance, although I can't say I wouldn't feel the same if the situation was reversed.

Eric gives me a small nod and begins to slowly walk towards me, his arms and hands protecting him perfectly. Shit, how am I supposed to attack that?! I don't need to worry about attacking though, as Eric moved his fist directly towards my face, and I barely manage to dodge it in time. I'm stumbling by this point, and Eric uses the opportunity to get a quick jab in my ribs. However this leaves his side open and I manage to get a pretty solid kick into it, leaving him stumbling. I see the opening and elbow him harshly in the face, which makes him trip backwards. I jump forward which brings him onto the ground, managing to get a punch in, until he uses his strength and size, to roll us over. He bashes my head against the floor and I see stars. I manage to tilt my head enough to bite him just above his wrist, making him fall and allowing me to flips once again.

"how are they so evenly matched?" "this could go on for ages, look at them," "how is she even keeping up with him?", I can hear from the other initiates.

"Okay, I'm calling it, fight's over!" Four yells, obviously realising it could go on for a while. I stand up and offer Eric my hand, but he simply gets up and walks past me, annoyed that he hadn't completely defeated me. I decide not to worry about it, and let him cool down, I'll find him later. Everyone else congratulates me and I sit down and rest, concentrating on not fainting. The rest of the fights go by without anything amazing happening. By the time we leave Eric still hasn't returned, he must be really pissed.

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"Food finally!" I say sitting down with my delicious looking food and grinning at Hanna. I still don't see Eric, but he's revealing the results, so he'll turn up eventually.
"How'd the shopping go earlier?" Tris asks politely, sliding in next to me along with Em and Alex.
"Good, I got some great sales!" I say enthusiastically while pouring tomato sauce onto my plate.
"Aye, we heard something about you today... is it true that you were so good at fighting you and Eric had to call it a draw?" I turn around to see Uriah, Zeke, Marlene and Lynn all grinning at me.
"You better believe I did," I say in response to Uriah's question while waving at them all.
"Hey, sit down, wait in nervous anticipation for the results with us!" I say with a sweep of my hand to indicate the spare seats. They all sit down and the conversation flows easily.

"Initiates, stand!" I hear the familiar voice of Eric call across the room, rendering everyone silent. Most Dauntless have hung around to see the results, as it's a big deal apparently. Eric speaks for a minute or two but I'm too excited to focus, all I want him to do is reveal the results. Suddenly the board is revealed and sighs of relief, whoops of joy and sobs can be heard. I'm one of the people whooping, because there it is- #1: Addi.

People are hugging me from every direction and I don't know what to do so I just keep smiling. I check the board again to make sure my friends are safe. Hanna came 9th, Em came 11th, with Alex in 15th, Christina 18th and Tris was only two above being cut.

After a few more minutes of congratulations we all decide to go to the pit and have a bit of a celebration. I'm walking with a large group of people, not really talking to anyone, just taking it all in when I feel a hand grab my fore arm and another cover my mouth. The person pulls me down a deserted corridor as I struggle.

"Calm down would you? It's just me," I hear the person, which I now identify as Eric say. He turns the corner once again into a smaller and darker corridor and pushes me against the wall. He begins to kiss me passionately, and I once again find myself lost in it. The feeling of his hands on my waist and his lips on mine bring butterflies to my stomach, cliche, I know.

"So you aren't mad anymore?" I ask breathlessly when we finally break apart.

"You didn't think I was actually mad did you, babe? I just had to make it look that way, to keep up my appearance yo know," Eric's says with a small chuckle, like he can't quite believe I didn't realise he was faking.

"Well sorry I can't read your mind, I was worried," I say grinning, still floating from
the kiss. Eric then takes my hand and starts to lead me towards the pit with a grin and a "let's go celebrate!" .

Wow guys, that's a pretty long one! 1251 words to be exact. I decided to do a long one to apologise for taking so long... In other news Wattpad finally let me change my password on this account, so I can finally get in on any device. Like I tried to change it like 5 months ago and it told me I needed my password to change my password?? But it finally worked, so updates should be more frequent! Anyway what should Addi and Eric's ship name be? Tell me in the comments #Aric or #Eddi . Also, I started a new story called "Misunderstood" so please give that a read #spon. Anyway, wow such a long authors note, hope you enjoyed!!
Elinya💗