Just One Secret

Chapter 2

I get off the bus and tell Mekennzie I'll see her on the bus tomorrow. I go to my locker and grab my books for faction history class when someone bumps into me. It was my fault because I was staring at my feet thinking about the aptitude test and all the things that could go wrong because I'm good at that.

"Sorry, I wasn't looking at where I was going." I say frustrated because I need to get to class. "No. Let me help you. Where are you going?" I guess I never looked but when I did it was a boy with brown hair and black clothes. Dauntless. My dad always says these people are trouble. Then I realize I never answered his question. "Faction history." I finally say. "Me too! You go in first and I'll wait a while and then come in so it doesn't look like we were... Uh... You know..." He says flustered with a bit of a pink tint. "Ya right okay." I walk into class to see I'm only a few minutes late.

I just go to my seat and pull out my notebook and textbook. We're discussing the factions purposes when the boy from the hall walks in he acts like he's all hot and strolls to his seat and pulls out his stuff.

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When the bell finally rings we go to lunch and I find my friend Morgan. Then I spot Mekennzie and tell Morgan the whole story about her on the bus and we need to sit with her because she's all alone.

"Addyson, there's gotta be a reason she's alone. She's a stiff anyways. We're better." The words burn me and my blood boils. "That's fine. I'll go sit with her because your nothing without me. Your just my sidekick." I grin and walk away. I've dealt my hand.

"Hi Mekennzie! I hope you don't mind but I'm going to sit with you." I put my lunch down and sit before she can say anything. "That's fine. It's not reserved. "She says less shy than this morning.

" I hope you like being my friend because I just burnt a bridge." I say slicing the silence. " I don't mean to be rude and be nosey but how'd you burn a bridge?" Wow she's sweet.

"Well, you know Morgan? Candor girl over there." She nods her head quickly. " She didn't wan to sit with you and called you an unpopular stiff so I burned the bridge between us because something tells me your going to be very special to me."