A Sliver Of Light in The Night Sky

Chapter 20

I'm not sure why I kissed him.

I stayed away from him all through initiation, anyways, so I don't know why I chose to do that in the first place.

I mean, on the one hand, it's not like he sought me out or anything. But still.

Anyway.

I passed initiation. First place. Uriah was second, Christina third. That earned me an opourtunity as Second or leader of Dautless, which also earned me an opportunity to be killed by Eric or Four.

Neither made a pass at me.

The long-term settling for members of Dauntless were the three buildings of apartments near the Pit. Christina, Uriah, and I got rooms next to each-other.

Christina made friends with Fran. I had a suspision that Fran was just using her, but.

Uriah started hanging out with the older members of Dauntless, leaving me alone.

I didn't really care . . . and I'm not just saying that. I was never the hanging-with-friends type, y'know?

Plus, I was really . . . depressed, I guess, back then.

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I stared at the house.

Blue-grey, grey door, gray window-panes. Very spacey, large garage connected. Behind a medium-height chain-link, silver, with slightly chipped concrete and overgrow-ing grass.

Weeds sulked in the flowerbeds. The gate was opened, and looked like it had stood that way a long amount of time.

I pushed it open.

The walk was short, but I paused barely halfway down it.

I imagined their reaction.

Mom would immeadiately suspect me. Dad would try to reason it out.

Either way, they would hate me. And I didn't think I could handle that.

A muffled sob from inside broke me.

I pressed three fingers to my mouth, eyes glassy.

And I spun away, running down the street.

I finally stopped at a park shaded with trees and empty. I fell to my knees on the grass and began weeping.

"You can let it all go," said a willowy-high voice. I looked up.

And there stood Melina.