Divergent: Unleashed | ✓

Chapter 20

Tris slips into the labs. She'd duct taped the security cameras last night, and then she'd shut them off, cutting the wires until they were completely unusable.

She sits in the chair at a computer. After hacking into the system- she's still amazed that she figured it out- she simply types in her mother's name.

The Prior family comes up. Their location- the exact address, apartment number, and all- and information about all of them. She reads what her own file says. When she sees what they'd told her family, her eyes narrow in anger. How dare they do that. She quickly pulls out her phone and takes a few pictures of the screen.

This information is new- they must have updated the system last night, after she left here. She's so busy reading over the information that she doesn't check the time, and when she realizes that she has to go, it's too late.

The door bangs open, hitting the wall and bouncing off. She whips around, eyes wide and her blonde ponytail resting on her shoulder now. "Beatrice Prior!" the woman shouts at her. "What do you think you're doing?!"

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Ashlyn, Bryn, Ronny, and Four got Fast Passes for Test Track before walking around Future World in EPCOT. They got in Mission: Space Green- Ronny and Bryn refused to get on Orange, and Four refused to do it since it's an enclosed space- and then went to the Universe of Energy. It had some show host that Four didn't know the name of on it. It was weird, but oddly amusing.

"Wow," Ashlyn says as they leave. "That ride really was 37 minutes."

"Did you time it?" Her mother asks. 

"No," Ashlyn pulls her iPhone in the black Otter Box out and shakes it a little. "It was about 11:30 when we went in. Now it's almost 12:15."

Four's phone buzzes in his back pocket. He pulls it out, seeing a text from Zeke. Ronny and John made him get a phone, in case he needed them or something. He got a black iPhone- like Ashlyn- and his case is black and gray. Four typed in a reply to the text and then shoves the phone into his back pocket.

"So, where to next?" he asks.

"Why don't we eat lunch at The Land?" Ronny suggests. Four and the girls nod, all three of them hungry. After lunch, they go to The Seas With Nemo and Friends or whatever it's called, and then they head back to the World Showcase.

It's hot and humid- not unusual for Florida in June- and Four is thankful that Ashlyn told him to wear at least a T-shirt and shorts. They're black, of course, but at least he's not wearing jeans like some people. 

They go backwards, starting in Canada and making their way around. Bryn- who is obsessed with pandas- makes them go to a store in China that has a ton of panda stuff. Ronny buys her a bracelet from there. After that, Ashlyn buys a Chinese zodiac necklace with her Zodiac on it- the dragon. 

"Apparently, the dragon means fearless, loyal, and genuine." Ashlyn says, reading the back of the necklace.

"And how are you the dragon?" Bryn asks.

Ashlyn rolls her eyes. "It fits you." Four tells her.

"Nuh uh. It fits you and Tris better. Thinking about it..." She flips the necklace over, looking at the years and other Zodiacs on the back. "You're a boar. So it says that you're kind, loyal, and generous."

Four rolls his eyes, and Ashlyn bites her lip, shoulders shaking as she tries not to laugh. "Amity much?"

"Amity is awesome!" Bryn says.

"And Tris would be...." She searches for what year Tris would be born in. "Tris would be an ox. Headstrong, iron-willed, and dedicated."

Fits more than anything else, Four thinks to himself. Headstrong and iron-willed is right- nothing can change her damn mind. An odd feeling goes through him. Then he remembers that he's not supposed to think of her as anything more than a stranger anymore.

When they get into Mexico, the last country before they go back to Future World for Test Track, they eat some food and then head to Test Track. It started to lightening and rain, and since they still had time they were going to look through Mouse Gears, before it started downpouring. So they went under the one canopy-type thing between Mouse Gears and the Electric Umbrella restaurant. They sat on a bench and Ashlyn played Temple Run on her iPhone until the rain slowed enough that they could make a run for Test Track.

The rain starts up, and they get in the Fast Pass line. The lightening hasn't stop, so the ride isn't running, but they are allowed to get in line. They sit on the floor, and Four watches as Ashlyn plays Temple Run and draws on an app called Scribblify.

"Ash? Can I ask you something?"

Ashlyn shuts off the game and looks up at her cousin. "Yeah, sure. What is it?"

"I know that you hate people asking you for advice- especially since you have no experience with this kind of thing- but um..." he trails off, unsure about continuing.  "Do you know why Tris left me?"

Ashlyn is silent for a minute. I knew he would ask me this. She thinks. She quickly thinks of what to say. "No, I don't." the lie tastes bitter in her mouth, but she doesn't think he should know the truth. Not until they figure out the who and the why. "Maybe you should ask her."

"I've already tried. I've called her and texted her several times, and she never replied." He lets out a defeated sigh, pinching the bridge of his nose. "Do you think she doesn't love me anymore? Or maybe she never loved me in the first place. Maybe I just thought that there was something there, when in reality there wasn't."

His depressed- almost heartbroken- tone makes the guilt harder to bear, and she almost spills everything to him. She bites back the words. "I think that she just feels that you don't love her. Maybe her insecurities caught up to her. Or she could have heard rumors about you being with someone else." Ashlyn shrugs. "I don't think she would intentionally do something to hurt you, Four."

He opens his mouth to say something, but then they hear the sound of a car running across the track. Everyone in the Fast Pass line stands up and moves forward. Four thinks about what Ashlyn said. Something isn't right with her. Every time he brings the topic up...

Four shoves thoughts like that out of his mind. Ashlyn wouldn't lie to him. He's just being paranoid.