Divergent UNIVERSITY ✅

chapter 3

After Tris leaves, Uriah and Will help Zeke into the house, laughing at him the entire time. "Man, I tried to warn you," Will says."Yeah, you came out trying to act all badass and ended up looking like a fool!" Uriah adds. "I've seen that girl play, she is as good as just about any guy.""Who's just as good as any guy?" Four asks as he walks into the living room."The shortstop for the softball team," Will says. "That girl is tiny but has a monster arm on her.""She even carries her glove with here everywhere she goes," Uriah says impressed. "I have to convince Marlene to play catch with me most times. That girl was ready to go the moment we asked.""You played catch with a girl that wasn't your girlfriend?" Four asks shocked."Dude, she isn't just a girl. She threw the ball so hard and fast that Zeke couldn't catch it. He got nailed right in the stomach," Will says."Anyway, while you three were out there playing catch with girls, I was in here getting things ready for the party," Four says. "We have the beer pong game at the kitchen table, we have drinking pool at the pool table, and we have quarters set up in dining room.""Is that all we are going to do is play drinking games?" Uriah asks. "What about dancing and music?""The stereo is set up on the deck so people can dance outside. There is more room out there."Zeke stands up and lifts his shirt to inspect the damage to his stomach. No one can believe what they see, he has the lace marks from ball in his stomach and a huge red welt around where the ball hit him."A girl did that?" Four asks."I told you, she is badass. Marlene told me that this girl has had professional scouts looking at her since they were freshmen but she refuses to go pro until she graduates.""Sounds like a certain quarterback/ first baseman we know," Zeke says. "I wonder if she could compete with you.""Whatever, I have things to do. Not worry about little girls playing softball," Four says."Look, they are in the middle of their fall ball season. They have a game on Sunday. Before you make any judgments about them, come to a game," Uriah says."Fine, whatever," Four says. "Can we just get back to getting this place ready? What time will the Kappa girls be here?""They'll be here around four o'clock. What time is it?" Uriah says."It's ten minutes before four now, they should be here any time," Will says.Four goes outside in the back yard to get the music ready and Uriah, Will, and Zeke go out front to wait for the girls to come over.When Uriah sees Marlene, Christina, Kenzie, Shauna, and Tris he can't help but be happy to have the help. He would also like to get Tris to play catch again. Although he is proud of how talented a ball player Marlene is he is still a guy and he doesn't like it when a girl shows him up, especially a girl he hardly knows."Tris, want to play catch again," Uriah asks."Um... no thanks. Don't have my glove, I'm here to help get this place ready for a party."Marlene leans over to Tris, "I told you he wouldn't be able to handle that you hurt his hand.""So Tris, where did you learn to play like you do?""Oh, well I played baseball until I was fifteen. If you are a girl playing against guys you learn real quick to be just as good or better or you will see no playing time and the guys will treat you like crap. I didn't switch to fast pitch until I tried out for the high school team in ninth grade. I've been playing softball since.""How long did you play baseball?" Will asks."My dad signed me up when I was five. Before that he said that I never wanted to play with dolls or dress-up like my friends, I always had a ball in my hand. Baseball, golf, football, it didn't matter to me. I also played ice hockey until I graduated. There was a local boys' team that I played on.""And what position did you play in hockey?" Kenzie asks."I played left wing mostly, a little defense but I was always too small for defense. They just put me there sometimes because I'm fast.""Is there a sport you can't play?" Zeke asks."I can't play football, too small. Have no desire to get the crap beat out of me by a bunch of big burly boys.""Well, get to know Tris isn't getting things ready for this party," Marlene says."Yeah, right. Well Four already set up a couple drinking games in the house and he is getting the music ready in the back yard so I guess we need to talk about food," Zeke says."Who didn't know that," Shauna says. "The other girls are already getting the food together to bring over later.""Are they making Dauntless cake?" Uriah asks with his mouth watering."Yes, they are. It's already done," Marlene says."Let's go inside and see what they have going on in there," Kenzie says.They all walk into the house and Tris is surprised that it is as clean as it is for a fraternity. They walk through the living room, dining room, and into the kitchen and see that everything seems to be in order."Well, what do you want us to do?" Shauna asks."Let's throw together a co-ed softball game," Uriah suggests."Fine," Marlene says. "But it has to be girls against boys."The boys all smile and agree. What they don't know is that now that Tris has pledged the girls now have their entire national championship team living under one roof."Go get your team together, we will get ours and meet you at the field," Uriah says.The girls leave and Uriah, Zeke, and Will go around to recruit boys to play."Four, we're playing a softball game against the girls, do you want to play?""No, not really. We have things to do here. Besides why play against a bunch of girls that couldn't possibly compete with us? It's pointless.""Dude, you have no idea. These girls are good. Some of them were on the national championship team last spring.""You guys go ahead and have fun. I'm going to stay here and finish getting things together," Four says.~oOo~Two hours later the boys are returning to the house completely defeated. The girls made them looks stupid. Nothing could get passed Tris at short stop. She turned over so many double plays that she might as well have been playing by herself some of the times. Shauna is a power hitter that managed three home runs in this one game. Marlene didn't let anything hit the ground behind the plate so the boys couldn't even steal bases effectively. Marlene has such a strong arm that between her and Tris, no one could steal second base at all and every time they tried to steal home they got caught in a rundown between Shauna and Marlene. Kenzie had a fantastic game at first base also. These girls have been playing together for so long that they don't even have to talk.The girls go back to their house to get ready for the party and the boys go into their house defeated."Well, how bad did you beat the girls?" Four asks."We didn't. We only got three runs and that's only because we got three homeruns.""What about them?" Four asks."Man, Shauna hit three homeruns on her own," Zeke says kind of proudly."Who pitched?""We pitched to ourselves and they pitched to themselves. They said that their coach would kill them if they swung at slow pitches, it would throw off their timing.""Well they are right about that," Four says. "I can't believe you guys couldn't beat a bunch of girls.""Four, you don't know what you are talking about. You are entirely too arrogant and these girls are a lot better than you realize," Will says. "I'm going to get a shower and try to wash off the stink of defeat.""Yeah, me too," Uriah says. They both head off to the showers followed by most of the guys that played."Are they really as good as Uriah says or is he just talking them up because of Marlene?" Four asks Zeke."They are that good, especially that Tris girl. Dude she turned five unassisted double plays and I have no idea how many regular double plays. This entire team they brought was the actual championship team from last spring. None of them graduated. This is also the team that is going to win the championship for their fall team too. Right now they are undefeated.""Whatever. Next time I play," Four says.Four can't help but begin to wonder who this Tris girl is and if she is really as good as these guys are saying or if she is just good at showing off. He knows he is kind of arrogant but he is a collegiate all American in football and baseball. She can't possibly be as good as he is.