Divergent UNIVERSITY ✅

chapter 4

The girls go back to their house victorious and beaming because they just kicked the crap out of some of the best male athletes in the school.They all head in to the showers to get ready for the party. When Tris gets back into the room Marlene is already dressed in a fantastic black dress with red heels. Tris begins to look through her things realizing that she doesn't own a dress. So she brings out a pair of Capri's and a tank top."You aren't wearing that are you?" Marlene asks."I don't have any dresses or skirts," Tris says taking off her shirt. She is standing there in nothing but her sports bra."That is fantastic, when did you get that tattoo?" Marlene asks."Oh, I got this over the summer. My mother owns a tattoo parlor, she drew this." Tris' tattoo is a black vine that winds its way up from her hip to just under her bra. It has red roses in the vine with butterflies fluttering around the vine."That is amazing. You have to show that off.""I don't know Marlene," Tris starts but before she can finish Marlene is calling for Christina to come help.When Christina comes in she sees that Tris isn't dressed. "What is going on here?""She needs something to wear that will show this off." Marlene turns Tris so Christina can see the tattoo."Oh, that is awesome! I actually have the perfect thing."Christina leaves and comes back with a sequins halter top, a black skirt and heels.""No, no heels. I don't know how to walk in them, I'll kill myself then the coach will kill you all for breaking me.""Fine," Marlene says pulling out a pair of sequin ballet shoes that matches the shirt almost perfectly."Now for hair and makeup," Christina says."I don't wear makeup!" Tris complains. She already doesn't feel comfortable in these clothes and now she is terrified that they are going to make her look like a tramp."Just a little eyeliner and mascara then. Please Tris..." Marlene whines."Fine, just a little.""And the hair should just stay down," Christina says. "You have beautiful hair.""Thank you," Tris says.They put the eyeliner and mascara on Tris and she looks at herself in the mirror. It is still her, but a little more noticeable."You look gorgeous!" Shauna says when Tris comes down the stairs. "Have never seen you in anything but athletic clothes.""Thanks Shauna. These are Christina's clothes. I don't own anything but athletic clothes," Tris says.Christina, Marlene, Kenzie, and Lynn all walk down the stairs, "All right," Kenzie says. "Let's go."They each grab food and carry it over to the Phi Delta house. When they are a half a block away they can already hear the music booming and the noise of the crowd.They make their way into the house and drop the food off in the kitchen. They head out to the back yard where the music is playing and they are sure to find the guys.Uriah is the first to spot Marlene. He comes up behind her and wraps his arms around her waist."Hey baby, you look hot!" he says."Uri, you're a pig!" Marlene says giggling.Zeke and Will come up next and pull Shauna and Christina into hugs. After they have said their hellos to their girlfriends, they turn their attention to Tris. She suddenly feels uncomfortable and self-conscious."Wow, Tris. You look beautiful," Will says. "I almost didn't recognize you.""I almost didn't recognize myself," Tris says.She looks around and sees that a lot of people are staring at her. She wants nothing more than to go home and put her own clothes on."Don't look now," Christina says, "but someone is the center of attention.""Tris, all the guys are staring at you," Kenzie says matter of factly."Probably because I look ridiculous. I want to go home and put my own clothes back on," Tris says."Oh no," Christina says grabbing her arm. "There is now way. You look awesome. They are looking at you because you are striking.""Tris, I didn't know you had a tattoo," Uriah says when he notices her side."Yeah, my mom owns a tattoo parlor. She did it for me over summer break.""That is really cool," he says. He turns his attention back to Marlene, "Come on babe, let's dance!"They go hand in hand to the part of the yard where everyone is dancing.Christina grabs Tris and Will and drags them toward the dance floor. They all start jumping and dancing to the music. Tris forgets that she was just being gawked at by just about everyone out in the yard. She is having such a good time that she forgets that she was even uncomfortable in her clothes.~oOo~Four walks outside to see what is going on and to check to make sure everything is okay. He walks across the patio where everyone is dancing and sees the most gorgeous girl he has ever seen. He actually stops to watch her dance with Uriah, Will, Zeke, and their girlfriends. She must be friends with the girls because he is pretty sure he has never seen her before. As she spins around he can see that she has a gorgeous body, has ink going up the right side of her body and she has long exquisite blond hair.Four is smitten, and he is never smitten. He has never seen a girl like her before. She is very small but she is very muscular, she looks strong and capable. She is showing some skin, but she is not trying to flaunt herself. She is just dancing and having fun with her friends. He wants to go introduce himself. But he doesn't know anything about this girl. He doesn't know who she is or where she came from. All he knows is that she has taken his breath away.~oOo~The song ends and a slow song begins. All of the couples pair off, leaving Tris alone. She decides that it is time for some water. She makes her way to the house and into the kitchen where she finds bottled water in a tub of ice. As she walks back out of the kitchen she almost runs into a tall muscular guy. He isn't as muscular as Uriah and Zeke, but he is big. He has dark brown hair and the most beautiful blue eyes that Tris has ever seen. He is gorgeous.She smiles shyly and mumbles an apology and goes off to find Kenzie and Lynn. As she walks away she can feel his eyes on her the whole way. The idea of him looking at her makes her blush. There is no way a guy like him would ever really notice her. He has got to have his pick of any girl here.~oOo~'She seems to be hanging with the Kappa girls,' Four thinks to himself. She must be one of their new pledges. He can't help but wonder what sport she is involved in because Kappas only take pledges that are athletes, just like Phi Delta. That means that they have something in common. If she has pledged Kappa that means she is pretty involved in whatever her sport is.Four walks back into the house. A buxom redhead comes up to him and tries to get his attention, but he ignores her. She does everything she can to get him to notice her but he only has eyes for the little blond from Kappa now.The redhead gets so annoyed with being ignored that she dumps a cup of beer on his head. He looks at her like she is insane and bellows for her to get out. He goes up to his bedroom to clean himself up and change his clothes.He can't help but think that girls are insane. He always has these girls in flashy clothes, all done up, throwing themselves at him. They all know that there is a very good possibility that he will be going to NFL or MLB come next year. He has already been in talks with a couple teams that are interested in him. He has to go through the draft and things may not turn out the way he hopes but there is still a possibility and all of these girls know it.But the little blond didn't look at him like she recognized him. She only looked embarrassed that she bumped into him. She didn't try to talk to him or anything. Could it be possible that she doesn't know who he is? Is that even possible?~oOo~Tris doesn't see the handsome guy that she ran into to even ask any of her friends who he was. He was there then he suddenly just disappeared. Tris even went back inside for another bottle of water to see if she would get a glimpse of him in there, but he was nowhere to be found.She goes back and dances some more with her friends, but soon decides that it is time for her to go home when they all start making out around her. Even Lynn and Kenzie have gone off somewhere. She doesn't like feeling like the fifth wheel, or in this case, the ninth wheel. She bids her friends goodnight and starts down the street toward the Kappa house.When she gets into her room she changes her clothes and climbs into bed. She hopes that Marlene doesn't have any intention of bringing Uriah home with her, that would be incredibly uncomfortable and definitely not something that Tris would ever want to witness.She sets her alarm clock because she has an early morning appointment with her batting instructor, then she has speed and agility training after her batting practice. Then the team has a game at three in the afternoon. She should have just enough time after speed and agility to come home, get a shower and rest for about two hours before she has to be back on the ball field for her game.Sometimes she hates her schedule, but most of the time she loves it. She loves being on a ball field, it is the only place that she feels like she really belongs.~oOo~Four sweeps the party looking for the little blond girl who has captured his thoughts. She is all he has thought about since she bumped into him. She seems to have disappeared, she isn't with her friends and she isn't anywhere around the house. He wonders if she went home.He looks at his watch and realizes that he had better get to bed. He has to meet his trainer at eight in the morning to work on foot speed drills and then he has to watch films with the coaches until noon. After that he has to lift and then he promised Uriah that he would go to Marlene's softball game with him.Maybe it won't be as bad as he thinks. At least he will be there with Uriah and Zeke since both of their girlfriends are on the team.

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