Tris Pedrad

Zekes choosing

              Tris p.o.v
   I wake up around 4:30 am and stare at the ceiling dreading starting the day. Today's my eldest brother, Zeke's, choosing ceremony. How fun! (Not) To be honest I've never particularly liked the choosing ceremony. Families crying for their lost love ones isn't fun or enjoyable to watch.

I don't want to even think about never seeing Zeke again. He may be annoying and a huge jerk sometimes, but he's my annoying jerk of a brother. I couldn't imagine disowning him and pretending like he never existed. It would kill Uri, my twin, and I.

I finally decided to roll out of my black stain sheets and embrace whatever will happen today. What? Black is my happy color.

   I dress in a causal dauntless outfit. A dark grey crop top and black leggings. I slowly lace up my dark grey combat boots. And throw on my black leather jacket. The leather is worn from years of wear but it was a gift from Zeke. I always wear it when I need a little extra comfort.

I don't know if Zeke will stay in dauntless with me and uri, to be honest I'm scared. Which comes back to why I hate the choosing ceremony. He's been distant lately and a little jittery, But the choosing ceremony has that effect on everyone, Right? I wish he would stay, him and uri mean everything to me. Losing him would take out a piece of me I'm not sure I'm ready to lose.

But all I can really do is hope and pray to any god that will listen. I want to laugh at myself for sounding so pathetic. I can't help it though, my anxiety won't go away. I just can't let it control me.

   I decide to enjoy the possible last time that I have left with my family all together. I declare it to be pranking time, our favorite time. The only time where fun is truly fun for us.

  I quickly exit my bedroom and take off down the hall. Quietly as possible I open Uriahs door and skip in. I run and jump onto uriahs bed. I shake him awake and whisper, "You ready to prank Zeke?"

He groans at me and shoved me off. It takes a moment but his eyes finally open and then smiles, "never been more ready!" We fist bump and jump out of his bed and run to collect our supplies.

   I run and grab the rainbow sharpies and hair dye. While Uriah grabs Zeke's shampoo. We start off small for the day.

"You ready pansy cake?" I say to Uriah playfully as we quietly sneak into the bathroom.

He scowls at me his eyes narrowing, "I'm not a pansy cake."

"Sure uriahcorn, now come on let's hurry we have to be fast!"

Uri places the bright pink hair dye in Zeke's shampoo and I draw all over Zeke's face. We stifle our laughs as much as we can so seek doesn't wake up. But a few breathless giggles might have escaped. One off my favorite drawings would be a fairly large picture of a males crotch right on his forehead.

"Wow tris those are the best designs I've think we've done," Uriah says while he tries to contain his laugh. We leave zekes room quickly but quietly.

"Oh I bet your hair dye will be almost as good" I reply laughing. I almost feel bad for doing that to him. Almost.

We both snort at our work and rush to the train stop. We jump on quickly and make sure we're not being chased by a colorful Zeke.

   I watch the world go by. The different factions flash by all at once. The founders never truly brought peace. Factions still discriminate against each other. Although I have to admit Dauntless is the best. Mostly because I enjoy the free feeling I get in Dauntless and I can have all the wild and crazy fun I want.

    I look over at Uri and I see him staring at me in intense thought.

"Do you think he'll leave us?" Uri questions with a frown. At least I'm not the only one slightly scared of what could be.

"I don't know," I sigh, "We're a family he probably wouldn't dream of it." Uriah nods at me with a small smile and looks away. The building pass by us in blurs of gray.

   I look out the window and see we're coming up to the hub. "Catch me if you can pansy cake!" and with that I jump out of the train and land perfectly on my feet.

  I look back and see uri coming after me at full speed. I start running to the ceremony doors. "I'm gonna get you trissy!" he yells.

When I turn its too late, Uriah is right behind me. When he catches up he gets on one knee and I climb on my noble steeds back. I place my arms around his neck and wrap my legs around his waist.

  "Run uriahcorn, run" I yell playfully while trying to laugh at the judging and horrified stares. Using imaginary Spurs to make him run faster. We get half way there and we hear a loud familiar yell, "URIAH, TRIS!"

    Me and Uriah look back in horror and see Zeke coming at us at like a crazed man on a mission. I yelp and we both take off running from our fuming older brother. We reach the doors to the ceremony and open them quickly. Everyone stops and stares it soon becomes deathly quiet. Oh? Whoops I guess we're late. Our father the leader of dauntless stops his speech and looks at us with barely contained amusement but a slight disappointment.

   OKAY THIS WAS MY FIRST CHAPTER COMMENT IF YOU WANT THE SECOND!!!
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