Those Five Words

7.

Chapter 7

FOUR POV

You have to let off fireworks in the dining hall," says Uriah.

I look at Zeke and he looks at me. I shrug thinking that's not too bad. "When everyone is in the dining hall eating," says Uriah. Crap. We are going to be in so much trouble for this. I hope dad is at a restaurant and not the dining hall tonight for dinner. "Dinner should be starting soon so let's go," says Zeke.

"Where are we getting fireworks from?" I ask. Having no idea where Zeke or Uriah get half the things for our dares that they get.

"I have them right here," says Uriah. I don't want to know where he got them from.

We walk into the dining hall and it is full. Uriah hands half the fireworks to me and the other half to Zeke along with a box of matches each. We decide to start on either end of the hall and work our way in to the middle of the hall. Uriah, Lynn and Marlene go and sit together at a table so they can watch the drama unfold.

I look at Zeke and he gives me a thumbs up and we start. We start letting the fireworks off and chaos is the only word to describe what happens. By the time we have met in the middle of the room the Dauntless dining hall has people running in all directions. There are men and women running around with their guns out, I think a few may have shot their guns but you can't really tell with the noise of the fireworks. People are screaming and running for the door. Food is flying through the air as people have turned over trays and tables as they try to get away from the fireworks.

Zeke and I are hiding under a table. We are curled up in balls laughing. This has been so funny. Until we go to get up from under the table and we find dad, Sasha and Hana standing in front of us. Crap. We are in so much trouble now. We get up from under the table and we are trying not to laugh. Dad looks at us and then he says, "I think you two should clean up this mess then we will talk about punishment."

Zeke and I are grounded from playing Dare for the next six months. Uriah thought that it was hilarious until he, Marlene and Lynn were barred from playing dare until their initiation. I know dad got a good laugh out of what we had done but he had to ground me. Dauntless was in a bit of an uproar afterwards. Some people were even trying to get us banned from the dining hall. Sometimes it is lucky to have a dad who is a leader.

I'm just really glad that they didn't find out that it was one of our dares that caused all the accidents in Dauntless Nights. We found out a few days later that there were quite a few accidents on the dance floor that night. There were three sprained ankles and a broken wrist. No one remembered Shauna and Zeke being in there after the dining hall chaos.

Plus I think dad was in a really good mood because Sasha had agreed to marry him. Sasha wasn't happy that I had ruined her night. They had to drag dad out of the restaurant they were in to reprimand us. But she got over it when she found out that Charlie and I were happy for her and dad. Dad said she was worried we wouldn't want her as a step mum. I think it was when Charlie asked if she could call her mum that she calmed down.

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I got home from school to see Sasha is at home. Dad and Sasha got married last month. So she is now living with us, Charlie loves having her here. "Your dad needs you to go and see him at work," she says.