Selfless And Honest

Chapter 14

Going into Four's...er...well...Tobias's fear landscape with him did help me get an understanding of how a Dauntless would handle their fears. But I've been noticing a nervous aura around Tris. She's been worried all morning. I just decide to follow her. She jumps onto a train and I jump in after her.

"Where ya going?" I ask. She jumps and turns to me.

"Why did you follow me?" Tris asks.

"Because you were acting strange. Now why did you get on this train?" I ask. She sighs.

"I've been having trouble with my fears. Four is catching on and Tori said that I'm as good as dead." Tris tells me.

"That doesn't explain the train Tris." I point out.

"I'm going to see Caleb. I thought maybe he could help." Tris admits.

"Tris, Caleb is Erudite. He won't know much about fear sims." I remind her.

"Maybe he could find out if I could go home." Tris says and starts pacing.

"Look. I'll stay with you till we get to Erudite. But I'm staying on the train to get back to Dauntless. I can't face Caleb right now." I tell her. She nods and looks out the window. Soon the Erudite compound comes into view.

"Good luck." I say. She nods at me before opening the door and jumping out. I sigh and close the door before sitting down on the floor. I wonder what Peter is up to. He was talking to Drew and Al this morning. But I don't know what it was about. Oh well. He's Peter, who knows what he was talking about. I take out a little notebook and a pencil. Humming, I start to write music. Starting with the lyrics. I know Peter and I will make it into Dauntless. As long as no one finds out about us. I want to sing a song for him at the party after we choose our jobs. I just hope this song will do our love justice. Soon I realize I have to jump off the train and onto the roof where we jumped on our first day. I put the notebook and pencil in my jacket pocket before opening the door and jumping. I land on the roof and stumble forward a bit. I then make my way over to where the net is and jump off the roof. My back hits the net. I climb out of it and then begin making my way to the dorm. But as I pass through a blue hallway near the Chasm, three people with black masks grab me.

"Get off!" I yell and try to pull away from them. But they're too strong.

"If I survive this, my boyfriend will fucking kill you!" I scream and try to kick the one holding my legs away.

"You idiot! That's not her! You signalled us for the wrong person!" The guy holding my left arm and shoulder says, he then hits the smallest guy in the back of his head.

"I can barely see out of my mask. How do you know?" The biggest guy asks.

"Look at her fucking hair for one." The first guy snaps and they all put me down carefully.

"Who the hell are you!?" I yell.

"I'm so sorry, Feisty. We thought you were Molly. She pranked us this morning and we wanted to get back at her." The familiar voice of my boyfriend says. He takes his mask off and so do the other two. They reveal to be Peter, Drew, and Al.

"I have red fucking hair, Goofball. How could you mistake me for Molly? Plus she like five inches taller than me!" I exclaim, starting to be kind of pissed off.

"I'm sorry, Lily. I should've checked who it was before we did it. Drew can't see for shit." Peter says and goes to hug me but I back up.

"Don't touch me!" I exclaim, fear taking over. He looks hurt.

"Lily, please forgive me. I would never hurt you. I didn't know it was you. Drew was on look out. Blame him." Peter pleads.

"I need to be alone. I can't be around you right now." I sniffle and walk away.

"Lily! Please come back!" Peter calls to me. I just keep walking.

"I'll marry you!" He exclaims. I stop dead in my tracks. What the fuck did he just say? I turn around and stare at him.

"What?" I ask in confusion. He gets down on his knees.

"I'll fucking marry you if it'll get you to forgive me." Peter says. I see tears in his eyes.

"Peter..." I begin.

"Please...please forgive me." He pleads shakily. I walk back over to them and sigh.

"Alright. I forgive you. But you don't have to rush into marriage right away, Goofball." I say with a small smile. He wraps his arms around my legs and buries his face in my stomach. I run my fingers through his hair.

"Peter, there's someone coming." Drew hisses. My boyfriend jumps up and grabs his mask. He then grabs my hand in his free one, dragging me to their hiding spot. They put their masks on. I notice that it's Tris.

"I'm getting bored. Molly probably went to bed." Drew mumbles.

"Let's just do the prank on Tris." Peter replies. They look at me for permission.

"I'm not getting involved." I say and cross my arms. They just go ahead with the plan and I stay hidden where I can't see anything. I see Four run by and I hear cries of pain. Ooooh. That's gonna hurt in the morning. I wonder who got beat up first. Soon enough, Four walks by with Tris. Her clothes a bit torn and her hands are scratched up. I sigh and go over to where the three boys lay on the ground groaning. I notice Al's mask is off.

"Did Tris see you?" I ask him.

"Yeah." He groans, clutching his nose.

"Good job. Prank Tris and this is what happens. You guys suck." I say rolling my eyes.

"Peter, you okay?" I ask worriedly as he clutches his right wrist.

"I think it's sprained." He says, trying not to let out groans of pain. I hurry over to him and pull the glove off his hand and pull up his sleeve. I examine his wrist and touch a few different places.

"It's not sprained. The joint in your wrist is just very bruised. It'll be better in a day or two. Just don't lay on it or put a lot of pressure on it." I tell him. He hisses in pain when I touch a certain part of his wrist.

"What hurts worse, the darts from Capture the Flag or your wrist?" I ask.

"Two different kinds of pain though." He point out.

"So? I'm asking which is worse."

"Can't you just let it go?"

"No I'm curious."

"Sometimes I hate you."

"But you said you wanted to marry me."

"I don't like that you remember stuff so easily."

"What do you like about me?"

"The fact that you're my girlfriend."

"I hate you."

"But you said you wanted to ma..."

"I didn't say yes or no."

"...Ow my wrist. The pain. I'm dying from the pain."

"What hurts worse that or the dart from..."

"For fuck sake..."