You And Me Against The World | ✅

Chapter 32

Tobias and Zeke are still out for our lunch and I decide to look for another movie to watch while we eat or for afterwards. I find two sequels to the one we have just watched and put them aside.

"Did you ever go back?" Christina asks startling me.

"Huh? Where?"

"The museum."

"Uhm, yeah."

"Really?" Uriah asks incredulous.

"Yeah. Only I had a flash light with me," I add.

"Did you go alone?" Marlene asks.

"Yeah. If I'm completely honest you guys are the only people, aside from my mom, who know about this. I never told anyone."

"What did you see?" Will ask curiously.

"A lot. Of course, I didn't know half of what I saw. I expected to learn about it in school, but whenever I asked about the past my teachers kept telling me about this city and what happened after the war. When I asked again they just looked at me like I'm a nuisance and dismissed me. At some point I just gave up. I looked for some answers in the public library, but couldn't find much."

"Why?" Lynn asks.

"Why what? Why I searched or why there were no answers?" I inquire.

"Why were there no answers," she replies.

"When the war ended and the faction system was put in place our ancestors decided to erase the past and start all over again," Will explains.

"That's stupid," Shauna says.

"It is," Will approves. "You can't just erase the past by not teaching about it. In my opinion it's the worst thing we can do."

"How so?" Uriah asks.

"Imagine you have a child. You teach that child not to touch scissors or fire or do anything dangerous. If the child would dismiss your warnings it would get hurt. If the child would touch a burning candle it would get himself burned, right?" Will asks and we nod. "If we would tell the child to forget the lesson it just learned it would repeat the mistake over and over again and never really learn anything."

"I understand," Christina says. "Because our ancestors made us forget our past we are prone to repeat the mistakes of the past."

"That's right," Will says.

"Maybe you can do something about it," Marlene says to me.

"Me? What?" I ask confused.

"You are part of the council. Maybe you can convince them to fix the museum and let us learn from our past," she explains.

"Maybe. I will try my best. There are a few places we can still look for answers. While I was a kid I wandered around the city a lot. I found the old city hall. Maybe we can find some information there."

"Don't you think our ancestors would have destroyed those documents a long time ago," Will wonders.

"Maybe. Hopefully not. I don't know anyone who knows about the old city hall. Do you?" I ask my friends.

"I don't even know where it is," Uriah says and the others nod in agreement.

"We could check it out when I get better. Unlike the museum it's in better shape."

"That'll be great," Marlene says.

"A real Dauntless adventure," Uriah says.

"What adventure?" Zeke asks coming in, followed closely by Tobias.