Divergent: Without the War

Chapter 4

Tris P.O.V.

I sit down a circle with the rest of my friends and look to see who it is. I find: Tobias, Christina, Will, Marlene, Uriah, Lynn, Shauna, Lauren, and Zeke. Not bad.

"I'll go first, since this is my humble apartment," says Zeke as he gestures to the room were sitting in. It has black walls and different colored paintballs splattered everywhere on them. He has empty beer bottles and bags of chips everywhere on the floor. "And don't forget the rules. If you don't want to do a dare or answer a question, one piece of clothing has to come off, not including socks, shoes and other adornments and blah blah blah."

"Four," Zeke says. "Truth or dare?" Tobias knows better than to pick truth. He doesn't want anyone knowing about his past and he's not that trilled about having to strip in front of these people either.

"Dare," says Tobias. I can see how that might have been a mistake though. Zeke is smirking at him, wondering what punishment he should put him through now.

"I dare you, to go into the pit and accidentally spill hot coffee into whoever walks by first," Zeke states, putting air quotes around 'accidentally'.

"Fine" states Tobias. "Three witnesses." I hop up and so does Uriah and Zeke. We head out and bring some extra got coffee with us. I hand the cup over to Tobias and we sit at a table and watch from afar. Eric walks by.

I can see the look in Tobias' eyes as he crashes into Eric and bursts out laughing as he coughs out a "sorry" to him while Eric rants about him being a "Superior Dauntless Leader" and all that jazz. I bang my fist on the table as I laugh hysterically out of control. We walk back into the apartment and tell everyone else bout what had happened.

I feel bad they didn't get to see it, but then I realize it's probably just my abnegation inside if me, acting up for some reason.

Tobias sits down and says, "Tris, truth or dare?"

"Truth," I reply and I hear Uriah scream "PANSYCAKE!" as I do so and roll my eyes.

"If you had to go on a date with anyone in this room, except for me, who would it be?" asks Tobias. He is good.

I hesitate before saying, "Will." and I regret saying it as soon as it was already done.

Then, at that moment, the tension begins.