You And Me Against The World | ✅

Chapter 77

It's Friday morning and we are all gathered in the training room letting the initiates fight each other. Today is the last day they will fight and tonight we'll have the annual Capture the flag competition. A lot happened this week.

Let me bring you up to speed.

First, the Jeremy issue. On Tuesday, right after breakfast, Samantha called telling me that she identified four of the rape victims, who were taken to Candor for their interrogation. Just like with Monica the interrogation was held privately with no spectators. The other three girls transferred to other factions, but Sam didn't tell me what they chose. Not that it mattered. By the end of business all seven girls were interrogated and Jack called me to tell me that it looks grim for Jeremy. He of course still sustains his own version of the events and says that the girls are lying or they misunderstood. What a colossal jerk. Because of the fact that Jeremy isn't technically a member of any faction he is still considered a dependent and therefore a minor. They assigned a psychiatrist to evaluate him. I think everyone is trying to see if he is just an idiot or actually evil and just pretends to be this dumb. Jack assured me that by Monday we will get the final verdict.

Second, I wasn't surprised at all when no one went to see Stephanie. If anything happened to someone here in Dauntless they would sure as hell keep it to themselves. They are Dauntless after all. But few understand that being Dauntless isn't synonym with suffering in silence. So when on Thursday a middle aged woman, who works in accounting got up in the cafeteria and announced she will take our advice and talk to Stephanie everyone looked at her dumbfounded. She told the entire faction that 25 years ago she was raped and no one cared, let alone helped her passed this. She suppressed the memories but after our grand announcement Monday evening everything came back up. She encouraged others to do the same. And I'm pleased to say that Stephanie reported three more cases. Well, I'm not happy that there are any, but I'm glad those women seek professional help. And if they decide we can actually find their abusers and bring them to justice. But I won't force anyone. So far, our little campaign worked better than we anticipated. Tori suggested that if there are more people we could organize support groups. In my opinion that's a good idea, but on the other hand I understand if people don't want to pour their soul out in front of strangers. So for now Stephanie should suffice. But some moms here in Dauntless approached me yesterday asking me if I would consider lecturing their young daughters. I told them I wasn't the right person for it, Stephanie is the expert, but I would organize something. After the small group left an idea hit me and I called Tori and Tobias over. I told them about the request and they didn't really know what to say at first but then I told them my idea. This is how we decided to gather all the teens between the ages of thirteen and sixteen and discuss with them certain things, but before that we should have a talk with their parents. Since Tobias and I are still busy with initiation Tori offered to help us with that. After we finish stage two of training we will gather in the great conference hall with all the parents here in Dauntless and discuss a few items they brought to our attention and we too want to set up. We want to educate our kids and teach them to be responsible. To accept others the way they are and with that we hope to avoid bullying or worse. We will divide the kids later into groups according to age and have long talks with them, with or without their parents. But that's still ahead of us.

Third, Connor Harris was officially named our forth leader and we all discussed even adding a fifth leader since it is customary to have an uneven number of leaders. But so far we haven't decided. The faction welcomed Connor very well, especially since most of them already knew him and respect him greatly. He has good ideas to improve life in the faction and even a few to help me with the city. I think I will benefit most of his help.

Forth, Sam called me Tuesday after lunch telling me she reached Dr. Robins and ordered to get him the DNA samples. It took until yesterday evening to get back the DNA test results. The female victim is indeed Myra, but the male is unknown. It wasn't Edward after all, but he is still missing and we still don't know the identity of the man who died. This case is getting weirder by the minute. The moment I think I get an answer two more questions pop up and I get more than just a little frustrated.