Innocence Lost

Chapter 13 (Visiting Day)

The next morning I was the first to wake up believe it or not. Unfortunate for me I had a pounding headache and I felt emotionally and mentally drained. I hopped into the shower and lingered under the cool water longer than I planned in hopes it would make me feel somewhat better. It didn't. I dried off and changed, eager to get some food in my stomach.

Glancing over at Jesses's bed and see that Caroline is sleeping with him peacefully. Did I miss something? Wait, I remember seeing this last night. Poor Caroline got trashed and Jesse brought her back here. I figured they had a thing for each other.

Shit, Eric!  I fucking kissed Eric last night. I sat on my cot and stared at the wall in shock. I can't face him again, how could I after that?  And that girl he was with, ughhh! I pull my knees up to my chest so I'm hugging them. I don't want to move from this spot and face my remaining days here, I'm so embarrassed. I know I'm being dramatic but he's a god damn Dauntless leader. I take a deep breath, hold it in, then release. It's Visiting Day. Seeing Kylie will hopefully make my day better.

I lace up my boots and noticed a piece of paper on the floor by my bed.  I just remembered it was on my bed last night. I look around the room to see if anyone had woken up. I pick the paper up and unfold it. There's an address written down with a date and time, this Friday night at midnight,  725 East Monroe Street.  That's near Erudite headquarters.  There was a sentence too, but it was in a different language saying:

"Folge dem Kaninchenloch"

The language looks familiar. The only way to definitely know is to enter it into a translator. I doubt they have one at Dauntless. I could ask Four but then it would rouse suspicion. Who even put it on my bed?  I wouldn't even be able to see what it's about, initiates aren't allowed to leave the compound without a Dauntless member. I shove the note in my boot, I can't risk anyone finding it. What if this has something to do with divergents?  Someone here in Dauntless obviously slipped it to me, someone that knows about me. The only two people that come to mind are Tori and Trinity.

I head towards the infirmary in hopes of speaking to Trinity but she wasn't in. Marlene informed me that Trinity will be in later in the day so I can speak to her then. In the meantime I take my time walking to the dining hall. I missed Kylie, shes the only one I could really talk to about my feelings. And now I have this mess with Eric that I have to deal with, he's not going to make it easy. In fact he will make my life a living hell.

Speak of the devil. As soon as I walked into the dining room I see that Eric is sitting in the far corner. I grab a plate of bacon and eggs from the kitchen area since there wasn't food on the tables yet and decide to be the bigger person. I march over to Eric's table and sit in front of him, might as well get this over with.

He looks up at me "Your up early, given the night you had" he says with a smirk. I'm sure he could tell I wasn't feeling my best right now.

"I can say the same for you" I was referring to the blonde he had in his apartment.

His smirk grows wider "Jealous are we"

I roll my eyes and laugh "Oh please, get over yourself"

He raises an eyebrow and glares at me.

"Of course you would think that" I say shaking my head. "I just wanted to let you know that me going to your apartment last night wasn't intentional. We were playing a game and I got dared to kiss whoever was behind the door" I tried to explain myself.

He just sat there with his usual condescending stare.

"I didn't know it was you on the other side of the door" I continued to explain.