The one

chapter four

Chapter four

After my maids prepared me for breakfast, I left and decided to see Elise before breakfast. We may not be real close friends, but we were still friends. I trusted her enough to tell her about my nightmare. I walked to her room and knocked quietly on the door. One of her maids answered.

"yes my lady?" she said and cursied.

"May I please speak to Elise" I said adding a little bit of urgency in voice.

"I am sorry, my lady, but she has left. She said something about a challenge" she replied. Oh crap. I had completely forgotten about the challenge. Thank goodness I had my first visit later.

"Thank you" I told the maid. Then I left to go down to breakfast. I will have to talk to her later. Thank is if I get my courage up back up. I entered the dinning and everybody else was eating already. I was late. I caught Maxon eye and tugged my ear, but he just looked away. I frowned and decided to forget about it for now. I sat down in the seat next to Kriss which was sadly by Celeste too. She glared at me then turned around to continue the conversation she was having with the king. I looked over at Kriss and was about to say something when I realized she was talking to Maxon. He laughed at something she said while his eyes lightning with joy. I glared at myself and slowly started eating when I realized the queen was watching me. I swallowed as fast as I could and said

"Yes?" The queen smiled at me and whispered quietly to me so no one would hear

"just thinking about how cute you would look in a wedding dress." I blushed. At least the queen was on side.

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After breakfast, I went by to my room so my maids could prepare me for my first trip for the challenge, Illinois. After they done, I walked down to the women's room so I would be there when Silvia came to tell me that my ride was here. I entered and there was only one other person, Elise, with her back turned me. I walked straight up to her slowly building up the courage to tell her about my nightmare. I took a deep breath and tapped on the shoulder letting her know I was there.

She turned around and when she saw it was me grinned and asked "what are you doing here?"

I smiled back and answered "waiting for Silvia, listen I have to talk to you about something"

"What is it" she asked her face filled with concern when she realized I was no longer smiling.

"Well..." I started but then stopped when I realized Kriss had entered the room and was walking over to us. "

"What are you guys talking about" she asked with curiosity"

I sighed and put on a fake smile. "Oh nothing important."

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Silvia came and got me right on time and before I knew it, I was in Illinois. I got out of the car and braced myself for the booing, yelling and tomatoes, but I was shocked. There was posters, signs, and shirts with my name on it. People were chanting my name, "America, America, America..." I could see tons of smiles filled with hope in the crowd. There was only a small group, the twos and threes, who didn't look happy. They were the only ones who were booing and yelling, but thank God not throwing tomatoes. I grinned and got out of the car Maybe, this wouldn't be that bad after all.

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I walked over to a group filled with little girls and smiled at them. They all had chipped teeth, bruised faces, tiered eyes, dirty hair, and too small clothes. They must have been eights. "Hi" I greeted them. They gave me the biggest grins I had ever seen. Even though some of them were partially toothless, they were the most beautiful smiles. Instantly all my sadness was gone and I was as happy as I could be. I reached in to my bag and pulled out an apple for each of them. They each looked as if they gotten a puppy for Christmas. I hugged each of them and talked for awhile with them when my watch beeped. I looked at the time and realized I had just used up all my time in Illinois and missed lunch. My stomach growled but I ignored it. After seeing these kids, I remembered what it was like to be hungry. Today's visit just made me want to get rid of the castes even more.

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My visits to the other cities that day went the same way. I only spent time with the eight's children. My head was telling me I should be trying to win the other high castes, but my heart was telling me something else. When it was finally time to go back to the castle, I was worn out. I wanted to take nap, but then I remembered what happened yesterday and decided not to. When I finally got back to castle, I was shocked. All the halls were ransacked and walls had words written on them that said:

We came and will come again. We now have one of the Elite and will take another if we need to. You know what we want and you better do it or we will force you to. Do it or we'll be back!

I gasped. There had been a rebel attack while I was gone, and they took one of the Elite. By the way they wrote the letter, I don't think they wanted just the diaries anymore.

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I ran quickly to the safe room where I knew everyone else would be. Right when I got there, everybody else was coming out. I counted off everyone when they came out. There was the King, Queen, Maxon, Elise, and Kriss but there was no Celeste. She must have been the one they took. I wanted to be glad. I mean I hate her, but I knew what the rebels do. They could cause her a lot of pain and even I felt sorry for her.

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I went back to my room so my maids could prepare me for dinner. Thank God they were okay. We all were silent, even Lucy. After they were done, I went straight to the dinning hall. Everybody was but Kriss and Maxon. I felt jealousy swarm through me. They must be eating in her room AGAIN. I sat down and was quiet through the whole meal. Even when Elise tried to start a conversation with me, I quickly ended it. I didn't feel like talking. After I was done, I quickly excused myself and went back to my room. There was a note on my pillow:

America sorry for not returning the ear tug, but I decided it was unfair for the others for you to see me on your own account. So no more ear tugging. I will see you when I want to.

Maxon

I ripped the note to shreds and screamed into my pillow. Even though I am still in the competition, he acts as though I am not here. I screamed into my pillow again and decided I need some fresh air. So I walked to the gardens when I saw something that made my anger even worse. Maxon was holding Kriss sitting on our bench. OUR BENCH! I was shocked. If this in my nightmare came true, would the rest as well? This was just too much for me. Then I fainted.

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Sorry for all of the grammar mistakes. I typed some of this on my iPod so I could update. This one was longer but still tell me if it need to be even longer. Thank you so much for reading. When I updated my third chapter I only had 4 reads. Now I have 29! thank you to the two people who commented. This chapter is dedicated to kimpa11173789

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