The elevator booms up like a bullet. Before I can think, we were already at our destination.
"Listen to me, Ronnie." Jeramiah says, loudly. I roll my eyes.
"No seriously, listen." He grabs my shoulders and turns me around. That startles me.
"Fine!" I shout, "I'm freaking listening!"
"The girl you are going to meet, Tori, is a Dauntless leader-" I cut him off.
"Wow Jer, I didn't know you were a matchmaker!"
"Would you just fucking listen?!" He yells. I stand silently. I never noticed that stain in the elevator...
Jeramiah leads me out of the elevator and into a room with pristine white walls and hardly any furniture. Tori stands opposite a window, a trolley cart beside her. On the cart, a clear syringe holds an opaque silvery liquid inside of it. I wonder what it's for.
"Tori." Jeramiah says casually. Tori spins around, an incredibly wide smile pasted onto her young, youthful face.
"Jerry!" She walks over and kisses him once on each cheek. Her eyes then meet mine.
"You must be Veronica."
"Ronnie." I correct her, then feel guilty for being rude. "For short." Tori laughs quietly. There's something about her, but I just can't put my finger on it. She reaches for the syringe.
"I will inject you with this syrum, so that we can look at you simulation data from inside the Fear Landscape." She smiles again, exposing her pearly white teeth. My heart is beating quickly now, but the only thing I can do is nod...
LUCAS'S POV
I hadn't seen Ronnie all day. Ever since she left our bed last night, she hasn't come back. I sit in the dining hall next to Reuben and Sam, and across from Kaelyn, Margot and Fernando. Margot and Fernando exchange funny glances, which gets me thinking if they have been having affairs during our 'golden time'. I push my porridge around my bowl, and then into my mouth ravenously, and the only thing I can think about is whether Ronnie is OK or not. I start panicking. Finally, I push my bowl aside, and walk back to my dorm, and towards the chasm.
"Hey Luke!" Reuben yells behing me. I spin around, and see his dopey smile looking back at me. "Don't forget to use protection. The table explodes in varieties of laughs, snorts and snickers. I put the rude finger up at Reuben, but he just pokes his tongue out at me.
Sometimes I just need to get away from everything...
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The Choosing
Fiksi PenggemarMy head feels like it's full of cotton balls of stress. Every single bone and muscele in my body aches because of the pain that lies ahead. I know that Candor is not for me, my aptitude test proves that I'm Dauntless, and I feel it as well, inside a...
