Frozen Heart*Eric/Divergent*

36. Strange Times

"Hey, shorty!" The girl turned around to look at me with a nervous look in her eyes "If you continue standing straight like you've got a stick up your ass instead of bending those knees like we've shown you a thousand times, I'm going to put an actual stick up your ass" 

The girl quickly turned around and bend her knees way more than she was supposed to

"See, now you're just getting on my nerves," I ran a hand through my hair and walked next to her

"May I?" I extended my arms to her waist and she nodded

"Stand straight," she did and I put my hands on each side of her waist, pushing her down a little bit so she was in the right fighting stance

"Now, try to keep up with the rest of them" I said and she nodded as I took some steps behind

I watched her practice some more moves and turned my attention to Molly and Tris, the only Initiates that I remembered the names of at the time

They were practicing some moves next to each other

I walked behind them and watched Molly speed things up a little bit, probably because she noticed that I was watching her

"Hit a little bit harder," I told Molly and she nodded "And you, go a little faster" 

Tris turned to look at me with an unreadable expression

Well, unreadable to most people

I could see that she didn't like being ordered around but she didn't say anything and just turned around, hitting a little faster

"Good," I said and the gym door opened, making us all turn around to see who arrived

Eric and Four walked in, looking around at the Initiates who went back to their training

Four approached a guy and Eric walked up to me

"Everything good?" He put an arm around my waist and dragged me closer to him with a smirk

I nodded "They're... learning" 

"Hope they didn't annoy you a lot," he leaned in, giving me a peck on the lips, and moved back to look at Molly and Tris that were currently looking at us instead of training like they were supposed to

"Is there a reason you're not practicing, Initiates?" he asked, making them both turn back to what they were doing

"So, what did he say?"

"The usual, new rules, new things we should take care of"

"Like?"

"Like the police officers. They are not good at their job"

I raised an eyebrow

"They let a lot of things pass," Eric said and I rolled my eyes

"For the faction of freedom and adventure, we sure as hell have a lot of rules to follow" I muttered and leaned closer to him "I'm bored. Let's do something"

"I'm supposed to be training the Initiates"

"Four can manage" I rolled my eyes "Besides, we haven't been seeing each other a lot this week. I just see you here, whenever you're training the newbies"

"It's not my fault you didn't want to move in with me. If you had accepted, you'd have me all to yourself in the mornings, afternoons..." he leaned closer to whisper in my ear "Nights too"

"I like having my own place" I chuckled as he pulled back to look at me

"Your loss, princess" he said and moved back, walking over to Four