Emergent

Chapter Ten

Yay! Tenth Chapter! Thank you to anyone who has been reading, I really appreciate it! Please comment what you think, I love feedback! So my chapters are going to be getting longer after this one, as I promised. Enjoy!

Christina apparently wanted to live as separated from any human life as the building would allow, because her apartment was on the complete other side of the bureau and the last on the hallway."How in the world do you walk to meals everyday from here?" I ask her, bending down to relax my legs. Not only was that an excruciatingly long walk, but keeping up with her long legs was torture.

"You know, I thought it was only Caleb who immediately thought of food" she grins "Maybe it's a Prior thing." I laugh, although I'm confused. In all the time I knew him, he was either an Abnegation, who couldn't complain about anything, or a betrayal to me. I forgot that he was also a teenage boy, who has interests.

"He talks about food a lot?" I ask her as she opens the door and walks through it. I follow behind her and scan the room. It was nice, not very neat, but a decent enough size that it doesn't look that messy.

"This was originally an apartment, even when you were here." She explains. That is why all the utilities look in place, not crammed into the room. "And yes" she comes back to the original conversation. "He is pretty good at making meals, and superb at eating them." We both laugh, it was funny to hear about my brother this way, nice. "So," she starts, "well um, what do you know?" It was a discrete question, but obvious as to what she was talking about.

I knew about Uriah's death. A really horrible thing, that was. I will always remember his smile, always brightening a room. I will alaways regret not being there to support his family when they took him off life support. I don't go into much detail with Christina, I knew they had a 'thing". I won't with Tobias either, he already feels bad enough. I also knew about Caleb's marriage to Susan Black, my next door neighbor from Abnegation, who I assume is not in the building or we just haven't run into her yet.

"Great!" she exclaims after I explain that to her. "So you know about the baby!"

"What?!" I almost scream, jumping out of my seat. "What baby?"

She stands and puts her hands on my shoulders, pushing me back into my seat. She calms me down, and begins again. "So obviously you don't know." she chuckles a little. "Susan was staying in a safe house with the living Abnegation while we escaped to the bureau." I knew that. "When Caleb went and got them after the whole 'revolution' ended, she decided that she couldn't take it anymore and declared her love for him." It was obvious, but I don't want to say so and throw her off track. "They married about a year and a half ago, and they had a baby girl about, um, maybe six weeks ago or so." I knew Cara was hiding things. It was okay then, but I would've liked to have been informed of the birth of my niece. "Do you want to go visit her? I know Susan would love to see you, everytime I've had her over she talked about how much she missed you."

Before Christina, Susan was about the closest thing I had to a friend, although I knew that her name was Susan, and she lived next door. Her father drove her and her brother to school, and she had a crush on my brother. That was the extent. Of course I missed her, but I feel guilty now of not missing her more, if she missed me so much.

"Yeah" I say "Let's go see her and the baby."