The one

Chapter 7

Chapter 7

“Huh!” I gasped. Did he just…

“What!” Celeste shouted. “Not her! She was supposed to be eliminated. I want her out of here!” The guards hearing the commotion ran in.

“Lady Celeste, if you would please let us escort you back to your room…” She mumbled a few words under her breath that I probably didn’t want to hear, but reluctantly she went with them. She didn’t want to cause any trouble and have Maxon find out. After they left, I headed down to the kitchen, there was one person I wanted to see.

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I was waiting in the princess’s room when she came through the small door. It took me awhile, but I had found her in the kitchen and told her to meet me here so we could talk in private.

“Marlee!” I rushed over to give her a hug. Then I realized there was something different about her. I hadn’t noticed it in the kitchen because I was quick to get out.

“Are you Pregnant?!” I asked her. She grinned at me and I started jumping with joy my mouth filling with tons of questions. “Do you know if it is a boy or a girl? What are you going to name it. Maybe Rose or Percy…” Marlee cut me off.

“Sorry, but I don’t have that much time. We can talk about this another time. We still have like 7 months.”

“Ok,” I  gathered my thoughts and told her” We really need to talk.”

I told her about my nightmare, feeling like Maxon didn’t love me anymore, then him voting for me.

“I don’t know what to do. I mean he may have voted for me, but all he does is hang out with Kriss. I’ll never get the chance to earn back his trust…” Marlee didn’t know about that one night during the rebel attack but she could guess that it was because of my presentation.

“America just calm down” she told me. “You can still do this. I mean you may not have gotten as many votes so you may think that most of the country hates you, but You know how the 6’s and below weren’t allowed to vote…”

“Wait hold up.” I said. “They weren’t allowed to vote. Maxon said that everybody would be allowed to!

“Yeh, but King Clarkson didn’t.” she replied unhappily. “They aren’t usually allowed to vote, but Maxon changed it just this once. So the King went behind his back and wouldn’t let us vote. Otherwise, you totally would have won.”

I didn’t speak. I was shocked.

“Like, I was saying,” she continued. “You may not think so, but Maxon loves you. You may not see it, but you just really hurt him. That is why he hangs out with Kriss all the time. I am sure that you will at least make it to the final two. From then on, he will have to spend time with you. Then you will be able to win back his trust.”

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I was practicing the piano, when I heard a knock on my door. I opened it slowly scared that Celeste would jump out at me when instead I found a note and after reading it I thought that I wished it was Celeste instead. It said:

So America, looks like you are still in. We didn’t plan on having you make it this far, but apparently Maxon still has feelings for you. He voted on you which means he can’t bear to let you go. That means you may have a little spot in his heart. So the sad thing for you is that that makes you are next target. So watch your back my lady.

It never said who it was from, but I knew it could only be one thing, the rebels, and they were coming for me.

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