Dauntles Black Heart

Ch6

DBH Ch6
When Thomas and I walk into the cafeteria, people ask me what happened to my face, when I say it was an accident, they give me looks. We sat with our friends, Uriah was in the middle of a story, where he won a fight, stops mid sentence,"hey Emerald. Hey Thom- Emerald what happened to your face?" Everyone at the table stops in the middle of their sentence and looks at me. Thomas gives Uriah a look. "It was an accident." Six frowns, then after a few seconds they continue their conversations. Thomas holds my hand to tell me every thing is ok. Then Christina wakes me from my daze, "Emerald after dinner we, Six, Marlene, Shana, and Lynn, are going shopping!" Six and Lynn groan and Marlene, Shana, and Christina squeal. "Good luck Emerald." Says Will. "I don't see what's so bad about shopping with me." Christina says. "Don't get us started." Says Zeke.
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After dinner the boys left to play this thing, I think it was called a X-box. We have been to a lot of stores, and my feet hurt. Christina, Shana, and Marlene are still shopping. "That's it, I'm sitting on the floor." I say as I plop down followed by Six. Lynn left, I wish I could. "Six, can I ask you a question?" She nods. "Are you and Four together?" "Who told you?" She looks to Christina "I figured it out when you and Four had to play seven minutes in heaven. I put two and two together. Actually I put four and six together." She smiles. The rest of the girls sit on the ground, "So are you and Thomas together?" Christina asks me. I shrug "well..."I said. She interrupts , "he kissed you during candor or dauntless." "And you came in late with him." Six says. "You were late to training?" Marlene asks. Six tells her how Eric was there, and how Thomas was hanging in my place, also about him falling.

When we finished every one goes there separate ways, except Six, she said that I could put my bags over at her apartment. We sit on the couch, "what happened?" She asked. "I can't tell you, I'm sorry Six" "You can call me Tris when we aren't training. Can you tell me why you can't tell me?" "Ok but you can't tell anyone and you have to promise that nothing will happen to Thomas." "I promise" I tell her what Payton did to me, and how Thomas said he likes me,then he kissed me and I kissed him, also that I fell asleep in his bed. "Can I go to the training room, to practice fighting?" I ask. "Only if you let me help." She says with a smile.

I punch the bag, and Tris adjusts me, I hit it harder. After a little while I'm hitting it extremely hard. "You're coming along fast." Tris says. We sit on the ground to take a break. We face the punching bags. Then an arm grabs me from the back and pulls me up. Oh god, Payton knows I told. The arms spin me around, it's Thomas. "I told you she would be fine." Four says. "I told him." He says "I told her also." I say. All four of us sit on the floor. "Four, thank you."I say through the silence "I won't let him fall off of the chasm." Thomas smiles.

Thomas and I go to the chasm after Tris and Four lock up the room. We hang our feet over. He grabs my hands and looks into my eyes. "I don't know how to ask this, so I'm just going to ask. Do you umm... want to be my girlfriend?" He asks shyly. I hesitate for a second then smile, "yes." He releases a breath, "you had me nerves for a second." We stand and start to walk to his apartment, I trip, he catches me and I say "you're right I am falling for you."

When we sat on his bed, I break the silence, "I want to know more about my boyfriend." "Well what do you want to know?" "I want to know who is Thomas?" He told me he was a transfer from erudite two years ago, and that he has an older brother that transferred to dauntless the year before he did. "Who is it? I want to meet him." I say, he replies, "no you don't, trust me. We were close, then when he transferred he changed."

I stayed at Thomas' place because he didn't want Payton to be near me while I was sleeping. We lay next to each other. I lay my head on his chest, and he raps his warm protective arms around me. I lay there listening to his beating heart. What if this is just a dream... well I never want to wake up. His beating heart makes me feel mine. I fell asleep in his arms, I know I chose the right faction.