E.A.T.O.N.

Chapter 14

I heard the bomb go off in the distance. Despite the fact that it was nowhere near the Abnegation sector, the impact from it still rattled our house like an earthquake would. Shelves shook, items fell. I quickly had to run around catching everything before it shattered on to the floor. Cautiously, I shouted to my parents.

"Mother!" I called, "Father! Are you okay?"

"Yes yes," my father yelled back up the stairs, "We're absolutely fine, are you?"

I grinned to myself "Yes I'm very well thank you."

I heard my father chuckle before going back into the kitchen. Which just left me. On my own. In my room. Curiosity got the better of me again and I looked out of my window, squinting in the bright sunlight. I searched for anything that suggested a bomb, maybe a crater, maybe something on fire, I had no idea really. Look left, nothing. Look straight on, nothing. Look right, nothi-

There was a building on fire to my right. Flames circled it, consuming everything in its path. Slowly, I fractionally pushed my window open. Screams filled the air. Screams of terror. Gasping, I tried to look for anything that might give me any sort of clue to what the building was. I couldn't see anything. What if it was Abnegation? No, it was far too far away to be Abnegation. I opened the mental map of the city I have stored in my mind and thought.

It was the Erudite HQ.

Oh god. Was Anna in there? Oh no. Was she dead? I didn't know what to do. I had gotten over her, but that didn't mean that I had stopped loving her.

"Mother!" I hurtled down the stairs at the speed of light. "Mother that bomb was in the Erudite HQ."

Shock, terror and sadness washed across my mother's face. "Anna?" she looked at me longingly, like I might know the answer, which I didn't.

"I don't know, Mother, I honestly don't know." sadness spread across my mother's face.

"Alright, thats alright." She composed herself, "I guess we'll just have to wait and see."

Almost as soon as those words left her mouth, my father stormed through the front door, panting. I didn't even realise that he'd left.

Without uttering a single word, he thrust a newspaper into the open hands of my mother. She glanced down at the front page and tears spilled down her face. Trying to wipe them away just made them fall harder and faster, until she couldn't take it anymore. My mother- my strong, powerful mother- ran off into the living room. Her sobs echoed through the walls.

She had dropped the newspaper in front of my feet. Cautiously, I grabbed hold of it, flinching with paranoia. Instantly a lump formed in my throat. The front page said these words.

"Erudite representative, Anna Eaton, dead in an attack from Abnegation."