Next To You

Chapter 2

So here's chapter 2

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Chapter 2

Aria's POV

3 days. Just 3 more days until the choosing ceremony, where we will decided where we'll spend the rest of our lives.

Connor is taking things a little bit to the extreme. I have no ideas where he is going to go, or what he is going to get on his aptitude test in two days. The test is the day before the Choosing Ceremony.

I am taken away from my thoughts by a knocking on my door that I recognize as my mom's knocking pattern. "Come in!" I yell towards the door over my music that is blasting loudly. She probably came to tell me to turn it down.

"Aria, turn that down!" See? I get off my bed to turn it down. "I need to talk to you about something". Well that part I wasn't expecting. And by the look on her face, it's something important.

"Yes, mom? What is it?" I ask with curiosity in my voice. I've always been like that, curious about anything and everything. She brings over my desk chair over to where I'm sitting on my bed. "I hope this isn't about the Choosing Ceremony." I tell her and she nods. "Mom-" she cuts me off.

"Don't start, Aria. We have to talk about this. Your dad and I had the same talk with Jake and Jenna when they were in the same position as you." She says, in her serious tone. Since I don't say anything, she continues.

"You may not be having a tough time deciding where you want to go, but Connor is. I came here to see if you can go and talk to him. You know, ease the stress that he's under. That way he ca start thinking straight about choosing which faction to go to. And since dad and I can't actually tell him where to go, you can get him to start calming down and that way he can choose. In a calm state of mind, that is."

"Ok, mom. I'll go talk to Connor and see what I can do." I tell her. She nods and gets up to leave. That is, until I call her back.

"Mom?" she turns around just as she is about to leave.

"Yes, Aria?"

"I need to tell you something. About... the Choosing Ceremony." She smirks at me, shuts the door, and comes back to sit on the desk chair again.

"What is it?" she asks, still with that slight smirk on her face. Why is she doing that? It's starting to freak my out.

"I know that we can't talk about our aptitude test results after we take them in a couple of days, but..." I stop.

"But...what, Aria?" she says, now she looks and sounds really concerned.

"What if Connor and I are Divergent, like Jake, you, Jenna, and Dad? And what will happen if we don't fit in for any faction?"

Connor's POV

I was walking with my friends in the pit, looking for our girlfriends. This has been going on for almost two hours. They were just with us earlier, then they suddenly left us.

"Connor, how much do you want to bet that Aria got them to pull something on us?" my best friend, Derek, asked me. He's like my second brother. We have been through everything together, ever since we were little kids in school.

"I think they are. And since I'm Aria's twin, I can 'read her mind.'" I say with a smirk and make air quotations with my hands. That makes Derek, John, and Steven laugh.

We start walking around again and I begin to think about the aptitude tests in two days and the choosing ceremony in three days.

What am I going to get in the test? What will happen if I am Divergent? Most importantly, what will my parents think of me if I chose to leave Dauntless for a different faction that they don't think highly of, like Erudite?

As I am lost in thought, I hear one of my friends shout and I hear laughter. A girl's laugh. One of the most wonderful sounds that I have ever heard. Sienna, my beautiful girlfriend since we were 15 years old. Suddenly, I feel something hit me in the back of my head, and I'm soaking wet. I look down and see blue paint at my feet. I look around and see Derek, Steven, and John with their girlfriends hugging ad laughing. I start to look around for Sienna.

"Miss me, Connor?" a voice says behind me. I turn around to see her with a big smile on her face and I smile in return.

"Sienna, why would you throw a paint balloon at me? I thought you loved me." I say and make a fake pouting, puppy-dog face.

She smirks at me, runs over and hugs me tightly. This will never get old. I think to myself.

"I will always love you Connor. No matter what happens, even after the test and the ceremony. I'll always be by your side." And with that, she kisses me in a way that makes me feel like it lasts forever, that is, until we pull apart from the kiss.

"Aria, why on earth would you have the girls pelt us with balloons full of paint?" Steven asks. I turn around to see Aria walking towards us. She looks like she has been laughing really hard.

Once she starts to calm down, after what feels like forever, she begins to speak. Well, as much as she could anyways.

"Actually Steven, it was all their idea. They just needed my help to get the paint and balloons. Now that that's all figured out, I suggest you start running?" we all look at her like she has more than one head. She turns around and we follow her gaze. And the next thing we see is a man, who must have obviously seen the paint on us, and start running after us.

I try to get a closer look before they get to us. He looks like he has spots of paint on his clothing and have some paint on his hands as well.

"Hey! I know you took the paint ball paint. Get back here!" he yells at us. And that's when the guys and I, and Aria, run with our girlfriends, Aria with me and Sienna, in different directions. After I know for sure that he isn't after us or even in our direction, I tell them that the coast is clear and that we can stop running.

"Connor, you should have seen the look on your face." Aria says. The next thing she knows, since I saw it coming, she is picked up into the air. She makes a surprised shrieking sound and her facial expression, priceless.

Finally, I finished chapter 2. While I was actually writing this in my notebook, it seemed a lot longer than what it turned out to be when I typed it. Oh well, what am I going to do. Thank you everyone who reviewed. The next chapter should be up by the end of the week or so. Until next time, later! :)