A Different Divergent: A Better Tomorrow

~fourty-nine~

Chapter 49

Adrenaline races through my veins when I see Molly standing in the open doorway of the bathroom. Even though she was just a nuisance during initiation who, in my opinion, got what she deserved both when I beat the crap out of her during our last fight and again when she was made factionless, my body readies for combat by standing straighter and curling my hands into fists. As we stand glaring at each other, all I hear are Al's words echoing in my head. "Watch out for Peter, Drew, and Molly. I don't know why but they absolutely HATE you, and even though I don't know any details, I know they are cooking something up far worse than what happened at the chasm." Could Molly and Drew still be planning something even though Peter is dead? Did they help him and Marcus kidnap me knowing I would be given memory serum? Are they wanting revenge for his death even though I had nothing to do with it? I stare at her for a couple seconds then give her a sweet but fake smile.

"It's nice to see you again," I lie, suddenly finding it hard to keep my breakfast down. "What brings you to the park today?" Yeah, I'm fishing for information, bitch.

"What?" she spits with venom in her voice. "Do you think the park is off limits to the factionless? Not everything belongs to Dauntless you know."

"PMS much?" I say with a chuckle. She narrows her eyes and takes a step toward me. My heart is pounding so hard in my chest that I'm surprised she can't hear it. "What do you want, Molly?"

"Your head in a box would be nice," she mutters hatefully. I shake my head and roll my eyes but don't relax my stance. I took her once but I'm nearly eight months pregnant now, and I don't want to put Peanut in jeopardy because of this bitch but if she attacks, I will defend myself.

"Whatever," I mutter. I know I need to escape the solitary confinement of the bathroom but she's blocking the doorway. "Is there something you need?"

"My life back," she spits. What? "I should be in Dauntless and you should be factionless."

"What are you talking about?" I ask. "What do I have to do with the fact that you failed initiation and was made factionless?"

"Don't stand there and give me that," she says. "I know you were dating our instructor during initiation. That alone should have caused you two to be kicked out. Drew and I went to Eric but he didn't have time to investigate before he was arrested and executed. Then in a cruel twist you two were made leader. There was no one left to listen to us."

"I don't know what you're talking about," I say.

"You're such a liar. We saw you coming out of Four's apartment before the final rankings were announced. That's when it all made sense; you two cheated," she says, inching closer to me. I take an instinctive step back. "I don't know how he pulled it off but he saw to it that you got the best ranking and Drew and I had to leave."

"First of all you are right," I say, stunning her into silence. "You did see us come out of his apartment that day but we weren't dating until right then not that it's any business of yours."

"Bullshit," she says.

"Believe what you want. I wasn't dating Four until after initiation was over," I state matter-of-factly, convincingly ... I hope. "Secondly, we did not cheat because there is no way to cheat. I just didn't have as many fears as the rest of you." I sigh and shake my head. "Why am I explaining any of this to you? It's not like you'll believe me anyway so why don't you get out of my way then we won't have to look at each other."

"You're not going anywhere," she says as she takes another step toward me, closing the gap.

"What's going on in here?" Tobias asks from directly behind her. The sound of his voice instantly calms me.