My Divergent Life (Completely Fan-Fiction) Wattys2015

Chapter 16: Be Prepared

        "We need to talk." I say to Lamar. We are in the cafeteria, it's lunch time.

        "Okay, about what?" He says, he sits down. I sit next to him.

        "Not here, Stephanie wants to know something." My voice shakes a little.

        "What?" He noticed the shake in my voice. "Let's go to my apartment, no-one will notice us." He looks around and gets up.

        I get up, we walk to his apartment. He unlocks the door and opens it, he allows me to walk in first. I slip off my shoes and sit on his bed, I take a bite of my hamburger. Lamar pulls the chair by his computer desk up to the bed and sits in it. He takes a bite out off his hamburger.

        I swallow my food and say, "Stephanie knows where I've been and who I am." I pause. I look at Lamar, his expression is un-readable. "She told me that she wouldn't say anything if I told her your name."

        Lamar's eyebrows fly up. "Why does she want to know my name?"

        "She wants to know who everyone is around here." I sigh, I don't know why though. "She said she'll still refer to you as 'Storm'."

        He nods. "I don't know, I've never trusted her. She probably knows already, she must want to confirm it." That makes sense, but why wouldn't she want something else if she already knows?

        "Was she a transfer from Erudite?" I ask him, Stephanie told me she was from Erudite, I'm not sure if I should believe much of what she says.

        "Yes, why?"

        "Do you think I should believe what she says?"

        "No, not really."

        I smile. "Just my point."

        He smiles back. "She told you?"

        "Yeah."

        After a moment Lamar says, "can you ask Stephanie if it's just a confirmation?"

        "Yes." I say, I have time to question her.

        He nods. "If she says yes, ask her what she thinks my name is."

        "Okay." I take another bite of my hamburger.

        There is a long silence, I swallow another bite of my hamburger. "Also," I say. "I got a note a few days after the attack." I pause. "From Alice."

        "How long have you known about it?" Lamar asks.

        "I found it just before lunch was called." I say. "It said that she's sorry, she did it for Anthony." I look into Lamar's eyes. "And that I should avoid Edgar and Eliot."

        "Why?" I think he means to ask about avoiding Edgar and Eliot.

        I answer both questions with one word. "Crushes."

        "The things Dauntless do-"

        "Jade! Come out here! I know you're in there, we need to talk!" It's Stephanie. Why is she here?

        "Go away, Stephanie." Lamar says, his voice is low.

        "No, Jade and I need to talk." She says.

        Lamar opens his mouth to respond, I interrupt him. "I don't care." My voice is low. "Whatever it is you have to say to me, I don't care, you've said enough."