Emergent

Chapter 7

Tobias POV

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We are sent back inside the fence today. In 4 days, I start work. I am on team Z3. I am cleaning the streets as my groups first job.

Yay!

Note the sarcasm.

They give me an apartment right next to Evelyn.

Yay!

Once again, note the sarcasm. Zeke is having a welcome back party, and everyone that went outside the fence, except Tris is coming. After thinking this I cry for a while. Until it is time to get ready for the party. I wear layers, since we will play truth or dare, and head to Zekes apartment.

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We sit in a circle, playing truth or dare. The whole gang is there. It is just like old times.

Almost.

Stop it Four. You can't start crying in front of people.

"Hello, Four, are you in there?"

Zeke says

"What?"

I say.

"Truth or Dare buddy?"

"Dare."

"I dare you to let Christina put you in a dress, and then take the short-term piece serum."

"Okay."

I go into the room of torture with Christina, and come back out wearing a pink fluffy dress. I also have a little bit of pink lipstick on. Eww.

Then Zeke injects me with peace serum.

Wow. This is a pretty dress. It must make me look really pretty. I go hug Christina.

"Thank you for making me look cute!"

"Awww. You're welcome Bud."

"No my name is Four, not Bud. You can call me that though if you want."

I start to walk back to my seat, but I like the sound the heels Christina put on me make. I try to copy the sound with my mouth.

"Clickety-Clack, Clickety-Clack, Clickety-."

"Zeke, you are such a pansycake! This dare is so easy!"

Says Uriah.

I go and sit in Uriahs lap.

"Whats is a Pansycake?"

I ask.

"Ooh story time! Well, once upon a long dang time ago,-"

Wait.

Why am I sitting in Uriahs lap?

"What the heck? Eww why am I on your lap? And why am I still in this dress? Gross! I am gonna go change!"

After I get changed back into normal clothes, we play spin the bottle.

When it is my turn, I simply sit there. There is no way anyones lips are gonna touch mine, ever again, unless they are Tris's. After a while, everyone heads home, but I just walk around the city. Eventually, I am walking under the zip-line, and staring up at it as I go. Suddenly, I bump into something.

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Tris POV

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I can't stand being in my apartment anymore, so I go for a late night walk. I end up walking under some wire thing, and look up at it as I walk.

Suddenly, I bump into something.

The stranger helps me up, since clumsy me fell down. The 'Stranger' is a tall boy, probably about 19. As he gives me a hand and pulls me up, I get a strange feeling of deja vu. His eyes are a stormy blue ocean, and they wash over me like a wave, and soon, I am drowning in memories that fill my head, though are not my own. Me and the stranger. Talking. Kissing. Him throwing knives at me. Telling me, a girl whom I somehow know is named Christina, and a group of people to call him Four. Him showing me his back, full of symbols I somehow know, ink curling over his ribcage. Yet when he turns to face me in this memory, the name in my mouth is Tobias, not Four. And then, as if my mind was not flooded enough, it

All

Comes

Back.

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Oh dang, what just happened? I had this typed on my tablet, but it wouldnt let me post it, saying the text was too short. So I had to re type it.

Stay Peachy🍑!