Complicated Love (Divergent Peter Fanfic)

Paintball

The next day of training went surprisingly well for me. I was fighting Al and I was kind of scared at what he would do to me. But after one good punch to the face, he just fell down. I mean, I wasn’t arguing or anything, but it seemed way too easy.

After training was over, Eric told me that we would have to cancel our training tonight. When I asked him why, he said that he was busy. I was kind of disappointed but on the other hand, I was dead tired.

“Hey, Flo, we’re going to go walk around, you coming?” Molly asked me once we exited the dining room.

“Uh, no,” I looked at Peter. “I need to talk with Peter,”

Molly slowly nodded and with the look I gave her, she understood exactly what I wanted to talk about. “Come on Drew, we’ll just spend time together.” Quickly, they both left towards the direction of the Pit, leaving me and Peter alone in the hallway.

Peter crossed his arms over his chest. “What is it you want to talk about?”

I looked up at him and swallowed. I can’t back out now. He needs to know what happened. “I need to tell you something that happened a couple days ago.”

When I didn’t continue talking, Peter pushed on. “What happened?”

Why was I so nervous to tell him? It’s not as if I did anything wrong. “During my first training session with Eric,” I gulped. “Eric, he kissed me.”

“Oh, you must be kidding me?” Peter said quietly. “You must me kidding me!” he said louder this time. His hands were tangled in his hair now and he pulled at the roots so hard I was scared he would rip them out.

“But I didn’t kiss him back, I promise!” I tried to reassure him except it didn’t seem to do anything but aggravate him even more, if that was even possible. If looks could kill, I’d be dead right now.

“You sure about that?” he asked in a deadly voice as he looked directly down at me. “If you didn’t kiss him back, then why are you still going to your training lessons, huh? Are you sure you’re not sneaking off to go and hook up with him?”

His comment caught me off guard. How could he possibly think that? Did he actually think that I would just throw away our whole relationship for Eric? “Do you really think I’d do something like that?” I asked in disbelief. “Do you really think I’d just throw away our whole relationship that we worked so hard to obtain for another guy?”

“I don’t know what to think right now, I just learned that my girlfriend got kissed by another guy and she is still seeing him.” He took two steps towards me so that he was now standing two inches from my small frame. “Put yourself in my situation. What if a girl kissed me and I still hung out with her, alone. Don’t tell me you wouldn’t doubt that some things would be happening.”

The sad thing is that he is right. If a girl kissed Peter and he still spent time with her alone, I wouldn’t know what to think. So it was my job to convince him that I hadn’t kissed Eric. “Then what if Molly kissed you? I bet you would still hang out with her afterwards because she would still be one of your best friends, no?” I took his silence as a yes. “That’s how I feel about Eric. I haven’t seen him for so long and now that we finally have each other again, I don’t want a stupid kiss that didn’t mean anything to separate us again.” I hadn’t even realized that I was crying until Peter wiped the tears away with his thumbs. Before he could remove his hands, I covered them with my own. “I’m sorry, Peter. I should have told you. I was just scared.”

He brought his lips down on my forehead. “It’s okay. Of course I would have liked you to tell me sooner and not continue your lessons, but-”

“The thing is, Peter. I need those lessons. I’m not like you; I actually need help with first stage if I want to pass. If it wasn’t for Eric, I’d be doing pretty poorly in certain things.” I told him honestly. Peter had always been a great fighter and I wasn’t. I tried to be but I hadn’t seemed able to be good until Eric started the lessons. I learned some of my strengths and how to use them to my advantage. If it weren’t for Eric, I’d be at the bottom of the list with Myra and Al.