Life is full of games

Chapter Five

"This is the pit, the center of life here in dauntless." Four says, we enter a large underground cavern with places for random activities such ass tattoo parlors, built into the walls. To connect these places, the pit has narrow steps and walksways. There are no railings or barriers on these walkways. Blue lanterns hang from various points along the paths. He leads us to another room, I think it's the bedroom but I don't know if it's girls or boys.

"You're gonna be sleeping here for the next ten weeks."

"Girls or boys?" Al asks, he is such a nice boy. I met him earlieer today. We had to say our names and all, so everyone knows eachother. Only by name though.

"Both" I hear four say. Oh great! Not. "If you like this, you're gonna love the bathroom."

"Oh my." I say when I see the bathroom, who is all open and has no cubicles.

"Oh, okay." I hear peter say.

"Seriously?" Genevieve and Christina say at the same time.

"No other area?" Catelyn asks.

"Are you kidding me?" Christina asks with open eyes.

"You should feel right at home, Candor. Everything out in the open." Four says and starts to walk off. As he walks through the group he hits my shoulder. Hard. "Get changed" He says before walking out.

"Great. Shower anyone?" Peter says. That's just disgusting.

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I'm getting dressed at the moment. And it's not easy. I'm trying to not show any skin. And these Dauntless clothes aren't helping me at all.

"Nice legs, stiff." Peter says watching me from head to toe.

I ignore him and when everyone is dressed up we follow a guard to burn our old factions clothes. Although it hurts to see them burning. I have to do it. Then the guard leads us to the Pit where everyone is eating.

"Where shall we sit?" I ask. The only free seats available are on Four's table.

"I'm going to sit with Cate, Sophie, Emily, Isa and Olivia." Genevieve says and walks over to their table.

"Nice sister." Christina says chuckling a little. We walk over to Four's table and sit down. I sit next to him and Christina sits next to me. I feel his eyes on me, I feel it but I'm not going to look at him. Come on tris, just act like it's not him sitting next to you. I look at the meat in front of me.

"Have you never seen a hamburger before?" Christina asks me.

"No... I .. I've seen one. I just have never eaten one." I look at four from the corner of my eye. He's silently eating. Not taking his eyes of what he's eating.

"In abnegation they eat plant food, Plant based diet without sauce and minimum seasoning." Will says, Al is with him and they sit at our table.

"Which textbook did you swallow?" Christina asks him.

He laughs "Nice to meet you too, i'm Will. Erudite."

"Ofcourse you are." Christina says and turns to me. "No offense, but i'm suprised Abnegation even eats at all. Too selfish, right? No wonder you left."

"Yeah, it was because of the food." I say jokingly.

"You gotta be pretty self confident to be friends with a candor." Will says.

"What's that supposed to mean?" Christina asks biting in her burger.

"You have no filter. You say the first thing that comes into your head."

"Like you're an idiot?" Al says and we laugh.

"Nice one, Al. Well, at least we tell the truth." Christina says confidently.

"Erudites can tell the truth cause we have the facts." Will says.

"I don't wanna hear about your old factions. You're Dauntless now." Four says with anger in his voice.

But he has a point.

"Were you a transfer too or Dauntless born?" I ask him, he looks me right in the eyes.

"Are you kidding?" He asks. Huh? What did I say. "What makes you think you can talk to me?"

"It.. must be because you are so approachable." I say, Christina chuckles and I carry on eating.

"Carefull." Four stands up and leaves.

"You, my friend, have a death wish." Christina says.

Thanks, helped alot.

"You know he was first in his class. they tried to recruit him for leadership twice, but he said no." Will says and then we are interrupted by the arrival of Dauntless leader, max.

"Initiates, stand." All initiates stand.  "You have chosen to join the warrior faction tasked with the defense of this city and all its inhabitants. We believe in ordinary acts of bravery and the courage that rises one person to stand up for another. Respect that. Do us proud."

He then walks away, everyone cheers and I feel my feet leaving the ground. I'm crowd surfing, oh my god. this is so cool.

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