Dauntless High

Chapter 4: Popularity

I take a deep breathe and walk in the house.
"Hey sweetie how was it?" My mom asks.
"Um, ah, you told me to be home two hours ago."
"Yeah I know but I thought it would be nice for you to hang with your friends a little longer." I look at her suspiciously. She's doing the dishes with a small smile on her face. Then it all comes together, she knew I was worried about making friends so she didn't mind me staying later with them. Thank God.

"So... how did it go? Beatrice Prior what happened to your face!?" She says  finally looking up at me, so I told her the whole story. She stopped doing the dishes while I was telling the story, and just stared at me.

"I'm going to tell the principal about this." she says mostly to herself than anyone else.
"Mommmmmm, whyyyyyyyy?" I complain.
"And I'm going to call that boy's parents." she says almost scolding me.
"Mom I'll get bullied even more!" Obviously she doesn't care cause she calls my dad.

"Ugh!" I yell in frustration, Peter will defiantly pick on me and call me a goody-two-shoes or something like that. Then he'll beat me up even more, and my parents will move me to a different school, and I'll have to make new friends, AGAIN.

"Andrew." my mom says on the phone. I run as fast as I could to my room and fall on my bed. I roll over and face the ceiling.

"I hate my life." I say to myself. But it's true. Nothing goes my way anymore, and when it does it always backfires. That's the last thing I remember, then I fall asleep.

"Beatrice dinner!" My mom yells. I roll over and fall of of my bed. I look at the clock, 7:36. I get up and head downstairs. When Caleb sees me he starts cracking up.

"L-look- at your- FACE!" He says in between laughs.
"Caleb!" My dad yells as he walks in the room. Caleb immediately looks up at our dad and then looks at his feet.

I can't help but smile, Caleb, the perfect child, gets yelled at.

                            Time lapse
                        Two Days Later

I wake up to my brother shaking me.
"Beatrice it's 7:30 get your butt up!" I jump out of bed. My clock says 12:08. We must of lost power last night so my alarm didn't go off. I quickly change into a laced black and white skirt with a block top, then put barely any makeup on cause I don't have time.

"We have to go now!" My brother shouts. I grab a piece of toast my mom made and run out the door. We get there at 8:15 and I get in my classroom at 8:20.

I sit where I sit every time, right next to Christina with Will behind me and Al diagonal from me. I talk to them for a while and then the teacher comes in. The first three periods fly by surprisingly.

I tell Christina I'll meet her at the table, I just have to grab my lunch. I walk in a mostly empty hallway, there are a few people here and there but most people are at lunch. I look around for Peter. Nowhere. I grab my lunch and half walk half run to lunch.

"Hey Tris!" someone shouts. I turn around and it's Uriah walking with the rest of the popular group to lunch.
"You sure do run a lot," says Zeke.
"Yeah it gets me places faster," I say in an irritated tone.

"I mean no offense," he says throwing his hands I up. I laugh and roll my eyes. We walk to lunch together and start to crack some jokes.
"Hey Tris you wanna sit with us?" Asks Lynn
"What about Christina, Al, and Will?" I say.

"They can come too?" Marlene says in a really high pitched voice. We walk in and they see me immediately and so do a ton of other people. Most of them sit looking wide eyed. I motion for them to come by us, and they slowly walk over to us. We sit at the "cool" table, and talk.

"Haha no, that was you Uriah," Zeke says.
"No I think it was you Zeke." Four says.
We are talking about when they were little and who had the biggest crush on
Selena Gomez. I guess they are pretty embarrassed about it but it is really funny.

"So Tris how did it go with you being 2 hours late and stuff." says Four.
"They actually didn't yell at me, they were more mad about my face."
"Yeah it looks a lot better." Shauna says.
"The magic of makeup." I say then plop a strawberry in my mouth.

After lunch I head to my next class. Science ugh. I sit in the back corner so I'm not as noticed by the teacher. Then Four and Zeke come in and Four sits next to me and Zeke sits next to him.

"Hey Tris," they say in sync. Then look at each other and laugh. Then Ms Mathews comes in and glares at me. She puts the notes on the board and we all copy it down.
"Hey Tris." Four says without looking at me.
"Yeah" I reply.
"I'm having a party Friday you wanna come." he says.
"Um sure I guess."
"Cool, can't wait to see ya." he says smirking.

"Who's invited exactly?" I say.
"Well I told my friends they could invite whoever they wanted so the whole school will probably be there," he says. "Why exactly?" he says finally looking at me.
"Just wondering," I say looking back at him.

After class I tell Christina and she said she was invited to and so was Will and Al so I am pretty happy about that. I just have to get past my parents now.

Last period is over and I tell Caleb about.
"Yeah I heard about that party." he says focusing on the rode.
"Are you going to go?" I ask. He sighs.
"Tris you have to understand there will be a lot if alcohol at this party and drunk teens." he says. "Mom and dad would never approve you going to that party."
"I think I can convince them." I say
"Oh yeah I want to see this." He says laughing to himself.

When we get home we both walk in the kitchen. I want to ask if I can go to the party and Caleb wants to see me fail.
"How was your day honey?" my mom says.
"Ughhhhhh" I say and sit at the table and put my head on the table, to make it look like I'm crying.
"What happened?" She says. I glance at Caleb and he's smirking, he knows what I'm doing. I want my parents to feel pitiful and let me go to the party, and pretty much half the stuff I say is a lie.

"Peter kept picking on me, and I don't have any classes with my friends, and the popular group now acts like they never even saw us before, and it was horrible." I sob. I hear Caleb chuckle and leave. I nailed it.
"Oh honey I'm so sorry." she says while rubbing my back.

"The only good thing that happened was I am invited to a party Friday night." I say looking up. She stops rubbing my back and looks at me.
"Honey who invited you to the party?"
"Four." I say and it sounds like I'm about to sob.
"Honey there might be a lot of bad stuff that I don't want you to see or even experience." She says.
"S-so I can't go?" I say more crying than speaking.
"I'll talk to your father about it, ok?" She says sweetly. I nod my head and get up. I run to my room and see Caleb is sitting on my bed.
"How'd it go?" I smile and sit on my bed.
"Let's just say you have to hold off the nerdiness for one night." I say
He just smiles and hugs me.

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Done with another chapter thx so much for reading this. 😘