Dauntless High

Chapter 12: Im Only Human

I sit in my bed at 10:00. I left the party right after I ran into Four. Even the thought of him makes me want to cry. So I pull out my song book and guitar. I look through at all the songs I wrote and found the perfect song to sing.

I can hold my breath

I can bite my tongue

I can stay awake for days

If that's what you want

Be your number one

I can fake a smile

I can force a laugh

I can dance and play the part

If that's what you ask

Give you all I am

I can do it

I can do it

I can do it

But I'm only human

And I bleed when I fall down

I'm only human

And I crash and I break down

Your words in my head, knives in my heart

You build me up and then I fall apart

'Cause I'm only human

I can turn it on

Be a good machine

I can hold the weight of worlds

If that's what you need

Be your everything

I can do it

I can do it

I'll get through it

But I'm only human

And I bleed when I fall down

I'm only human

And I crash and I break down

Your words in my head, knives in my heart

You build me up and then I fall apart

'Cause I'm only human

I'm only human

I'm only human

Just a little human

I can take so much

'Til I've had enough

'Cause I'm only human

And I bleed when I fall down

I'm only human

And I crash and I break down

Your words in my head, knives in my heart

You build me up and then I fall apart

'Cause I'm only human

I wrote that song when I found out we were moving to Chicago. I look up and tears start steaming down my face, then I realize my door is halfway open, and it was closed when I came in. I must of been singing to loud that my mom or dad came in, oops.

I lay down and close my eyes and drift off to sleep.

Time lapse

I wake up at 8:00. I sit in bed for about an hour on my phone, all I see on Instagram is pictures from the party. One picture has Four in the background drinking, he looks drunk, but not the happy brainless drunk, more of a, I'm only drinking because I'm depressed, kind of drunk. I shrug it off and head downstairs.

When I get downstairs I see someone on the coach and quickly swerve around the corner. Who is that person and why didn't I know about it? I ask myself. I quickly run upstairs and clean myself up.

I remove all of the makeup I had on last night and replace it. I put a loose sweater on that's gray with a black cross on and some skinny jeans. Then I throw my hair in a quick fishtail braid.

I run downstairs again and get a better look at the guest, she has black hair with some gray strands in it and looks mid forty's. She stands up right when she sees me.
"Hi I'm Tori." she says kindly.
"Tris." I say shaking her hand.
"So I've heard." she says. My whole family is sitting down looking at me with a smile.
"Can I talk to my sister for a second." Caleb says, finally someone is going to tell me what the heck is going on here!

We walk to the front door.
"You remember when you were singing last night?" I glare at him, "yes." I say angrily, he must of been watching me.
"Well I sort of video taped it and sent it to Aptitude Records." he says covers his face expecting me to punch him.
"Yeah! your point is." I say getting confused.
"Oh yeah they want to offer you a record deal." he says casually.
"WHAT?" I scream.
"SHHH were suppose to be professional!" He whispers.
"The lady Tori is here to offer it to you." he says. I walk back to the living room. Tori smiles and so do I.
"I am here to offer you a record deal, would you like to accept?" She asks.
"Yes." I say as calmly as possible even though my palms are sweaty and my heart is racing and all I want to do is scream.

"Great then I'll see you at Aptitude Records at 3:00." she says smiling.
"Of course." I say also smiling.
"And thank you." I say before she leaves.
"Oh no, thank you, we only pick the best." She says then walks out the door. I look at my brother and scream and jump on him giving him a hug.
"SAVE YOUR VOICE!" He shouts and then hugs me back. The next thing I know my mom and dad are in the hug to. This is the best day of my life. I say to myself.

I run up to my room and start a new song called "The Best Day of my Life."
Then I text Christina the whole story and she freaks out.
T: I GOT A RECORD DEAL FROM APTITUDE RECORS
C: WHAT! NO WAY.
T: Ya way my brother recorded me singing when I didn't know it and sent it to them and a lady called Tori came this morning and offered me a record deal!
C:TORI WU! She is in charge of Aptitude records if she offered it to u then they really want u!
T: Gtg I'm going to Aptitude Records at 3:00 and have to be ready but I can go to Dauntless' at 7:00 meet me there?Ttyl
C: totally ttyl

I get up and keep the same clothes on but put a smokey eye on and do soft curls. I look in the mirror.
"That's the last time you'll look in the mirror as you, soon you'll be famous." my dad says from behind me. I never even noticed he came in.
"It doesn't work that way, I have to record a lot of songs and then release the album, I think I'll look in the mirror before then." I say.
"You have enough songs to record for an album, the whole family here's you sing you know." He says hugging me.
"What?" I say.
"That guitar of yours is louder than you think." he says, and I laugh.

Time lapse

I grab my song book and guitar then head out the door. It takes about 2 minutes to get there. When I walk in the place is huge and that's just the lobby. I walk up to the desk.
"Excuse me." I say and the lady looks up. "Um I'm Tris and..."
"Room 568 to your left." She interrupts.
"Thanks." I say and go down the hall.

I look for it for about 5 minutes and still can't find.
"Tris?" someone says.
"Oh hey Tori." I say relieved.
"A little lost?" She says walking next to me.
"Yeah." I say.
"I should really fire that lady she's not much help." she says laughing.

She leads me to a room that says TRIS above it 568 next to it. When I walk in I stop and stare. There is a a ton of music equipment and it's twice the size of my room.
"Here's your new recording station." Tori says.

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Hey guys I thought this would be a good stopping point so know I think you can guess what happens next, but Four and Tris are still having a bumpy relationship next chapter will have a lot more of Four in thx for reading you guys!