Chapter Fifteen: Would You Rather?
Authors note:
I know that i've been lacking on Will and Christina momment so I hope that this chapter makes up for it, because in the book this is when Tris goes with Uriah and the other dauntless-born initiates zip-lining. So I have the entire chapter to myself.
-Tali21
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I wake up to hearinig Will moving around in the bunk, It's not visting day or anything so, as usual it's going to be a quiet morning with just the two of us. These are the mornings where I like to pretend that Will, and I are married, and that this is how we will wake up every morning together. Ofcourse with out Peters snoaring in the way.
Will stands shirtless he's just changing his shirt, he is ery handsomely mascular. You can see that his hair is a bit messy, but I ike it that way. He dosen't look at me in the begining, but then he does. He smiles at me, and walks over he sits on my bed right next to me, and lies down comftorably besides me. We lay there and he looks into my eyes, but I'm now starting to be aware of the small space between us.
His celery-green eyes are hypnotizing. I can't bring myself to look away. He then leans so close next to me, leaning into my ear, so close that his lips are tickiling my ear. I can barley breath.
"Good morning." He whispers, then he gets up, and lies back down on his bed staring up into the roof, not that I'm complaining or anything but why can't he just say goodmorning like he does to Tris why does have have to come lye sown with me, and then whisper it to me and a teasing way. Two can play this game! I think to myself, I walk over to Wills bed, he immediatly notices me, I hold his stare.
I do exactly as he does to me, I lay close next to him, except I try to tease him to the maximum I lay so close to him that my bare leg is scraping his leg, I feel him shiver, or am I the one who's shivering. I then lean over him, my face so close to his, I lean in so close, that our lips could touch eachother any second now. Then right as our lips should hae touched, I move my lips to his ear, so close that my lips are touching his ear.
"Good morning to you too." I say, then get up, and walk back to my bed I go to my drawer, and pick up a pretty black tanktop, thats exposing, I look over to make sure that he's watching, then I lift my shirt over my head, leaving me in my black sports bra, then I slip on my tanktop. I put on some black eyeliner. When I look bak at Will he's a bit frozen, I can tell it's about what he just saw, but hey he's the one whos shirtless. I haven't even told anyone whats been going on in the mornings.
I', sur that if anyone else would have known, they would have assumed that were together, which I hope that soon we will.
Will considers this for a momment then points over for me to walk over to him. Hes sitting on the side of his bed his feet are touching the ground. I sigh, and walk over, he then grabs me, and squeezes me into a hug, that I'm trapped in his muscular arms. He rolls us back, and I yelp while giggiling. Peter shifts in his bed, ten returns to snoring.
Still holding me, he moves his hands to my waist, but still makes sure, that I can't escape, and he leans in and whispers.
"Sshh! We don't want to wake the big monster up." He whispers. Then lets me escpae, five seconds later Al wakes up.
"Hey guys." He says in a sluggish voice, but unfortuinatly, a lous sluggish voice, that wakes up Peter, and Drew. Slowly, all the initiates wake up, and Will, and I kepp apart.
Since Will and I finnish getting dressed first, we tell Al to meet us at the cafetiria. We leave.
"I'll race ya" Will says.
"Prepare to loose." I tell him, and then launch into a run. Will runs too.
"Last one to get there, is a butt-head." He says, and I laugh which hurts because i'm runnung, I can't believe he just said butt-head.
"You're so on!" i say, and then we both start sprinting, twoards the cafetiria. I get there first.
"You're a butt head." I say, then giggle.
"I'm a butt-heaad." He says, while giggiling as well. Then we both start laughung. I laughed so hard that my stmach hurts.
This morning they serve both Will and my favorite muffin, the blueberry ones, for a second I picture me cooking for Will and my kids blueberry muffins. I picture our kids fighting over who gets the last muffin. i see Will and I shaking our heads as our kids fight.
I take two muffins, and Will takes three. I eye him as he takes the thrid one.
"What?" He says, i smirk.
"Nothing."I say.
"I'm a growing man." He says in defense. I wonder if Will also sees me in the way that I see him. I guess I wont know until one of us talks about t, and i happen to know that it's nt going to be me. Al walks in, without Tris, and sits next to us.
"Whers Tris?" Asks Will.
"I don;t know I think she dissapeared." Al says.
"Christina, can I have one of your muffinns?" He says reaching for a muffin.
"No." I slap his hand awy, and Will laughs. "If you want a muffin get it yourself, Albert." I say, Al chuckles at my threat, then we all start laughing, just then Peter comes in, with ofcourse, Molly and Drew by his sides. They eye us.
"Is there something wrong with you all, you laugh way too much, it sickens me." Molly comments.
"Yeah well at least we have a laugh worth hearing." I say. "Unike someone we know." I say the Will, Al and I all start immatating Mollys snort laugh. She shakes her head then walks away. Al and I slap hands.
"We do laugh a lot, dont we?" Says Will, slowly we all nod.
"I know how to solve the problem." Says Al. He lightens up with an idea. "Christina, your not alowed to talk anymore." Says Will, I give him a hurt expression, and he grins.
"Hey, I happen to like Christina's voice." says Will, he likes my voice. Al eyes us suspisiously.
"Since when are you to friends?" Asks Al.
"Hey, we've always been friends." i say.
"Yes," agrees Will. "Friends who argue, which is completely normal." Says Will.
"Okay, if that's what you say." Says Al.
Will and I meet eyes and smile.
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Its noon, Tris a hundred percent dissapeared. Will, Al and I were hanging out in the dormitory. We were palying a fun game, called 'Would You Rather?'
"Would you rather?" I say to Will. "Eat Elephant poop, or....lick peanut butter off a factionless pesons, toe?" I say.
"Is that even a queshtion, obviously, i'd eat the elephant poop." Says Will.
"Al, would you rather.." He begins. "hmmm..." He says then snaps his fingers. "Be best friends with Eric, or marry Molly?" Says Will.
"Thats a hard one." Says Al, he begins to make a list. "Mary a monster, or be friends witha our evel devil?" Says Al. " i think I'll go with the pure evil devil. "That way I don't have to live with him, and I can dodge him anytime I want." Says Al.
"Understandable." I say noddig my head.
"Would you ra-" I begin to say, but the room to the dormitoy opens up, and an Erudite reporter wals in. I stand up, and so do Will, and Al.
"I'm looking for Beatrice Prior." The Erudite man says.
"I recognize him." Says Will."He's the head repoter in the Erudite news."
"What does he want with Tris?" I ask.
"I have no clue." Says Will.
"Lets find out." Says Al. He walks to the reporter, and begins to chat with him.
"What do you want to talk to T-" Al coughs. "I mean Beatrice about?" Asks Al.
"None of your concerns." Says the reporter coldly.
"Well were her best friends so it is our concern." I say stepping up t o him.
"Well I want to ask her queshtions concerning Abnegation, on how they keep food from us," He says.
"They don't, they feed it to the factionless." I tell him.
"Feeding the factionless, my eye. Erudite has the knowledge. We know how the kids are mistreated, and how they keep food for themselves. If oyu were in Erudite you would agree.
"I was in Erudite." Says WIll.
"I know Will Tatum, I'm sure that you agree." The reporter says.
"I don't, I know that the Abnegation are good people. Though I left because Erudite mistreated me." Will says.
"Yeah well believe what you want to." Says the reporter.
"Oh, who do you think you are, coming into Dauntless trritory, and asking us queshtions, and behaing rudely?" I say.
"It's too bad, your not so smart, little girl, I know that the Abnegation are not as slfless a sthey claim." He says.
"Oh yeah well, we only have One Abnegation transfer =, and we had THREE Erudite transfers." I point out.
"Oh yes, where are Edward and Myra?" He asks looking around.
"While you guys are too busy, trying to destroy Abnegation Edward got stabbed in the eye, and our Abnegation transfer, who barley knew him stayed with him, while he was bleeding in a pool of blood, and stayed up to clean the floor. Now thats not selfless right?" I say. He brushes his cheeck.
"You just spat on me." He says. I begint o get mad, and I start charging up to him, it takes both Will and Al to keep me from unching the reporter, he runs away. I take a walk to cool down then head twoards dinner with both Will, and Al.
We were sitting in our seas, talking when †he doors opened, and all the dauntless-born initiated walk in, and to our suprise Tris is with him, now that stung, I stuck up for her, and she left us for them. Tris walks to us.
“Where were you?” I ask. “What were you doing with them?”
“Uriah…you know, the Dauntless-born who was on our capture the flag team?” Tris says. “He was leaving with some of the members and he begged them to let me come along. They didn’t really want me there. Some girl named Lynn stepped on me.”
“They may not have wanted you there then,” says Will quietly, “but they seem to like you now.”
“Yeah,” she says. “I’m glad to be back, though.” I can tell she's lying, but I don't say anything, her cheecks are red, her hair is tangeled, and Tris looks happy. I'm still mad that she ditched us.
“Well, you missed Christina almost punching an Erudite,” says Al. His voice sounds eager. I can count on All to try to break the tension. “He was here asking for opinion s about the Abnegation leadership, and Christina told him there were more import ant things for him to be doing.”
“Which she was completely right about,” adds Will. “And he got testy with her. Big mistake.”
“Huge,” Tris says, nodding.
. “Yeah,” I say. “While you were off having fun, I was doing the dirty work of defending your old faction, eliminating interfaction conflict…”
“Come on, you know you enjoyed it,” says Will, nudging me with his elbow. “If you’re not going to tell the whole story, I will. He was standing…” Will launches into his story, and I laugh, but it's obvious that Tris is not even paying attention, but I just persue my lips, and pretend that it dosen't bother me.