Starting Over

Chapter 48

Tobias and I walk to Uriah's apartment together for Candor or Dauntless. Before we left the training room earlier we asked Zeke if he's proposing tonight. He said he wasn't going to but that he will soon. I guess that means that this is going to be a normal game of Candor or Dauntless. Well, as normal as Candor or Dauntless can be. When Tobias and I get to Uriah and Marlene's apartment we're surprisingly the first ones there. Zeke and Shauna show up a few minutes later shortly followed by Lynn and Alex and Christina.

"Let's begin. Zeke, Candor or Dauntless?" Uriah asks. Zeke picks Dauntless, which is no surprise. "I dare you to go spray someone with whipped cream in the Pit."

"Come on, Uriah! Are you even trying?" Zeke asks as he grabs the whipped cream out of the refrigerator and sprays some in his mouth. Zeke, Uriah, Tobias and I all walk down to the Pit and watch as Zeke slowly walks up to Nick and squirts the whipped cream all over his face. We all take off running back to Uriah's apartment and Nick chases us. We burst through the door and Nick follows before we can close it.

"Nick, what are you doing?" Christina demands.

"Christina, what are you doing here?" Nick asks while he wipes whipped cream off of his face and flicks in on the floor.

"Dude that's my floor!" Uriah shouts. Nick just shrugs.

"We're playing Candor or Dauntless," Christina explains, completely ignoring Uriah.

"And so one of the dares was to spray me with whipped cream?" Nick asks.

"No, the dare was to spray someone with whipped cream. I thought it was lame at first but it worked out better than I expected," Zeke tells him. Nick still looks angry but I don't blame him. Christina convinces him to stay and I'm happy for her. She deserves to have someone like him in her life after what happened with Will.

"Christina, Candor or Dauntless?" Zeke asks. She picks Dauntless. "I dare you to kiss your crush." Christina looks like she's about to say something to get out of it but Zeke stops her before she can. "Don't act like you don't have one because we all know you do!"

"Fine," she says with a huff as she stands up. She slowly walks over to Nick who just finished wiping the whipped cream off of his face, her heels tapping in the silence. She takes his face in her hands, and presses her lips against his. He freezes for a second before he puts his hands on her waist and pulls her closer to him. They continue to kiss until Uriah dumps a cup of cold water over them and runs into the bathroom and locks the door. Christina shakes her head as she walks over to the door and jams a chair under the handle.

"Hey!" Uriah screams as he tries to open the door. "Let me out!"

"Never! Tris, Candor or Dauntless?" Christina asks as she and Nick rejoin the circle. I pick Dauntless. "I dare you to go tell Caleb that you and Four just broke up and that he needs to fight him for you."

"Are you insane? What if he actually agrees?" I hiss at her. She shrugs and smiles at me as if to tells me to figure it out. I glare at her in response and head to the train. Everyone follows except for Uriah who is still banging on the bathroom door.

"Aren't you going to let him out?" Alex asks Marlene.

"Not now. If he's not out when we get back then I'll let him out but he's the one who got himself stuck there."

Eventually the train comes and we jump on. A few minutes later we're at Erudite and I'm asking the man at the desk for Caleb Prior.

"I'm sorry, he's in a meeting. Can I take a message miss..." he trails off waiting for me to fill in my name.

"Prior," I tell him with a smile. He pales. "Is he really in a meeting? We're not in Candor and I've heard that excuse before."

"I'll go check," he says with a gulp as he scuttles off.