Tris POV

I strut through the Pit, wondering what to do. I had nothing to do; the new initiates wouldn't be coming until later that day. So, I decided to get a piercing. I already had some tattoos, why not complete the whole 'Dauntless' look? I walked into the shop and greeted Matthew, the head piercer there,

"Hey, Matthew! What's up?"

"Nothing much, Six, what's up with you?" Just like people called Tobias Four, people are starting to call me Six. Nicknames were really in style.

"New initiates coming today," I replied. Matthew nodded knowingly.

"Are you going to be training the transfers? Or the Dauntless-born?"

"Transfers, Four is going to be training Dauntless-born this year,"

"Hmm," Matthew hummed, "So you want to look really intimidating for them?"

"Oh, yeah!" I said, feeling pleased that I didn't have to explain why all of a sudden I wanted to get a piercing.

"So, where do you want it?"

"Umm… How about three on my left ear, and two on my right?" I said, showing him exactly where I was talking about with my fingers. Matthew nodded.

"Okay, just sit down real quick and we'll be done in like, twenty minutes, okay?"

I nodded and sat down. In the past year, I had really grown up. Instead of just barely reaching Four's collarbone, I made it all the way up to the middle of his ear, and I really started to fill in, too. My curves were easily definable, but my chest still seemed the same size. Whenever people would comment about it, I would suppress a smile and act all mad about it, but I would really be laughing at them. Even though it seemed like my chest hadn't grown one bit, it really had. A lot. I went from an A cup to a D cup in two weeks. At first I was all like 'hell yeah! That's what I'm talking about!' but then I realized that it hurt a lot more to be hit there, so I started tying them up every morning with a bra that fit me, then a tight bandage, then another bra. It worked out. But, my awesome boyfriend, Tobias, would always get really annoyed when someone brought up my chest size. I would kiss him and he would calm down, but later that day he would disappear for a couple of hours, and that person would apologize to me the next day with a split lip and a black eye.

"Alright, all done," Matthew said, bringing me out of my thoughts of how awesome my life was right now.

"How much do I owe you?"

"It's three points per piercing,"

"Damn," I laugh, "That's expensive! Anything you could do for a friend?" I wiggle my eyebrows, and Matthew laughs.

"That was discounted, Six,"

I shake my head and give him the points. (idk how these points work, for now I'll believe that they're written on little slips of paper that you give to the shop people.)

Then Matthew gives me a huge bottle of stuff to clean out my ears with twice a day. I thank him and start heading towards Tobias and I's apartment. When I get there I sigh because Tobias still isn't back from his trip to Erudite. He was going to be late if he didn't hurry up, then I'd have to work with Lauren. It wasn't like Lauren wasn't cool, she was. It's just that… she and I didn't really hang out much, so I kind of really didn't want to work with her. I walk out of our apartment, Number 10, and head over to the net where the first jumper will land on any minute.

Silence fills the ground for a solid two minutes, which never happens. It just started to unnerve me when we all heard yelling. Then, the Pit gets really loud. Like, really loud. People are starting to get excited, shoving their hands out to the net to help the first jumper out of the net, and so do I. Others are yelling over the noise to be heard, and others are just simply being Dauntless, and yell random noises to add to the chaos. It's times like these when I remember why I love my faction so much.

The crowd murmurs as the net bends toward the middle, my heart beats faster as I feel someone take my hand. I pull them out and see it's a Candor boy, just a couple of inches taller than me. His brown hair is messy, but his chocolate brown orbs just look straight into mine. I ask him,

"What's your name?"

He looks down for a minute, thinking. I smirk, then say the same thing Four told me last year,

"Think about it. You don't get to pick again,"

He straightens and says,

"Jarrod,"

I raise my eyebrow, but call out,

"First jumper- Jarrod!" Jarrod was such a weird name. I didn't like it. The rest of the initiates jumped down soon after. There were five Candor, including Jarrod, four Erudite, and one Aminity. No Abnigation. I wasn't surprised. I spotted Lauren when all of the initiates had arrived, and raised my eyebrows. She nodded and we headed down the dark hallway. At the dorms Lauren and I split up the initiates and I gave the transfers a tour. As expected, someone asked about my name when I introduced myself as Six.

"Six?" it was a Candor girl, I think her name was Mary. "Like the number? That's a stupid name! How'd you get it? Did people start calling you that because that's how much you pay for your tiny-ass bras?"

People laughed, but I wasn't impressed. I raised my eyebrow and stalked up to her, leaning down to get in her face. Oh yeah, the piercings were a good idea. The makeup I put on this morning made my eyes look fierce. I studied her, then said,

"If I wanted to listen to a bunch of smart-ass Candor insults, I think I would've gone to Candor. Learn to shut up, or I'll… show you how to," the way I said 'show' was as intimidating as I dared on the first day. I could've made myself freaking scary sounding, but I decided to save that voice for a different occasion. I continued with the tour, then told the transfers to eat.

Once there, I looked around and saw that the only empty seat was in between Jarrod and Eva, an Erudite girl. Joy. I sighed and started eating, kind of listening to their conversation. It wasn't much of a conversation. It was just Eva trying to flirt with Jarrod, and Jarrod being too dense to understand what her constant eyelash batting meant. At one point, as I was taking a sip of water, Jarrod asked,

"Do you have anything in your eye? You've been blinking a lot,"

I choked on my water and looked at Eva sympathetically. Jarrod looked at me strangely and Eva gave me a frustrated look. I suppressed my smile and continued eating. I finished five minutes later. I was just about to throw away my garbage when Jarrod and Eva stopped talking. There was a shadow covering me. I stiffened and looked behind me, as I thought, it was Eric.

"Hello," I said, then nodded stiffly across me, the only other empty spot in the dining hall. He sat down next to me and smirked.

"Where's that Four of your?"

I looked at him, then discreetly glanced at the transfers next to me. Eric made an 'Ahhh' sound and asked again,

"So, where's your co-worker, Four?"

I mentally face-palmed. All of the faction leaders agreed to keep mine and Four's relationship a secret until initiation day, that way our relationship couldn't be seen as a weakness. But, Eric covered up his mistake in the worst way possible. I sighed and said,

"I don't know, he's probably still in the Erudite headquarter,"

"Nope," said a deep voice behind me. I twisted around in my seat and gasped. That deep voice belonged to my boyfriend, Four. I smiled.

"Hey, Four," I greeted neutrally. To most people it would've looked like Four didn't smile at all. In fact, to most people, it would look like Four's face was sterner and harsher than usual. But I knew that wasn't it. I could see his almost non-existent smile. Four shoved the transfer on my right off of the bench and sat down next to me. I looked around him to see the initiate, Mary, fuming on the ground. I laughed, but covered it up with a sip of water. Then I went and threw away my garbage. I really wanted five more minutes of dinner, but I really had to get these transfers put away for the night.

I stood up on a table in the middle of the room and yelled loudly enough for all of my transfers to hear me,

"Dinner's over! Follow me to your dorm, you've got a long day tomorrow!"

I could hear murmurs everywhere, but I only looked back at Four, who was looking at me. I mouthed sorry, then waited for twenty seconds for my initiates to get to me. In that time, I found Eric standing next to me. I glanced at him, then started walking to the transfer's dorm.

When we got there, I stopped and turned to the initiates,

"You will be expected to be in the training room every morning at 8 o'clock. Understood? One minute late and you can pack up and head over to the factionless district. I hope I made myself clear,"

I watched them file in and was about to leave to my apartment when Eric stopped me.

"Where do you think you're going?"

"My apartment, I haven't seen my boyfriend in three weeks, I would like to be with him,"

"No," Eric's voice was firm. "We can't have another Edward incident happening. You will be staying with the transfers until they become members. No questions. I will now go and tell F- your boyfriend about this,"

Eric then turned and left. I stood there trembling with anger. I didn't want to be in that room with those crying Erudites! I wanted to sleep next to Four, with his warm, strong body pressed up next to me. I sighed and walked in. All talking ceased and I looked for an extra bed. On it was a pair of my pajamas already laid on it. He already knew about this but didn't bother to tell me about it until now! I roughly grabbed my clothes and marched into the bathroom and changed, relieving myself by taking off my bandages, and then I walked back to my bed. The room was still silent. I scowled and said,

"I'm just as unhappy about this as you are. I swear, if I hear one of you sobbing tonight, you'll be getting more training than I planned for tomorrow," I let my threat hang in the air as I turned my body so that I faced the wall. I steadied my breathing until it looked like I was sleeping.

"What's up with that bitch?" great, I'm stuck with the one rude Aminity in the entire world. She continued talking. "I mean, it's not like she's us! She's probably seen her family every day since her initiation! She really can't be all that stuck up with us!"

Instead of being offended, or feeling sad like I might've a year and a half ago, I found myself having to stop myself from laughing. This was too funny to listen to; I think my shoulders shook for a moment. Then, I got into 'Dauntless instructor' mode and imagined myself as a cold rock and moved no more.

"Totally, I mean, we're in a new environment, and we're not used to this style of life, or the people here! We should have gotten like, two weeks to settle in before we had to do this stupid initiation crap," This was an Erudite girl, I think her name was Amy. I rolled my eyes.

"I don't know, I think she's pretty down-to-earth," I smiled, I knew that voice. It was Four. I guess that no one else knew who he was, though, because they just kept complaining.

"Down to earth! She threatened to have us work harder than she planned if she heard any of us crying! All of us are bound to cry tonight!" that was the Aminity girl.

"I-" a Candor boy tried to protest, but the Aminity girl interrupted him,

"Oh, man up to it, you're going to cry tonight!"

"Wait, who are you? How did you even get in here?" asked Eve. I yelled in my head,

Finally! A smart person in the room!

"I'm the instructor for the Dauntless-born," Four's voice was hard, it sounded intimidating. It might've scared the crap out of the transfers, but it was a major turn-on for me. "I came to see how she was doing with the transfers. Looks like right now all she's doing is gathering information. She's gonna be pissed tomorrow,"

The transfers all froze, but then an Erudite boy started quietly laughing.

"You think your bluff will scare us? I'm not stupid like the rest of you! Six has been asleep for about half an hour,"

I could hear the smirk in Four's voice when he responded,

"Oh, yeah? You think I don't know my partner and when she's asleep? Hey Six, are you asleep?"

I allow my shoulders to shake a bit as I chuckle.

"Nope," I popped the p. I sit up and look at the scene in front of me. All of my transfers are staring at me, horrified. Four is leaning against the doorframe, a smug look on his face. For now I ignore my annoyance with the transfers and focus on Four. I say,

"I'll be back in a while, guys. Right now I need to talk to my partner,"

"Partner," Mary speaks up. I cringe. No one would notice it but Four. He raises his eyebrow at me. I silently send the message,

Just you watch this one. She's one annoying bitch.

His other eyebrow joins the first in the middle of his forehead. I focus on what Mary was saying.

"So, are like, you two dating?"

"No," I sigh, then send Four a look to say I'll explain later. "We are partners because he's training Dauntless-born initiates, and I'm training you guys. We have to make sure you guys are kind of on the same page so we can do… some things at the right time. Right now we'll step out for a couple of hours so that we can talk about our plans for the next couple of weeks. Go to bed now, I'm telling you, tomorrow's going to be hard,"

Then I turn off the light and leave the room with Four trailing closely behind me, his hands shoved deep into his pockets. We walk in silence to our apartment. As soon as the door closes behind us Four pushes me up against the wall, pressing himself up against me. I moan and deepen the kiss. When we pull apart for air Four rests his forehead on mine.

"So I'm not your boyfriend?" he tries to act like he's joking, but I can see the pain in his wonderful, beautiful, deep blue eyes. I sigh and tell him about what the faction leaders decided. He groans and I smirk a bit.

"Hey," I say, "This means that we can show them how to wrestle, right?"

This year, Dauntless-born and transfer initiates would learn hand-to-hand combat together for some reason. Lauren had tried to explain, but I got lost.

"Yeah. Don't worry, though, I won't kick your butt too hard in front of your initiates,"

"As if!" I laugh, "You're going down!"

We spend the next couple of hours going back and forth between talking and making out. Finally, three hours have passed and I tell Four that I have to go back to the dorm. He reluctantly agrees. I smile on my way back, I couldn't wait for tomorrow.