Chapter 14:

Natalie's Perspective

    "Get out of the car slowly!" says one of the masked men. I decide to step out first, but Dad grabs my hand. He stares at me and lets go.

They all stand lined up with big guns drawn on me. I step out of the car, fear racing through my mind. Dad steps out after me. "Now, put your hands up!" shouts another man. I put my hands up, knowing exactly what to do.

    "What do you want?" I ask irritated. "What's your name?" the same one asks. I think of an Amity name. "Caroline" I reply. I am definitely not Candor.

    "Caroline, no!" shouts Dad. Good, he's playing along. "Now, what do you want?" I say. I automatically remember that the Amity are afraid of guns. 

Don't act so brave. "What faction?" they ask. I hear one of them cock a gun. I put a scared look on my face. "Please don't shoot me." I say in a small voice. "What faction?!" one of them shouts.

    "Amity!" I say. "Then why are you wearing black?" asks one of them. Think. "I normally wear Amity clothes, but I was having a sleepover with one of my friends who is a Dauntless born, and I spilled make-up on my other clothes, so she let me borrow some of hers." I say shaking.

I glance over at Dad, he's standing up straight. One of them walks over to him with a gun to his chest, and yanks off his wig. I'm next...

    "Alright, Four."  says the man. Dad shuts his eyes. The man points a gun to his head. "Where's Natalie?" shouts the man. A man walks towards me. He reaches for my wig to yank it off, but I dodge him. "No! It took me forever to get my hair like this!" I say twirling it.

    "Why did you have this little girl in your car?" yells into Dad's ear. It infuriates me that I'm stuck her with a bunch of masked idiots asking who I am. I dodge the man with the gun to my head and flameshoot him with my right hand. (Flameshooting: Shooting with flames)

The others try to shoot me, but I flameshoot them all with both of my hands. I hear the bullets whizzing by, but my flames melt them. I tackle the man with the gun without thinking. He falls to the ground and I snatch his gun and shoot him in the head. His head whips back, and a spatter of blood coats my face. I spit some from my lip.

I wipe my face with my shirt. I stand up, and spit blood from my mouth. Dad looks around, making sure all the men are dead. He grabs the gun from me, takes my hand, and runs to the car. I hear him groaning in pain.

    "Let go! I'm hurting you!" I say. His grip tightens, and I try to cool down. He stops groaning and opens the passenger door. He sets me in and opens the back door. I hear him dig around in the duffle bag and he comes back with green eye contacts on.

    "Woah." I say as he shuts the door. "I know, it looks weird." he says as he starts the car. "No, it just looks....different." I say. He smiles. He reaches back and grabs a different wig. It's a short haired red head wig. He puts it on, and adjusts it.

He looks at me and I smile. He throws his head back and says, "How do I look, Caroline?" I laugh. "Dashing!" I say. He reaches into the glove box and pulls out wet wipes.

He hands them to me, and I wipe the blood from my face. I look around where we are and see nothing but fields. The wind blows the tall grass around, and I open the window. The sun reflects off of the rear view mirror and I close my eyes.

I smell the fresh grass as the wind blows the aroma all around my nose. I open my eyes, and close the window. Dad whips the car forward and I put on my seat belt. I stare out the window as he drives closer and closer to the market. Mom told me I was born here.

I knew that smell was familiar, it smelled faint, but real. I can't enjoy it now because I'm running from all of it. Dad pulls in next to another car, and says, "Don't forget to keep up the act." and takes my hand.

He lets go and I step out of the car. I smile and walk with a bounce in my step. Dad walks normally, but just smiles. The store is outside so the floors are earth. I quickly walk to the clothing area. I look around all of the stands are made of wood. I feel like myself over here, but I also feel like Dauntless is my home. I look at some clothes and grab a yellow t-shirt with red sequins on it.

Dad looks at it, and nods. I look for my size, and grab it. I walk over to the area where the jeans are and look at some shorts. I find a pair that have a cute rip in them at the leg, and look for my size. They are kind of short.

Dad bites his lip. He's clearly fighting the urge to say these are too short, but we don't have enough time to argue about that like we usually do when he comes shopping with me. I walk past a boy who's looking at shoes, and notice how pretty his eyes are.

I stop walking and stare at him. Dad pushes me forward as if to say, "No, no, no!". I put my hand on his arm. I look back at the boy and he's staring at me. I smile at him, and Dad pushes me forward.

    "Okay! I get it!" I say and look away. I put the clothes on the table and the woman scans them. I walk behind Dad and he pays for the clothes. I stare at the boy and he winks at me. I am squealing on the inside. He has dark brown hair and brown eyes. I bite my lip and Dad turns around and pushes me towards the dressing room.

    "I need a bra." I whisper. He sighs and tells me to go find one. I run over to the bras, and inconveniently, the bras are right next to the boys' shoe center. "Great..." I mutter to myself. I look around at the bras, and glance over at the boy. He's looking at shoes, but every few seconds, he looks up at me and smiles.

I blush, and keep looking. I find my size, and run to the dressing room where Dad is waiting. "I got it." I say. "Okay." he says. I hand it to him, and he walks to the cashier and pays for it. I stand there waiting for him, and the boy winks at me again.

I can't help but blush. Dad walks over, and hands me the bra. Gosh, he sees my bra. This is weird. I run into the dressing room and I notice Dad is turned around standing in front of the door. I sigh and take my clothes off. I put the clothes on, and the weird Amity fabric brushes up against my skin.

I ignore it and adjust my wig and check my contacts. I open the door and Dad turns to look at me. "You look fantastic!" he says. I scrunch my eye brows up and suddenly remember that he is not Tobias, he is somebody else. I twirl and smile.

    "Thank ya!" I say. Dad walks off to go and get into his Amity clothes. I walk over to the boy and I say, "What's your name?" as I twirl my hair. He smiles and says, "I'm Liam." he looks at my clothes and then at my hair.

    "I'm Caroline." I say. "I like that name." he says. I smile at him. He looks at my fake eyes the whole time. A pang of guilt hits me in the chest. You are not Caroline, you're telling him lies.

     "You're pretty. Maybe we can text some time, what's your number?" he says taking my hand. I smile at him. "I don't have a phone." I say. I yank my hand from his and run to Dad.

He's in his Amity clothes. I see him flirting with some women so if anybody questions him, he's a single red head from Amity. I will not tell Mom..... I grab his hand and pull him into the grocery section.

    "I hope you weren't to caught up with those girls." I say. He laughs a higher laugh than usual. "Pah-leez. Those were brunettes, I'm into blondes." he says swaying. His eyes are focused on something in the corner of the stand.

I glance over at it, pretending to admire the peaches and realize that it's a camera. They're watching us. 

    "Race ya to the melons!" I shout and skip over to the watermelons. He follows, his arms swinging at his sides. We look so ridiculous. I grab a watermelon and Dad nods.

I set it down and grab a weaved basket. I set the watermelon inside and walk to the apples. All of the food here in Amity is grown and made by them. So, it's fresh.

Dad follows me and grabs a couple and sticks it into the basket. I all of a sudden think about my disguise. I never had to get into one before.

But now that Jeanine is looking for me, I have to wear it. I turn away from Dad and walk to the peaches. Liam is standing there.

All of a sudden, something pokes me in the neck and everything goes black.

Sorry for the cliffhanger! I still don't have anybody to help me think out the next chapter....Anyways, I hope you guys will keep reading! A lot of people only read the first few chapters, and haven't been reading any further. I'm very thankful that you guys have read all the way up to here! I'm thinking about writing another story, but I don't know. Do you think I should? Don't forget to vote and comment! :)