"Hey." I greet as I slip into the space next to blue-eyes at the table that consists of Zeke, Uri, Shauna, Mar, some Erudite transfer and blue-eyes.

Zeke looks at me and his eyes go wide. "BEATRICE PRIOR! WHAT ARE YOU WEARING?!"

"Well, Ezekiel Pedrad, they're these things called clothes."

Mar and Shauna high-five.

"Your mother would be apauled with your choice in clothing." He tells me after rolling his eye.

"Zeke, hun, she brought me these."

His gaze drops to his plate where he plays with the noodles.

I look at Mar who has a smirk on her face. Shauna also smiles at me.

I kick them both under the table. Apparently a little too hard because Mar squeaks.

"What's wrong Mar?" Uri asks making googly eyes at her.

I swear they should both get their eyes checked out because it seems they're both to blind to see how much the other one likes them.

"Nothing." She lies.

"You're lying." A Candor transfer say whilst sitting down. "I hope you guys dont mind me sitting here. You people seem cool and-"

"Trust me," I said. "We aren't cool. Infact we need to learn to keep our cool. We're just plain..."

"Weird?"

"Stupid?"

"No only Uri's stupid."

"Hey! Am not!"

"Bonkers?"

"Demented?"

"Strange?"

"Well not me but all you guys are pansycakes."

"Uriah that word is never going to EVER fu**in' come back."

"Why must you ruin my dreams Ezekiel."

At this Zeke gets mad.

"All of the above." I end. "Somedays it's like we've eaten some of that Amity bread sh*t."

Uri laughs. "Do you remember when we dared Zeke to take it and he did?"

Blue-eyes eye's widen.

"He danced around and claimed he was going to dance his way to the unicorn king so they could fart rainbows together."

Zeke hangs his head in shame. I eye the Candor girl. "So... this is usually where people run away... so... are you staying?"

She starts laughing. "Im going to fit in well here." She gives me a weird look that says she definitely is staying with us.

"Cool. I'm Tris by the way."

She extends he hsnd and I shake it.

"Shakira. But most call me Sharkie."

"Cool name."

"Thanks. Yours too."

I smile.

"This is Zeke, Uriah, Marlene, Shauna, Lynn, some random Erudite-"

"Eric." I get cut off.

"Eric and..." I look at blue-eyes.

"Four." He finishes for me.

"Four? Like the number? What one, two and three where taken?"

"Tris! The dude's got four fears!" Zeke shouts.

"Four? So what he bet my record?"

Zeke and Uri groan. "Why Four? Why must you?! Now we will never EVER hear the end of it!" Uri says wiping fake tears.

"End of what?" Sharkie asks.

"You see, Trissy-poo here had the record low of six fears -she got in early 'cause my dad loves her- and now that Four here has beaten her score, let's just say unless she can lose three fears we will be hearing about it for the rest of our lives!" Zeke answers.

"You're saying it like its my fault! If Max didn't let me do it I would never have discovered how many I had and I wouldn't rub it in you face." I say.

"Maybe if your fear wasn't about yellow jellybeans being made out of bogers then-"

"They're evil!"

"Okay then..."

Sharkie picks up her fork and goes to stab her cake and we all watch her face.

"What? Do I have something on my face?"

I shake my head. "No. We're waiting to see your reaction to your first try of Dauntless cake." Shauna says.

Sharkie shrugs then shoves the cake into her mouth.

She chews it for a while before slowing the swallowing.

"OH MY FUDGENUGGET! OH MY GOODNESS! MY TASTEBUDS ARE ABOUT TO EXPLODE!!! OH MY GOD THAT'S SOOO GOOD!" she shoves more into her mouth.

Eric goes puts some cake in his mouth. "Its not 'OH MY GOD' good. But its okay."

We all stare with our jaws dropped. "I think Erudite removed his taste buds for an experiment." Uri says.

"Wow. Uri can use big words!"

"Shut up Zeke!"

Four shakes his head but his face sports a huge grin.

"Okay number boy, your turn."

He puts some in his mouth. His eyebrows lift as he inhales the forkful of chocolatey goodness.

"Okay," He says in his deep voice. "So let me get this right. You Dauntless have been hiding this away from the other factions for years?!" He seems almost annoyed as Shauna and Mar nod -Uri and Zeke are eating their own cake and Lynn could care less.

"Why? This cake is a reason in itself as to why a lot would join Dauntless!"

"We keep it hidden from the other factions so we don't get as many trying to take it..." Zeke says in an almost hiss.

"Okay..." Blue-eyes looks at me.

Why does he keep looking at me?!

"So back to the fear thing..." Sharkie says. "Tris has six and Four has... well four, right?"

"Yeah? What about it?" Mar digs deeper.

"Well... It's just that four plus six equals ten."

Mar's and Shauna's eye widen as Four's and my change into a deep red colour.

"Oh my-" Zeke cuts Shauna off.

"OH MY DAUNTLESS CAKE! WHY URI? WHY?!?!"

I sigh. This happens often. Uri will pig out on cake then eat the remainder of someone else's.

Shauna ignores him. "Its true. They are meant to be! Together they're a perfect ten!"

I hit my head on the table repeatedly causing Lynn to jump. Its only just then I noticed she was asleep.

How can you sleep in the Dauntless Cafeteria?!

"Huh?! I'm awake?!" Lynn's head hits the table telling us that she's clearly not awake.

"Uhg." Sharkie groans. "I'm going to get a tattoo. You guys wanna come?"

I've always wanted a tattoo but I could never get Zeke and Uri go into the parlor with me.

"Yeah let's do it." Shauna awnsers followed by a chorus of yeahs and a few okays.

"Awesome sauce. Let's do this." Sharkie squeals as she pushes her chair out from the table with an almighty screach.

We all push out from the table and throw away what we didn't eat.

I look to see that Eric wasn't following. Its probably for the better. I didn't like him anyway.

"Off to get tattoos!" I scream once we get out of the cafeteria and into a hallway. I jump on Uri's back. "Faster stead!" I command which earns me a groan in return.

I can't help but wonder what I'm going to get.

~~~~~

End of book.......

Nah. Just kidding.

Or am I?