Secrets

Chapter 9: Gone

{I do not own Divergent, Insurgent, or Allegiant. I am not Veronica Roth, nor am I pretending to be Veronica Roth.}

That night I receive a letter from Myra.

It reads:

"Lily;

I miss you so much.

Being factionless is hard, but the Abnegation are helpful.

Unfortunately they won't let me visit the Dauntless compound since you guys are close with the Erudite..

I'm breaking the rules to send you this letter.

{the last part is so faded and sloppy I can barely read it}

I have to go, bye!

-Myra"

Thinking about Myra and Edward brings some of my memory back from when I blacked out during capture the flag last week.

We all sit on the train heading toward wherever we're playing capture the flag. They didn't tell us.

Eric and Tobias pick the teams. Eric picks me.

Ugh.

My face lights up when Myra is also called to be on my team.

Her, Edward and I are together.

Although, I didn't know this would be the last time.

I'm handed a paintball gun. This could be fun. We ride the train for awhile longer until they tell us to jump off. By now we're practically pros at this. We leap off and land gracefully in the grass.

The teams separate.

The game starts off simple, us looking for the flag. But then Eric comes up with some sort of strategy and assigns Edward and I as guards of the teammates who are looking for the flag. He tells Myra to just stay to the side.

I look at her sympathetically, but she doesn't look too hurt.

"Edward," I mutter, pointing to the old rickety Ferris wheel. Tris and Four are climbing up.

"I suppose we should tell Eric," he says.

I nod, and we dash over to Eric, showing him.

"Nice work, Candor," he says. I shrug.

"So, what do we do?" Edward says, seeming bored.

"Go after them. I'm counting on you two."

We nod, and begin to sprint through the shadows toward the Ferris wheel.

We run in silence, coming to a stop at the bottom of the Ferris wheel.

He begins to climb it, but I hiss for him to stop.

"Let's spook em first. Then they will be so on edge, they won't suspect us coming."

He simply nods, and I try to shake the Ferris wheel but I'm nowhere near strong enough. Put together, we can only make it creak. It's not going anywhere.

"Wait," I whisper, walking over to the old machine that operated it.

"Lily there's no way that'll make it spin."

"We don't need to make it spin. We just need it to scare them!" I hiss, sending him into a fit of giggles.

I press the button but it doesn't even go down.

"Agh!"

I get up and pull myself onto the stand and stomp on the button. It lights up green, and the wheel creaks and screeches and moves a little. I can almost hear Eric chuckle in approval.