14.
Amity.
The smell of the dirt and the trees make me close my eyes. I haven't been here in so long. The sunshine falls on my face and it's too bright, but it's just because the Dauntless compound is too dark. Blaise has lifted up Beth so she didn't have to walk with the shot wound in her leg. Calvin stops next to me. "So this is Amity." he says, I think laughing at me. But he enjoys everything as much as I do. "I should have chosen this instead of the faction that made me Factionless." "You didn't know." I laugh. "But yeah - welcome to my old home!" I walk further as I see the dome. For a moment, the memories pop in. Cam... The last days... Jamie telling me that Cameron loved every second of me... This is the place where it began. Everything. I remember his face when he looked at me at the campfire that beautiful night in the woods. He looked like a prince in a magical forest by a bonfire. As I look in front of me, he slowly appears. He smiles at me with a sad face, and a second later I realize I am smiling too, like an idiot. But he is standing there. I think I am seeing his ghost. I missed him so much. I still do miss him.
My eyes tear up. Calvin is the first one to notice. "Demi? Everything okay in there?" he asks. I laugh embarrassed, wiping my tears away. "Yeah I'm fine, it's just - " I haven't told him. I haven't told him that his training buddy died... "it's the memories." "Huh?" Calvin asks confused. Just say it. Be honest. Make a Candor proud. "It's Cam. He is dead..." I say, and I can't help but burst out in a massive break down. I miss him so much, so much. "What?!" Calvin and Blaise throw out at the same moment, and Calvin cries immediately. "He got shot b-by - " I can't tell them it was Nadine. I can't do that to her, and Calvin too. Calvin would never forgive her. "by a stupid final shooting training. Someone aimed wrong... Next moment he was laying on the floor in a puddle of blood." A Candor is not proud of me now. But half of it is right.
We reach the dome as our tears are wiped away. Johanna stands there. She must have seen us walking onto the terrain. "Oh lord!" she gasps, looking at Beth. "Tara, take her to the first aid!" Johanna shouts to an Amity woman behind her. The woman, Tara, nods and picks Beth up from Blaise's arms. "Good. While that is getting fixed, you got to tell me what happened. Especially you, Demi." she says, pointing at me. I slowly nod, trying again not to cry. I will literally have to explain everything. Cameron was kinda like one of Johanna's favorites...
"...and then he fell down in front of me. I tried to shake him awake but he was gone." I cry. Calvin has an arm around me. The fake story sounds kinda good. Johanna can't know either. What even would she think of Nadine? Or just Nadia. Nadia will ring a bell here at Amity.
"This is the reason why I joined Amity." Johanna starts. "You will not have to deal with the weird things the other factions has. In fact, happiness will always keep you safe. Who wouldn't want to be happy?" True thing. Everyone in this city just wants to be happy. Why didn't we just all join Amity? I think back at the Choosing Ceremony. What if I just dropped my blood in the dirt? What if I wasn't there at Dauntless to make Nadine jealous? Cam wouldn't have died. That other jerk, Eric, wouldn't have fallen in love with me. Now, he is just happily at Abnegation, slaughtering them off. He became a monster. He was so crazy, he made my best friend do something unforgivable. But I want to. I want to forgive her. That is what Johanna taught us here. We forgive each other.
It pops up in my head now.
"Nadia! Where is she?!" I ask, panicked. Johanna looks sad, and plays with her hands. "I'm sorry, Demi." she says in a sad tone. "It happened really fast." I just notice all the broken glass and the bullet holes in the walls of the dome. Oh no... "What happened here?!" I panic. Johanna takes a deep breath and looks at me. "The other Divergents were here too. They escaped, but Nadia couldn't... They took her, to Erudite..." I become quiet. The whole table - me, Calvin, Blaise, Quentin - becomes quiet. "Wh-What?!" my shaking voice says. "Why?!" "I don't know. They only said they were looking for Divergents." she says. I shake my head out of confusedness. "Who, exactly...?" "Eric and Max." Johanna says, almost again scared. As if she got threatened. I am going to kill Eric! He handed Nadine over to Erudite! He is a monster! He tricked me!!! I become calm. It's one of these Amity breathing techniques. I close my eyes and let the anger fade away a little. I need to save Nadine. That is your goal from now on. "They are not going to kill her, are they?" Calvin asks from my left. Johanna lifts her shoulders. "Jeanine has her plans for Divergents. Sometimes she likes to play with them and their minds. Sometimes she kills them instantly. Typical Erudite." Johanna says. Calvin looks at his hands on the table. Oh that b-...! "She will pay." Calvin says angrily as in reading my thoughts. "We need to get her back." "In the morning." I say to him. "I promise."
Because I left for Dauntless, my room is now taken by someone else. Boo. But it doesn't matter. Calvin, Blaise, Quentin, Beth and I got to sleep in the hammocks under the apple trees. The apples trees. Memories rise up again. I remember when I wanted to pluck the highest one. I didn't give up. Maybe to get to Nadine I should also not give up. I should grab the apple and go, instead of abandoning it. I turn around in my hammock as I hear something coming from behind the trees. I sit up and take a look. "Hello?" I whisper. "It is her, dumbass." I hear someone whispering. I see the moonlight fall on two blonde hair and one brunette. I giggle. "You guys are bad at this." I whisper, recognising the voices. They slowly appear from behind the trees. Maisie, Grace and Charity. "Okay. You got us." Maisie whispers giggling. She tags my arm. "Tag, you're it!" she says, running off the field in front of me. I laugh. Of course. Amity activities. But I don't care. I am Divergent after all, and these are my friends since childhood. I run after Grace, who giggles loudly but doesn't care to wake anyone. I feel so alive again. I feel Amity.
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