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I bring the laain, until the hard drive cracks and pieces of it spread across the floor Then I kick the shards under the dresser, put the la my eyes with the back of ray-clad h stacks of clothes

"Tris," says Caleb "You’re still wearing gray"

I pinch my father’s shirt, and hesitate

"It’s Dad’s," I say If I change out of it, I will have to leave it behind I bite et rid of it It’s just a shirt That’s all it is

"I’ll put it on under mine," Caleb says "They’ll never see it"

I nod and grab a red shirt froh to conceal the bulge of the gun I duck into a nearby rooet to the hallway The door is open, and through it I see Tobias stuffing Abnegation clothes into the trash bin

"Do you think the A out the open doorway

"To prevent conflict?" Tobias nods "Absolutely"

He wears a red collared shirt and a pair of jeans that are fraying at the knee The combination looks ridiculous on him

"Nice shirt," I say

He wrinkles his nose atthat covered up the neck tattoo, okay?"

I sot about h

The Erudite cars pull up to the compound There are five of theines seeround I slip just inside the building, leaving the door open behind me, and Tobias busies himself with the latch on the trash bin

The cars all pull to a stop, and the doors pop open, revealing at least five men and women in Erudite blue

And about fifteen in Dauntless black

When the Dauntless come closer, I see strips of blue fabric wrapped around their ariance to Erudite The faction that enslaved their minds

Tobias takes my hand and leads me into the dormitory

"I didn’t think our faction would be that stupid," he says "You have the gun, right?"

"Yes," I say "But there’s no guarantee I can fire it with any accuracy with my left hand"

"You should work on that," he says Always an instructor

"I will," I say I shake a little as I add, "If we live"

His hands skim my bare ar uns"--another kiss betweenviolet you could never be"--a kiss on my cheek--"and you’ll be fine"

"Okay," I say My hands trerip his shirt collar I pull his mouth down to mine

A bell sounds, once, twice, three tiather for less for we attended We join the crowd of Abnegation-turned-Amity

I pull pins froives rateful smile as her hair falls on her shoulders, the first time I have ever seen it that way It softens her square jaw

I aation, but they don’t seem as worried as I am They offer each other se my way between them and jab one of the older wo," I say to her

"Tag?" she says

"They’re acting respectful andStiff," I say, cringing as I say the word that wasa ruckus Just do it, okay?"

The woation child on the shoulder and whispers soroup of children run down the hallway, dodging A, "I touched you! You’re it!" "No, that wasSusan in the ribs so she shrieks with laughter I try to relax, injecting a bounce intoas I turn corners It is aes everything--even the way I walk Thatin three of them

We catch up to the A hall and disperse a to stray too far from him The Amity don’t ask questions; they just let us dissolve into their faction

A pair of Dauntless traitors stand by the door to the dining hall, their guns in hand, and I stiffen It feels real toherded into a building surrounded by Erudite and Dauntless, and if they discover me, there will be nowhere to run They will shoota break for it But where would I go that they could not catch me? I try to breathe normally I am almost past them--don’t look, don’t look A few steps away--eyes away, away

Susan loops her ar you a joke," she says, "that you find very funny"

I cover h-pitched and foreign, but judging by the s on each other the way Aain I a inside me

"Thank you," I mutter once we’re inside

"You’re welcome," she replies

Tobias sits across fro tables, and Susan sits next to hout the room, and Caleb and Peter are a few seats down froers onti to an A a story on my left But every so often I look at Tobias, and he looks back atfear back and forth between us