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“I need your car,” she says

And it’s like I’ve forgotten that the word for “What?” is “What?” because I just stand there and look at Tris and think she’s talking tome a chance

“I need to go so it back”

I’o with you I’ dedications in ht—two parts dashboard, one part headlight strobe fro that so much

Fuck, I loved her then And then is blurring into now I’ we’re still the sa, “I’m afraid the car’s already full No room for you, Tris Sorry”

This Norah girl’s grinning now, all transparent sweetness and light

“Excuse me?” Tris asks

“I’ain FUCK OFF”

“I think turning off to fking is your departo find so to Nick, not you”

And I’ over me

But for so her ar her hand in my back pocket

I’m about to shudder her off, but then Tris says, “Come on, Nick—we’re really late and need the car I’ll pay you back for the gas” And I know right away that I’ exiled from her “we”

“I’ to find Randy,” Caroline decides

“Hell, no, you’re not,” Norah says, taking her ar it around Caroline’s elbow Which leaves us in this weird we’re off to see the Wizard pose, with Tris blocking us like the Wicked Witch of the Past