Jade headed back to the sleeping chambers, everyone cheered for her as she entered. "Now I think it's you who has a death wish." Tris says, "I can't believe you said that to Eric." Will exclaims. "I know everybody was thinking it so I just came right out and said it." Jade responds, she let the Candor inside of herself get the best of her. She looks around for her brother, and when she couldn't spot him immediately she left away from her friends to find him. When she did find him he was just leaving the bathroom area. They began to approached each other and Miles opened his arms for a hug, knowing her brother all to well she stopped him.
"Did you wash your hands? Cuz I can assure you all hell will break loose if you touch me with those dirty sausages." Jade teased, Miles chuckled and put his hands up. "Squeaky clean, now give me a hug you little shit talker. I can't believe you stood up to Eric like that. And not to mention you practically shoved that asshole!" Miles says genuinely surprised, right before giving his little sister a hug. She gladly hugs him back, "He was being an a dick and I guess I was the only one who had the guts to let him know." Jade releases him and pokes him in the gut. "Hey! I would've but I'm pretty sure I also would've gotten cut instead of having knifes thrown at me as punishment. I think he only let you off with a warning cuz he likes you." Miles says, he had his arm around her shoulder as they were walking towards their friends, in a that brotherly way of course.
"Oh god no. I can't lie, Eric has his looks but it's his personality, it's absolutely atrocious." Jade says, "You think Eric's attractive? ...Actually... don't answer that, I don't wanna know." Miles says and the two burst into laughter. "It's just, it looked like he liked it when you called him out. After you poked him he looked you up and down all creep-like. It was hard to fight the urge to just jump out and throttle the guy." Miles says as Jade remembers back to her and Eric's confrontation, realizing her brother just might be right, but she was certainly not gonna admit it. "Awe that's sweet of you, but I'm sorry. I can't and won't believe Eric likes me." She said to Miles just as they were approaching their friends, unfortunately their unbelievably honest, and undoubtedly nosey friend had heard. "ERIC LIKES YOU?!" Christina literally shouts turning around. Jade shushes her, "NO! Or at least, I hope he doesn't. Miles here thinks he does." Jade explains, Chris and Tris look at Miles like he had grown a second head. But Will and Al agreed with him, "Oh yeah I was actually gonna talk to you about that Jade, to me it looked like the dude fell in love instantaneously." Al comments. "Yeah the dude obviously likes you. But not how Al's thinks. That wasn't love. I could tell he wanted one thing and one thing only when he looked at you all creepy." Will says matter of factly, Jade scoffs.
"See? Even they agree with me." Miles says. "Agree or disagree, I don't like our ass wipe of a leader, not even in the slightest so you can stop with the bickering." Jade says, and everyone laughs. "Alright, who do you like then hm? Out of all the new people you've met so far?" The still nosey former female Candor asks, and Jades cheeks went red. "No one really. I uh, r-really haven't met a lot of p-people yet so." Jade shrugs nervously as Christina and Al look at each other and then back at Jade. "You're lying." The two say in unison, "I'm not lying. Why would I lie?" Jade questions casually. "You couldn't keep eye contact with any of us, you stuttered twice, hesitated on answering and most importantly your cheeks went tomato red. I don't even know why you're trying to lie, especially in front of me and Al of all people. Just fess up!" Christina demands, Jade smiles and covers her face with her hands.
"Ooooo my sisters got a crush! My sisters got a crush! B.T. Dubs if you only tell me who it is, I'll consider not assassinating them in their sleep tonight." Her older brother obviously teased, sitting next to her and poking her side. Jade attempted to slap him away but failed. "Okay okay fine, but you guys gotta guess. And no assassinating please." Jade says looking at Miles, he nods, "And you guys only get Four chances to guess." She adds secretly hinting them. No one seemed to catch on and they begin to ponder their guesses. "Is it one of us?" Christina asks seriously, everyone laughs.
"I'm serious. I just wanna make sure." She adds, Jade shakes her head. "No no no, it's not one of you guys. It's Four sure definitely not one of you guys." Jade hints again, "Down to three guesses." She adds. "Is it that guy with the pretty green eyes you and Miles always talk to?" Christina guesses, Jade shakes her head. "You mean Ben? Definitely not. I mean, he's a great friend and I certainly love this eyes but, he's just not the one Four me." Jade hints once more, using and emphasizing the number Four each time. Just then, Will basically breaks his neck looking at Jade's in realization.
"Wait a minute, that's the third time you've put emphasis on saying the number Four. Twice out of context too. She likes our instructor." Will says putting the pieces to Jades little puzzle together in his mind, Christina realizes as well and begins to freak out. "O.M.G you like our scary instructor?!!" Jade attempts to hush her and eventually succeeds. "You're kidding right? That guy looks way older then us Jade." Miles says looking at her crazy, she shrugs her shoulders. "The heart wants what the heart wants big bro. And anyways he doesn't look a day over twenty-one, so I don't see a problem." Jade says. "You're seventeen! And he looks way older then that!" Miles argues, Jade rolls her eyes a little.
"First of all, we're seventeen about to be eighteen. Twins remember? And secondly you of all people obviously can't predict age just by looking at a person." Jade comments. "If I find out he's older then twenty I'll forbid you from seeing him, I'm still your older brother so." Miles states, "Older by eleven minutes! Eleven minutes!" Jade shouts back. "Best eleven minutes of my life." Miles playfully comments, Jade gasps slightly offended. "Oh shut it you know you love me. Anyways if you guys don't mind, Don't tell the world please? Seriously though, the last thing I need is for him to come up to me like I'm some child." Jade asks, her friends agreed to keep it a secret. "Okay so since you guys know who I like, it's time to get me some leverage incase one of you decides to pull a Christina in front of him." Jade jokes, and Christina rolled her eyes.
"So who's going first?" Jade questions, everyone stayed quiet and avoids each others gazes. "Okay, how about this. On the count of three, everyone say the first name of the person you like." Jade suggests, everyone looked hesitant. "Come on you guys, It's only fair!" She shouts, everyone continues to give each other uneasy looks but eventually all nod in agreement. "Okay, 1... 2... 3!" Jade yells, Miles says Tris, Christina says Will, Al says No one while Will and Tris stayed quiet. Everyone gasped at each other's answers, Will looked at Christina. "You.. you like me?" He nervously asks, she nods her head. Tris was left flabbergasted with her mouth agape, she looks at Miles. "I uh, I..." He manages to say just before he suddenly stood up and walked away.
Jade instantly becomes worried as she watched her brother walk towards the exit of the sleeping chambers. She sprung from her seat and went after him, she has never seen him act this way out of the seventeen years spent together. "Miles." she called speed walking behind him, he kept walking. "Miles!" She shouts this time, she speeds up some more and touches his shoulder. He stops and looks at his sister distraught, she pulls him around the corner out the view of Tris and their friends.
"Miles it's okay," - "Obviously it's not Nat, did you see the look on her face!" He interrupts, Jade admires how much he cared about Tris and her opinion of him. "Why didn't you tell me? I could've found out if she likes you back. And who knows? She could be over there happy as ever that you like her." Jade implies, "Yeah well, what if she's not? That would mean I made a fool of myself just then." Miles says severely concerned. "Okay okay, Calm down. I'll go over there and see how she feels and then I'll come back and," - "No no no, then she'll know I'm too wuss to go over there and talk to her myself." Miles reminds, Jade thinks for a second. "Okay, I got it, I will go talk to her during training and I'll tell you what she says then okay?" Jade says, Miles looks at her and nods. To Jade it was heartbreaking to see her big brother like this, worried, unsure, and insecure.
She wrapped her arms around his torso, and he wrapped his arms around her as well. She pulls away and looks up at him, "Miles, I'm sure she will absolutely love you. And if she doesn't I'm gonna make her love you cuz obviously my big bro is in Loooovvve." Jade implies, Miles doesn't immediately deny like Jade thought he would. She looked at him again, his cheeks were slightly red and even thought he held a smile his face looked of guilt. "You love her?" Jade asks breathless, his smile widens. "Oh. my. god. You're in love with her!" Jade whispers shouts excitedly shaking her brother, Miles quickly hushes her to avoid his secret getting out.
"If I say I am will you be quiet?" He asks, she nods and gestures as if she were zipping and locking her mouth up. The next day, Jade asks her friends to train with her but they claimed they were too tired to fight. Tris gets a lovely idea, thinking that her friend will undoubtedly win and decides to call Peter over. "Whatcha call me over here for stiff?" Peter snarls, Tris rolls her eyes. "Jade here is looking for someone to fight with, would you care to be her opponent?" Tris points to Jade, Peter smiles at her. "Awww I mean, I don't wanna hurt such a pretty face, but if it means that much to you Jade, then I will." Peter agrees, Jade makes her way over to the mat just as she was stopped by Four grabbing her arm.
His strong hand suddenly gripping around her bare arm oddly enough sent goosebumps trailing over her skin. She looked into his eyes and saw nothing but sheer concern and worry. "Hey," - "what?" Jade asks, she watches as Peter stretches on the mat, "Alright I know you're tough, and I know you can fight but this, this is Peter," - "yeah and? What's so great about Peter?" Jade asks. "He's stronger Jade. He's second on the scoreboard. Look, First shot right for the throat, and watch him. He steps before he punches." Four informed, and released her arm. The two set onto the mat, "Look at you, tough little Amity girl thinking she's the best just cuz she won one little fight." Peter teased Jade as the two circled around the mat, getting closer and closer to each other.
"Do you ever stop running that mouth of yours? You're not Candor anymore and still all you ever do is talk shit." Jade fired back, Peter gets closer. "I'm surprised you even know what talking shit means hippy!" He steps and swings straight for her, she dodges his fist and nails him right in the throat, cutting his breathing off for a good moment. When he regains his right to breathe they continue to circle around the mat a little bit more. Peter swings again but ends up missing, causing Jade to push off of him to the right. Peter doesn't back down and Jade hits him with a left hook, but he brushes it off like it was nothing. He then grabs her arm and hits her with an elbow to the face, nearly knocking her down.
She attempts to hit him again but he blocks almost every single swing, Peter eventually -and very suddenly- picks her up and slams her down onto the mat. On impact Jade yelled at the pain, but she quickly gets back up again and watches his foot. When he steps forward she barely dodges his attack and gets him right in the jaw. "Come on stop playing with eachother," Eric comments, Jade looks at the pierced devil realizing that this wasn't practice anymore. Assuming that last punch would disable him she tried to tackle him to the ground, but it didn't and he comes out of nowhere with a clean swing to the nose.
Jade was then knocked face down onto the mat, the blow was so hard she could feel her nose begin to bleed. Out the corner of her eye she could see a dark figure leaving. She focused more closely and was surprised to see it was Four who was leaving the scene. She wondered, 'why?' As she broke her attention away from Four and put it back onto Peter. Eric gave Peter that same look he gave Jade when her and Molly were fighting, and the former Candor wasted no time on knocking Jade out cold.