Break - Eric Divergent

Chapter 22

"So you're not going to kill her?" Following the voice to Leo who instantly looks to have regretted speaking up when he catches my eye; his own filling with panicked and worry.

Shrugging my shoulders nonchalantly eased him as his shoulders relaxed from its rigid cage.

"It is a little pathetic; there is no moral behind killing people"

"So according to your negligible brain, there is no lesson that can be derived from this?" She defines and translates. Either for herself and pets or to throw me off, I don't know.

"Nothing but problems will come out of this whole thing. You'll see. It's what always happens. Check your history books" I assure her, shifting the subject slightly so I can understand it again as I make my chains clink in rhythm of my steps.

I then realise I probably wouldn't have said something like that out loud so I need to watch what I may accidentally let slip out which could land me in heaps of trouble.

"I don't like the new Melody" Leo tuts at me shamefully so I playfully bow my head, pouting whilst I pretend to be hurt waiting for Leo to apologise.

"Its this drug that's inside me!" I complain when Leo just carelessly laughs at me instead of apologising. Some manners.

"How do you two know each other?" Eric rudely intervenes in our conversation. I wonder who has the worse manners out of these two.

"Know each other?" Jeanine decides to answer for us as she emphasises the first word and concludes with a sharp yet soft laugh as I try to minimise the volume of my chains. The chains that have bound me like a slave to Eric seeing as he's the one that locked up my hands.

"These two's inseparability is prominent" she confirms, shaking her head in disapproval I suspect.

Confused and dumbstruck, I look up at Leo for an assuring definition like my older brother that knew everything. He was basically the brother I wish I had, sometimes I even wish that Leo is my brother and not Tobias. Is that bad?

"Famous;important etc." He informs me gratefully.

"How that?" I protrude at the same time as Eric begins to speak but seeing that people would rather pay attention to Eric (sexism I suspect), I back out and let him say what he wants and it better be worth it.

"There's been a disturbance in the control room" he projects, mainly to Jeanine but to also everyone else around for what appears to be a sort of warning I assume.

Curiosity and desire takes over me as I become intrigued in how Jeanine handles this and I compare her to other leaders and what I would probably do in this sort of situation although I have no full idea what's exactly going on.

Her posture straightens which makes her more machine like; orders begin to be strung around, all stitched back to Jeanine who is in the center of it all drowning with her knowledge which is her key to power; confident acts of movement like the top predator with nothing that can bring it down. Except time.

I found that peculiar in fact. The fact how time was basically what everyone's lives revolved around. In this moment, I could feel the suspense of the clock ticking down for something to blow. I just wish I knew what and how great its damage would be. Just like Geologists working with an active volcano. They have all the facts except the two main things that could make or break them: the time of the eruption, and the distance of the eruption, all so they could keep as many people safe as possible.

That's what I was meant to do but I somehow lost sense in it all, perhaps due to everything going on around me that I became distracted.

I just hope this disruption in the Control Room would be enough of a diversion for something to erupt that will cause the end of this. Finally the clock should stop ticking down to this.