Tension Rises, and Friends Fight
The story continues as Tess reveals her feelings towards Day and the tension between the two rise. Tess has always been jealous of June and had been convinced by a Runner named Baxter that she is a double agent. They never go back to what they were, but they forgive each other. After a while, Day finds a train carriage with a boy inside a glass enclosure. He thinks it's Eden and gets really excited until he is disappointed by finding out it's not him and it is revealed that the Republic has been using victims of the plague as a bioweapon against the Colonies. The soldiers approach and Day abandons the boy and swears to himself that he will kill Anden, no matter what.
The day of the assassination arrives, but June is against this operation. She has been ill so she pretends to faint in order to stop them, but Razor keeps the car moving against the orders of Anden. June stops the assassination and causes her and Day to flee the area and make their way to the tunnels between the Colonies and the Republic. They destroy a Republic entrance and make a shelter in a bunker. June and Day argue harshly and Day reveals his jealousy towards Anden, and his anger because a part of him holds her responsible for his mother's and brother's deaths. He also states that June is still with the Republic and never left them. They stay away from each other, and June, in an attempt to make peace between them, teaches him to fight and it works. They forgive each other, but June grows very ill.
"June will break your heart. I can see it already. She'll shatter you into a million pieces."(Lu, 231)
In the aftermath of Tess' and Day's fight, she states that June will break Day. I find this quote interesting because it highlighted the fact that June is the one responsible for Day's mother and brother's deaths and foreshadowed Day and June's fight. I think this quote might lead up to June actually breaking Day, maybe she joins the Republic again and leaves him for someone else.
" 'How could you not want to see the Republic collapse'(...)'I want to see it change for the better.' " (Lu, 264)
Day and June are in the middle of a fight and they both make some good points. Day asks her how can she still defend the government, even after her family's death, and June says that she doesn't want the Republic to collapse she wants it to change. That is what I found interesting about this quote, that there is a part, even small, of June that still is part of the Republic. I think this might foreshadow the change of sides that June will have and how she will try to change the Republic from the inside (maybe?) and supports the theory that June will break Day.
Conclusion
The past few chapters have been intense, and it is both fun and hurtful to watch my favorite characters argue between them. They all make very good points and have a decent yet fierce fight. I think that Day and June's relationship will be nothing to what we expect and that Marie Lu will change the whole story around and add a plot twist in the end. I want to know how June will survive her illness and if she caught a virus or something like that. In the end, the past chapters were insane and I had fun reading and deciding with which character I would side with. 
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