"Tristan I treat you like absolute garbage and you keep crawling back for more. Why? Are you really that desperate for someone to love you?" I yelled, finally reaching my breaking point with these people.

I could hear the gasps of everyone in the room, but my focus was solely on Tristan. The look of complete devastation on his face was sobering, and I knew in that moment it was the absolute wrong thing to say. I needed to fix it.

"Tris, I- I didn't mean it." I say, reaching for his hand, but unable to grab ahold when he steps back avoiding my touch.

He'd never done that before. Tristan was usually always reaching out, linking our hands in the hallway or touching my shoulder when we're talking. But now he was folding his arms across himself in a seemingly unconscious effort to close himself off. He was trying to protect himself from me.

"No, you're right." He says, his tone cold and flat in a way that belies his words.

"I- What?" I ask, confused.

"I mean I must be right? Desperate? To put up with you." He continues, looking more determined than I'd ever seen him.

"Woah, Tris look-"

"You don't have to worry about me crawling back anymore." He says, cutting me off as he brushes past me towards the door.

A feeling of absolute panic surges through me as I watch him go, subsiding only when he stops just as he reaches the doorway to turn around. I let out a breath I didn't even know I'd been holding. He wasn't leaving. He wasn't going to run for the hills like everyone else.

I try to meet his eyes wanting to convey everything I was feeling; relief, hope. Only his gaze isn't focused on me.

"He's you're problem now" he says, looking pointedly at Winston, Frankie and Hunter, before finally walking away.

It was my turn to fight back the tears. I had screwed myself like I always did. I was pretty sure he'd just broken up with me, and to be honest it was getting harder not to just lose it completely.

I had to keep it together though. I needed to find a way to make things right with Tristan. There had to be something I could do to make it right.