It has been four years now that Tris has been gone. Sometimes it seems like forever and sometimes it feels like just yesterday. I still wake up thinking she is going to be there next to me or I think of something I want to tell her only to realize that she isn't there. I try my hardest to live the way Tris would want me to. I try to be brave, selfless, intelligent, honest and kind. Even now I am still working on kind. I live here in New Chicago in an apartment by myself. I spend my time split between work and helping around the city where I can. I try to keep myself busy otherwise I would sit alone at home and think. The only person I really see is Christina because she comes by to check on me from time to time. She appears to be doing alright but I know she misses Tris as much as I do. This is my life now. I go to work and come home to an empty house. I wake up every morning and do it again. Why? Well because that is what Tris would want me to do.
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Right after I moved into my apartment other people started to come as well. I had neighbors all down the row. I never really spoke to them or saw them a whole lot. The only one I really saw was Maya. She was always out and about. She had moved in to the apartment down the street. shortly after I had. Our interactions throughout the years had just been a polite hello and a wave. I kept to myself and so did she for the most part. She was the best possible neighbor to have. For years, that is all it has been, civility, but as of late I had been recognizing just how alone I was.
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Maya is different from Tris in every possible way. Tris had been small and fierce, a fighter at her core. Maya was timid and gentle. She was tall, only a few inches shorter than me. Her hair was black as night and her eyes burned sapphire. Maybe that was why I felt drawn to her, because she was so different than Tris. Nothing about her reminded me of Tris and she had not known Tris. Maya had been born Erudite but now lived here in the city we no longer applied factions to. That was another strange thing about my attraction to Maya. Erudite had been my enemy for so long but Maya did not apply to that. She was not cold and calculating but she was brilliant. Her brilliance was different though. She took care of people with her extensive medical knowledge. She had delivered almost all of the babies born in the city since we moved here. She was so full of passion for other people. Nothing like the Erudites I had known. I don't know what it is about Maya but I find myself wanting to be around her. I see her walking down the street every day and sometimes running out in the middle of the night to go deliver a baby.
Today I just couldn't stop myself before walking straight up to her.
"Hi, I'm T..Four." I said holding out my hand.
She smiled but looked confused.
"I know who you are, the legendary Four. I'm Maya. Pleased to meet you officially." She replied shaking my hand.
I'm not really sure what to do. I don't even know what compelled me to say hello to her and introduce myself. She lightly cleared her throat then smiled at me again.
"Well I actually have to be going now. I just delivered a baby that took all night so I could really use some sleep." She said.
"Oh yeah of course. Sorry. I guess I will just see you around." I said.
She smiled again. It was a pleasant smile, like she was actually interested in what you had to say.
"Have a good day Four." She said before walking down to her apartment, her ponytail swinging back and forth to her lighthearted steps.
Hello readers! This is my first Divergent story so bear with me while I try and grasp Four/Tobias' voice! Let me know what you all think so far! Much love!