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Today we are having the Eatons over for dinner. I heard that they had a son 2 years older then me, which means that he is 6. I've never met him before, so I can't wait for him to come over. I know it's self-indulgent to be excited, but I can't help it and being at the age of 4 it really doesn't matter here Abnegation. For now, though I'll just have to wait.

Hours later I finally hear a knock on the door and people walking into our home.

"Beatrice! Come meat the Eatons!" I hear my father say loudly, but not yelling. Yelling in Abnegation is also self-indulgent. I'm only 4 and I already don't think I could live here all of my life.

"Beatrice, you already know Marcus and Evelyn. This is their son Tobias," my mother tells me when I reach the door.

"Nice to meet you," Tobias says and shakes my hand. Tobias has the prettiest blue eyes and the nicest voice.

"Nice to meet you too," I say back in a quiet voice, all of my excitement bottled up inside me, maybe he will become my friend!

"Why don't you two go off to play while dinner is being made?" my mother says as she walks after my father and our guests. Once they leave I immediately take Tobias' hand and pull him up the stairs towards my room.

"Where are we going?" he asks half way up the stairs.

"I want to show you my room!" I laugh out, my excitement slowly coming out. Tobias doesn't say anything back, he just laughs and runs up next to me.

My room is very simple, just like every other room in every other house in the Abnegation sector. The walls are a light grey with no decorations on them, while my bed is twin sized with grey sheets. I have no decorations in my room either. The only things that are in my room is a bed, dresser, and a desk. Nothing ore then an average Abnegation room.

"Nice room," Tobias says. "Looks just like mine," he says smiling. Did he just crack a joke?

"Did you just crack a joke Toby?" I ask raising me eyebrows at him.

"Did you just call me Toby?" he asks raising his eyebrows back at me.

"Maybe…" I say back with a mischievous smile.

"Okay, well maybe a cracked a joke Trissy," he laughs with the same smile. Our conversation goes on like this for the next half hour before we are called down for dinner. But before we go I stop Tobias.

"Toby?" I ask.

"Yes Trissy?" he asks back with a smirk on his face.

"Will you promise me something?"

"Sure, anything for my Trissy," he says, his smirk turning into a cheeky grin.

"Promise me that we will be best friends forever," I say with an anxious look on my face.

"How about this? We'll be best friends for ever if we go eat! I'm starving!" he says and drags me down the stars.

"Deal," I say before we walk into the kitchen.

3 Years Later:

Toby and I have been best friends for 3 years now. I only wish I knew why he has been so distant lately.

"Mom, can I go over to Toby's house?" I ask my mom as I walk into the kitchen.

"Umm, I don't think that's such a good idea Beatrice," my mother says with a sad look on her face.

"What, why mother?" I ask back concerned.

"His mother died a few days ago…" she says looking down and trailing off from the sentence.

"Mother why didn't you tell me? I have to go over immediately!" I say and turn around to walk over to his house.

Once I reach his house I knock on his front door, but no one answers. I am about to knock once more when I hear a scream coming from the second floor of the house. I don't wait for anyone to come up to the door, I just open the door and run upstairs to hear where the scream had come from. Once I get up the stairs, I hear another scream, this time it's muffled. It also sounded like it was coming from Toby's bedroom.

I rush into his room and find something I never thought I would see… ever. Marcus was beating Toby and I couldn't stand to look at the sight any longer. "Stop!" I yell as I run up to Marcus and grab his arm before he could strike Tobias again.

"I am not going to let a little girl stop me from-" Marcus starts to yell at me.

"From what? Beating your son?!" I yell, I'm about to say more, but Marcus raises the hand with the belt in it and begins to yell at me again.

"NO! From teaching my son a lesson! The same lesson I am going to have to teach you!" There is now an absolute look of rage on his face.

"No Tris! Move out of the way!" Tobias yells at me, but not out of anger, out of protectiveness and fear.

It seems like everything is going in slow motion. Marcus' hand slowly comes down about to hit me, only the blow never comes. That's only because Tobias finally gained enough strength to get up and push me out of the way. Before Marcus can make another move, I get up from the ground and drag Toby out of the room and out of the house.

"Toby are you okay?" I ask quietly. I'm not quite sure where we should go. We can't go back to his house and I'm afraid to let anyone know what happened inside his house. Toby doesn't say anything, he just shakes his head no and starts to silently cry into my shoulder. He has had a rough time the past few days. His mother died and his father started beating him.

"You'll be okay now Toby," I whisper to him. "We need to go tell someone," I say.

"No, you can't! Where will I go? He is all I have left of my family. It was probably just a onetime thing anyway," he says once he's stopped crying.

"Are you sure Toby?" I ask him uneasily.

"Yes, I just need to get away for a little while," he says getting up and heading towards the park meant for the little kids in Abnegation. It's only then when I realize that he is bleeding.

"Toby! You're bleeding!" I yell and rush after him.

"I'm fine Trissy!" he says and walks faster towards the slides.

"No you're not Toby," I whisper once we are both situated in the slide. We are sitting in the inside of the middle of a tube slide on the playground. It's our favorite place to just sit and talk after school. Kids don't really have to start being completely selfless until 10. I choose to wait, unlike my perfect brother, Caleb. Who is not a full year older then me, but almost.

"Really Trissy, just let it be," he says in a tone that he has never used with me before. I don't feel like fighting with him, it would be selfish anyway. Even though I don't have to fully be Abnegation, I still have to practice acting like one.

We just sit next to each other for who knows how long with me attempting to comfort Tobias. All though, I am know that he doesn't want my pity. So I don't give it to him.

It's at moments like these that I know that neither Tobias nor I belong in Abnegation.

The question though is, where do we belong?