The Reconstruction of a broken, damaged Heart
After tragically losing her first love, Tris begins to realise that sometimes your first love isn't your true love. That just because someone will always have a place in your heart, doesn't mean it can't be destined to belong to someone else. Eventual Fourtris! Set in modern day.
This is another idea that came to me. It came to me at 10pm last night and I didn't get to sleep until 2:30am because of it. I just had to publish it. So here it is
Chapter 1 Alexander
Tris aged 24
I met Alexander when I was just two weeks into my new job working as an assistant to an editor of a very popular magazine. Though my dream ambition is to be a writer of many books.
We met in the photocopying room. He was just about to come out and I was coming in to photocopy some work for my boss. I bumped into him and when he stepped to the left to let me pass I also stepped to left and then he stepped to the right I also stepped to the right so I was still blocking him. Finally I managed to dodge past him. I expected him to leave the room but he stayed watching me try to work the photocopier. Eventually when he could see that I was struggling he came over to help.
"You're new here aren't you? I haven't seen you around here before. I'm Alexander"
" I'm Beatrice" I say shyly
" Well I work as an associate editor and I would just like to say welcome and if you need any help finding things, or photocopying just come and see me."
"Thank you" I say. This is the nicest thing anyone has ever said to me since I first started working here. Once my photocopying is done I turn to leave.
I keep meeting him every time I go into the photocopying room. Its like he's Psychic and knows exactly when my boss has told me to go and photocopy something and he always helps me out. The third week I enter the photocopying room he asks me if I would like to go for a coffee some time.
Before I know it I have been dating him for three months and I know that I already love him with all of my heart. Four months in and he meets my parents and my brother Caleb. Who love him just as much as I do. At six months we have a date at a very posh Italian restaurant and he orders lemonade for me as he knows that I don't drink alcohol. When it arrives I notice that there is something floating in it. I fish it out with a fork. It's a beautiful engagement ring. A huge diamond surrounded by a series of tiny sapphires. I look up at Alexander with tears in my eyes. He gets down on one knee and says
"Beatrice I loved you from the first time I met you in the photocopying room. I know that this love will last forever. I want to spend the rest of my life with you as I know that you are the one. Will you marry me?"
"Yes, Yes with all of my heart!" I say between tears and he slips the ring onto my fourth finger and then we share a passionate kiss. While the whole restaurant claps and cheers and I know that this is the happiest moment of my life.
We decide to have the wedding in the middle of summer, which means we have 6 months to plan the perfect wedding. We set the date for Friday July 20th because July 20th is the day we first met.
I bought the most beautiful wedding dress which is ivory, long and flowing but very simple. We decide to have two bridesmaids my best friend Daisy and Georgina and they will wear pale blue bridesmaid dresses. And the flowers are going to be yellow and red roses as I read somewhere that red roses mean love but yellow roses mean everlasting love. Everyone from our work office is invited along with both of our families. He has two sisters who are now practically my sisters as we have so much in common. The wedding is only one week away and everything is perfect.
On Friday 13th July Alexander and I are supposed to meet for dinner at the Italian restaurant where we became engaged. We are living together but I left work early and he had to stay later. I arrive at the restaurant at 7:30 which is the time he said to meet at. I sit down at our table and wait and wait and wait by now it is 8:15. Maybe he's just running late I think. Suddenly I hear my phone ringing in my bag. I reach into my bag and notice the caller ID is Alexander. I accept the call and say hello but the person that speaks on the other end isn't Alexander.
"Hello, are you Beatrice? This is a paramedic. There has been a terrible car accident involving a drunk driver and I'm afraid Alexander has been seriously injured. We're taking him to hospital as fast as we can"
I'm so shocked I can't speak tears form in my eyes but I blink them away, take a deep and say "I'm on my way"
I arrive at the hospital and immediately go to the reception and ask about Alexander. She tells me that he is still in the emergency room and tells me to wait in the waiting room. I pace the waiting room like a caged tiger. I keep thinking that if I make a thousand paces then the door to the emergency room will open and Alexander will walk out healthy and happy. I'm on my eighth hundred sixty seventh pace when the doors to the emergency room open. Two doctors emerge they see me in the waiting room and walk up to me I can tell from their expression that is bad news. Maybe he's just badly hurt I think, alive but badly hurt, or he could be in a coma but I know he'll wake up. He wouldn't leave me without saying goodbye.
"I'm so sorry Miss Prior, but there was nothing we could do. he was so badly injured we tried to resuscitate him but it didn't work. We are so sorry for your loss."
I am numb. I just stand there. My mouth hanging open. I don't speak for a good five minutes while the doctors are staring patiently at me.
I then say in a very small voice which does not belong to me
"Can I see him? Can I say goodbye?"
The two doctors nod and lead me into the emergency room and into the room where Alexander is. Only he doesn't look like Alexander anymore as he has so many injuries. His face is puffy. His eyes are closed I wish he would open his eyes so I can see the warm brown eyes of the man I loved. I kiss him and say "I will never forget you and I will love you forever with all of my heart. You are my first and my only true love!" and suddenly I am sobbing, crying like a newborn baby. I lie down next to him and all I do is cry for hours
Well that was traumatic. I was almost crying just writing this down and I am not a big cryer. There will be a lot more but Four may not appear until chapter four. Thank you for reading and goodbye. Oh and by the way I am not superstitious about Friday the 13th I just though of that date off the top of my head.
I am now working on the next chapter for the Young Adult Avengers and it is going well.