A/n- Hey everyone! This is just a quick author's note to let you know that I won't be doing a song of the chapter for most of this story. I'm not sure if you guys ever listen or even look at the song of the chapter (let me know in a review if you do! ) that I do for my other stories, but I like to give you a bit of my inspiration for the chapter because a lot of my writing is strongly influenced by music. The reason I'm not going to be having a song of the chapter is because this entire story is based on a song, Carry you Home by Zara Larsson. So yeah, enjoy, and be sure to read the A/N at the bottom.
Carry You Home- Chapter 1
There's a knock at the door, almost a pounding, but not nearly as aggravated. It's calm. "Hold on, Brynn, I'll be back," I tell my five year old daughter, whose sitting at the small, glass table in the kitchen, eating her breakfast. She nods, and I step away from her as I walk to the door hurriedly, planting a kiss on the top of her head as I leave. There's another knock on the door, and I assume that it's just impatient solicitors, which isn't exactly uncommon at apartments in southern California. "One minute!" I shout, as I rush to the door. When I open it, there stands, instead of a solicitor, but a man, dressed in a uniform. And suddenly I realize what this is.
"Hello, Tris Prior?" The man asks me, and I only nod because I can't do anything. My throat too tight to breath, so I just stand there. He pulls a letter from his back pocket and hands it to me. It's plain and white, the only coloring marking it is the small spot of blank ink that spells my name. I take it, and my hands shake. "Have a nice day," the man says, and unlike most times that's said, with vulgarity and sarcastic, the way he says it sounds genuine. I manage a smile.
"Thank you," I mutter, and he walks away as I close the door. I finally let a single tear fall. I know what this means. It's a moment or two later, and another tear fallen before I open the letter.
Beatrice Prior,
We are dismayed to inform you that Tobias Eaton has been admitted to the Methodist Hospital in Arcadia, Ca. We do not know the state of his current condition. We offer you our condolences, and hope that Tobias makes a hasty recovery.
Thank you,
Officer Darcson.
By the time I've finished, I've taken a seat on the couch, with Brynn tucked in beside me. "We've got to go, baby" I mutter as I toss the letter onto the coffee table and stand from the couch, picking Brynn up to set her on her feet. I take her hand in mine as we climb up the stairs and quickly get dressed. I don't pay attention, as my mind asks a hundred questions.
Soon enough we're coming back down, and I instruct Brynn to get her shoes on. We wander the halls of the apartment building, until we're outside, and in the car. I buckle her in quickly before getting myself buckled in. Before I do anything else, I pull my phone out of my pocket, and send a hasty email to work, notifying them of them of the situation, then I go to the dial-pad and call Zeke. It's a few rings before he picks up:
"Hello," he answers.
"Zeke."
"Tris, what's wrong? Is everything okay?" It's now that I realize that I'm crying, a steady trail of tears running down my face.
"No…" I mutter, "Zeke. Four is in the hospital, he was admitted this morning… They didn't give me any details, and I don't know what's wrong with him, and-"
"Tris… Tris! You need to calm down, where are you?"
"In the car, ready to go… I just wanted to call you first."
"Alright, well, sitting there isn't going to do much, and you know better than to be on the phone with Brynn in the car. Go, and I'll meet ya there babe."
"Okay… Thank you, Zeke." He gives a small 'mhm' and with that, I hang up the phone. I take a deep breath before turning around in my seat, taking a small glimpse at Brynn. "You ready baby?" I ask, and I watch her in the rear view mirror, as she nods. I release a small smile before pulling the car out of the parking lot, and driving to the hospital to my boyfriend. My daughter's father. My Four.
A/n- Just so you all know, I fucking hate this chapter! I just wanted to get that out there. I finished this the night before posting, because my dumbass decided to write the rest of the story before the first chapter, and I go to edit this last night at like 1 in the morning and I was like "Oh shit, I forgot to write the first freaking chapter!"… So yeah, I promise the rest of the chapters of this story are going to be MUCH longer than this. But for know, please review and let me know what you think so far Thanks for reading! Bye Guys!