"Toby! Toby please! I don't want you to leave, Toby please stay here in Chicago!" I plead as my best friend strokes my hair.
"trissy you know that I don't have a choice! If I could stay here with you I would. But believe me I just….. I just can't. Tobias says hugging me tighter
I look up into those deep, dark blue eyes that I know so well. But how could my best friend that I have known forever just leave and go to boarding school? He's going to leave for six years! He will be 18 by the time he comes back. I can NOT loose my best friend this way!
I hear thunder in the distance and feel something on my shoulder, I look up and see that Tobias has put his old black jacket over my shoulders to keep me dry from the rain that has suddenly begun to fall.
"Trissy! Tris! Beatrice Prior look at me!" I was so lost in thought I just realized Tobias calling my name. I look up into his eyes once more and he does the same.
"yeah?" I give a questioning look about why he was calling my name.
"tris, you're my best friend and will always be. Forever. Got it?" I can't help but laugh at his attempt to comfort me.
"I don't think you get it Toby, you'll forget about me!" I say, my voice filling with frustration.
"And if I do you will have my jacket to prove to me when I get back that you are my best friend. k? I shake my head up then down slowly, still not seeing how this will work, he then puts his hand under my chin causing me to look at him, then he kisses my cheek slowly. I know that he always did that when I was upset, but I always wondered if it meant something more, maybe.
"Bye now, Trissy. Remember me, and I'll remember you!" and with that he's gone. Forever. No! not forever just six years I remind myself.
"I will miss you Toby." I whisper as he gets into the bus and it drives away.
That night I can't help thinking of every time my and Tobias played together or had sleep-overs. I remember the day I knew we would be best friends. The day we went outside to climb an old tree, I was sitting on a really old branch when I heard a snap, I felt like I was going to die, so I closed my eyes I was hanging awaiting my death, but I looked up and Tobias has holding my hands and lifting me back to safety. I could not help but smile, for he had just saved my life. We climbed back down the tree and unto the ground again. When he looked at me then it was like a brother making sure his little sister was ok. That's all I needed to know that this kid in front of me, this tall, skinny, dark-haired, deep blue-eyed kid, he was my best friend, but now I feel like half of my Is gone, my best friend, has left me! No. his father made him leave, I have always hated Mr. Eaton, but now I hate him even more.