Divergent Fanfiction: No War
1 week after ranks
Tris's POV
I wake up and my mind instantly goes to today's events. I get up and change into black skinny jeans and a tight black tank top that shows off my ravens. I go to meet Tobias at our secret spot under the chasm. When I see him looking around I can feel a grin spreading on my face. He turns around and breaks into a smile when our eyes meet. I walk up to him and he picks me up pulling me into a hug. When I look up I get lost in his beautiful dark blue eyes.
"Hey beautiful," Tobias says.
"Hi handsome," I reply.
"Are you ready for today?" At 2:00 we choose our jobs and get keys to our new apartments.
"Yeah, I guess," I respond.
Then suddenly he gets down on one knee. I start freaking out, I'm too young to get married! "Tris Prior, will you move in with me?" He looks up at me with those gorgeous eyes and I just get lost in them and forget to answer right away.
"Uhhh Tris?" Tobias's voice pulls me out of my daze. I realize that I have just been staring at him for a minute. I immediately feel the color rise to my cheeks. "I understand if you don't want to..." he trails off.
"Sorry! Of course I will move in with you," I smile and he gets up and kisses me.
I walk into the cafeteria and take my seat. Since I was ranked first I get to choose my job first and get one of the larger apartments. Well I would have a large apartment if I wasn't moving in with Tobias. "Let's get this started," Eric yells into the microphone. He looks around the Pit and his eyes finally rest on me. "Tris, since you were ranked first, you get to choose your job first. What would you like?"
"I am going to train transfers."
"That is only a part time job," Eric pushes, clearly getting annoyed.
"And I will be a faction ambassador," I finish. He writes something on his clipboard and continues on with Uriah, who chose to work in the control room. I never knew he had a thing with computers.
By the end all of my friends have chosen their jobs. Christina is a nurse and training Dauntless-borns, Will is a cook, Marlene is a bartender, Lynn is a tattoo artist, and Uriah is in the control room as well as training Dauntless-borns.
"New Dauntless members will now be assigned their apartment number and given a key and a spare," Eric again yells into the microphone. "Tris, you are in apartment..." I cut him off before he can continue.
"I don't need an apartment. Just another key to apartment 10."
"That apartment is already occupied. Four here lives there actually" he responds, turning to Tobias.
"Yes, I know. I'm moving in with him. He is my boyfriend after all." He turns to look at Tobias.
"Really? I thought you could of done better," he says to him.
"She is better than anything you can ever get, even as a leader," Tobias, well really Four, says to Eric coldly.
The way his eyes harden and turn an even darker shade of blue tells me he is being dead serious. Like if Eric even touches me Tobias would beat him up. He looks so hot when he gets mad...
"Whatever, Four we will need one of your keys so we can make copies to give to Tris," Eric glares.
Four/Tobias's POV
After all the new members get their jobs and rooms, I walk out and head to the transfers' dorm. I walk in and see Tris facing the opposite direction. Perfect. I walk up behind her and wrap my arms around her waist. I feel her stiffen then look down. Once she recognizes my arms she relaxes and leans back into me. I turn her around so I can look into her beautiful blue/gray eyes.
"Hey babe," I lean down and whisper in her ear.
"Hey. And did you just call me babe?" She looks kinda shocked.
"Yeah. Don't like it?" I ask.
"No, I love it," she says suddenly smiling like an idiot.
"Well BABE, why dot you hurry up and pack so we can ditch these people and go to OUR apartment," I tell her exaggerating her new nickname and 'our'. She just turns around and shoves some things in a duffel bag and zips it up. I reach around her and grab the duffel's strap, slinging it across my shoulder before she can pick it up. I then pick Tris up and throw her over my other shoulder and start charging out of the room.
"Four! Put me down!" She starts punching my back.
"Hmm. Nope," I say to tease her.
"But everyone is probably looking at us weird!" She complains.
I look around and turns out everyone is looking at us. "Yeah everyone is looking at us. Why do you care? Don't want to be seen with your boyfriend?" I ask.
"No. I don't care what they think," she responds and finally stops hitting me.
"Oh and by the way babe," I pause to frustrate her a little.
"What?!" She practically yells.
"You got a nice butt," I finish lowering my voice so only she can hear. With that I pick up my pace a little.
"Well yours isn't that bad either," I hear her respond after thinking about it some. I chuckle and slow down again.
"Thanks, but yours is defiantly cuter than mine." She let's out a girlish giggle that can brighten up even one of my worst days.
We finally get to my, or should I say our, apartment and gently set her down on the couch.
"As much as I would love to stay here with you, I promised Christina I would go shopping with her after I finish unpacking," Tris sighs and gets up to shove her last few shirts into her dresser. She already practically lived here so she only had a few articles of clothing to bring from the dorm. It's not like she has that many clothes anyway, one of the small ways she shows her Abnegation.
Tris's POV
Not even 5 minutes after I finish unpacking, Christina knocks on the door. "It is open," I yell towards the entrance. Christina walks in with her eyes squeezed shut.
"Does everyone have clothing on or do I need to walk out for a minute?" Chris asks with her eyes still closed.
"You can open your eyes Chris. What do you think we do in here?" I say with a light laugh.
"I don't know, you moved in so anything can happen," she says while removing the hand covering her eyes and opening them.
I can feel the heat rising to my cheeks. "Nothing is happening," I say to Christina, "we were just talking about my new job."
"Oh sure, that is why Four doesn't have a shirt on," Chris smirks.
I look up and see Four looking down at his bare chest. Crap I forgot he took his shirt off to show me his new tattoo. "He was just showing me a new tattoo he got on his back, Chris. Nothing happened." I turn to look at Christina. She just smiles and turns away.
"I'll be back in 10 minutes. You aren't getting out of this Trissy!" She yells as she leaves the apartment. I turn to look at Tobias, he just smirks and gets up off the couch.
"Well I'm going to go back to the control room for a few hours. You have fun shopping with Chris. Get yourself something pretty," he says as he pulls his shirt on, grabs his keys and leaves. Well I guess I'm alone for another 5 minutes till Christina comes to pick me up. I just go and change from sweats and Tobias's old T-shirt to some comfortable high-waisted black shorts and a dark purple and navy blue floral blouse with some silver flats and my silver 4 necklace. I have a gold 4 necklace just like my silver one but I'm matching my jewelry to my shoes. Just as I finish I hear the door open and turn around to Chris squealing and literally jumping up and down.
"First off, you look sooo cute. Second, I saw this super hot dress in a shop window on my way over here and I think it would great on you. Four would defiantly approve!" she practically yells.
"Nothing too short and revealing Christina, you know that," I whine to her.
"Just trust me on this one please," she begs me with puppy eyes and her bottom lip jutting out.
"I will try it on, but if I don't like it I'm not getting it," I sigh. She just stands back up straight and claps her hands.
"Ok let's go get started then!"
I walk out of the dressing room in the dress Chris was talking about earlier. It is black, fitted on top and flowy after it hits my waist with some sparkle undertone that is only noticeable when it catches the light. The dress stops just above my knees and has a sweetheart neckline that shows off my ravens, but not enough skin to make me look slutty. To add some of my own flare I put a neon yellow belt at my natural waist, helping show off my tiny curves.
"OMG! You have to love it I mean it looks perfect on you!" Chris squeals as soon as she turns around, looking me up and down.
"Calm down Christina, it is just a dress. A dress that I absolutely love and plan on buying!" I say, yelling the last part. That caused people to turn and look at us weird, which makes me blush like crazy.
"Good thing we found something for you today," Chris says looking up from her phone. I just raise my eyebrows in questioning. "I just got a text from Uri saying him and Zeke are throwing a party tomorrow night. You are coming right?"
"Yeah I guess," I respond just as my phone buzzes, saying I have a text.
Party at my place. Tomorrow night. Be there! -Uriah
I just turn my phone off and head back into the dressing room to put my normal clothes back on.
Once I get out from changing, I notice that Chris already left to buy her clothes at the cash register. I grab the hanger with the dress on it and take it to the front desk. As soon as I get there, Christina is done with her load and moves over do I can pay for my dress. The lady scanned the tag and the dress turned out to be 46 credits, not that bad. I swipe my card, pick up the bag, and turn to leave the store with Chris to my right.
After 2 more hours of shopping, we have gone to 10 different stores and now I'm carrying around 7 bags all full with clothes. "Bye Chris, I'm going home now," I call over my shoulder.
"Where do you think you are going," Christina yells and runs to catches up to me.
"Like I said, I'm going home. My feet hurt," I say, looking down at my shoes.
"We still have one more store to go to then you can go home to your boytoy," Christina says grabbing my elbow and turning me around.
"Fine, but this is the absolute last store," I sigh in relief that this is almost done. I look up to where Chris is pulling me into...the lingerie store. I immediately refuse and start turning around felling my cheeks heat up. This is not where I will be seen, shopping for frilly underwear and bras.
"Come on Tris, I will even pay for it all," Chris whines like if I don't come in she will faint or something.
"No, I don't want to be caught by anyone in the lingerie store," I retort.
"Fine just tell me your sizes and stay out here. I'll bring it all out when I'm done," Christina huffs.
"Whatever, I'm a 36B and wear a size 6 in waist," I tell her.
15 minutes later Chris comes skipping out if the store with two little bags. "Here you go Trissy," Christina says while handing me the bags. I just stuff the smaller bags into one of the emptier larger bags and turn around.
"Thanks Chrissy," I say sarcasm dripping from my voice.
"No problem, I'm here to help," she smiles, clearly not getting the sarcasm.
Once I get back to the apartment, I start unpacking my new clothes, saving what Christina bought me for last. When all my clothes are put away, I cautiously open the first bag and find a pair of black lacy underwear with pink bows on each side and a matching bra, but the bra has a bow in the middle. Ok, not that bad so far. Now I pick up the second bag with more confidence to find a pair of hot pink, light blue, and black leopard print panties with the matching bra. I don't know what went through her mind when she picked this out, because I will never wear this.
"Babe, I'm home," Tobias calls from the entrance.
Crap, I shove the bras and panties in a bag and throw them into my closet. "I'm in the bedroom," I call back to him.
"Hey, what are you doing?" He says as he walks into the room.
"Just putting my new clothes away," I respond, not turning around to look at him as I pull the final piece of clothing out of its bag.
"Well I see that you took my advise and got yourself something pretty," he says in my ear. When did he get right behind me? Suddenly he snatches the hanger with the new dress on it out of my hands and steps away. "Hmm I was expecting something sexier. But this will do. Will you try it on for me?" Tobias says with a smirk then puppy dog eyes.
"Well, since you asked, nope. You will see it tomorrow night," I say ignoring his first comment.
"What is happening tomorrow night, Trissy," he asks with questioning eyebrows raised.
"You didn't hear? Zeke and Uri are throwing a party tomorrow at Uriah's place," I look at him.
"Yeah I heard, Zeke is my best friend after all. Just wanted to check if you had other plans or something," he replies.
"Plans like what?" I ask.
"Ohh I don't know. Christina ran into me in the Pit and said she got you something. Wanna show me what she got?" he asks, again raising his eyebrows.
"Nope, I don't want to show you," I say turning around to grab the empty bags.
"I will see one way or another Trissy-poo," he laughs and starts walking to my closet.
"No! Don't go in there, it is a surprise. I will show you tomorrow night," I come up with a lame excuse.
"Fine. Need help with those?" he asks, pointing to the ball of plastic bags in my hand.
"Sure," I throw it at him and he catches it. He comes over and grabs my hand pulling me into the kitchen. Tobias throws away the shopping bags.
"Are you hungry?" he turns around looking at me.
"Yeah, what do you have?" I ask in return.
"Well I have frozen pizza, or I can make dinner," he opens the fridge doors.
"You, the almighty Four, can cook?" I raise my eyebrows.
"Yes, I had to start cooking in Abnegation when Marcus didn't come home on time for dinner," he spits out Marcus's name like it is venom.
"Ok well then you should show off your cooking skills and make dinner," I laugh.
"I, Tobias Eaton, do not show off. I just do stuff while looking hot in the process," he smirks.
"Well then, go look hot," I laugh.
"Ok," he turns around and grabs some stuff out if the fridge,"but you have to leave the room. Go watch TV or something."
"Fine," I sigh. I turn around leaving the kitchen, going to plop down on the couch and turning the TV to a really old show, The Middle. It is about a really dysfunctional family from forever ago. This will do until Tobias finished dinner I guess, I think to myself.
Four/Tobias's POV
As soon as Tris leaves, I turn to grab my secret cookbook I keep on a shelf she can't reach. I flip to the spaghetti recipe and go to grab all the ingredients. Once I have everything. I start boiling the water to cook the noodles and take out a pan to cook the ground beef. I also take out a bowl to microwave the tomato sauce in.
Once everything is cooked and on plates I call Tris in," Babe! I'm done, get your butt in here!"
"Ok, ok I'm coming," she grumbles. As soon as she walks in she smiles.
"It looks great Toby," she says and hugs me.
"Did you just call me Toby?" I ask.
"Yeah I did, got a problem with it?" she asks.
"Nope, just wondering if I heard right," I reply.
"Good because I wasn't changing it anyway," she says with her bright smile.
"Well are we gonna stand around and talk, or are we going to eat?" I ask.
"Well I thought, while the food is still hot, we would eat," she is such a smarty pants sometimes.
"Ok," I go over and pull out her chair,"for you my lady," I say in a fake British accent.
"Why thank you kind sir," she smiles, using the same fake accent and sits down. I go and grab the plates of food from the counter.
"Spaghetti for you, and spaghetti for me," I say, placing the food I front of our seats. She takes her fork and twirls it in her noodles. I watch as she takes a bite and her eyes go wide. Oh no, is it really that bad.
"This is AMAZING!" she yells, practically busting my eardrums.
"Well I'm glad you like it," I smile.
"I don't like it, I love it!" she again yells, softer this time.
"Ok, ok. No need to yell, it is just dinner," I say.
"Just the best dinner I've ever had!" she whispers now, compared to her yelling before.
"Oh well, just eat up," I laugh.
Once both of our plates are cleared and put into the dishwasher, I take Tris's hand a pull her into the living room, gently pushing her onto the couch. I sit down next to her and she crawls into my lap. I stroke her hair and she just snuggles into my chest. I stop and grab her chin, forcing her to look up at me. I crash my lips into hers and she smiles into the kiss. We pull away for air and I start kissing down her neck, starting at her chin. Once I get to the sensitive skin on her neck, I start lightly sucking and get harder after a few seconds. When I hear Tris moan I know that I am successful and pull away to examine my work. Sure enough, the skin is a light pink and will obviously begin getting darker after a few seconds. After my quick inspection, I kiss each of her ravens from the one closest to her heart up to the last one. I finally make my way back up to her lips and gently peck her to tease her. She didn't like my little tease because she just pulled me back to her lips. I lick her bottom lip lightly, asking for entrance, which she grants. We search each other's mouths, fighting for dominance, which I win. Tris starts to pull away but I grip her hips pulling her closer to me, if that is even possible. We both silently agree to pull away at the same time. I look down to see Tris yawning and I pick her up bridal style and carry her to the bedroom, placing her down on the bed. I walk over to my dresser and pull out some long sweatpants, then walk over to Tris's dresser and pull out one of my old short sleeve T-shirts that she wears to bed. I throw her the shirt and walk into the bathroom to change. When I walk out, Tris is passed out under the covers. I just climb in and pull her close to me, wrapping my arms around her and letting her shift so her head is resting on my bicep. I soon fall asleep to her light snoring and even breathing.
Tris's POV
I wake up and roll over so I can face Toby. He looks so young when he is asleep, he looks 18. When I rolled over, he loosened his arms so now that I'm comfortable again his arms immediately tighten around my body. I just lay there watching him sleep until the alarm goes off about 5 minutes later. His eyes flutter open and he brings his hands up to rub the sleep from his eyes. He then notices that I've been watching him. "Have you been watching me sleep?" he asks.
"Maybe," I blush.
"Stalker much?" he jokes.
"Is it my fault you look your age when you are asleep? I think it is cute," I laugh.
"Well you are a cute sleeper too, Trissy-poo," he says bluntly.
"Aww thanks Toby-poo," I reply sarcastically.
"No problem babe. So you start your job as ambassador to Abnegation today," he states, reminding me of why we had the alarm set so early.
"Yeah, I'm super excited," I squeal. Gosh I'm turning into Chris.
"It defiantly sounds like it," he says playfully covering his ears.
"Hey, were you not excited for your first day?" I ask.
"That is like saying, were you excited for school to an Erudite, of course I was excited. Just not so loud and girly like you are about it," he smirks.
I put my hands over my heart in mock defense,"That is offensive. I was not being all girly. I bet you would act the same way over a new pair of Nike's or a new computer software update."
"Whatever helps you sleep at night Trissy. So talking about sleep, how did you sleep last night?" he asks.
"Better now that I know I can sleep with you next to me every night. What about you?," I smile.
"Well that is nice to know, and I slept better than ever," he smiles back.
"As much as I want to stay in bed and talk, we both need to go get ready for work," I say, rolling over out of his grasp.
"Do we have to?" he complains.
"Do you want to have a job after today?" I reply with a smirk.
"I dunno, maybe I'll just let you make all the money," he smirks back.
"Well I think it is sexy when men do all the work," I say starting to walk off. I can practically feel his stare burning through my clothing. "Stop looking at my butt, Tobias," you can hear the smirk in my voice.
"Well I think it is sexy when you wear just my shirt to bed," I hear him mumble. As soon as I hear that I start swaying my hips as I walk out of the room, stopping at the door, turning around and flashing him a small smile. He literally has his jaw on the floor staring at me.
"Umm... uh... n-nice but-tt T-Tris," he stutters out.
"Whatever you say, Toby," I reply using his nickname. I turn around an head to the washroom. When I get in there, I turn around and lock the door so nobody can sneak in on me. I quickly take my clothes off and start the shower, making sure the water isn't too hot or cold. I hop in and take a shower in less than 10 minutes so Tobias has time to shower before work. When I get out I realize that I forgot to bring clean clothes in with me so I just wrap the towel around me and hope that Toby went to get breakfast or something. I walk out of the bathroom, gripping the towel tight so I doesn't fall and head over to my dresser. Thankfully Tobias isn't in the bedroom, I quickly grab a dark red skirt that hugs my body and shows off my mini curves, stopping at mid-thigh. I open another drawer and it squeaks as I try to pull it open while still holding my towel with one hand.
"Do you need any help?" I hear Tobias ask from behind me.
"Yeah, um could you open this drawer for me. It is stuck and I only have one hand," I say looking down at the dark grey towel wrapped around my body.
"Gosh, what do you have in here? All of yours and Christina's wardrobe?" he jokes as he tugs on the drawer handles.
"Only all of my shirts, tank tops, and all of your old shirts that I sleep in," I say, with a fake hurt voice.
"Whatever, need anymore help," he is such a gentleman.
"Yeah. One more thing, I need help getting this one guy to stop trying to watch me change," I smirk.
"Who? I'm gonna bet him up," his face flashed with fury.
"I was just kidding, and I was talking about you Toby," I smile.
"Oh, ok. That is good I guess," he blushes.
"Hey, I love you, you know that right?" he looks up at me.
"Yeah, and I love you too," I smile.
"I love you three," he smiles, knowing where this is going.
"I love you, Four," I smile even wider.
"I know, and I love you Six," his smile grows too.
"Poor five always gets skipped," I pout. He leans in to kiss me just as I realize I'm still not dressed and my grip on the towel has loosened, allowing it to slip down a bit. I lean in and give him a quick peck on the lips before pushing him away.
"Get out, I need to change so we won't be late. And you need to shower," I scrunch up my nose to signify that he smells bad.
"Whatever, just tell me I need to leave my own bedroom," he jokes.
"Get over it, Toby," I call as he leaves the room. I pull a black, short sleeve, V-neck shirt out of the drawer Tobias just opened. I walk to my closet and grab the tiny bag with the new pair of black lacy undergarments. As much as I hate to admit it, Chris is probably right, Tobias would practically drool if he saw me in these. I drop the towel and get changed into the red skirt and black top, tucking the end of my shirt into the skirt because it is kind of long on me. I then walk over to my assortment of shoes and choose a pair of black flats with gold studs on the heel and toe. I might as well look nice on my first day of work.
I walk back into the bedroom and sit on the bed, playing this really hard game, called Flappy Bird, on my phone. My current high score is 144 but I want to beat Christina's score of 207.
"You look cute with your tongue stuck out in concentration," I jump, causing me to hit the screen an extra time and head butt the pipe.
"Tobiassss, you made me die!" I whine like a two-year-old.
"If you were concentrated any longer, your brain would start hurting. So I was doing you a favor," he is such a smartalic.
"Fine, but don't expect a thank you. Are you done in the bathroom? I need to do my hair and makeup," I ask.
"Yeah I'm done but I think you would look better if you didn't wear makeup. You have plenty of natural beauty," I see, he is trying to get on my good side after making me die.
"Whatever, you know I'm not pretty. And I have to cover this up," I say pointing at the hickey he gave me last night.
"You don't want everyone to know about last night?" he smirks.
"Nothing exciting happened, and Chris would probably think we had it last night if she saw," I look down.
"True," his brow furrows in thought.
"Go get us breakfast or something, be useful," I say over my shoulder as I walk back into the bathroom with my wet towel. I hear the front door close and pull a chair over in front of the counter so I don't have to stand while doing my hair and makeup. I open up my counter drawer and pull out my hair straightener and my makeup bag. After I plug the straightener, so it starts heating up, I unzip the dark purple makeup bag and take out my eyeliner, mascara, foundation, and concealer. I quickly apply the black eyeliner to my top lid and white to my bottom waterline, to make my eyes appear bigger. I throw the eyeliner pencils back into the bag and grab the mascara, putting a generous amount on my top lashes and very little on my fuller lower lashes. I also dab a very small amount of red lipstick that matches my skirt onto my lips.
Now that the straightener is heated up I run it over my hair some to get out my natural soft waves. When I finish, I unplug the straightener and leave it on the countertop to cool off before I put it in my toiletries drawer. As I wait for the straightener to loose its heat, I administer to the issue on my neck, covering it with foundation and concealer. By the time I'm satisfied that the trouble spot blends in with my natural skin tone the straightener has cooled down enough to put away. As soon as I close my drawer I hear the front door open and close again. Probably Tobias back with breakfast.
"Hey, what did you get me to eat, To-Four?" I'm about to say his name when I turn the corner and see Toby and Zeke standing in the kitchen. "Oh, hey Zeke. What are you doing here?" I ask.
"What? Your not happy to see me?" he asks with a fake hurt voice.
"Of course I am happy to see you!" I say before pulling him in for a quick hug. When I release him I glance at Toby and see him scowling. Someone is jealous again. I turn to face Tobias and put on my best serious face, "Where is my food Four?"
"W-well y-you se-ee I ran into
Z-zeke in the hallway a-and he started t-," he gets cut off by Zeke.
"Woah dude! Don't blame this on me. No offense but your girlfriend scares me more than you," Zeke starts backing out of the room, "I'll talk to you later bro."
I turn from watching Zeke run out the door to Tobias and put my hands on my hips, trying not to crack a smile. He just sticks his hands in his pockets and pulls something out. A muffin. A mini chocolate chip muffin. He picks a piece of lint off of it and hands it to me. "I just wanted him to leave," he says.
I take the muffin and I just can't hold in my smile any longer. "You know I was kidding right? Just trying to scare you guys," I ask.
"I knew you were kidding. I could tell by the twinkle in your eyes when you asked where your food was. Didn't look like Zeke caught on though. I've never seen him so afraid of any girl like that other than Shauna," he says.
"Looks like yet another thing we have in common," I smirk, thinking of how scared Zeke looked.
"Come on, I'll walk you to work," he holds out his hand. I grab my phone and keys then take his hand and walk out the door, locking it behind us.
Once we get to Eric's office, Tobias kisses my forehead and turns around to go to the control room but not before saying,"Good luck, babe."
I turn around and walk up to the door labeled 'Eric' and knock loud enough to be heard from inside but not loud enough to be heard down the hall, just like we did in Abnegation.
"The door is open," I hear Eric call from inside. I open the door and his office is a mess, trash all over the floor, papers scattered across his desk, and the smell is like nothing I've ever smelt before. "Oh Tris, I see you made it on time to your first day," Eric smirks.
"What else were you expecting?" I ask with my eyebrows raised.
"I was expecting the little Stiff to chicken out and become factionless," Eric starts turning his eyebrow rings.
"I'm not a Stiff anymore, I'm a member now and I ranked first overall," I say, anger spilling out in my voice.
"Ah yes, the Stiff is now a Dauntless member. Guess I can't call her that anymore," Eric talks like I'm not even in the room.
"Whatever Eric. So what am I supposed to do today?" I ask changing the topic.
"Well you will need an office, and I'm moving to a larger office so this one will become yours. So you will have to clean and deliver all of the important papers to my new office in two days," Eric gestures to the messy room and piles of papers.
"Is that all for now?" I was expecting to have to do more but I'm okay with taking it slow at first.
"You will start your actual job next week when all the factions representatives are coming together for a meeting," Eric says.
"Okay, you may leave now so I can start cleaning your mess," I push him with my voice to signify that I want him to leave now.
"No need to get an attitude, Tris," Eric replies, walking out.
Once he leaves I start picking up all the crumbled paper balls and throw them into the trash bag I found in a drawer in the desk. When I am finished with the trash on the floor, I have filled two and a half bags, Eric is such a slob. I look at the time and see it is almost lunch time, Toby said he would come and pick me up because we have the same lunch shift off. Not 2 minutes later there is a knock at the door.
"Come in!" I yell, still bent over picking up the last pile of trash.
The door opens,"Looks like someone had a busy morning. The new office is looking good babe," Tobias says, looking around the room. I turn around from the trash and see that his gaze is lowered a little.
"Yeah and it looks like you have been staring at my butt while I was picking up Eric's trash," I smirk,"liked the view?"
"Maybe just a little," his cheeks turn a light shade of red only I would notice.
"OMG, did I, Tris Prior, just make the great almighty Four blush?!" I scream.
"Calm down. And yes, the great almighty Four blushes when the hot and sexy Six catches him looking at her," he fired back in a tone just above a whisper-shout.
"Whatever, you know I'm not beautiful or hot or sexy," I look down.
"I know that you are but I think you don't know you are all of those things," he walks across the room to envelop me in a bone-crushing hug.
"Tobias, I can't breath," I wheeze out.
"OMG, Tris are you okay?" he pulls back and holds my shoulders.
I laugh slightly,"Toby, I'm fine, you were just squeezing me really hard."
"Oh ok," this time he leans down and kisses my forehead. "Wanna go to lunch now?" he asks.
"Yeah let's go I am STARVING!" I grab his hand and start pulling him out of the room. I drag him behind me all the way to the cafeteria. Once I push through the doors I drop his arm and walk over to the table where Chris, Will, Uri, Mar, Zeke, and Shauna are sitting while he goes to get our food. I plop into the seat next to Christina and everyone just looks at me and waves.
"Hey guys," I say.
"Hey," they all respond. I just smile back and turn to look at Chris.
"How is nurse in training?" I ask.
"Boring right now, we spent the entire time learning how to 'properly wash our hands" she sighs. I let out a small laugh and she shoots me a glare that is scary but not as scary as Four's.
Toby comes over and sits in the chair next to mine so I sit between him and Christina."Hey, where is my food?" I look at him expectantly.
"Oh you wanted food?" he looks honestly confused.
"Yes I wanted food, but I can go get some for myself," I start to get up but Tobias grabs my wrist to pull me back down.
"I was kidding Tris, here is your food. Eat up!" he puts a plate in front of me. I flash him a quick smile then unwrapped the burger he got me and take the top bun off. I pick up the patty and put some ketchup on the bottom bun then put the patty back in top, leaving the top bun in my plate. I bite down into the half-burger and everyone just looks at me weird except Tobias and Christina.
"Where is your top bun?" Shauna asks for everybody.
"It is just too much bread for me to eat all in one meal," I reply looking at all of them.
"I guess that is true but who cares?" Uriah says.
"She does so just stop questioning her would ya," Toby glares at everyone who was staring at me. They all go back to eating their food and soon after, I finish mine and get up."Ready to go?" Tobias asks me.
"Yep," I pop the p.
He laughs a little and gets up out of his chair. "Bye guys and gals," he turned around to wave to everyone and grabbed our trash with one hand and my left hand with his other. We take the route to the door that stops by the trash cans and Toby dumps our garbage down the steel can.
"So what is Eric planning for the rest of the day?" he asks.
"I get the joy of cleaning his old office and delivering the important papers to him for the rest of the week," I reply, swinging our linked hands as we walk. "What are y'all doing in the control room?" I glance at him. He looks down at me and smiles his adorable crooked smile.
"Well, I get the joy of teaching Uriah how to operate the computers and security cameras," he smirks.
"I forgot he is in the control room now. How is working with your best friend's little brother?" I ask.
"Not that bad actually, he can surprisingly be serious when he needs to be," he looks up to watch where we are walking.
"Wow that is surprising," I laugh.
"As much as I want to spend the rest of the day with you, I need to get back to the computers and you need to finish cleaning up Eric's crap," he leans over to kiss my forehead then the tip of my nose. Before he can pull away I put a quick peck on his lips.
"Bye Toby," I break from his grasp on my hand and head in the direction of my new office.
When I get to the door I swing it open and take a step in when suddenly a hand covers my eyes and someone else blindfolds me. Wow, how familiar this is. "Let go of me Peter," I sigh when they remove their hand from my mouth and use it to hold my hands behind my back.
"Why would I go through the trouble of catching you if I just let you go, Stiff?" he asks with his fake innocent voice.
"Don't call me that, I'm not a Stiff anymore," I growl at him.
"I'll call you anything I want to," he sneers.
"No you won't because I recall ranking higher than you," I snap back.
"I am here to prove that I won't be outranked by a little Stiff," Peter dead legs me and I fall to the ground on my knees. He briefly let's go of my hands and I take that opportunity to stand up and rip the blindfold off my eyes. I turn around quickly get in the fighting stance. I remember when Tobias, Four then, told me to watch Peter, that he steps before he punches or kicks. I back up a step to take most of the office in my sight. No one else is in the room but that doesn't mean that they aren't staying watch outside the closed door. Peter charges at me and I step aside at the last second, sending him flying into the desk, making papers scatter all over the place. He regains his balance quickly and takes a step towards me, but I hear Four in the back of my head,'He steps before punching,' I duck and his fist makes contact with the wall behind me. I throw a quick punch to his jaw and he is too distracted with the hand that flew into the wall to block it in time.
"You little a*****e!" he screamed.
"It's what you deserve b***h," I scoffed at his cowardice.
"Whatever Stiff, this was just a warning," he opens the door and leaves. I guess he didn't have anyone with him outside waiting.
I turn around to look at the mess. The stack of papers I made this morning to give to Eric all ascewed all around the desk. One paper caught my eye with the bold print DAUNTLESS CONTROL SERUM typed across the top. That looked peculiar so I picked it up and folded it to fit in the front pocket of the skirt. I will show it to Toby later and ask if he knows anything about it. I collect all the papers and instead of putting them back on my desk, I walk down the hall and knock on Eric's door.
"It is open," he yells.
I walk in and set the papers on his desk. "These are yours I believe. I finished clearing the desk but I am still working on cleaning the floor," I say and sit in one of his plush chairs across from the desk.
"Did I invite you to sit down?" he asks.
"No but I just cleaned your old office. Have some respect," I snap.
"Whatever. You are done for the day if you want to go home and get ready for Uriah's party," he actually sounded nice for once!
"How did you know Uri is having a party?" I suddenly blurt.
"When the Pedrad brothers throw parties, the entire compound knows about it," he says it like it is so obvious.
"Ohh okay. Well bye," I push myself out of the chair and walk back down the hall to my office to pick up my keys and phone. When I walk in my eyes are covered yet again by a pair of hands. This time it is different though, the smell is different, it smells like Tobias. Like detergent and something heavy, sweet and distinctly male. I guess I stiffen a little when I remember what had happened earlier because Toby dropped his hands and turned me around so he can look into my eyes. He leans over so we can be at eye level.
"What's wrong Tris?" he asks, pain in his voice.
"It's nothing Tobias," I manage to whisper avoiding eye contact.
"Tris, you can tell me. What is wrong?" he holds my chin between his fingers so I have to look into his eyes.
"Peter attacked me after we split up. He was waiting for me in my office, like you, and blindfolded me. I punched him in the jaw while he was distracted by his hand when he punched the wall and he left before he could do anything else," I sigh.
His eyes immediately harden. "I saw him walk out of this hallway on the camera, there aren't any cameras in the leader hallway. But I thought he was coming to complain about his new job, not to injure my girlfriend," he groans in the sense of his thought up stupidity.
"Toby, look at me," he looks down and his eyes soften again,"nothing he did was your fault."
"But if I walked you all the way here then I would have been her to protect you," he looks defeated as he drops onto the crappy couch in the corner of the room.
"If you were here and fought Peter off, not me, then he would think that I'm too weak to fight for myself," I sit next to him.
"Fine, your right," he sighs.
"Yes, I know I am," I rest my head on his shoulder and we sit in a comfortable silence for another minute or two. I get up off the couch and grab Tobias's hand, pulling him up after me. "Come on, we don't want to be too late to the party," I say, walking toward the door. This time, when I close it, I lock the door so I won't have any surprises when I come back.
"Or we could skip the party. Have one of our own," he suggests.
"Your dirty teenage mind disgusts me, you know that?" I ask him and start to head down the hallway.
"Yeah I know. But I was being serious," when I look up at him he winks at me and smiles his flirty smile.
"And I'm being serious when I say that we have to go, I even let Chris drag me around looking for a new dress for it," I shiver when I remember what I was made wear yesterday.
"Fine," he sighs.
When we get back to the apartment, I kick off my shoes and put them back in their space on my shoe rack. "I call the bathroom first!" I call through the apartment to Toby.
"You better hurry up then," he calls back. I just grab my towel and one if his clean shirts and walk into the bathroom to shower.
When I get out and finish drying off, I put the same undergarments I wore earlier on along with the tshirt. I walk into the living room to find him playing some car racing game on this game console he found, called a Xbox. It was all beat up, but with his computer knowledge, he was able to fix it and hook it up to our TV.
"I'm done in the bathroom for now if you want to hop into the shower real fast," I say standing behind the couch.
"Let me finish this race," he says. When his red Ferrari passes the line in 1st place he turns around to look at me and smirks when he sees what I'm wearing. "Not that I'm complaining, but is that what you're wearing to the party?" he continues to smirk.
"Yes, because I went shopping to wear one of your shirts to Uri's party," I say with the sarcasm dripping from my voice.
"You know you like wearing my shirts. Just admit it," he says.
"I admit it, I like wearing your shirts, just not in public at a party where everyone is going to be drunk," I sigh.
"Okay, I see your point," he gets up and starts to walk toward the bathroom but when he gets right behind me, he slaps my butt. I turn around in shock.
"You did not just do that!" I playfully yell.
"Oh, but I did Trissy," he smirks.
"Go shower, pervert," I smile back at him.
"I'm Divergent and I can't be controlled," he laughs at me.
"Then I guess there will be no more kisses for you till you shower," I know exactly how to attack him.
"You did not just go there," he gasps.
"I did just go there," I smirk at him now.
"Too bad that would be punishment for you too," he knows how to attack me too.
"How do know there isn't someone else I'm kissing," I raise my eyebrows jokingly.
"Say what now?" he raises his voice.
"I was kidding. Now shower my peasant," I use my fake royalty voice.
"Yes m'lady," he bows and leave to, hopefully, shower. I just walk into the bedroom when I hear the bathroom door squeak on its hinges. I take the dress off of the hanger and lay it on the bed while I find something for Tobias to wear. I pick a pair of black jeans that are semi-tight and a simple black
v-neck short sleeve tshirt with his leather jacket.
I guess that we are probably going to play some kind of game after everyone left so I need to wear layers. I choose to wear a tight sleeveless tanktop and spandex shorts under the dress. Once our outfits are ready, I wait for Toby to finish up in the bathroom so I can do my hair and makeup. Five minutes later and Tobias is still in the shower, he can be such a girl at times.
I get up and walk over towards the bathroom. "Hurry up Toby, I still need to do my hair and makeup," I yell and knock on the door.
"Give me another like 5 minutes to shower and then 10 after to do other stuff," he calls back.
"Fine but the party starts in 45 minutes and if I'm not ready by then, I will embarrass you in front of everybody," I walk over to the Xbox to see what kind of games he has that interest me. Just Dance 4?! Well I have time, so I change the disk and move the coffee table out of my way. I stand in front of the sensor thing and choose the song I will dance to; What Makes You Beautiful by some old boy band called One Direction. The music starts and I follow the figure on the screen with red hands and feet:
Your insecure,
don't know what for.
Your turning heads when you walk through the do-or,
Don't need makeup,
to cover up.
Being the way that you are is
eno-ugh
(the rest of the song... I'm too lazy)
I stop dancing when the song ends and hear clapping from behind me. I turn around and see Toby standing behind the couch, where I stood when watching him race cars earlier. He must have gotten out of the shower when the music was playing loudly. I blush a deep pink and Toby jumps over the couch to meet me.
"That was great Tris," he smiles.
"Thanks Toby, but did you have to watch me?" I ask.
"Yes, I did. You can't hide everything from me," he smiles even wider.
"Whatever," I push him away, "I laid your outfit on the bed. And it isn't the dress, that is mine."
"Okay I got it, go get finished," he he pushes he toward the bathroom.
When I walk out 15 minutes later, my hair is in small ringlet curls and I have on mascara, eyeliner, lipstick/gloss, and some very light eyeshadow. The eye makeup is the usual except I used a shadow that had a hint of sparkle to it, and the lipstick was one of the nude shades that Christina told me would come in handy, and she was right as usual. I pick up the dress and head to my walk-in closet to change and choose accessories. I pull the spandex and tank-top on then step into the dress before I realize that I can't reach far enough to get the zipper to come all the way up.
"Toby, can you come help me," I yell so he can hear me anywhere in the apartment. I hear him get up off the bed and walk into the closet.
"Yes?" I turn around, holding the dress up with one hand.
"Can you zip me up?" I ask blushing a little.
"Sure," he grips my shoulders and turns me around to face the wall again and as I hear the zipper close I turn back around.
"Thanks, don't know what I'd do without you," I give him a peck on the lips and push him out before he can protest. Now comes my favorite part, shoes and accessories. I decide on a pair of neon yellow 4" heels with a little open toe to show off my pedicure that I got with Chris. For jewelry I choose a chunky silver chain with some fake rock like stones that are colored to match my belt and shoes hanging at different angles. I attach my charm bracelet to my right arm and shake my wrist a little to shift the charms on it.
I have six different charms; a small 4, a small 6, to 'T's linked together, a heart with 4+6 engraved in it, a silver replica of the Dauntless flames, and a silver replica of the Abnegation linked hands. After the charms settle comfortably on my wrist I open a little sliding door on the wall to reveal a small mirror so I can see when I put my earrings in. My earrings are small heart studs that Tobias gave me, because he knows that I hate dangly earrings. There is a sudden light knocking on the closet door.
"The party starts in 5 minutes and we still need to walk over to Uriah's new apartment," Toby says.
"Okay, let me grab my clutch real quick," I walk as fast as I can in the heels to my purse section and choose a black clutch covered in sparkly sequence. I walk into the bedroom, take my phone off the charger and put it along with some cash, into the small bag.
"I'm ready to go when you are," I turn around to see Tobias waiting in the doorway.
"I've been waiting on you," he smirks.
"Okay, then let's go!" I start walking out of the apartment and hear Toby's footsteps trailing behind me. Once I get out the door I wait for Tobias to shut and lock it behind him. When he pulls the key out of the lock, he turns around and smiles down at me. Even in my 4 inch heels he is over a foot taller than me.
"What are you smiling at?" I ask him.
"You," he is so cheesy.
"Why, you know I'm not beautiful," I say back to him.
"No, you're not beautiful. You are gorgeous and it kills me when you say you're not pretty," he frowns a little when he says the last part.
"Fine," I sigh,"whatever you think."
"Say that your pretty," he continues to frown.
"Fine, I'm pretty," I roll my eyes.
"Thank you. Let's go now," he grabs my hand and we start walking to Uriah's apartment.