The Perfect Bucket List
Chapter 1: You're too young to let the world break you.
Disclaimer: All characters and Divergent Trilogy Plot belong to Veronica Roth. No copyright infringement is intended.
POV: I will be using Tris, but if I use Tobias I will warn you I swear.
Description: It is amazing how blind I was, I lost time thinking that the inevitable would never happen. But I was wrong and that was the worst mistake of my life. Everything has a solution, except death.
A/N: This story is completely apart from Divergent Trilogy. The characters are OOC. Before you say anything, READ it, I know you will like it.
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"Maybe I didn't treat you
Quite as good as I should have
Maybe I didn't love you
Quite as often as I could have
Little things I should have said and done
I just never took the time" –Elvis Presley
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"I'm so sorry Tris" Dr. Mathews repeated. I was sitting with lost eyes, still not falling into account. I couldn't believe it.
"But, Doctor, what happened?" I asked after a few minutes of silence. I was confused.
"It's a terminal decease" She said with her head down. "I don't know how you got it; there have been only a few cases" the only thing missing me. I complained to myself. Only I could infect myself with an almost unknown disease. "Tris, it is possible that you didn't caught it, there's also the possibility that you brought the disease in your body inheritance. How did your mother die?"
"She died in a car accident" Caleb spoke first. He was worse than me.
"Oh, I'm sorry. But I promise I'll do what I can to find a cure, day and night cometh investigating." I nodded weakly. I felt a lump in my throat, the kind that makes your voice disappear; my face was awash in tears and my head full of depressing thoughts.
"What precautions should she take?" My brother asked. Dr. Mathews coughed and got comfortable in her chair.
"All I know is that your lungs will decline slowly, so I recommend you not to run, not that you're going to run out of air, but better be safe than sorry"
"Yes, I'm not someone who runs much" I admitted "but I have asthma, will it get worse?"
"Don't worry, perhaps within a month or more you'll start to feel the weakness, the truth is I don't know much about it"
"If you don't find a cure" Caleb spoke with his voice broken. "How long does she have?"
"A few months" Dr. Mathews confessed. I let out a sob and got up to hug Caleb. He took me in his arms and said words of encouragement in my ear. God, that couldn't be happening to me. I let go of my brother and grabbed my purse from the back of my chair.
"I think it's time to go" I said in a hard voice. Caleb rose from his seat...
"If I find something new it's for sure I will call you"
"Thanks" Dr. Mathews got up from her chair and gave me a big hug. She said goodbye to Caleb with a handshake and we headed to the car in silence, each of us lost in our own thoughts.
I called Susan, my best friend, and told her everything between sobs. We got home and she was already waiting for us outside. She received my brother with a tender kiss and a hug. She cried in his arms but Caleb didn't say anything because he was still in shock.
Such a relationship was the one I had always dreamed of. They loved each other and I knew it beforehand. Caleb was three years older than both of us but that didn't matter. He respected and loved her too. They had been in love since the age of eleven. And I was sure they would get married someday.
She pulled away from him and ran to me. We hit hard and hugged as if I were to die tomorrow. Well, it wasn't tomorrow but if in a few months.
She murmured fast and sobbing things, and we spent some time crying. I didn't even realize when Caleb got inside the house.
We decided to go to the park to clear our minds and stop being so sad.
"I want the middle one!" We screamed at the same time, running to the swings. We were on a discussion until both decided to sit on the side ones. Soon we forgot the issue and started talking about anything.
We knew each other since we were five, and since the first day we became best friends. We were always together, Caleb, her and me. Like triplets. We played all day every day. Until Susan fell in love with Caleb she began to be different with him. Caleb had confessed to me that he also liked her. But I was little and didn't know what to do. I had never liked anyone and couldn't give advice. Now that I'm thinking about it, it would have saved a lot of time if I had told Caleb that she liked him too.
We tried to make that moment a happy one, but when I remembered all my plans, all my dreams and realized that maybe I would never be able to achieve anything I collapsed again. It wasn't something I could fight off. It was the biggest feeling of disappointment and sadness I had felt ever.
I knew people said to put on a brave face in moments like that, but how could I have a brave face on when I would die in a few months? It was simply impossible to stay put without mourn and think about good things. I was never a daring girl who always did whatever she wanted, if I had been like that I probably wouldn't have been be so sad, because I would have known that I hadn't lived in vain, but on the contrary, I'd never done anything important, I actually had never done anything at all, and that was sadder because I also knew that I would die without doing anything, just sitting and waiting for my day to come.
A little girl came running; she was approximately five years old. She sat on the middle swing and started swinging. We wiped the tears from our faces and smiled.
"Hi" The little girl greeted us. She had beautiful blue eyes and a shining smile. She opened her mouth to say something else but saw a boy running towards her and stopped.
"Ashley!" The boy exclaimed angrily. He got to the swings and stood in front of us. "Why the hell did you run? You almost got run over! What were you thinking? Couldn't you just ask for my permission? I don't want you to escape again okay?" He said the last part calmer.
Susan and I had the same face as the scolded child. The guy was intimidating although he had a charming English accent and a very sweet face.
"But Toby" The child was about to burst into tears.
"You shouldn't have done that!" He started screaming again. I took a deep breath.
"Keep calm man, nothing happened. She is safe with us!" He looked offended. It seemed that he didn't like to be challenged. "We were here and wouldn't let anything happen to the girl, c'mon, let her stay here for a while, she wants to play, we can take care of her" His gaze shifted between Susan, Ashley and me. He sighed and slipped a hand through his tousled hair.
"Well, is just that I could have brought her if she hadn't run" He said with a half-smile. "Thanks but I'll stay with her"
"What's your name?" Ashley asked with a grin. "I'm Ash and this is my brother Toby"
"Tobias" He corrected with a tender smile, looking at his sister.
"I am Tris and this is Susan" I saw an ice cream shop and Susan told me to go with Tobias. She wanted a strawberry one and Ashley one of chocolate. The park was big and the way the ice cream stand was away, so it was very uncomfortable to walk with an almost unknown guy.
"Ummm…" He began to speak. He was nervous "where do you live? I haven't seen you around"
"I live in the second house over...there" I explained pointing to the street where my house was "I almost never go out"
"Oh, I also live there!" He pointed incredulously at the fifth house on the sidewalk in front of mine "I just got here, I lived in London with my father" He grimaced. I noticed that or he didn't like living in London or he had problems with his father.
"Really?" I smiled foolishly. "My dream is to live in London, that explains why you have such a cute accent" The smile on my face disappeared as I said the last part. Thank God he was very tall and couldn't see that my face was flushed. "Your sister is lovely" I changed the subject quickly; hopefully he hadn't even heard what I said about his accent.
"I know" He smiled proudly "She's the most important person to me" It was really weird to hear something like that. I mean, not many kids his age love and take care of their younger siblings.
"What will you have?" said the boy attending the stand when we reached the place, I hadn't even realized that we had arrived.
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