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Tris' POV

Well that was the awkwardest conversations of my life ever! Tobias and I look a share a look before we both bust into fits of laughter.

"Come on let's go get breakfast. Put your shirt on!" He gets off the bed and walks to window, where his shirt is, and slides it over his head. When he turns around I have no shirt or pants on. He looks mortified, like he has been scarred for life.

"Tris! What are you doing?"

"What does it look like? I need some comfy clothes for breakfast!" I laugh as I'm pulling the shirt over my head.

Tobias' face is tinted red, "Oh… I.. uh.. I knew that. I'm go ahead down."

What was that all about? He's seen me without a shirt on before, what's so different now? I don't know I'll worry about it later I guess.

I walk out the door wearing my sky blue night shorts and a black tank top. As I'm going down the stairs, I hear hushed talking in my parents' room. I decided to see what they were talking about so I creep across the hardwood floor, avoiding the parts that squeak and peak through their cracked door.

"..it's time to tell her, Andrew."

What are they talking about, "No, Natalie. Do you really think now is the time for that?"

I slowly back away from the door, not knowing what to think, and run down the stairs to the kitchen table. I sit down next to Tobias with a faraway look in my eyes.

He touches my arm, "Tris, are you okay?" He looks at me as if I'm about to break into a million pieces.

"Yeah, Ti, I'm fine." I smile gently at him, trying to convince him that everything's okay.

He removes his hand as I grab a piece of toast and bacon. I can feel him looking at me from the corner of his eye evey five seconds.

"Tobias James Eaton, if you do not stop looking at me, I will beat your ass." I say while putting grape jelly onto my piece of toast and fold it in half.

When I turn my head towards him, I see him smirking at me, "Yeah, sure Beatrice Marie Prior." He says it with this evil glint in his eye like he's about to do something I'm going to regret.

He gets up from the table, still smirking, puts his plate into the sink and turns around and leans against the marble countertop. While he had his back turned to me, I eased up from the table and started to back away from the table towards the living room.

"Now, Ti, you know I love you right?" Next thing I know he's throwing me over his shoulder onto the couch and climbs on top of me, tickling me!

Tobias' POV

"Now, Ti, you know I love you right?" She only calls me Ti when she's trying to convince me not to do something or when she's really sleepy, which is really cute sounding, but I'd never admit to her I enjoyed her calling me Ti.

I run at her and grab her around the waist, throwing her over my shoulder then on to the couch. I jump on top of her before she can recognize what I'm doing and start tickling her sides.

"To- Tobias st-st-stop it!" She screams while bursting into fits of laughter.

"Say, 'Tobias, I love you and I would never hit you in my entire live because you're the greatest guy in the entire world!' Say it, Tris!"

"Fine, Tobias I love you and I would never hit you in my entire live."

"There's more!" I scream while grabbing at her sides again.

"..Because you're the greatest guy in the entire world! There I said it now would you please get off of me?"

I stop tickling her but don't make any moves to get off of her. "I think I like it better like this Tris." I push a lock of her hair out of her eyes and behind her ear. I'm so close to her face, I can feel her breath on my lips. I look in her eyes, down at her lips, and back into her eyes. I slowly lean in, this is my chance.

"Tobias, Tris, we're going to the mall would you guys like to come with us?" Natalie says as she descends the stair case. I jump off of Tris, my face hot.

"Umm. No I should be heading home. My mom is probably worried about me." I say as I turn to the door. "Bye, Tris," I say as I hurry out the door.

What was I thinking? I probably just ruined any hope I ever had at Tris being in my life for the long run. I run to my car and throw the key into the ignition. I see Tris running to my car, before she can get to me though I throw it into reverse and peal out her driveway. I can see the hurt on her face, knowing that I'm running away from her.

Tris' POV

He was about to kiss me and then he just leaves? What is up with that? Before my mom can ask me any questions I run up the stairs and slam my bedroom door. I grab my phone and dial Christina's number.

(Tris Christina)

Hey Tris.

He almost kisses me and then leaves like a bat out of hell, what's up with that?

Wait, slow down. Four almost kissed you?

Yes and then leaves! I don't know what to do Chris!

He's probably just worried and nervous. Give him some time to relax.

Fine but in the meantime, I'm going to the mall. I think it's time for a wardrobe change. You in?

Hell yeah I'm in. I'll come get you being as your bike is at MY house

Okay, be ready in 30. Bye Chris.

Bye Tris. See you in 30.

I run to my walk-in closet and grab a pair of high-waisted blue jean shorts with distress on the front pockets, a black off the shoulder Batwing Jewel Spike Stud Skull jumper, and my pair of blossom print foldover combat boots. I'm dressed within five minutes of mine and Christina's phone call so I decide to paint my nails black. By the time they're dry Christina is honking the horn of her BMW Z4. I wave bye to my mom and dad calling over my shoulder, "See you at the mall!"

I grab my black aviator Ray-Bans as I dash out the door and jump into Christina's car.

"Have you talked to him?" I ask her as soon as I'm in the car.

"No but he called will and asked if they could hang out today." She has an evil glint in her eyes as she's talking.

"Okay?.. What are they doing?"

"Oh, I don't know. Probably swim at Will's like always. Anyway lets go to the mall shall we?"

She speeds down the road, going a good 20 miles over the speed limit. But Christina doesn't care, her Dad is the wealthiest man in Chicago, he could get her out of murder if she needed to.

We arrive at the mall within 20 minutes, which is a new record for Christina, the mall is a good 45 minutes from my house. She finds a parking space and we're off for operation transform Tris, as Christina put it.

After a three hours of shopping I decide that I have enough and we should go get some food. There's only one store in the entire mall we didn't enter, Victoria's Secret. Hoping Christina doesn't notice, I ask, "How about we go get some Chinese food?"

"Oh Tris, we will… After we go get a few necessities from this little secret place," she says with a wicked grin. My facial expression falters.

"Fine but you totally owe me!"

We walk into the store and the first thing I notice is overwhelmingness of undergarments. It physically makes me cringe. Christina walks to the bras and grabs a strapless black lace Demi bra and hands it to me.

"You're getting this and these." She grabs a pair of the matching underwear. She tosses about eight different bra and panty sets at me and then goes to the swimsuit section.

She grabbed a black fringe top with white and black bottoms and throw it on top of the pile of clothes in my hands. She turned around and grabbed a baby blue strapless top and blue and pink marble-colored bottoms.

"Alright Tris, I'm done torturing you with Victoria's Secret. We can leave now." We paid for the clothes and left. We got to her car and asked, "You want to go swimming? Try out on of those new suits?"

"Yeah, sure." We get back to her house and I grab the Victoria Secret bag from the cramped back seat and get out the car, heading into the house. As I walk up the spiral staircase to Christina's floor, I think about Tobias and this morning. I decide to push it out of my mind so I can enjoy the day relaxing poolside with Chris. Girls' day today. I decide to wear the black fringe bathing suit and as I'm exiting Chris' room, I run into something hard, really hard. The smash knocks me off balance and I start to fall right down the spiral staircase. I wait for the impact but it never comes. Instead I feel a strong arm wrap around my midsection and pull me into their chest.

"Tris, are you okay? I'm so sorry I didn't see you there," exclaims Chris's older brother Eric.

"Yeah, I'm fine. Thanks for catching me though." I start laughing thinking about how bad it would've been if he hadn't.

I see a flash of black out of the corner of eye, I turn and see that it's Tobias and he does not look happy. I look down and figure out why; Eric's arm is still holding me against him.

"Tobias. Hey bro!" Eric screams as he finally lets go of me.

"Hey, man, " Tobias says as he walks down the staircase.

I don't know how I'm going to explain this to him. I didn't want him to be here, wait why is he here? I thought he and Will were hanging out at Will's?

"Excuse me Eric, I think I need to go kill your sister." I run down the staircase searching for Christina.

I find her beside the pool in a lounge chair drinking something from a funny looking cup. "Why is Tobias here?" I ask her in a scream-hushed voice.

"Because it's a pool party Tris. Can't have one of those without guys now can we?" She winks at the end of her sentence.

"No but he just saw me in the arms of ERIC!"

"Why were you in the arms of my brother?"

"It's a long story, but I ran into him, almost fell down the steps, he caught me, Tobias came around the corner."

"Well tell him that. He was over by the pool a minute ago."

I look up searching for him, but when I see him it's not what I want to see. He has his arm around the skank of Chicago, Molly. What is he doing? I look at Christina with tears pricking the side of my eyes and look back at Tobias, her gaze follows mine.

"I'm just going to go home. I'll see you later Chris. Could you bring my stuff over? I'm going to drive my bike."

"Yeah, sure. Are you going to be okay?" She asks with a worried look on her face.

"Yeah, I'll be just fine." I say my voice breaking.

I run around the house to her driveway to get my bike and unfortunately I have to pass Tobias on the way to it.

"Tris, Tris? What's wrong? Tris!?" He screams after me but I don't dare turn around because he'll see the tears flowing from my eyes. I keep running until I get to my bike starting it up I throw my helmet on and peal out of there before he reaches me. I see him jump into his car following me.

I don't know where I'm going but I have to lose him. I speed up, I'm now going 80 in 50. This isn't good. But I have to lose him. He's still on my tail. Every time I speed up, he does the same. I realize he's not letting up so I turn and go to the rock.

I park my bike and unmount it. I hear him pull up and get out of the car.

"Tris what was that? Are you okay?" He asks as he reaches me.

Before he can say anything else, I turn around and kiss him. I realize he's not kissing me back, so I start to pull away but before our lips disconnect he pulls me closer and places his hands on the sides of head. He deepens the kiss, licking my bottom lip asking permission to enter my mouth. I open up and too soon it's over.

He pulls back and looks me in the eyes, "Tris, you have no idea how long I've wanted that to happen."

I smile at him and say, "You either." He pulls me into him and wraps me into embrace. I cling to the back of his shirt, because I feel as if he's going to disappear if I let go.

I feel his lips on the top of my head, but I can't focus on that all too well, because I can't shake the feeling that we're being watched.

Tris' Mall Outfit will be linked in my bio along with the bathing suit she was wearing! Remember to REVIEW! Updates will be faster and faster with more REVIEWS! Thank y'all for reading this! Feedback is greatly appreciated.

-TL