Chapter 3: Changing Perspective
Tris
I wake up to an alarm clock. I just reach over and turn it off.
I snuggle down into something hard but warm. I sit up just a bit and see it's Four. I yelp out of suprise and fall off the bed pulling him down with me since he had his arms locked around my waist.
We both land with a loud THUMP! I groan because he is crushing me since he landed on top. He jolts awake. Our faces are centimeters appart if one of us moves our heads we'll be kissing. He quickly gets up off of me when I groan again because his elbow is digging into my stomach.
Four holds out his hand and I gladly accept it. "I'm so sorry. Are you okay!?" He asks. "Fine except I'll probably have a dull ache from where your elbow dug into my stomach." I say rubbing that spot. "Sorry." He says again. I walk over to his full length mirror leaning against the wall. I lift up my shirt a bit. I see a bruise forming.
"Dang Four. You've got pretty starp elbows." I say showing him the slight bruise. He cringes at it. "Sorry." He mumbles again. "You don't need to be sorry. It's kinda my fault I fell off the bed and took you down with me." I say.
He chuckles and shakes his head. "It's as much as my fault as yours." He says. "That I can agree to." I chuckle. Maybe he actually likes me.
No! He can't! Not someone as broken and a foster as me! Ugh. I wish guys were easy to read.
I walk down stairs with Four. Evelyn is up making breakfast. Which is unusual since it's a weekday. "Mom?" Four asks questioningly. She looks at us and clears her throat and jerks her head to the dining room. We walk in and see our group of friends.
They all look at us. "Tris! How are you doing?" Zeke asks like an overprotective brother. "I'm okay I guess." I say shrugging.
"Tris your clearly not okay! You went to the hospital for blood loss from cutting!" Christina exclaims standing up abruptly. We are all taken aback from her sudden outburst.
"I'm fine really. I'll be going to therapy three days a week. So don't worry." I snap. They all shut up and Christina sits back down.
Time skip to lunch
I am just sitting around the house doing absolutely nothing.. And I am bored out of my mind. My right foot has not stopped bouncing for a straight hour. One of the perks of being ADHD!
Evelyn walks through the front door wearing her scrubs. She's a nurse at the Nursing Home. "Hey Tris. How are you holding up?" She asks. "I'm doing okay. Just a bit bored that's all." I say.
She just nods and goes into the kitchen.
She comes back about ten minutes later with two sandwhiches on plates. "Here you need to eat." She says handing me a plate. I take it. "Thanks." I say before starting on my sandwhich.
"It's no big deal." She says yawning a bit. "You know Four was so worried about you when you were in the hospital he cried a bit when you were back before we could see you. He cares about you alot." Evelyn states simply. Only in a brotherly way. I think to myself.
Four
I sit with the group. They're coming over tonight to see Tris. We're just going to have a movie night and maybe play truth or dare? Not sure but knowing Zeke and Uriah we probably will.
I feel a tap on my shoulder. I turn around to see who it is. Shit. Is the first word that comes to mind. It's Lauren my ex.
"Hey Four." She purs. "Oh hey Lauren." I say emotionlessly. "I heard a rumor about you and that little foster. Are you cheating on me baby?" She asks pulling those puppy eyes that used to have a major effect on me. "Lauren we broke up! And no those rumors aren't true if they say we're dating." I snap. She looks taken aback.
How I wish those rumors were true sometimes. No! Four you need to focus your getting off track. I mentally scold myself.
"But baby!" She whines. "Go away Lauren and leave me alone." I say turning around. "I will get you back and that's a promise!" She shouts before storming off.
Oh how wrong I was about never getting back together with her.
Tris time skip to after school
The door opens. I just ignore it and just lay sprawled across the couch listening to music.
Soon I'm being tickled by someone. I start laughing because who ever they were, are tickling my ribs and that's where I'm most ticklish. "Stop!" I squeal. "Promise me you'll let me give you a make over for Homecoming." A voice that could only belong to Christina says. I just nod and she stops.
I sit up to catch my breath. I've been feeling much better since they amped up the dosage on my antidepressants. And that's good isn't it? I think it is anyways.
"Anways! Truth or Dare time!" Zeke announces. I groan along with Four.
"Okay. Trissy truth or dare?" Uriah asks. "Truth?" I reply but it comes out more of a question than anything. "Pans-," he's cut off by Four's glare. "Okay never mind. So Trissy tell us where you got that brusie on your stomach." Uriah says.
"What!? How did you know!?" I ask. "I didn't know I just guessed. So now how did you get it?" He inquires. I blush a deep red and so does Four.
"So Four has something to do with it doesn't he?" Marlene asks. All I do is nod. "Now spill!" Christina squeals.
"Well I uh had an umm nightmare and I didn't feel like going down uh stairs to wake Evelyn up and umm I went into uh his room to see if he was umm awake, and uh, Four?" I say looking at him for help I was stuttering to much. "Well she came in while I was finishing up last minute homework and she hugged me, and I umm," he rubs the back of his neck, "sat her on the bed and asked her what was wrong and she didn't say anything and just hugged me again and she umm fell asleep and so did I. Tris?" He asks getting redder by the second.
"And when I woke up I kinda sorta forgot where I was and when I relized I was sorta using his chest as a pillow I yelped and fell out of bed taking him with me and he umm landed on top of me and his unbelievably sharp elbow landed and dug into my stomach so yeah..." I trail off.
The girls squeal. "Okay. Umm Shauna Truth or Dare?" I ask. "Dare! I ain't no pansycake!" She says.
I think for a minute, "I dare you to run down the street in your underwear holding streamers in each hand and singing Bad Romance by Lady Gaga." I say smiling smugly. "Uh no way." She says stripping her jacket. We just chuckle.
"Will you know the question!" Shauna says. "Truth. And if you dare say pansycake Uri I will strangle you." Will threatens.
"Okay you have to rate the girls here from one to ten here honestly." She says smiling smugly. He gulps. "Well uhh Christina and Tris nines, and Shauna and Marlene eights." He says.
"Okay Four." Will says. "Dare." He says simply. Will smirks. "I dare you to have Tris sit in your lap for the entire time we're here." He says. Four shifts deciding to do it or not. He looks to me asking for permission. I sigh and nod slightly. I would be face palming but I wouldn't want to open the stitches.
Four pulls me onto his lap. "Okay this is boring! Let's play Bed, Wed, or Dead!" Christina says. We all agree.
"What's that?" I ask. "Well you are given a choice of three people and out of those three you could either put them in bed or wed them or kill them." Zeke explains.
"Okay. Hmm. Uriah bed, wed or dead me, Shauna, and Tris." Christina says smirking. "Well Wed Shauna for my brother's sake, Bed Tris because I don't know," he gives a small shrug, "and kill Christina." He says.
"Okay Trissy! Bed, wed, or dead Four, me and Zeke." Uriah says with a satisfied smile. "Uhh. Four umm bed because just I don't know," my cheeks are flaming by now, "wed Zeke cuz he's like my older brother and I don't want to kill him, and dead Uriah for giving me that." I say glaring at him. He pales a bit.
"Will! Bed, wed, or dead Christina, Zeke and Four." I say smirking. "Well bed Christina, wed Zeke cuz he's awesome, and kill Four." He says. "Hey! Why kill me?" Four protests. "Dude, don't question my motives." Will says chuckling. Four just shakes his head.
My phone rings blaring Skillet's Monster. I pick it up knowing who it is and the only person who will call. My old friend Susan. "Hello?" I ask. 'Hey Tris. I'm in Chicago for a few days could I stay with you and your parents?' She asks. Shit. She's been living in England for the past five years and she doesn't know. "Susan I don't know if that will be a good idea." I say my voice getting shaky.
'Why? Could I please speak to your mother?' She asks. "You can't." I say. 'And why not?' Susan protests. "Because she's dead that's why and so are the others." I snap. I hear strangled sobs coming from the other line. 'Bea I'm so sorry. Just text me the address your living at now and I'll stop by.' She says. I just agree and hang up.
Everyone just looks at me. "Let's watch a movie!" Uriah says trying to sound cheerful. "You guys go ahead I just want to be alone." I say going upstairs.
Four
Everyone just looks at me. I sigh and heave myself off the couch. I walk upstairs to see if there's anything I could do.
Tris' door is open I stand in the doorway for a moment. She's face down on her bed and crying. Her shoulders shake with each sob.
I walk over and sit on the edge of the bed by her feet. "Just leave me alone Four." She says her words muffled by her pillow.
I sigh. "You can't get rid of me that easily Tris." I say. She groans and sits up.
Her face was red and puffy from crying. I hold out my arms and she just kinda falls into me.
I rub her back soothingly as sobs rack her body again. I look over to the doorway. The others stand there silently aww'ing. I use my right and to make a shooing motion and they get the idea all except Christina. Will grabs her by the arm and pulls her away.
"Why did she have to come now?" She sobs. "I don't know Tris. I don't know." I say.
We just stay like that for an hour her silently sobbing into my shoulder. She pulls back. "I'm sorry. I ruined your shirt." She says gesturing to my shoulder. I look down and over to see a wet spot there. "It's no big deal. I've got other shirts." I say playfully punching her shoulder.
She yelps. I cringe back. "I'm sorry. I didn't mean to." I apologize. "No. No no no. It's okay. It's just when I was about eight or nine something glass broke and I fell landing on a shard and I had to get it surgically removed because it hit a nerve but just still some things make it hurt like it was happening all over again." Tris says while looking out the window.
"Oh.." Is all I say. "It's fine. You didn't know." She sas blowing it off.
Tris
My shoulder is dully throbbing right now. That story was true on what I had told him. I felt really bad that he thought he hurt me. But he didn't.
"Can we just go back downstairs now?" I ask. Four just nods and helps me up off the bed. Just being nice. But I defiantly felt a spark I haven't felt in a long time.
We walk back down and no one says a word. I walk into the kitchen and grab an ice pack from the freezer thankfully Evelyn knew about it and told me where they were.
I walk back in with it pressed to my shoulder. Four just looks away from me. I sigh.
We just start telling random stories. So far Uriah's is the funniest especially when they went paintballing. Which he was starting to tell.
"Well we go to the abandoned amusement park and have an all out paintball war with the rest of our huge rambunctious group aka Dauntless," he pauses to chuckle a bit, "well we split into two teams Zeke captain of one and Four the other," he looks at Four as if saying be prepared, "well before you came Tris, we had a girl named Lauren, Four's ex," he says before he can continue I butt in real quick, "I'm well aware of her." I say giving a slight nod.
"Well this was before her and Four became a thing. She snuck off to the ferris wheel to get a better vantage point and I noticed and followed, and she was climbing it and Four started to, too. So when they got up high enough they," he chuckles, "well Four was shaking like a little dog while Lauren was enjoying herself, and then the other team came up so Lauren just started shooting left and right," everyone is at least chuckling by this point, "every thing was okay until she shot Zeke. He had planned this whole death scene if he got shot. He started babbling about how much he loved Shauna and all that shit. So that's basically it."
(I know not very funny)
I sigh just sitting back while the other's tell their stories. Until the doorbell rings. "I'll get it." I say.
When I open it my jaw hits the floor. "I'm looking for the Eaton hosue hold. They're supposed to foster a Beatrice Prior?" He says. I amlost start crying at who it is.
He looks up from the paper. His dark eyes shine brighter when he sees me. He's gained an Australian accent. "Bea?" He asks. I nod unable to speak.
"Oh Bea! I've missed you so much!" He says dragging out the 'o' in so. "I have to!" I say throwing myself in his arms. I have to admit he's gotten more muscular since the last time I saw him. "Oh Bea I came back for you. I promised I would." He whispers in my ear. "Tris. Who's this?" Christina asks. I let go of him.
"Guys this is Eric my," I'm cut off by him. "Boyfriend. I'm her boyfriend." He says. Everyone gasps shocked.
DUN DUN DUN! I betcha thought it was Robert. But nah... There will be a minor twist in the next chapter. I'll try to do a doubble update tonight if not I'll give you a doubble update this weekend. So let me explain a little bit on where Eric went. Well he signed up to be an exchange student for the next three two years in Australia. And Tris was fifteen at the time and he was sixteen. Well let's just say their goodbye the night before got pretty heated. And that's where I'll end that at or I'll ruin the twist. Hopefully see ya pretty soon! Oh and I think Chapter 4 will be the longest of the single didgit chapters but I don't know yet...
