Chapter 7
I invite her in then go to wake Tobias who's still fast asleep.
"Tobias, wake up. Your ex girlfriend is here." He just rolls over and says to kick her out.
"I can't, get up now." He grudgingly gets up, not happy to be woken up this early.
"Nita, what do you want? It's 6 in the morning." I go to make coffee in the kitchen, sneakily eavesdropping.
"First of all, who's the girl." She asks, pointing at me.
"She's my new roommate. Remember you kicked me out of my own apartment after we broke up?" I remember him telling me that the first night we became
roommates. I pour the coffee leaving it black for Tobias and pouring in a bit of cream and sugar for me. He gratefully accepts it.
"I was overreacting, but I have good news. I want to get back together, so we can move back in together! So your little friend can live alone again and we can be
together!" I nearly spill my coffee onto his lap, but he catches it just in time. He looks hesitant, and I'm scared for his answer.
"I don't know Nita, I love you but the way you ended things…" His voice trails off as she sighs impatiently.
"I was just scared of my feelings for you, i'm sorry. Please take me back?"
"Ok, but I want to continue living here with Tris, ok?" I cringe as she squeals and goes to kiss him, which turns into a make-out session, which ends up in his bedroom
thank god. I decide to go out for some fresh air. I can't believe he would get back together with her, after everything that happened last night. How could he do this?
Because she's prettier than you and he knows her better than you. I really liked him, I thought he liked me to. I guess not. I almost start crying, but I hold the tears
back. I should be happy for him, he obviously likes her. Right? I sit in my booth of my favorite diner, "Walker Brothers," deciding I need to drown my sorrow in
pancakes. Halfway through my huge apple pancake with tissues all over my table from my tears, I notice someone looking at me. With no shame left in me, I wave him
over since he's alone. He sits across from me and introduces himself.
"Hi, i'm Fernando. My friends call me Nando, if you want to call me that." I don't respond. He seems to happy to be with me, so I offer him a fork. I could easily eat this
whole thing my myself but I decide it's better to shut him up with food than talk to him. I look back down as he starts to eat little by little. After it's gone, I pay the bill
and we walk around outside a little.
"My roommate just got back together with his girlfriend, so I decided to go fill my heart with pancakes." I shrug, shivering a little from the cold.
"My girlfriend just dumped me for my sister, so that's great." I nod solemnly, not sure how to respond to that. I hope he doesn't think he made her a lesbian, she was
probably already a lesbian when they started dating, and just wanted to get close to his sister...that sounds bad.
"We were so close, I thought he liked me. You know? I really liked him…" Now he nods, probably trying to look for an escape from this conversation and from me.
"I can't really relate since i've only ever had one girlfriend, but I know how much it sucks to be rejected. Trust me, it happens to me all the time. If you really like him,
and you think he likes you to, he'll come to his senses eventually." I feel a little better, I decide I like Nando. Maybe we could be good friends.
"Thanks. His girlfriend seems terrible, she kicked him out of his own apartment, so I don't think it'll last long. But the fact that he said yes to her makes me sad. Why
would he want to be with her again?" I'm kind of talking to myself but I see Nando shaking his head. After a few hours of walking and talking, I head back to the
apartment to hopefully find that Nita has left my apartment.
Tobias POV
After being woken up by Tris with the news that Nita was here, I wasn't exactly thrilled. Seeing her in my kitchen with Tris next to her really made me glad she ended
things, because Tris is so much better than her in every way.
"Who is she?" She points to Tris as if she were a maid or a bag of trash. I make a point of talking about how she kicked me out of my apartment and that she was my
new roommate. Then she says this: "I was overreacting, but I have good news. I want to get back together, so we can move back in together! So your little friend can
live alone again and we can be together!" Thanks to my reflexes I don't end up with a lap full of coffee, but instead end up with an ear full of crap. She doesn't want to
get back together with me, she wants to get back together with her ex boyfriend Will who broke up with her a year or so back. She just wants to make him jealous by
using me as the bait. Then something clicks in my mind: If I start dating Nita, my old gang might leave me alone seeing that I don't know Tris. I would stop hanging out
with her for a while just until they stopped following me and being suspicious then I could dump Nita and Tris and I could go back to being...whatever we are.
So, I go along with it and make out with Nita, feeling really bad for Tris having to watch this. Nita leads us to my bedroom, but all we do is kiss before I kick her out. I
really don't like her, but I need this plan to work so make plans for later that day to go to a restaurant for a surprise, which is really just me giving her a crappy cheap
present. Later, after she leaves, I realize Tris isn't home. Where is she? I hope she's ok, should I tell her my plan? Maybe I will. Ring ring. I pick my phone up, hoping
it's Tris telling me she's ok.
"Hello?"
"Hello Four." My heart drops, realizing what's happening. My old life is coming back to bite me in the butt, my plan isn't working. Oh no.
A/N
To be continued! So, sorry for not updating in a few days or something. Writers block, your reviews are making me think harder since they're not all so nice. I randomly thought of this idea, and i'm excited to write about it in my next chapter. As always, leave a review and follow and favorite this story. Thanks as always to my collab partner Odyssey for helping me. This chapter is a little short, but writer's block can do that to you. Anyway, thanks and bye!
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