Tris

Everyone surrounds me and I can't hear what anyone's saying.

"Give her some space. She's tired." Christina yells. Everyone moves away and I take a deep breath.

"Hey. How are you here?" says Zeke. He looks happy, although I can tell he's not. I wonder how he's felt since Uriah's he feel how I felt when my parents died? Before I can answer is question Caleb comes running towards me. He wraps his hands around me and pulls me into a hug.

"Tris! You're alive!" His face has a smile from eye to eye.

"Yea. How are you?" I ask. He has a scar on his cheek. I wonder what happened to him when I was gone. Heis hair is messy and he looks pale. His eyes are red, I wonder why.

"I'm doing good. How are you here?"

"You are like the 10th person to ask me that. " I laugh a little. "Why don't I let Tobias explain well I talk to everyone else."

"Sure." His grin fades to only a small smile.

"Are you guys like… enemies?"

"No." Tobias explains. "Just not best friends."

"He was mad at me because he thought I made you go into the room. We kind

got better after that, but we are still not on "BFF" level." I look at Tobias, who is now starring at his shoes. I tap him on the shoulder and take his hand. He gives me a small smile.

"Maybe talking will make you guys closer." I pause for a second. "Maybe then you can be "BFF's" and go to the store together and stuff." I smirk and they both look at me. Tobias starts to leave but I pull his arm. He looks at me. "Tobias… I'll tell you after." He waves and walks away. Caleb follows.

Everyone turns back to me. I don't know what to say.

Tobias comes and sits next to me at the table. He takes a piece of bread and doesn't say anything.

"So… how did things go?" I ask in a calm voice.

"Fine." he says. You can tell he's frustrated by his voice.

"Can I talk to you for a second?"

"Sure." We walk outside towards the chasm. We take a seat and I take his hand.

"Tobias."

"Yea?"
"I want you to know that I chose to go into the room. Infact I held Caleb at gunpoint so I could."

"Why?"

"Earlier that day, I asked him a question. I asked why he wanted to go in. You said he would do it because he loves me. That was not why he wanted to. He wanted to do it because he felt guilty. I couldn't let him do that. It just felt wrong.

"So you didn't care about how I felt? How miserable I've been?"

"Of course I cared about you. You mean the world to me." He smiles. "I did it because I love Caleb too. It would haunt me for the rest of my life. Plus, he couldn't survive the death serum. I could. I'm alive he wouldn't have been."

"I understand, but Tris… you left me. All alone."

"You had friends with you to."

"Most of them were sad or mad at me. It wasn't the same without you."

"Tobias, did you hear what I told Caleb to tell you? I didn't want to leave you." He looks at me for a while then he says

"Tris, I love you."

I love you to" I feel like we are going to kiss, and we do. He touches my cheek and puts his other hand in my hair. He sends a warm feeling of relief through me. We walk towards outside. Before we can go to a "nicer" looking area, we run in the opposite direction. John and some guards ar circling near the building. We hide behind a small abandoned building. All I hear at first his muffled talking. All I understand are a few words.

"Where are they?" Says a deep voice. It's John. Tobias and I share a look and we run back towards the compound. By the time we get back we are out of breath. Christina is standing by the door talking to Caleb. They look at us. All I can say is

"John… Me...Here…" By the way they look at me, I know they understand.

We all start running, I know where we're going. The Pit. Tobias starts talking.

"Quiet!" Everyone looks at him. "Tris has just escaped from outside Chicago. Seh was held captive in the Bureau from someone named John Matthews."

"Matthews?" Someone asks.

"Yes, he is Jeanine's brother. He is here in Chicago close to this compound looking for us. We think he is planning to attack. Therefore, we must be ready." Tobias says. Everyone starts talking to whoever is next to them.

"How are we supposed to get ready? Do we have weapons or something?" I whisper to Tobias.

"Yea, we have some guns and things. This is the old Dauntless compound, right?" he replies.

I nod. I guess we are having another attack. Hopefully, this is the last.