Hi guys! Sorry about the lateness of this update, I just had a crazy week! I'm gonna try to update at least twice a week, but it may not be more than that for awhile, simply because of how crazy school has gotten! But I had a snow day today, so I've lots of time to write! :)
Also, the winner of the character contest was ObsessedHutcher ! She had the most detail and all the correct answers, so congrats to her! Her character will come in later, so don't expect it in this chapter, but she will come in soon. Also, thank you to everyone else who participated in the contest, you all did wonderfully, but I feel like ObsessedHutcher had the best detail AND correct answers, but I will most likely do another contest like this later on in the story, so keep an eye out for it!
Thanks again to all my reviewers, they make my day! And now the story.
Four's POV
After the funeral ended, everyone began to leave, but I noticed Tris still standing by the caskets alone, I saw her brother Caleb try to get her to leave, but it didn't seem like she was moving anytime soon, so I decided to be nice.
"Hey Caleb." I say.
He turns and looks at me. "Yes?" He asks.
"Well, I see that Tris isn't leaving anytime soon, but I'm guessing you need to get back to your house to greet and talk to people, so you can ride with Zeke and Uriah and I can stay here until Tris is ready to go." I offer.
I see Caleb narrow his eyes at me. "I don't normally like my sister being alone with boys, but I do need to get back, so just this once, I'll say fine and thank you. She should have the keys to her car, but I might suggest she not drive when she is in this condition." Caleb says.
I nod. "I'll take care of her until she's ready to go."
"Thank you" Caleb says and runs to get into Zeke and Uriah's car.
I walk over to Tris and decide I should try and comfort her.
"It was a beautiful speech." I say.
Tris nods her head and says "Thank you." She then looks over and when she sees it's me, she looks shocked, but tries not to show it.
"I don't really know what to say. I know sorry doesn't cut it. I remember when my mom died, I hated it when people said 'I'm sorry' because it was just so generic, so instead, I want to say, I hope you are doing okay. I didn't know your parents very well, but if they were anything like you…" I take a deep breathe, trying to stop myself from the words that come out next. "They were amazing people."
OH crap. I just blew it. I think. Now Tris proabably thinks I'm some creeper.
Then, she started bawling her eyes out, she was about to collapse but I quickly catch her and bring her into an embrace. We stay like that for a while, until she breaks the silence.
"We should probably go. I should be there to talk to people, after all, they were my parents friends."
I nod my head and we begin to walk towards her car. She starts towards the drivers seat.
"Woah Woah Woah." I say. "What do you think you're doing?"
"Uhm I'm getting in my car to drive it…" She says, clearly confused.
"You are a bit shaken up, I think it would be safer if I drove."
She looks at me like I'm crazy. "Are you kidding? Do you see my car? This is my baby. No one drives it but me."
I put my hands up in mock surrender. "Ok ok! Sorry!"
She laughs. "Come on and get in."
Tris drives like an absolute maniac and we end up arriving to her house before half the people even arrive.
As I am getting out of the car, Tris looks at me and says "Thank you." But I don't have time to respond because then, I lose her in the crowd.
****TIME LAPSE—It's now Sunday morning******
I wake up feeling the best I've felt in a long time. Even though I'm still really sad about my parents, after the funeral and when I had remembered the dream of my parents, and having Four be able to make me feel so safe, it was a lot easier to instead of mourning my parents, to celebrate them.
Yesterday, after Four and I arrived back at my house, I really didn't see any of my friends, because all my parent's friends were coming up to talk to me and Caleb, so when everyone left, we were both exhausted and just collapsed in bed.
Because it's Sunday morning, I just continue to lay in my bed until I hear my phone ring, I look and see that it's Christina. I quickly answer. "Hi Chris!" I say, probably sounding way happier than I have in days.
"Hi Tris…." She pauses. "Umm…well I'm not trying to like bring up anything sad but…are you doing ok?" She asks very slowly like she's afraid of my answer.
"Surprisingly, yes! After the funeral yesterday, I felt like everything was going to be ok. I felt like mom and dad were right here with me, and I feel like I can actually move on now." What I'm saying isn't a lie, I truly feel like I am going to be ok.
"Are you sure…?" Christina asks.
I laugh "Yes I'm sure."
"Ok good!" Christina shouts, sounding more like her normal self again. "then do you wanna have a girls day with me?!"
I groan. "Does that include shopping?"
"Yes, but it also includes caribou and lunch and manicures and pedicures and you and me gossiping and having fun all day." She says and she sounds so excited.
"You know what?" I say. "Surprisingly enough, that sounds like just what I need."
Christina squeals. "Yayy! Thank you Tris! I love you!"
I laugh. "I love you too! So do you want me to pick you up?"
"Yeah sure that would be great because then everyone will be drooling over your car!" She jokes.
"Ok, I'll be over to your house in like an hour and a half so I can get dressed and such."
"Ok sounds good!" Christina says. "See you soon."
I quickly hang up and jump in the shower. After I'm out, I brush, dry my hair, and pull it up into a messy bun. Then I go into my closet and put on my light blue jeggings, a long-sleeved white and black striped lululemon shirt with my black puffy vest over it.
I then go and put on some light foundation, mascara and eyeshadow. After that's done, I slip on my diamond watch and some turquoise earrings and of course, my silver hoop earrings as well. Then, I walk over to Caleb's room and knock lightly.
"Come in." he calls.
I walk in. "Hey Caleb." I say.
"Oh hi Bea." He says. "Are you doing…better?"
"Actually, yes! I'm doing really well. So I'm gonna go spend the day with Christina."
"That's great! I think it will actually help you a lot."
I nod. "I think so too, and Christina and I need to catch up."
"When are you leaving?" He asks.
I check my watch. "In about half an hour."
"Ok, do you wanna go eat breakfast together?"
"Yeah!" We both head downstairs.
I grab 3 chocolate donuts and 2 sugar donuts from the cupboard, as Caleb gets out the orange juice.
We both sit down and I enjoy my chocolate donuts as he enjoys his sugar ones.
We just sit together talking and enjoying each other's company. He tells me about how he plans to ask Susan to the dance, which I think is so adorable, and we just continue to talk about other random stuff until it's time for me to go get Christina.
I quickly put on my turquoise TOMS and head towards the door.
"Bye Caleb!" I yell behind me as I walk out. "See you soon!"
I go into the garage and put the top on my convertible down because it's a realy nice day and I love feeling the wind in my hair. Then I hop into my car and speed off to Chris's which is only about 7 minutes from my house.
When I get there, I honk 3 times, and soon enough, Christina emerges wearing a short black skirt with a black and white swirly long-sleeved crop top. She waves and runs to my car and hops in the passenger seat.
"Hey Trissy!" She says while giving me a hug.
"Hey! So where are we headed first?" I ask.
"The Dauntless mall! Duh!" She says.
I laugh and start driving towards the Dauntless mall. She turns my radio on and the song Brave by Sara Bareilles came on. She cranked the sound up to as high as it can go and we both started singing super loud to it.
Unfortunately, we forgot that we were in a convertible and that meant that any other car that had their windows open could hear us singing, so when we were waiting at a stop light, we heard someone yell "YOU SUCK!"
We both looked over and saw Peter, Drew, Molly and…Al. Peter was the one who yelled at us, but Molly and Drew were laughing with him, but Al was just sitting there looking really sad.
"ATLEAST WE KNOW HOW TO HAVE FUN WITHOUT HURTING OTHERS!" Christina yelled back.
They just continued driving straight through the red light, so who knows if they heard her.
"They are such douchebags." Christina said to me.
"I know, I still can't believe Al used to be our friend." I say.
"It's crazy how much people change."
The rest of the 10 minute car ride is spent with us gossiping about everything that happened at school this past week, and about the fall dance that was coming up, but too soon, we arrived at the mall.
Christina jumped out of the car, grabbed my hand and dragged me into the mall. The first store we went to was American Eagle. Christina ended up running all over the store and throwing clothes into my already way to large pile.
I tried on atleast 20 different outfits in that store alone, but ended up just getting a pair of lavender skinny jeans, a white and silver crop top, a high low black lace skirt, and a grey and white sun dress. Christina bought 3 pairs of jeans, 4 long sleeve shirts and 2 sun dresses.
The next store we went to was called Stacy's. It's a tiny store that has really cheap but nice things. Christina didn't buy anything there, but she made me buy this one dress. I really didn't want to buy it, but she literally forced me to. The dress was a dark blue strapless sweetheart neckline dress that was skin tight and incredibly short, it went shorter than mid-thigh—I swear half my butt was hanging out—and it showed my entire back. It also had a few small cut outs on the sides. It was pretty, but not my style at all, but Christina made me buy it.
After, we went to Van Maur, where I ended up buying a pair of silver stiletto heels that were 6 inches high, and a pair of dark blue high top sperry's.
We ended up going to about 5 other stores where I also bought another jean jacket, 2 more pairs of skinny jeans, 3 new sweaters, a dark purple vest, and another pair of leggings.
Christina then told me it was finally time for Caribou and lunch, we ended up getting noodles & co for lunch and I got a hot cocoa from Caribou. We ate our lunch and just talked about a bunch of different things, and then my phone rang, I saw it was Uriah and answered.
"Hello?"
"Hey Trissy!" He said.
"Hi Uriah! What's going on?"
"Well, you know, the usual, how are you…uhh…doing?"
"Really well! Christina and I are actually at the mall right now. I have been doing so much better after the funeral yesterday, and I will be back at school tomorrow!" I state.
"Ohh good!" Uriah responds. "I am so happy. So, what I called about…so, I am kinda uhh…planning to ask Marlene to the dance tomorrow, and I was hoping you'd help me." He says nervously.
"Awww CUTE!" I say, "I would love to! What do you need me to do?"
"Well, I am having Zeke set up a karaoke thing for the half-time show at the football game tomorrow, and so, I was hoping that towards the end, you could convince Marlene could do a song with you, so she is already on the field, and then after you two go, I would sing my song, and then in the middle, Zeke and Four are going to hold up a poster saying 'Marlene you are amazing just the way you are-Uriah' and then, you could force Marlene onto the stage."
"Uriah! That is so sweet! I would be happy to do that for you!" I practically yell.
"Really?! Thank you!" Uriah says. "You're the best Tris!"
We both say goodbye and hang up.
"what was that all about?" Christina asks.
"I'll tell you while we get our nails done, because it's kinda a long story!" I say.
"Ok, then let's go get our nails done!" Chris responds while throwing our trays away.
We go over to the nail place and explain that we want a manicure and pedicure, I choose to do a simple French manicure with a fancy flower on my ring finger nail, and Christina chooses an electric pink with a fancy flower on her thumb.
While we get our nails done, I explain to her all about how Uriah is asking Marlene to the dance and what I have to do. After I'm done explaining Christina squeals.
"That's so adorable!" She yells.
"I know right!" I yell back. "Who woud've thought Uri could be romantic?!"
Christina laughs. "I guess everyone has a little bit of romance in them."
"So when do you think Will is asking you?" I ask, because she and will have been dating for a month now, but he still hasn't asked her to the dance, and the dance is this Saturday.
Christina groans. "I don't know! I wish he would hurry up and do it, or else I'm gonna have to ask him!"
I laugh. "And you totally would."
"Now, enough about me." She says. "Who do you think is going to ask you?" She waggles her eyebrows at the end.
"Probably nobody." I say nonchalantly, deciding it would be best not to mention the 4 texts and 6 calls I've had from random boys in our grade asking me to the dance.
Christina laughs. "HA! I'm sure people have already asked you, but you're just too much of a pansycake to say yes."
"Pansycake? Really?" I ask with my eyebrows raised.
She just shrugs her shoulders. "I've been around Uriah too much lately."
I laugh and we continue to talk until our nails our done, and we pay.
"Alright Chris, I think we've gone to half the stores in the mall, so can we go home now?"
"TRIS! Absolutely not, we have 6 more stores to go to!"
"Ughh! No! Remember, I actually wanted to come shopping today, so if you make me go for too long, I'm not gonna want to go ever again."
Christina scowls. "Alright, just one more?"
"Deal." I say.
She gets this really creepy grin on her face and says "Good, follow me!"
She leads me to the top floor of the mall and then she stops in front of a store covered in bright pink. I almost start screaming.
"You're making me go into Victoria's Secret?!" I practically scream.
"Yup!" Christina has a smug smile on her face.
"Absolutely not." I state, beginning to walk away.
"Please?" Christina begs, grabbing my arm and pulling me back.
I stop and look at her. "NO!"
"What if I promise to not make you buy anything?"
I consider this and say "FINE!"
Chris squeals in delight and pulls me into the store. I go off and try to hide behind the millions of shelf in the store. After about 25 minutes of me sitting there, Christina grabs me by the arm, pulls me into a dressing room and throws about 30 bras and panties at me. "Try them on and tell me what you like."
I groan, but comply.
After I've tried them all on I tell her that I liked the dark blue sparkly bra, the gray lacy one, and the black lacy one, and all three of the matching panties.
"But remember, you promised I didn't have to buy anything, so I'm gonna go put them back…" Right as I am about to walk away, she grabs all 6 items and runs to the checkout, purchasing them all.
I gasp and march over to her. "What do you think you are doing?" I ask.
"OH nothing!" She says slyly. Then, the cheery cashier girl handed her 3 small bags, each containing a bra and the matching panties. Then we walked out of the store, and Christina handed me all the bags.
"CHRIS! You promised I didn't have to buy anything from there."
"And you didn't…I did!" she says winking. I groan. "Come on Tris! Those were expensive! Just be grateful and say thank you!"
"Fine. Thank you." I say.
"Now that's the spirit! Come on, let's go." We walk out to my car together and drive home.
Even though I just spent about $500, and Christina bought me those few items, it was actually a pretty good day, and it made me feel like maybe, just maybe, life can get back to normal.
So, what did you guys think?! That was my longest chapter yet so go me! Hahaha jk, but sorry for all of you people who don't like all the girly shopping descriptions and all, I just needed Tris to kinda have a day to get over all the sadness, and I thought this was the best way, but the next chapter is going to be really exciting and drama filled, SO GET READY! :) Again, I love you all and I absolutely adore reviews so PLEASE REVIEW! Thanks for all your support!
Until next time!
~AGirlWithADream27
