Authors Note: Sorry if this isn't good! I thought of this idea when I was in Social Studies class at 11:00 in the morning! Then I went through the whole day with forgetting my details I was going to put in to go home at 3:00. I hope you like it anyway! Private message me ideas!
Tobias POV
I get home at around 10:00. Marcus opens the door and lets me in. "Why weren't you home earlier?!" He yells. "I'm sorry! Me and my friends were hanging out!" I respond terrified. "YOU TERRIBLE CHILD!" he yells. He whips me while I back into a corner. He whips my back more and more. "This is for your own good" He says. He whips me one more time in the face. My back stings and my face is gushing blood. I cry. It's the only thing I can do right now. I stay in the closet for the night. I cry so loud, Marcus yells at me. "SHUT UP YOU NASTY WOMAN" He says through gritted teeth.
Marcus POV
Tobias gets home at around 10:00. I open the door and let him in. "Why weren't you home earlier?!" I yell. I scared him. I was worried though, he scared me. "I'm sorry! Me and my friends were hanging out!" He responds. I look at his face. He looks so much like Evelyn. Then his face turns into her and she speaks with her soft voice. "Marcus I never loved you! I am pregnant with another person's child and I hate you! Won't you die already!?" My hallucination says. "YOU TERRIBLE CHILD!" I yell. I take off my belt and whip him. He looks like Evelyn, the woman who left me for another man and had his child. I whip him again and again. I can't stop. Tobias screams. "This is for your own good" I say through tears. I whip him one more time on his face. He is gushing blood everywhere. Oh Well. Tobias locks himself in the closet. His sobs are loud and they sound like Evelyn. "SHUT UP YOU NASTY WOMAN" I say through gritted teeth.
Joie POV
It's about 12 and I decide to text Four. We need to do a science project together. He doesn't answer. I call him. No answer. His phone is on, why isn't he answering?! I text Tris and see if she is with him:
Hey, are you with Four? – Joie
No. I haven't spoken to him yet. Why? – Tris
Because I texted him to ask if he wanted to come over to finish our Science project but he never answered me. – Joie
OMG! Joie go to his house! I'm visiting friends in another state! Please please please go check on him! – Tris
Okay! I'm going now! – Joie
I go to Four's house. His car is in the driveway, his father's car is gone. Why isn't he answering?! I knock on the door. Nobody answers. Tris says that I need to see him and it's important. I turn the knob and surprising it's not locked. I walk in and here crying. Four. "FOUR?!" I scream. No answer. I track down the whaling to a closet where I find floor, sitting in a pool of blood, crying. I feel warm water drip down my cheek, I realize that I'm crying also. I made him stand up and walk into the kitchen, where I help his back. He doesn't stop sobbing. Why? What happened to his back?! Why isn't his father or mother taking care of him?! I take a washcloth and do piece by piece on his back so it doesn't hurt as much. When I'm finished with soaking up all the blood I use a disinfecting spray on him. "Okay this is going to burn but it will be over in a second I promise." He shakes his head and I spray little by little. Each time I spray he screams. I move on to his cut on his face. "Four, what happened?" I say to him. He looks up to me with his dark blue eyes. He has streaks from crying a long time and it makes his eyes lighter than normal. "My father beat me" He said. I looked at him with sad eyes, and then started to cry. "Why would your father beat you?" I ask. "Who's your father?" I ask again. "His name is Marcus Eaton" with that name I knew exactly who he was talking about. He was the council member in the government, whose wife and child had passed away. What was his son's name? Tobias. Tobias Eaton. "Tobias?" I say. He looks up to me and nods his head. "You don't remember me do you?" I ask. Tobias used to be my neighbor. I went to school with him and we were best friends. Then he started to show up with bruises that he claimed were from football. Then he stopped talking to me. I asked him what was wrong and he told me that he hated me and to leave him alone. One day he disappeared along with his mother, and his father, Marcus, moved to Chicago. When he died I was sad, but it got worse when my father disappeared also. I got depressed and my mother needed to take me to counseling. Tobias looks at me, and then his eyes widen. "Josephina?" He says. Now he remembers. I start to cry. What if he hates me? He hugs me. I am surprised. "Jo Jo, I didn't actually hate you. My father was beating me and I was going through a tough time." He says. That explains the bruises. "You disappeared on me. You and your mother. And then my father disappeared. Where is your mother? Is my father with you guys?" I say. Tobias starts to cry again. "M- My F-father killed th-them b-both." He stutters. I break down. I sit on his kitchen floor and sob. Because of his father I never got to know mine. I never got to grow up with a father beside me. My mother had to take care of two kids all by herself. His father was the reason. When I was little I used to think that my father was going to walk back into our house like he never left. Like he didn't die. Like it was a normal day and we would go play catch outside like we used to everyday with Tobias and Joseph. Tobias hugs me again. "I need to get you away from him." I say. I can't let him hurt my friend. "Where am I going? There is nowhere to go Jo Jo! I tried." He says
"Then you'll just have to live with me." I say
