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Tobias POV
I wake up because of the alarm clock blaring in my ears. I'm still holding Tris in my arms. She looks so angelic when she sleeps. We have to be on time to school, so I need to wake Tris up now. I kiss the top of her head and whisper "Tris... Tris get up... Please?" I stretch out please on the e sound to try and get her attention then hear her groan. That's a good sign, right?
"Tris...?"
She turns around and sticks her face into the pillow.
"Tris..." I say in a mocking voice. She doesn't get up, prompting me to continue.
"Oh Tris! Trissy-poo!" I sing right near her ear.
Suddenly she flips over and says in a stern voice "Tobias Eaton. If you ever dare call me that again you will be a dead man. A dead man I tell you!"
I grin stupidly and tell her "I guess I have a new nickname for you."
"Tobias..."
I kiss her and head to the bathroom.
"I need a shower. Put on your clothes from yesterday and on the way to school you can run into your house to get some new clothes."
"Sounds great, go shower so we can head to school and stop off at my house; knowing me I'll need a little bit of time."
"Okay cutie, love you."
Tris POV
I really love Tobias. Not in the 'high school sweethearts' kind of way. Only in the 'I am dead serious when I say that I want to spend the rest of my life with this amazing man' way. Only him. Tobias just ran into the shower and I am still in bed. Today is going to be the hardest day of my life. I have to go through the entire day of school acting as if everything is normal between Tobias and I. Act as if we are not a couple. I can't believe I'm going to hide this from Christina, the only think that keeps my mind set is it will help us, otherwise I wouldn't be able to do it. I am so lost in my thoughts that I don't hear Tobias walk back in from the bathroom.
"Earth to Trissy-poo!"
Suddenly I snap out of it.
"What the heck was that for?"
"So I'm assuming you did not hear me calling you for the past thirty seconds"
"No, obviously not."
"Whatever, that doesn't matter," he says, cracking a smile. "Get dressed so we can leave and get you some new clothes."
"Okay, fine."
I rip off Tobias's baggy shirt which was very comfortable as he looks away.
"Tobias are you okay?"
I look down at my chest and gasp in realization.
"I'm so sorry. Do you need me to change in the bathroom? I don't mind if it bothers you?"
He looks at me regretfully. "No, I'm sorry Tris. I'm just not used to seeing the most beautiful girl in the world topless in my bedroom."
I am too shocked to even blush, I have no words. "Tobias... That was… It..." I get up and start sobbing into his shoulder. "That means so much to me. That was the nicest think anyone has ever said to me. You know after when you told me you loved me and all but..." I continue crying into him. I squeeze him and let go. "I love you. I love you Tobias Eaton. With all my heart and soul. All of me loves all of you. Just-" I grin "I'm sorry I had to get that off my chest."
"Tris that was amazing" now it's his turn to hug me. He gently pulls me up to him and squeezes. He doesn't let go until he tells me "I love you too" and he kisses me passionately.
"Tris, I hate to break the moment but," he glances down at me "you need to get dressed and we need to head out to get you some new clothes."
I look up at him with my mocking puppy dog eyes. "Please? Don't make me go!" I say.
He cracks a huge grin; one that makes me melt. "Tris, that isn't going to work, go get dressed and I'll make some waffles."
I look up at him and reply. "Ugh, fine but just so you know I don't want to."
He gives me a quick kiss on my forehead and says "I know, don't worry," he begins as a wicked smirk crosses his face. "TRISSYPOO!" Oh, he is dead.
"Tobias..." I narrow my eyes and look at him as fiercely as I can manage.
"I'm sorry, but you're so cute when you're mad!" He says.
He kisses me again, but so quickly I can't even kiss back. He runs downstairs to make breakfast for us while I change quickly and bolt downstairs. When I walk into the kitchen and see breakfast my jaw drops and I'm speechless.
"Tris," Tobias says raising an eyebrow at my expression. "you'd better close your mouth or you'll catch flies."
"Tobias this is amazing!"
Before me, I see a bunch of chocolate chip waffles with strawberries, all fresh, and whipped cream on top.
"Oh, it's nothing," he says "it was simple!"
"Thank you so much" I whisper and I kiss him.
We finish up breakfast and start walking towards my house together.
"So," Tobias says. "If you don't want to talk about this its alright, I understand, but what ended up happening with your anorexia?"
"Oh... well, my mother saved my life, literally. It got so bad that I would faint more than once a day, so my mother signed me up for a support group. At the time I was furious at and then she also took me one on one therapy which made me even angrier. Every day in school the girl would get the pleasure of seeing what she caused to happen. After I got over that, I was the one who got the pleasure of seeing her surprised expression at how much better I had gotten, how I had come back, that I was better than ever."
"Wow, Tris, see? That's one more thing that I love about you. You are the most determined person I have ever met, and your only in high school." he says this with an odd tone I have rarely heard from anyone who really cared about me before, Pride.
"Awe, thanks."
By now we are on the doorstep of my house and as I unlock the door Tobias says with a wink, "I'll wait out here, Trissy-poo. Go get dressed."
"Non-sense Tobias. Come in, come in" I say in a mock polite tone.
"We'll when you say it like that..."
I run upstairs and leave him in the living room. I call out from the top of the stairs "Stay there I'll be down in five."
"That's possible?" He asks sarcastically. "I'll be timing you..."
I run into my room and grab a shirt and leggings. In the mirror, I notice that my face is bruised from yesterday. Only that one thought, cover it up, kept me from walking out of the bathroom and back down to Tobias. I want to come back today and since most of the school knows by now what happened I need to let them know that I'm back. I don't want people's pity but I can't stand up completely straight because that will make Peter think it didn't affect me, which it did. Once I finish run down the stairs and stand in front of Tobias, grab his hand, and walk out the door.
As we're walking I ask him something.
"Tobias? How come you didn't tell me that I'm so bruised up?"
"Because they're beautiful. I didn't think there was a point in telling you because you looked the same with them, if not more beautiful."
"Awe," I say, blushing.
When I look up again we are in front of the school. That was actually, theshortest walk to school I have ever taken. As I am thinking that a realization dawns down on me. I look down at our entwined hands and quickly get out of his grasp. He looks up at me when I do, clearly hurt.
I smile, laugh almost and say "Don't be stupid! People aren't supposed to know we're together, right? People that just met yesterday shouldn't be walking to school holding hands if they aren't together, right?"
Tobias's facial expression shift ever so slowly and soon he ends up smiling. "I can't believe we were so stupid."
I walk into school and head to my locker, dreading the rest of the day. No Tobias; just Four. No us; just me. As I'm walking to class I get a text.
'Hey Trissy-poo,
Just something to make your day:
Four + Tris = FourTris :) luv ya!'
For the rest of the day all of my papers have "FourTris" doodled on them. Every back of a page, every empty line, everywhere it can be drawn.
I love my life here, I really do. I have my amazing friends, not to mention FourTris, what could be better?
That was my state of mind until a few weeks later... when one day changed my life forever.
