Ash POV

I walk back inside to meet the eyes of all my mom's friends. They all just stare at me for a while until one of the girls, I think Marlene decides to break the silence and speak.

"Where's Tris?" she asks quietly. They all look at me expectantly. I sigh

"When she ran after him, she broke down, and now she went to my dad's house so he can explain," I say slowly, choosing my words carefully. They all nod. The girl who believe is Christina, head perks up.

"Do you think she will forgive him?" he asks. I sigh not knowing the answer.

"Honestly, I have no idea." I say. I go sit down in the only spot open, which is between Zeke and Uriah. I think

"Did you forgive him?" Christina asks. I sigh and nod

"Yeah I did," they all nod.

"What was my mom like when she was a teenager?" I ask. They all immediately smile.

"She was… awesome. It's so hard to describe her. She was the cheer captain, everyone knew who she was. All the boys had a crush on her, but few admitted it. The thing is, she never dated anyone. She always said she was waiting for someone. When we were 15, we got a name from her. Tobias Eaton. She told us the story, and we all believed it was false hope. Until Four came. We all thought that she finally got over him. Then we found out that Four was him. They were the cutest couple in school. Cheer captain and Football captain. It was a fairy tale. Your mom was the best person I ever knew." The boy Uriah says. I hear the girl Marlene giggle. "What?" He asks.

"Nothing, it's just your so cute when you act all deep," she pecks his lips and I can't help but smile. He seems like the perfect father. I wonder if they have kids.

Just then I hear a phone ring. Then, the girl Christina, takes out her phone, then she gasps.

"Guys, we totally forgot to tell Natalie!" they all gasp. Who's Natalie? Is she another one of Tris' friends?

"Who's Natalie?" I ask. They all smile. Then hand me the phone. I give them a questioning look.

"Why don't you answer," I nod then I press the answer button on the phone.

"Hello?" I ask

"Is this Christina?" she asks

"No, this is Ashlynn Eaton Prior," I hear a gasp on the other end then crying. "Who are you?" I ask.

"This is Natalie Prior, Tris' mother, your grandmother," I gasp then smile and I see everyone around me smiling.

"I have a grandma?" I ask, I hear laughing on the other end.

"Is Tris with you?" she asks

"No, she's talking to Tobias right now," I hear a gasp on the other end.

"Tobias Eaton," she asks

"Yeah, he was our new neighbor, and there was this huge freak out, and now she is listening to his reason." I hear heavy breaths on the other end.

"Tell Christina were booking the quickest tickets we can get and were bringing the kids, okay?" she asks. Kids. Does that mean my mom's friends have kids.

"Okay," then she hangs up. They all look at me expectantly.

"Oh, she said she's booking the first flight she can get and she's bringing the kids." They all nod.

"Do I have a grandpa too?" I ask. They all look wearily to each other.

"He died from depression a few years ago," they say. I look down sadly.

"What?" I hear behind me, and I see my mom crying. "He died because of me?" she says, practically yells.

"Tris, don't blame this on yourself," Will soothes.

"Why the fuck can't I blame this on myself. I fucking left like I coward, then my dad fall into fucking depression because his daughter is gone and he doesn't know where. Then he dies. So tell me Will, why the hell I can't blame myself." She yells. I've never heard my mom seem so mad. I've also never heard my mom cuss. Zeke stands up and walks to her and grab her hands.

"Do you want to know why you can't blame yourself?" she looks away. "Because, we all would have done the same thing. If Shauna left me on my wedding day, I would run away too. We all would have. You were heartbroken, and you didn't know to do. So stop blaming yourself, because that doesn't mean he's going to come back," she starts crying.

"I never got to say goodbye," she whispers into his chest.

"I know, but he still loves you, even if he's in heaven, okay?" he says, and she nods again. She pulls away and looks at me.

"Did you forgive him?" I ask. She sighs and looks me straight in the eye.

"I don't know. I think you and me need to talk about this before we make a final decision. You know this is going to change our life," she says.

"How could you have not forgiven him? He left because he wanted to protect you, he left because he wanted to protect him," I say gesturing to my mom's friends. "He left because he wanted to protect me. I know this is going to change our lives. I am going to have a father. I'm not going to be the girl who comes alone to the father daughter dances. The one with no signature next to the father part for all my repot cards. I'm not going to be the girl who has no idea how to explain to her friends her dad left her and her mom on her wedding day. What s so bad about that change mom. Do you know how hard it is being the girl without a father, without an excuse? Mom, you should have forgiven him. He left because he rather get beat everyday by the man he ran away from, that let the people around him, who he cared about, get hurt. He was a selfless man, just like you. So why didn't you forgive him." I yell

"Because she doesn't want to lose you," I look behind mom, and see my dad standing there.

Tris POV

"Because she doesn't want to lose you," I hear. I would recognize that voice anywhere. Tobias. I look at him and all I see is his beautiful blue eyes, full od love, staring at me.

"What do you mean, loose me?" Ash asks. I sigh.

"Tobias," I say warningly.

"Tris, please," I sigh and nod. "Your mom has spent the past 14 years raising you into the young woman you are today. She is afraid I'm is going to walk into your life and change you. She believes you're going to become someone different, instead of the sweet little girl she raised. She is afraid of you changing, and she thinks I'm going to do that." I honestly don't know how, but he always know how I feel. We have each other memorized.

Even after 14 years.

"Mom, I'm not going to change. I promise. I'm still going to be your little girl, except I'll be his too." She says, then whispers the last part in my ear. "And you need to make sure he isn't an overprotective dad," I laugh and she does too.

"Okay, but Tobias can a talk to you, alone, for a minute?" he nods and we go into the spare room downstairs.

"Yes?" he asks once were in.

"You have to understand you can't leave again," I begin, but her cuts me off.

"Tris I'm not going to," this time I cut him off.

"No in that way. That means if someone else come and threatens my life to get you to leave, you have to trust I can protect myself, with your help. You may think leaving is saving my life, but maybe not. Tobias, when you left, I had thoughts of suicide. I almost killed myself. The only reason I didn't was because of Ashlynn. If you were to leave again, I'd be too broken to think twice. I would commit suicide. Tobias, if something like that was to happen again, you have to decide what would be a better death. Homicide or Suicide?" I finish and he grabs my hand.

"Tris, I promise I wont ever leave you. If someone threatens you. I will kill them first." I nod and then I hug him. Just hug him, I'm not ready for anything else yet.

"Does that mean you forgive me?" he asks hopeful

"Yes Tobias I forgive you" he leans in to kiss me, but I push him away.

"Just because I forgive you, doesn't mean we can go back to the way we were. You have a lot of things you need to do to earn having a kiss from me. Okay?"

"Okay."

"Wanna bet their listening?" I ask. He laugh and motions for me to follow him. We walk to the door and open it, and they all come tumbling onto the floor. I and Tobias start laughing hysterically, until I can't breathe anymore.

"Shit," we hear. I turn to Christina and see her looking and her wrist watch, We have to go pick up Natalie, like now," I light up. "Okay, it's a 7 person van and there is nine of us, so that means Ashlynn will stay home with… Uriah," she decides.

"Why me?" Uriah pouts

"Because you're you, bye Uri" I yell before all except Ash and Uriah run to the van and take off.

Zeke drives with Christina next to him, Shauna and Marlene in the middle, and me in the back, literally squished in between Will and Tobias.

The whole ride I am very giddy for getting to see my mom again.

"Oh yeah, we forgot to tell you we have kids, and their all coming with your mom," Will says nonchalantly.

"Oh my god, what's their names, genders, whose are who's?" I yell. Everyone starts laughing. "What?" I ask. They all laugh harder. "JUST TELL ME," I yell.

"Okay, me and will have a son and daughter. Justine, who's nine, and Adam who's seven. Uriah and Marlene have three kids, two girls and a boy. Zoe and Roslyn are twins and their ten, then there's Tyler, but he goes by Ty and he's 13. Then Shauna and Zeke have three boys and a girl. Mark, who's thirteen, Ethan, who's twelve, and Michael who's eleven. Then there's Kelsey, and she's fourteen. We found out Shauna was almost two months pregnant after you left," Christina says. I nod.

"Wow," is all I manage to say.

"Yeah, their all coming with you mom,"

"My mom," I echo. Then it all hits me at once, I missed their pregnancies, I missed their births, I missed them raising them, I missed my father's death, I missed his funeral, I missed all their weddings, just because I'm a coward. That's when I break down once again. Everyone seems panicked except Tobias. He leans in and whispers,

"Am I allowed to comfort you?" he ask, and I almost laugh. Almost. I nod and he pulls me into him.

"Should we pull over?" I hear Christina ask. I shake my head into his chest.

"No, keep going," Tobias says. By now small sobs are coming out. After a few minutes I'm done crying.

Tobias is about to pull away, but I pull him back in. I feel the rumble of his chest as he chuckles.

I fall asleep eventually.

I wake to a bunch of talking and shuffling feet around me. I look around and see I'm in the airport. Being held by Tobias. He puts me down and I look at him confused. Then he points ahead of me and I see someone I wouldn't ever forget the face of. Even after 14 years.

"Mom," I whisper.

I was going to end it here, but then I realized I've been leaving a lot of cliff hangers lately, so I'm not going to. De nada (your welcome in Spanish)

"Mom," I yell. She turns and sees me. Tears start welling up in my eyes as I sprint to her. When I get her I embrace her in a huge hug, as I feel her tears on my shoulder. I realize I'm crying too.

"I've missed you so much." I say. I feel her nod against my chest. When I pull away I see a bunch of kids walking to their parents.

"I'm so sorry, I just was so upset so I left. I didn't think about everything I would be missing. You probably hate me for leaving and making him go into depression, then dying. All because of me. I'm so sorry." I'm sobbing now.

"Honey I could never hate you," then her eyes shift to behind me "I but I do hate him," then she strides to Tobias and slaps him across the face. Hard.

"Mrs. Prior, please let me explain," he pleads clutching his cheek. I see my mom about to explode.

"Mom, were in an airport." I whisper. She calms slightly.

"Fine, then lets go to the car." She says. As were walking, I realize its going to be difficult with us all trying to fit.

Shit.

I'm going to end this soon I never planned on this being a long sequel. I'm planning on a new story. Its going to be a 'what if Tobias and Tris met in abnegation' story. That's probably;y not going to be publishedfor a while.

When this is over, I'm taking a break from writing. I just need to figure everything out right now. I have a lot of things going on right now, good and bad. I've just felt so out of it lately, so even when i have time to write, i just feel like i cant. Once my life gets in order i will start another story. I'm going to try to finishthis in the next 2-3 chapters.

Whats your favorite type of divergent fan fiction to read?

MODERN DAY

~Ali