Chapter 8
The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Tris POV
We all race after Zeke. He's still screaming about ghosts, but we're gaining on him. "Here's the plan," Uriah says. "I'll out run him and block him from the front. Will, block him from behind. Then Tris, you have to pull him back to his apartment. I'll help you when Zeke's completely blocked. Will, you keep watch."
Uriah dashes ahead, and quickly overtakes Zeke. "Move out of the way, ghost." Zeke yelled. He turns around, to find Will behind him.
"You're coming with us," Uriah says. I drag start to drag Zeke, but he is heavy. Uriah comes over to help me, and Will takes up his position at guard. Zeke is pretty heavy. We drag him back to his apartment in twenty minutes.
"I must be dreaming," he mutters.
"Yeah, because we can totally touch you in your dreams," Uriah says sarcastically. "Now, I have something important to tell you. You better not film this, or I will haunt you forever. And don't even think about leaving."
Will blocks the door, and Zeke looks a bit freaked. "This is not happening," he whispers. "I need to see a doctor. I have to be hallucinating. Tris and Uriah are dead. Will is dead too."
"You are not hallucinating. I wasn't planning to say anything, but there is something you need to understand." Uriah says. "We are all ghosts. We live in Heaven. All of us here do, anyway. I'm not sure that you'd make it though, bro." Uriah looks over at me. It's obvious that he doesn't really know what to say.
"We only get to go down to Earth twice a year, so we remain invisible every time. We have six months as a reward this time around. Most ghosts are against having living humans see ghosts. Thus, most of us don't turn visible. There are a lot of risks by doing so."
Zeke looks like he begins to understand. "So why are you telling me?" he asks.
"Uriah revealed himself to you by accident. We thought it would be unfair to leave you in the dark, living a lie." I say. "Promise me one thing. You can tell no one about this, okay? The only person you can tell is Four."
"Does he already know? And he didn't say anything. He is so dead. After I talk to him about this." Zeke looks at us. "This a bit surreal." He walks up and hugs Uriah. "Nice seeing you bro." They hug for a while, and Will and I slip out. I catch Uri's eye, and see that they will both spend some time alone. Will and I walk over to Four's place, and hear Christina's voice through the door. "Four," she says. "There's something I need to tell you."
Tobias POV
I was in my room when Christina came in. She was all serious, and apparently there was something important she needed to tell me.
"I know I've mentioned this before, but you need to move on from Tris," she says. I scowl. Doesn't she know that I'm already happy? I can see Tris as a ghost.
"I'm fine," I say.
"No, you're not. You need to stop waiting for Tris. She won't ever come back."
"I know she will."
"She won't Four. If you won't do this by yourself, I'll for you to. It's for your own good. One can only drown in their own sorrow for so long."
My anger was bubbling up inside from Christina's comments, and the fact that Tris hasn't come back for a while. After her last comment, I snap. "Stop trying to get me to change," I tell her angrily. "I can do whatever I want with my life. I can move on when I want to. It's not like you grieved very long anyway."
Christina looks at me with tears in her eyes. "Do you know why I'm telling you this," she whispers.
"Why?" I ask dryly.
"Because Tris told me to."
I bolted up at the sound of Tris's name. "WHAT?
"She visited me in a dream. She told me that you need to get over her. Love makes people blind, and you need to accept all the options, and ignore the ones that involve her. You were meant to be once, in life, death separated you, and you can't get to her until you die."
She clears her throat. I just sit here dazed. How could Tris not want me? She told Christina to convince me of this, instead of us?
She continues. "It reminds me of a very old song. The song is Lithium by Evanescence. I came across it while searching old files. It goes:
Lithium, don't want to lock me up inside.
Lithium, don't want to forget how it feels without…
Lithium, I want to stay in love with my sorrow.
Oh, but God, I want to let it go.
And at the end, the lady decides that I'm gonna let it go. Will was my lithium, but I let him go. I still love him, and would if he ever came back. But I needed to let go of my foolish dreams. Tris is your lithium, and you need to do the same, Four. Don't stay in love with your sorrow, Four. Let it go."
She looks at me one more time, before exiting the room. She closes the door behind her softly. And all I can think of is: Why?
The small song segment was from Lithium by Evanescence, as stated above. I I'll try to update once a month, but definitely will twice a month. If not, remind me:)
~DauntlessPokemonRide
