Chapter 10

Tris woke up with an arm wrapped tightly around her. She tried to get out of the bed without waking Four up, and she was almost out of his grip when his hand reached out for hers.

"Where are you going?" He asked. With his free hand, he rubbed his temples. "God my head hurts."

"I'll go get you an aspirin and some water, you just stay here."

Four fell back on the bed and shut his eyes as Tris went to get what she needed. She left his bedroom and saw Zeke sitting on the couch. He looked up as she entered the room.

"Hey how's he feeling?" He asked.

"He's got a headache, which isn't surprising, but other than that he's good." Tris answered. "Do you guys have any aspirin?"

"Uh, yeah, I think I have some in my room, let me go find it." Zeke answered before leaving. Tris sat down on the couch as she waited. She checked her phone for the time and saw that school was over for the day. Sure enough, she heard the door to the room open and saw Will and Uriah walk in.

"Tris?" Uriah said, confused. "What are you doing here?"

Tris was about to answer when Zeke came back out.

"Here Tris, I found some aspirin and a water bottle." Zeke handed them to Tris and looked at the two guys. "Oh hey there."

"Zeke, why is Tris here, and why weren't you guys in class? Also, where's Four? We haven't seen him all day." Uriah said.

"It's a long story," was all Zeke had to say. The group heard a door open and Four emerged from his room, stumbling and shielding his eyes from the light.

"Fuck man what happened to you?" Uriah said. Four glared at him as he sat down next to Tris on the couch. She handed him the aspirin and water, which he gladly took.

"He didn't exactly have the best morning." Zeke told them, and Uriah sighed.

"Was he drinking again?" He asked.

"Yeah he was, wait, how'd you know?" Tris asked.

"Well, number one, he looks very hungover right now, and number two, he used to do this whenever he got mad last year, which was a lot, but then he started going to the gym instead and we all thought he wouldn't go back to this." Uriah stated.

"Do you know why he wanted to drink today?" Will asked Zeke and Tris.

"Um, me and him kind of got into a fight this morning." Tris said sheepishly.

"What about? It must have been pretty bad for him to do this." Uriah motioned to Four as he laid on the couch.

"I just said something to him that hit a soft spot, I'd rather not repeat it." Tris told them.

"Guys, I was just being stupid, okay? I wasn't thinking about the consequences when I started drinking, I was just thinking about what she said. It was dumb, I know that." Four said, interrupting their conversation. "And Tris, what you said was true. Not necessarily the whole I'm just like my dad thing, but I was being a huge dick to you because you chose Uriah."

"Wait what? Chose me? What is he talking about?" Uriah stepped up. Tris opened her mouth to explain but Four beat her to it.

"I liked Tris, still do actually, and I kissed her a couple times, even though I knew that you had a thing for her, and she told me both times that she needed to think about it and she always ended up choosing you, and then I heard you guys in your room last night and when she left we got into a fight. Then this morning I called her a bitch for leading me on, which was totally uncalled for, and she compared me to my father, and here we are." Four spared the details but he got the point across.

"Were you ever going to tell me about this?" Uriah asked Tris.

"I wasn't exactly planning on it. It doesn't really matter, I chose you." Tris said back.

"It does matter Tris! Just tell me, did you have feelings for him?"

Tris looked down at the ground, which gave Uriah his answer.

"Do you still have feelings for him?"

Yes.

"No, Uriah, I'm with you, I want to be with you." She stood up and reached for his hand, holding it tightly. "Uriah please, don't be mad at us."

"I'm not mad at you." Uriah said after a small pause. "I just need some time to think."

He dropped her hand and walked out of the room. Tris tried to call after him but no words left her mouth. She sat back down on the couch with a blank look on her face. Zeke sat beside her and placed a hand on her back.

"He'll come back Tris, don't worry. He really likes you, he's not going to throw that away."

Tris gave Zeke a small smile for trying to comfort her, but he could tell she was still upset.

"And Four, I will say that you are one stupid motherfucker, but you are like our brother okay? Uriah will get over this, and you two will go back to being friends."

Zeke, the idiot that he was, was surprisingly good at saying the right thing. His words to Four helped him feel a little less like a dick.

Will, who had been silently watching for the past few minutes, decided to speak up.

"Guys, it will all work out in the end. Uriah just needs some time to cool off and think everything through."

Tris stood up suddenly, grabbing the attention of the boys.

"I'm sorry, I just can't be here, I need to go."

She walked out of their room without a destination in mind. She debated on whether or not she should go looking for Uriah, but decided against it, choosing rather to give him his space and let him come back to her on his own.

She found herself back at her room, and she slowly opened the door, not knowing what to expect.

"Is that her?" She heard Christina say from inside.

"I think so." Shauna answered back.

Tris walked into the room and flashed a small smile.

"Hey there." She said.

"Where have you been? We've been worried sick!" Christina immediately shouted.

"Just calm down guys, let me explain."

Tris sat down on the couch and Christina and Shauna sat beside her.

"Where's Marlene?" Tris asked.

"She got a text and left suddenly, she didn't say where she was going though." Shauna answered.

Tris didn't question further, partially because she didn't think the girls knew more than they were letting on, and she got into explaining her day. She started with the fight her and Four had the night before, then the fight they had that morning and finding him at the bar, and she finished with what had just happened with Uriah. While explaining what went on, she also revealed to Shauna her and Four's complicated relationship.

"Girl you've been here for like a week and you already got two hot boys after you! Get em girl yeah!" Shauna said excitedly. Christina hit her shoulder, laughing.

"Shauna you have a boyfriend!" She exclaimed.

"Hey now, Zeke and Uriah are twins, so that means it's okay for me to say Uriah is hot, and like look at Four." Shauna defended herself.

"Honestly it's hard to have two guys like me, I feel like whatever I do one of them is going to get hurt." Tris said.

"That's not your fault Tris. You shouldn't have to worry about trying to keep everyone happy, you just need to keep yourself happy." Christina said sincerely.

"Well I don't think that'll be a problem anymore. I think Four realizes that I'm really with Uriah, and hopefully his feelings will go away." Tris didn't say out loud but she secretly hoped her feelings would go away too. Everything would be much less complicated if she could tell Four with complete certainty that she had no romantic feelings for him and that he needed to move on.

The girls talked about what was going on for a few more minutes when Tris' phone vibrated. She checked and saw that she had a text from Uriah.

Meet me at the football field?

Tris replied, saying yes, and told the girls that she had to go. She made her way to the field and saw someone sitting on the bleachers. Assuming it was Uriah, she made her way to him and sat down.

"Hi Tris." Uriah started.

"Hi Uriah." She answered back. The two were silent for a moment, both not knowing what to say. Tris took a breath in, prepared to apologize to him, but he interrupted her.

"Tris I like you."

"Well I would hope so." Tris joked, trying to lighten the mood. Uriah shot her a look and she lost her smile.

"I like you, but I don't know if I can be with you."

His words rang in her ears and she stuttered, trying to find the right words to say.

"I'm confused," was the only thing she could spit out.

"You should have told me about Four, you should have trusted me enough to tell me. I just feel like now I'll always be worried that you're hiding something from me, and that's not how a relationship should be." He refused to look Tris in the eyes and she could feel her heart break even more.

"Uriah you don't know how sorry I am for everything that happened. I was so stupid to keep it from you and I wish I could take everything back. But you have to understand that the past couple days have been extremely confusing for me. I just needed some time to wrap my head around everything, and I did that. And it's you, you're the one I want to be with, why can't you see that?" Tris was begging by the end and tears were threatening to spill from her eyes.

"God Tris what do you do to me?" Uriah leaned in and gave her a hard kiss. She melted into his lips and smiled. When they pulled away from each other, they immediately wanted to be back.

"Look," Uriah started, "you hurt me, but I care about you too much to let you go. Can we start over? No more secrets though, okay?"

"No more secrets, I promise. You mean too much to me for me to lose you."

They leaned in to each other again, this time with a soft kiss. They pulled away and he stood up, grabbing her hand and helping her up as well. They walked back to their dorm buildings hand in hand, where they kissed each other goodbye and went their separate ways.

Tris entered her room with a grin on her face. Christina noticed right away and immediately started to ask questions. This caught Marlene and Shauna's attention, and they too joined in on the questions.

Tris told them about her conversation with Uriah and that they were back on. Christina and Shauna told her they were happy everything worked out between them. Marlene said it too, but Tris could tell it was very half-hearted.

She knew that Marlene most likely still had feelings for Uriah, so she tried to steer away from the topic of him and onto something else.

"So Christina how are things with you and Will?" Tris knew that once Christina got on the topic of Will she could talk for hours, so this was the perfect distraction.

"They're really good, he's so sweet and kind and he treats me so well. He's always doing little things like getting me a coffee and holding my books, and I don't know, but I think I love him." Christina blushed, which was surprising for her because she rarely got embarrassed.

"Christina! Oh my god!" Shauna exclaimed. The two started gushing about their boyfriends and how amazing they were while Marlene and Tris simply listened.

"Wait," Marlene interrupted, "so have and Will done it yet?"

"Oh yeah." Christina said calmly. "He was actually my first last year at a party before we even started talking. But we do it like, all the time, it's great!" Christina had no problem talking about her sex life, and she went on to describe the details, which Tris shut out once she started talking about his dick.

"Tell me about it Christina, me and Zeke have such good sex! He is so big, and like, in the beginning it hurt so bad but now that I'm used to it, we could literally fuck for hours!"

"Shauna TMI! I do not want to hear about that!" Tris said, covering her ears.

"Oh come on, when you and Uriah have sex I want to hear all about it!" Shauna said.

"If, not when, Shauna."

"Zeke told me what happened between you two last night, trust me, it won't be long." Shauna said with a wink.

"Wait what happened between you two?" Marlene asked, suddenly interested in the conversation.

Tris started to deny it, but Shauna cut her off.

"She gave him a blow job in his room." Tris gave Shauna a look.

"What? It's no big deal, just a mouth on a dick, it's not like you two did it in the butt."

"Shauna!" Tris said, slapping her arm. The group laughed at her bluntness.

They talked for the rest of the night, until around 1 in the morning, when they all decided they better get some sleep. They retired to their separate bedrooms, and fell into a deep sleep.