Chapter ten: Beatings

Four's POV

I trudged over to the door and opened it.

"What do you want?" I said swinging the door open.

"That's not the way I expect you to talk to me." Marcus's chilling voice echoed through my ears.

"What do you want?" I said trying not to look weak in front of him.

"I don't appreciate the way you talked to me in front of that slutty girlfriend of yours." Marcus said stepping into the room and shutting the door behind him.

"She is not a slut." I spat at him.

"Your still in your uniform." He commented.

"Yes. Is that a problem." I said, still trying to look brave.

"Take off your shirt. I don't want to ruin it." Marcus said, taking his belt off his pants.

I was too scared to not obey. As soon as his belt came off my instincts kicked in. It was what he did to me everyday for most of my childhood. I unbuttoned my shirt and waited for the first strike of the belt.

Marcus didn't bother taking his time with the beating. He only let it take ten minutes out of his precious time. But when he was done, many wounds had reopened and new ones had formed. I looked at my watch it was ten past six. My friends would be wondering where I was. So I pulled a loose t-shirt on over my head a limped out the door.

As I limped down towards the cafeteria, I remembered what Marcus said to me as he left the room.

"If you tell that slut what happened I will kill her."

I had to deal with this myself. There was no way I was going to out Tris in danger. I loved her to much.

As I entered the cafeteria, I tried to disguise my limp. I went over to the table and sat down next to Tris. I winced slightly as my back touched the back of the chair. No one noticed. Except Tris, who looked at me, obviously concerned. So much for not telling her.

The rest of dinner went by in a flash. Lynn didn't show, Marlene was asking me about Uriah, even though I hadn't seen him in months. Lauren and Alice were talking about a new boy that had started school today and Will, Christina and Tris were talking among themselves. Then Tris elbowed me and asked me to come to her room. As I got up I heard Will say something to me.

"Remember to use protection."

As heat rose to my cheeks, I 'accidentally' elbowed Will in the stomach as I got up. I then ran after Tris who was already halfway to her room. As we both barged into the room she turned to me.

"He was in your room wasn't he?" She asked.

"Yeah he was." I said.

"You have to tell someone, Toby. You can't let him do this." Tris said.

"Tris, you shouldn't know about this. If he even suspects that you know, he'll hurt you." I said to her grabbing her arm.

"I don't care. He can't get away with this! I'm going to tell the principal." Tris said.

"No. Tris. I can't let him hurt you. I love you Tris and I couldn't live with myself if he hurt you because of me." I said.

"I love you too Toby, but he can't get away with this." She said softly.

"Look, just leave it. I'm 18 in two months time. Then we can do something about it." I said to her.

"Ok. Fine. But I'm still going to sit next to you in Maths." Tris said.

"Good. I want that." I said.

She then kissed me. I kissed her back and we both fell I to the bed. We kissed each other for a further five minutes before Tris broke away.

"Now. There was something said about love a little bit ago." Tris said, her arms still wrapped around me.

"I love you Tris Prior." I said.

"I love you, Tobias." She said kissing me again.

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