I strained my neck to the side, reading the numbers on the clock. 1:30am.

Who was playing a drum at this time?

I stretched my hands out, ready to push myself up. I furrowed my eyebrows at the feel of the mattress. It felt more like... skin. I looked up and gasped. I had been laying on somebody's chest. Suddenly I shot up, a small squeal escaping my lips. The drum beats got louder. I felt the movement of the person laying underneath me. His hand swept lazily over his head.

"Tobias?" I gasped.

"Wha.."

His body shot up. I slapped my hands to my head. There was no drum, the pounding was in my head.

"What the hell is going on?" He croaked.

"I don't know. I thought you brought me to my room and left. I thought that I went straight to sleep. I thought-"

I stopped as something occurred to my mind.

"Wait.. Did we..."

I looked from the duvet to his face, hoping he would catch on to what I meant without having to actually say it. He chuckled.

"What?" I questioned.

"Would you have a problem with that?" He asked, raising his eyebrows.

"Well, I, I mean, Uh-"

"I'm just kidding. No we didn't... I don't think."

"Think? Tobias wha-"

"It'll be fine. We wasn't that drunk." He said pressing a hand to his head. I guess he can hear the drum beats too.

"Oh really? Can you remember anything?" I asked, "At all?" I could feels my palms already starting to sweat. This wasn't like me. I wasn't the type of girl to get drunk and reckless.

He sighed. "Okay so I'm not certain."

My eyebrows shot up at his uncertainty. I was counting on him to reassure me.

"But what do you want me to say, Tris?"

I sighed, wanting to forget about the whole thing. I pulled myself up from the bed and dragged myself downstairs. Tobias followed once he gained his balance.


"Oh look, it's the party animals." Christina smirked.

I pulled a face at her then dragged myself onto the stool underneath the kitchen counter. Tobias sat next to me.

"What happened last night?" I asked.

"You really want to be reminded?" She scoffed.

I drew my eyebrows together. She looked from Tobias to me.

"You really don't remember?"

We shook our heads.

"Wow, and I thought I was drunk."

"Chris?" I said, wanting her to tell us already.

"Okay." She sighed, "Well I saw you guys go upstairs. I heard Tris saying she wanted to sleep, only I assumed she meant alone." She shot me a wicked grin.

"Yeah, I remember that part." I said, "And I was going alone." I glared at her.

She smirked. "A few hours later I went upstairs to use the bathroom. I heard loud laughter from the room. When I looked in you guys were drawing all over each other.

She motioned to our arms.

"Which clearly hasn't wore off." She added.

I looked down, stretching my arms out in front of me. Black ink was marked on my skin. I lifted it closer to my eyes, reading the words.

I heart Tobias

Four is amazing

and the rest were pointless scribbles.

I looked at Tobias. "I'm guessing you wrote this."

"Back at you." He said, lifting his own arms.

I love Tris

Beatrice xoxo

I threw my head back laughing, unable to believe we'd been so childish.

"Anything else?" Tobias asked, "I don't remember taking my shirt off."

I thought back to when I first woke up. Laying on his bare chest.

"Oh yeah," Christina smirked. "Tris asked you to take it off. I don't know why, but, I mean, you didn't hesitate."

I quickly looked down hiding the deep shade my face was turning. Tobias scratched the back of his neck awkwardly.

"Yeah, well... We were drunk, right?"

He clearly felt embarrassed.

"Anyway, after that I left. So I don't know what happened after that."

I groaned running my fingers through my hair.

"I'm going to use the bathroom." Tobias said.

He rushed up the stairs. I looked up to see Christina staring at me.

"So, where's Riley?" I asked.

"He's with my mom. Don't try to change the subject."

I breathed out a shakily laugh. "What are you talking about?"

"Tris. I've never seen you that drunk before. What happened?"

This is Christina, I remind myself. She's seen me in almost every emotion, panic being one of them. I knew I could tell her.

"Honestly?" I said slowly, "I don't know, Chris. I don't know what the hell happened."

She looked at me with sympathy.

"I mean, it was fun at first, but now I have no clue what happened and I'm scared."

She rubbed my arm soothingly. "Why are you scared?"

I held my breath before telling her. Afraid that if saying it out loud would make it worse.

"We woke up in the bed together... lying on each other."

Christina's eyes widened.

"Did you have-"

"No!" I snapped, then sighed. "I don't know."

She stared blankly at me. This was just as much of a shock for her.

"Do you think you did?" Her voice was in a low whisper.

"If I knew what I was doing then no, I wouldn't have. But I was drunk, I had no control what I was doing."

Christina sighed. "Look, I'm sure you wouldn't have. You're more responsible than that."

She reached into a cupboard and pulled out a rectangle shaped box.

"But just to be sure... take this."

I took the box off her and read the label.

'Pregnancy Test'

My body froze. This was really happening. Part of me felt... different. I had done something reckless for once, but I never thought that this could be the outcome.

"I get them free for working at the hospital. Take it when you get home, Okay?"

I nodded slowly, unable to believe that this was all real. I quickly shoved it in my pocket at the sound of Tobias's voice.

"I'm gonna head home now. Do you need a ride, Tris?"

I wiped the sleep from under my eyes, trying to look less... shocked.

"Yeah thanks. I'll just get my things."


"Just around this corner." I said. The last instruction needed to get to my house.

My pulse shot up as I saw three vans parked around my house. I jumped out of the car and ran to the front door. I gasped in horror to see the floors pulled apart and wallpaper teared.

"What the hell is going on?!"

A tall man appeared behind me.

"You live here?"

"Yes. Whats going on?"

My blood was boiling, but at the same time I felt like my stomach had deflated.

"There's been a serious leak. Water everywhere."

"I can see that." I snapped. I didn't mean to have such an attitude, but when you've got a raging headache and all you want to do is sleep, this isn't what you want to come home to.

"I'm sorry Miss. This is obviously a shock."

I threw my head in my hands, groaning.

"How did this happen?"

"We got a call from your neighbour. They could see the leak through a window. We had to bust the door open and we will pay for that damage."

"Okay.. How long will it take to fix?"

"Could be a few weeks."

"Weeks?! You've got to be kidding."

"Wish I was. This is going to be a long job."

I felt a soft touch on my shoulder. I spun around to see Tobias.

"Sorry. Had to park the car..." He trailed, off looking around. "What happened?"

I explained to him about the leak, how long it was going to take.

"You can stay with me." He suggested.

I shook my head. I didn't want to intrude on his life.

"No, no it's fine. I'll just-

"What? Sleep in your flooded house? I don't think so. C'mon. I really don't mind."

He grabbed the crook of my arm and pulled me out.

"It's not going to do you any good if you watch them pull everything apart."

I sighed brushing my hair out of my face.


I called Christina to let her know what had happened and where I will be. It hadn't really sunk in that I was staying with Tobias. I was in shock when I agreed to it. To my surprise, his house was nothing compared to his office. Everything was perfectly in it's place. Tobias must have noticed my shocked expression as he cleared his throat.

"Everything OK?" he asked.

I breathed out heavily. "Not what I was expecting."

"Oh? And what were you expecting?" He said, slipping his jacket off his shoulders and throwing his car keys on a table.

"You know. No windows, black walls, wrappers scattered around." I smirked.

"You thought I lived like a tramp?" He chuckled.

"That's pretty much how I would describe your office." I bit my lip to stop myself from laughing.

He faked a laugh. "Well, I'm glad that I don't meet your expectations."

I smiled. "Me too."

He took a step closer to me, reaching his hand out. "Here, let me take your bag."

I looked down to the shoppers bag I had hanging over my shoulder. Before we came here I had a chance to grab any clothes from my house that didn't get drenched.

Before I had a chance to catch it, the bag fell from my shoulder. I sighed under my breath and leaned over to pick it up. I heard something scatter to the floor and my eyes instantly widened when I realised it was what Christina had given me. I quickly fumbled around trying to pick my bag up and the box. Tobias had knelt down to help me. As I reached for the box, his hand overlapped mine. My heart felt like it was beating out of my chest.

I looked up to see his eyebrow raised as he read the label.

"Tris..."