Tris P.O.V (It's a Saturday)
"You what?!" Christina exclaims in my ear.
The past month have been the best days of my life. My relationship with Tobias has been positively progressing in the past few weeks. The day after he asked me to be his girlfriend, we decided to hide our relationship from everyone except his parents since they already knew.
After the first time I met Tobias' parents, I only talked to them a few times when we crossed paths in the park. Those couple of times, Evelyn and Marcus have been treating me as if they knew me for years, not days. And to top it all off, Four and Christina's friends became really good friends of mine
After hiding our relationship for about a month, Tobias and I have decided to tell about our relationship to our friends. I decided to tell Christina first considering the fact that she is my best friend. So here I am, getting my ear bitten off.
"You kissed Four!" Christina exclaims once again, making a few people turn their faces towards us. Here we are sitting in a coffee shop next to each other, as I tell her about the relationship between Tobias and I.
"Yes and now I am so not regretting keeping this from you," I say rolling my eyes. I take a sip of my latte as I take a look at Chris. This time, she looks a little regretful.
"Sorry, Tris. It's just, when Four was in college, he was a huge player. He isn't anymore, but you're my best friend. I just thought you should know." she says, looking at me with concern in her eyes. I guess that explains all the experience I felt every time we kissed. I think, when I look down at my coffee, as all my insecurities come back.
"Tell me more about you guys?" Chris asks, obviously trying to change the subject . I tell her more about my relationship, and even though she keeps makes some funny remarks, she actually listens. After talking for a while, something unexpected happened. The doors to the coffee shop opens and that's when ,Uriah, Marlene, Zeke, Shauna, and Will come in. My eyes widen a little.
"Hey guys." They all say. Christina and I reply back while she gets kissed on the forehead by Will. They all order their coffees and while they're doing that, I talk to Christina about how to tell them.
"Do you think I should tell them or not?" I whisper to Christina.
"Yes, you could tell them and make Four struggle when he comes in," she says chuckling.
"Well I would love to see that, or at least hear it from you but considering the fact that I have to go soon might help me tell them." Christina shrugs her shoulder and decides to look innocent. "How do I tell them?"
"Same way you told me," she whispers back.
"Yah, well, you see, I kind of need my hearing for work on Monday," I whisper-shout. Marlene and Shauna come back first from the counter. Christina starts talking to them as I try to figure out a way to tell them. When they all come back, not knowing how to tell them, I kind of just blurt it out, "Guys, I've something to tell you," They all stop what they're doing and look at me. Christina looks at me encouragingly and surprisingly, I see the same look on Zeke's face. "Uh, Four and I are kind of in a relationship."
"WHAT!" I wince when everyone shouts except Chris and Zeke. Those both hide their laughter behind their cups.
"What?! You knew!" Shauna says to Zeke while Will repeats the same thing to Christina.
"Well she just told me right before you guys came in." Christina says while putting her cup down and putting her hands up as surrender.
"And as for me Four told me yesterday over a phone call. So I didn't really get to confront him." Zeke says. Thankfully for me, my phone beeps, saying that I have to go.
"Okay guys, I have to get going or I am going to be late." I say. I throw away the togo cup that my coffee was in, and grab my purse.
"Where are you going?" Marlene and Uriah ask at the same time. They grin at each other and share a quick kiss. I roll my eyes. They're so made for each other!
"I have to get my CPR and First Aid certification renewed."
"How long will it be?" Will asks.
"About 6 hours. Give or take."
"That long? Jeez. No wonder I didn't become a nurse." Uriah says with wide eyes. Classic Uriah.
"No offense Uriah. But, I don't think you would have become a good nurse if you keep hitting on people," I say with a knowing look. Uriah changes his face from wide eyes to a pout while everyone else laughs.
"Hey, you guys want to meet up for a game night tonight at my place and then we can even have a sleepover," Uriah says. We all nod and say a form of yes.
"What about Four?" Marlene says.
"I'm pretty sure he'll make it," Zeke says while winking at me. I blush and look down.
"I know that you don't have my address. I'll text it you later," Uriah says. I thank him and head out.
Tobias P.O.V
Yesterday, out of the blue, Audrey decided to go to Florida to meet some people who could apparently help out with her interview skills. Since obviously, it's for something good, mom and dad let her go. So I decided to drop her off at the airport before her flight this morning. From the airport, I directly go to the coffee shop where all our friends hang out in. When I reach the coffee shop I shutdown the engine of my car and step out. As I start walking towards the entrance of the coffee shop, I see Tris coming out of it. I decide to have some fun and stand in her way. Since, she was ruffling through her purse for what I assume, her car keys, she runs straight into me. A small yelp leaves her mouth as she loses her balance. Anticipating this, I wrap one hand around her waist while the other lands on her back. "Tobias!" she says while slapping my chest. "I could have fallen down, you know," I could hear the anger in her voice but is betrayed by the smile on her face.
"Sorry," I say with an innocent voice which makes her angelic laughter comes to life. I bend down to give her kiss when she stops me with a hand on my mouth.
I give her a confusing look, "Our friends are inside." I immediately steps back a little. "So, uh, where are you going?" I says while scratching the back of my ear with my car keys.
"I have to renew my CPR and First Aid license." I nod because I know about that due to my mom who had it since she was in high school.
"How long will it take?" I ask because I never bothered to remember it.
"About 6 hours. Why?" She replies.
"I was wondering if we could hang out. I kind of wanted to show you my place." I am not sure whether we reached that point in our relationship or not but this was something that I've been thinking for a while.
"We'll see about it." She smiles a flattering smile and walks past me. I chuckle to myself and walk inside. I go towards the counter, order my drink and sit down with my friends.
"Hey guys," I say. They all look at me with mischievous glints in their eyes. "What?" I ask while taking a sip of my coffee.
Uriah is the first one to speak out loud, "I see that you didn't get a kiss from you girlfriend."
I almost spurt the coffee from my mouth. "What are you talking about?" I ask as I glare at Zeke.
"I didn't tell them. Tris did." My jaw drops a little.
"Wait. What? She just told me that she didn't." I look up and see that Tris' car is leaving the driveway just as I speak. I groan and put my head on the table.
"How did you miss that Four. I thought you could see through everyone almost like Christina?" Marlene says. I sigh and shrug my shoulders.
"I've no idea why she would say that." I say as I take a sip of my coffee.
"Sad that you didn't get a morning kiss Four?" Marlene says, making the tips of my ears red.
"Dude, this is like the first time you're blushing," Will says laughing.
"It's probably her little payback for you trying to make her fall." Christina says.
"I wasn't trying to make her fall down, people!" I say, a little exasperatedly. I mentally kick myself at how Tris didn't let me kiss her this morning.
"Do you want to come over to my place for a game night tonight? Everyone is coming," Uriah says. At first I go to say no, but after knowing that everyone included Tris, I agree. This is probably why she didn't give me a direct answer, I think. We all talk for a while before the girls talk about how they should go to the mall.
"Didn't you guys just go to the mall a couple of days ago?" I ask. Chris, Mar, and Shauna all give me similar death glares, which tells me that I should probably shut up. The girls grab their boyfriends and since I've nothing to do for a while, I decide to tag along.
"Girls, can we go home now or else at least go and eat," I say tired and also starving. We have been going around stores for almost five hours. All us boys are holding bags that are filled with clothes and accessories. Shauna and Christina are looking at footwear while Marlene is looking at a rack of clothes next to it.
"Fine we can go once we pay for these, but we are coming back," Christina groans.
"Well I am escaping, then." I mutter underneath my breath before saying out loud to the guys, "How do you guys date them?"
"I don't know," They all mutter in a monotonous voice. Just like me, they are all tired and starving. After the girls pay, we start walking towards the food court. I hand my bags to the girls and let them sort out whose is whose. I go order spring rolls from Panda Express for everyone while Zeke order burgers and fries for all of us from McDonald's. Zeke and I bring the food to our table and everyone starts digging in.
"Hey, isn't that Tris," Uriah says with his mouth full. I look over to where he is looking at and see that it indeed is Tris. She is walking with a group of about ten people but she is only talking to one guy. Both of them are holding a can of soda and laughing at something. I clamp my hand into a fist underneath the table in order to control my jealousy. A voice in the back of my head starts talking. One reason you don't have long term relationship is due to your jealousy, possessiveness, and over protectiveness. I ignore the voice and keep looking at Tris. Without breaking their talks, they all sit down in a table and this time everyone talks to everyone.
"Tris!" Christina calls out. Their talking and laughter dies down when the whole table looks this way. Tris says something to the others and comes this way. She sits next me, and then looks at all of the bags that are around the tables.
"What'd you guys do. Rob the whole mall?!"
Christina gives her a death glare similar to the one she gave me this morning but then rolls her eyes and starts talking, "I thought you said you were gonna take like some 6 or 7 hours?"
"Yah, the renewal test is actually only about 4 and a half hours, but the waiting for our license takes more than two hours. Another one of my friends said that he'll get all of our licenses for us. So here I am," she says shrugging her shoulders. Suddenly, I feel her hand underneath the table rubbing my hand that was in a fist.
Tris P.O.V
As I was walking towards the table, I saw Tobias' hand in a tight fist underneath the table. I mentally shake my head at how easily he becomes jealous. In a way, I should know that it's not good to be with someone who becomes jealous this easily, but whenever I'm with him, Tobias makes me feel safe and protected. When I sit down next to him, I grab his hand and rub the back of it. His fist relaxes and soon we are holding hands. With my other hand, I steal a couple of his French fries and eat them. Tobias doesn't say anything except snatch my soda from right in front of me. I just roll my eyes because it mostly empty. "So that now we all know about your relationship, why don't you tell us about it. When and where was your first kiss?" Shauna asks jumping up and down in her seat.
Tobias and I look at each other before he speaks up. "I took her out about a week after we met to my favorite park, and that's where we kissed."
"Wow, you must be really lucky to go to his favorite park on the first date. He never tells us where it is or even the name of it," Marlene says.
"Well if it helps you I don't think there was a name to it," I say. Marlene just looks at me with an are-you-kidding-me look. I just smile back.
"So you guys have been dating for a month in secret." Will deduces in a way. Tobias and I both nod. After about five minutes, I feel a hand on my shoulder. I turn to see that it's Thomas. He bends down so that he is behind me and shows me a bunch of paper. I see that it's my renewed license and surprisingly also my answer sheet.
"So you want to explain this to me," I look at my answer sheet and see that I got exactly 95%. I snatch the papers out of his hand and then slap his head with them.
"Get lost idiot," I say as I start folding and cutting the licenses across the dashed cut lines.
"Common, Tris. Em could have gotten that question right."
"Shut up doofus!" Emily says as she comes over. Emily and Thomas are both nurses in other elementary schools. We became really good colleagues over district meetings we had between nurses and later became good friends.
"Mind introducing us Tris," I hear Will say. I totally forgot about them.
"Sorry. Guys this is Emily and Thomas. And you guys these are my friends and I'm not even going to bother saying everyone's names since I know that you won't remember them." I hear Tobias laugh and I smile. I have rarely seen him smile in public but the amount of times I have seen him smile in my presence makes me want to see it all the time.
"I just came here to give you your wallet. We are all gonna leave and clearly you won't be," She said handing me my wallet. I get up and quickly hug her and do the something with Thomas. I only hug another colleague and don't even bother saying bye to the others because I barely ever talk to them. After they all leave, I come back and sit next to Tobias, and put my renewed licenses in my wallet.
"Why is it that I feel like the Thomas guy is really annoying sometimes?" I hear Will ask.
"That's probably because he is exactly like Zeke and Uriah, and sometimes worse than both of them together," I reply back. Will grins at me and holds up his hand for a high-five. I give him one and then turn my head towards the annoying brothers. They both have their tongues sticking out like 5-year-olds. These are the few experiences I have with Zeke that make me doubt how he ever became a detective. I smile and lean my head against his shoulder. Suddenly, all of the exhaustion from this morning falls on to me.
Hey guys! How was this chapter? Do you guys want me to continue with this mall scene or do you want me to do a totally another scene in the next chapter. I am open to different ideas and if I think that they are going to go well with the plot, then I'll use it.
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