Family isn't always about
the people in your life
who are blood relations.
It's about the people in your life
who want you
to be in theirs
Tris
Why would he do this to me? How could he? I thought he loved me, but obviously he doesn't. I should've seen this coming. He started missing dates, leaving all the time, being distant, and acting strange sometimes. It all makes sense now...
I start sobbing. Tears streaming down my face. How could I be so gullible and naive? I can't believe actually fell for him. No one would ever like me and I was so stupid to think that.
I bite my lip to keep in my sobs when I hear my mom calling for me, but it's no use. She still heard. "Beatrice?" I hear her running up the stairs and come into my room.
I lay down with my back facing the doorway. "Beatrice, are you okay sweetie?" She sits down on the bed next to me and places her hand on my cheek so I can look at her.
"Oh, honey. What's wrong? What happened?" She says in a soft voice and I look up at her and shake my head. I feel a few tears start to fall again.
She looks around my room and spots the pictures in the trash can. Then she looks back over to me and glances at the trash can. I shake my head again. She stands up and walks over to it and picks up the pictures.
She glances over at me and puts it back in the trash can. She comes to me again, but this time lays down beside me and wraps her arms around me. "It has something to do with...Jack? Doesn't it?" She quietly asks.
My body starts to rack with sobs and she pulls me into her chest and strokes my hair. "Would you like to talk about it?" She hesitantly asks and I think about it.
"Yes," I say, barely above a whisper but she still heard it.
She waits for me to explain what happened and continues to hug me. "J-Jack, he..." I say shakily.
"He ch," My voice cracks. "he cheated on me," My mom hugs me tight and kisses my forehead.
"It's okay my baby girl," She softly says. "If it's okay, can I ask, how did you find out?"
I nod my head. "I was walking through the park after I left. As I was walking, I saw a couple kissing..." She strokes my hair soothingly, waiting for me to continue. "I didn't give it much thought. But, then I heard his voice and he called the girl on his lap 'baby'" My voice wavered. "I didn't want it to be true. So I slowly turned around and...there he was." I trail off, my voice cracks again.
My mom hugs me tight and kisses my forehead again. "That bastard." she mumbles under her breath angrily.
She tilts my head up to look in her eyes. "It's his loss. You're a beautiful and strong young women Bea and he didn't realize that. He didn't deserve you. And he was very wrong for what he did to you."
"Thanks mom." I say.
She smiles and I give a small smile back. "It's what moms are for. I love you." She says softly.
"I love you too."
The sound of the doorbell rings throughout the house. "Have you talked to your friends?"
I shake my head. "Not since before I left earlier, they've texted me a billion times though." I say and she chuckles a little.
"I wouldn't doubt it if that's them." She says and stands up to go answer the door.
I sigh and get up to close my bedroom door. I lay back down in my bed again. My back facing the door like how it was earlier. Except this time I pull the covers up and over me.
I start to hear muffled voices from downstairs that sounds a lot like the gang. They stay downstairs for a while, mom is probably explaining to them what happened. Then the sound of footsteps going up the stairs becomes clear and I pull the covers over my head.
Great, now I'm going to have to explain again. Note the sarcasm.
A knock at my bedroom door brings me out of my thoughts. "Tris?" I hear someone say.
I ignore them and bury my head in the pillows. When I don't answer, I hear the door open and footsteps around my bed.
"Tris." I hear Christina say.
"We just want to know what happened," Marlene says.
I stay silent and nobody says anything for a minute. My bed dips a bit, and I feel someone lay beside me along with the sound of someone sitting in my rolling desk chair.
"Please Tris." Shauna says.
I hear someone kneel down beside me on the ground.
"We're all worried about you." Four says.
"Your mom told us that something happened and that you've been up here for a few hours." Will says.
I sigh and pull the covers down from my head, not even bothering to hide my tear stricken cheeks. When I look up, I'm immediately met with charming deep, ocean blue eyes.
Four is looking straight into my eyes. "Please." He says.
I shake my head a little and face away from him. Only to now be looking at Chris. She turns her head to look at me when she feels me move. "Hey," She says and I sigh.
"How are you?" She asks and I almost want to laugh at the awkwardness.
"Brokenhearted." I say barely above a whisper for only her to hear, then chuckle.
"What happened?" She asked concerned .
She sits up and pulls me up with her and I know for sure that everyone can see my dried up tears. "I-park," I broke down into sobs again and rested my head on Chris's shoulder.
"Hey guys?" I hear Shauna say and I look up at her.
She is bent down be my trash can and is looking in it. Everyone directs their attention to her and I look down with tears blurring my vision.
"I think that I may know what happened. Possibly." She says hesitantly.
Everyone looks at her expectantly. She digs the torn pictures up out of the trash can and stands. She looks at all of us and her eyes linger on me last. She walks over to me and I close my eyes briefly.
"Tris?"
I open my eyes and look at her to see that she is sitting in front of me on my bed. "I'm going to put the pictures back together. Okay? To see what it is." I stiffly nod.
I watch her put the torn up bits of each picture together. When she's down she looks at me again with sympathetic eyes, which I don't like. I hate pity, but I just let it slide this time.
"You and...Jack?" She asks and I look down.
It feels like my heart drops again even deeper every time I hear it being brought up. I don't take notice of the tears streaming down again until Four puts his hand on my cheek and directs my attention toward him. He's still kneeling next to my bed.
"Tris," He says softly and wipes away my tears. "I know you may not like to hear me ask, but did you and Jack break up?" I bite my lip and the tears start to pour again. And that's the only thing needed to answer his question.
He pulls me into him and wraps his strong, warm arms around me. I feel electrifying sparks run through me at his touch. I put my head in the crook of his neck with my tears coming down more and more, getting his shirt wet. He strokes my hair softly and slowly rocks me side to side. I breath in his scent. He smells like sweat, metal, and mint.
I sigh. His scent immediately calmed me. I feel safe and strong, with his arms wrapped around me. Like nothing can hurt me or break us apart. This feeling-it's amazing. I love it.
Then I feel another pair of arms wrap around us. I look up to see Christina and she smiles at me, which I return.
"Aww! Group hug!" I hear Uriah say and I chuckle a little.
One by one, I feel the arms of the rest of the gang surround me. We're all know a big pile of arms and limbs, all wrapped around each other.
I smile. I feel so loved and wanted, like I'm whole. These guys are like-no-they are my family.
"I love you guys so much." I say.
"We love you too Trissy." I hear Chris say.
I pull back a little from Four and everyone else's embrace. When I look up, I see that I'm face to face with him. Practically sharing the same breath as him. There is little space between us. Six inches, at most. If I had to guess.
He is staring right back at me and smiles a little. I swear my heart was so close to melting. I wonder why.
I give him a small smile back. He looks down, pressing his lips together and pulls me in for another hug, tighter than the one before. Sparks still rushing through my body again, making me feel like I'm on fire. In a good way, and I like it.
"Thank you guys so much. For being here for me, I really appreciate it. I don't know what I'd do without you." I say and all the girls aww, except for Lynn.
We all pull back and Christina, Marlene, and Shauna all have tears streaming down their cheeks. The guys are all smiling at me.
"We would do anything for you Tris." Zeke says.
"We will always be there for you." Four says, smiling at me.
"We're all family. Blood relatives or not." Chris says.
"Yeah, we all care and look out for each other." Shauna says.
I smile a genuine smile. I'm so lucky to have these guys. I love them all, and they love me. Chris is right, we are all family.
I didn't notice that mom was standing in the doorway until she said, "You're all so sweet."
We turn our heads to look at her. She has her arms crossed in front of her chest. A camera dangles off its strap hanging from her hand, and she is leaning against the door frame with a big smile on her face.
"I came up to check on you all and when I walked in, you were all surrounding Tris in a big group hug. I had taken a picture and I just recorded everything after that." She says while smirking.
I smile at my mom, almost blushing a little. Without a doubt, I knew she saw the little exchange of smiles Four and I gave to each other. She then walks out and leaves.
"Tris, can you, uh...tell us what happened?" Will hesitantly asks and I sigh, knowing I can't escape the explanation.
I look down, I seem to be doing that a lot today. I take a deep breath to calm my nerves. "I left earlier to meet up with Chris. After a while I started walking through the park." I start to explain, my voice thick with emotion and Chris rubs soothing circles in my back.
"I passed up a couple making out. The girl was on his lap, I didn't think much of it and just brushed it off. I started to walk away, until I heard a voice. It said 'Baby, I love you so much' and I knew it was Jack. I could obviously tell it was him. He cheated on me." My voice cracks a lot at the ending.
"But he also said that I was ugly and worthless, that I was too pale and short, that I didn't have a body to satisfy him..." My voice wavers.
"And that he doesn't even know why he dated me to begin with." My voice cracks again.
The girls give a silent gasp, except for Lynn. I look up to see all of the boys with looks of total anger on their faces and their jaw's set. They all look like they're ready to fight someone. But Four, he looks like is ready to commit a murder. He's clenching his fists, his jaw set, and his face red with anger.
The girls are all just as angry but Chris looks like she is ready to kill, just like how Four looks. She comes up to me and hugs me. "That asshole, bastard, mother fucking, son of a bitch!" She hisses through clenched teeth.
When she lets go of me, Uriah runs up and hugs me in huge bear hug. "How dare he hurt my Trissy-poo? My partner in crime! My sister from another mister...and mother! M-" He starts and I cut him off.
"Okay, okay Uriah! I get it!" I chuckle a little.
He smiles, then his phone rings and he lets go of me to answer it. "Hey mom! Yeah...no I didn't...what is it? Do we have to...but-ugh...fine." He says, talking to who I presume is his mom, Hana. He hangs up and turns to Zeke.
"Hey bro, mom needs us."
"Okay," Zeke says while picking up his jacket. "Let's go."
"I gotta go too Tris. Uriah and Zeke are my ride." Marlene says and she hugs me. "Everything that asshole said about you, isn't true. Remember that." She says into my ear.
"Thanks Mar." I say and she nods.
Before they walk out of the room, Zeke quickly turns around and hugs me. "He wasn't worth you're time." He says to me and I nod.
They walk out of the door and leave. The rest of us decide to watch some movies. Will has to go help his sister move her things in her dorm room at college. So he leaves. Then Shauna and Lynn leave, saying that it's getting late.
Now it's just Christina, Four and me. We're in the living room just talking when mom walks in.
"Hey dinner's on the table when you're all ready to eat." She says and we all nod.
We talk for a few more minutes then get up to go eat mom's spaghetti, which is my favorite! After we finish eating, I ask Chris and Four if they just want to sleep over since it's getting late.
"Sure, let me just double check with my parents." Chris says and she grabs her phone, then walks out of the room.
I smile at Four. "Alright, I will. My dad wouldn't care." He says, rolling his eyes playfully.
About five minutes later, Chris comes back into the kitchen. "My parents said it was fine, I just have to leave to get my clothes." She says.
"Okay." I say and she hugs me.
"Don't let what that jerk said get to you Tris," She says and pulling back from the hug. "you are amazing."
Four stand up after Chris leaves. "I'll be back in a few minutes. Since I live in the ski lodge, I shouldn't be too long." He says and then he leaves too.
I'm so lucky to have my friends here for me. We are truly like a family. And I know, I can feel, that we will always be like this. A family.
Hey guys! I hope you enjoyed!
~theoceps