Chapter 21

Alright, here's chapter 21! Hope you enjoy.

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Tobias' POV

We arrived late last night, and everyone went back home fast. Me and Tris slept together again, to comfort each other about yesterday. I am fiddling with Tris' hair, waiting for her to wake up. She does, and looks up in surprise, before seeing me and calming. We talk a bit, before Tris starts to try and get up, but I decide to not let her. She tries to get out of my arms, but I pull them tight around her. She looks up at me, a smirk on her face. Then the door opens, and we both jump out of bed in surprise. But there stands Natalie.

"Hey kids," Oh crap. "So Caleb was telling the truth I guess?" I look at her in shock.

"Ms Prior, nothing happened, I swear," she raises an eyebrow, smiling slightly.

"Wait, you aren't angry?" I ask.

"Nope! Your face though!" She says and starts laughing, clutching her stomach. Then she gets serious again. "However, this is probably going to happen again, and more could happen, so Tris, a word?" I realise what is about to happen and grin at Tris, smug, as she exits the room with her mum. I go and take a shower, then get changed a fresh T-shirt and jeans. The door opens just as I finish getting changed and am spraying some deodorant on. It goes into Tris' face and I try not to laugh.

"Really Tobias?" Oh no, she's angry. "I just got told I am going to be put on birth control, and you do that?" I look at her in terror and awe. She's scary, but she is also kind of hot when she's angry. But then a smile makes its way onto her face and she begins to laugh. Laugh and laugh and laugh. Oh wow, she actually did that.

"So you aren't angry?" I ask.

"N-No, But your FACE THOUGH! It was hilarious!" she says through laughs. Grumble, but go downstairs and wait for her.

An hour later, we are both watching TV, deciding what to do today.

"Well, we could just invite friends round, and watch some movies," Tris suggests. Then I have an idea.

"Ok, Tris, we should go and see Ari and decide what to do from there. He said he was feeling a bit ill after yesterday, so he's back at the hospital. It is pretty much his home now," she nods.

"Yeah, we should, let's go!" She says, launching herself off the sofa and walking to the garage. She vaults into the front seat, and I do the same into the passenger seat. We speed out onto the street, and head up to the hospital.

We walk into Ari's room, followed by Lance.

"Hey, bro, how's it going?" I ask Ari. He coughs.

"Well, I don't know, but I feel like crap, and I doubt I look great either." He was right. Skin flaky, hands clammy looking terrible.

"Yes, he isn't doing fantastic," Begins Lance, but is cut off by a bout of coughing from Ari. We stop, he looks even worse, poor guy. "It looks like the antibiotics wore off or similar,"

Ari doubles up, crying out in pain.

"Yes, he might or might not recover, but he's either dead by the end of today, or living and recovering." Life or death.

"Come on mate, you gotta make it," I say. He smiles weakly.

"Thanks Four, but I could die. I mean, it's likely." Tris has been silent, but now she snaps.

"NO. You aren't going to die on us. You are like my brother, come on, you have to make it!" She says, but he could be on his last legs. Lance suggests we come back later to see him in the evening, so we bid him goodbye.

We walk into a cafe Tris likes for lunch. We each order food, yet we are unhappy. What is going to happen to Ari. Will he live or die. We finish our meal, and head home, where we invite our friends over to watch movies. They arrive around three, loaded with snacks and drinks. We watch some new releases, like A thousand ways to die in the west and the new Transformers movie. They are both great, but then my mind is snapped out of the wild west and back into reality, where one of my closest friends could die. I wake Tris up, her head snapping out of it's place in my shoulder. The others leave, and we drive up to the hospital.

Lance greets us with a grave face. We walk to Ari's room, me holding Tris hand and her worried by my side.

Tris' POV

We get to Ari's room, and if it's possible, he looks worse than this morning.

"He could still survive, but it probably won't happen," Lance says.

"Hey guys, nice to know you remembered me," He manages, weakly. I laugh a little

"Ari, I want to thank you." I begin. "For helping me through my time here. You made it more unusual and you always made it seem slightly better and made me feel happier about being here," He smiles

"Well, I guess we both kept each other company, not forgetting your great boyfriend, Four here," He says. Tobias smiles. Ari turns to him.

"Four, I know you're a great guy, and you and Tris look like you are meant to be. Takecare of Tris, and I have to ask you to do one more thing for me if I leave this world," He gestures to Tobias, who goes down and lets Ari whisper in his ear. Four smiles, and nods. I wonder what Ari wanted him to do. Ari coughs, and smiles at us.

"Thank you for visiting. You're the only people who ever do." His eyes flutter, but he stays awake.

"And I most likely will die, so I want to say goodbye." He starts. "Goodbye Tris, Four, goodbye Lance, goodbye all who have been nice to me or helped me. Goodbye Earth,"

He isn't gone yet though. We can't stop his death, and so I just stand there, tears wetting my cheeks. I go to beside Ari, and lean down to give him one last goodbye. I kiss him gently on both cheeks, and his eyes close, his body racks with one last cough, and he passes away, yet, with a gentle smile on his face. I step back next to Tobias and bury my head in his shoulder. His arms circle my body, and I cry into his shoulder. He looks out of the window, as if feeling Ari's spirit floating out into Chicago. He and I look out over Chicago, lights twinkling, cars gently weaving through the streets. I look up, at the stars, their unblinking eyes looking down on us. Ari's eyes join those, looking down over us and Chicago, guarding the place he overlooked so many nights he lived.

Oh Ari. Sorry people who liked him, but it had to happen sometime. Thanks for reading, supporting, shoutout to AmitySwiftie on that front. Please do review, or I will start to do 'no updates until 5 reviews' or something. Thanks for reading, sorry about the lack of updates.

Toodle pip.

J