Chapter 25

Tris' POV

It would be a complete lie if I said I wasn't the jealous type.

I mean, I can't even blame Tobias for being such an attractive human being. Of course there would be a whole swarm of girls after him of we were to ever break up. I mean come on, not only is he super handsome, he is also smart (on occasions), caring, funny, talented, athletic, the list could go on. The thing is though, I never really realized how many girls actually liked him.

A lot.

I am so grateful to have him in my life. I'm so grateful that out of all the girls he could of had, he chose me. Me of all people.

I'm not afraid to say it, I love him.

And he loves me back.

I watch from afar as he talks to a girl from his history class. I'm assuming they're talking about some group project they have to do. I don't mind him talking to other girls, honestly, but it's not her that's bothering me. It's her friend that stands next to her.

Waverley, her name is. She's in my PE class. She's pretty, smart, nice, but I don't like the way she is looking at my boyfriend. She gives him a genuine smile, but it's her eyes that give everything away. Her eyes have this specific twinkle in them. She chews on her lips as she her eyes constantly flick over to Tobias' lips. They dart back and forth all over his defined body. She stares at his muscles, face, all over basically.

Tobias' group partner smiles and nods before presumably thanking him and walking away, dragging her friend with her.

Thank god.

Honestly, I have no idea what I would have done if that friend kept undressing Tobias with her eyes.

Stay calm, Tris.

Tobias turns his head and spots me. He smiles his adorable smile and waves. I think me and other girls who happened to spot him just swooned. I smile and wave back at him.

"Hi." He hugs me. I return the gesture and give him a quick peck on the lips in return.

"Hey." I say totally becoming oblivious to the fact that some girl was just flirting with my boyfriend. When I'm with him, I'm able to forget all worries and just be able to think about him.

"So I was thinking I'd take you out on a date tomorrow." He says while entwining my hands with his.

"Hm...let me think. I'll have to get back on that with you, you know busy schedule and all." I tease.

"Oh okay, no worries. I have all the time in the world when it comes to you." He smiles.

I laugh. "No, but I'd love to go on a date with you."

"Good. Wear something comfortable. I'll pick you up at seven." Tobias says.

"Okay. I'm looking forward to it then." I swing our entwined hands back and forth. "Tomorrow right?"

"Yup."

"Okay, great." I say. "Just curious, who was that girl standing next to the girl you were talking to?" Wow, I'm specific. Though I already know her name. I'm just curious if he knows and/or if he paid any attention to her.

"Julia or her friend?"

"I dunno! The girl is friends with the girl you're doing a project with." I state.

"Oh, I'm not exactly sure what her name is."

"Oh." Satisfaction runs through me and I have to prevent myself from laughing out loud. Tobias is mine.

Mine.

"Why do you ask?"

"No reason." I say, smiling. "No come on, I'm hungry." I drag him by the arm and we walk to the cafeteria together.

The two of us sit in our regular spot and I take out my lunch from my backpack.

"So," Tobias starts, "formal is next Friday. I'm thinking I'll pick you up at five and I'll take you out to dinner. Then, we can go to the dance together."

"Mhm. Sounds great." I exclaim. "Formal is going to be hosted at some museum this year."

"What kind of museum?" He asks.

"Some art museum. I don't know. The only thing I know of is that there is going to be a DJ and yeah, that about it. But I'm leaving school early to help set up. Student council and all." I tell him.

"Well that sure sounds fun." He says sarcastically.

"Yup. Because you gotta love making up work. Hey, did you know every time you miss a class of P.E. they make you do a make up mile? Which is stupid because last year, I was sick and my PE teacher happened to be gone as well. My class did nothing and I had to run a mile in order to make up for that class period. I complained and my teacher and he hated me after that."

"No way. I don't believe that, Tris. Your a teacher's pet though."

"Yeah well, it doesn't matter anymore. He got fired anyways. He was the worst."

"Mr. Friedman?"

"Yeah..." I take a bite of my sandwich.

"Hey guys!" Uriah cheers as he sits down next to me. He slings his arm around me and smiles. "How is my favorite couple doing?"

"First, get your hands off my girlfriend. Second, were doing great thanks for asking." Uriah's arm drops to the side.

"Ah good, good." He then stands up. "I'll be right back, I have to get my lunch." He quickly scurries off, well, I don't blame him. The cafeteria line can be crazy sometimes.

"How's my favorite couple doing?" Like brother, like brother. Is that even a thing?

Zeke sits down and swings his arm around me. Seriously, what's up with that?

Tobias seems to give up because he doesn't comment on the fact that Zeke still has his arm around me.

"You ready for the big game this Friday?" Zeke asks.

"Football?" I ask.

"Yup." Tobias says to me. "But on the serious note, I'm super pumped for this game."

"Who are you guys playing against?" I ask.

"Carlmont." He says. "Our rival school."

Honestly, I couldn't care less about football. The sport is way too confusing and useless. "Oh fun." I exclaim sarcastically.

"Are you going?" Tobias pouts.

"I don't want to, but I will to be your moral support." I'm probably going to end up bringing a book to read during the game.

"Awesome! Thank you, thank you, thank you."

"Oh my gosh. Shut up before I change my mind." I exaggerate.

"Your girlfriend is quite the charmer." Zeke teases.

"Where is your girlfriend?" I ask him.

"At the moment, she is currently pissed off at me." He sighs. "Probably some girl hormonal thing."

I ark my brow. "Excuse me?" I ask. "Ezekiel, what the fuck did you do?"

"I didn't do anything." I glare at him. "Okay, I might of accidentally forgot that we were supposed to go out last night. It's all Tobias' fault!" He then points an accusing finger towards Tobias.

"What? Me?" Tobias asks and points towards him. "I didn't do anything!"

"I can't believe I'm dating an idiot and I'm friends with that idiot's idiot."

"I am not an idiot." They both say at the same time.

"And plus, all I did was ask him if he wanted to play COD. We might of stayed up until midnight..." I bang my head against the table.

Such dumbasses.

"Well I hope you enjoy apologizing to Shauna. Good luck with that. I'm just going to go and shoot myself in the head. Bye." I get up and throw my lunch away.

"I'll see you later, Tobs." I awkwardly pat his head and kiss his cheek.

As I walk away I hear Zeke asks, "Tobs?"

Tobias groans. "Don't ask."

"Great work, Prior."

"Thanks Coach. I'll see you next week. Bye." I sling my athletic bag over my shoulder and neatly clean and put my skates away. I put on my sneakers back on and tie the laces.

Soon enough, I receive a phone call from Tobias.

"Hello?" I speak into the phone.

"Tris. Hey."

"Uhm, what's up?" I ask as I sit outside onto the nearest bench.

"Did you just finish practice?"

"Yup. I'm waiting for Caleb to pick me up. My parents are busy at work at the moment."

Caleb's car pulls up to the sidewalk and I walk towards his car.

"Do you want to come over? My mom is making dinner and she would really like it if you came." I always loved the sound of Tobias' voice.

"Yeah. One second, let me ask Caleb." I remove the phone from my ear. "Hey Caleb?"

"Hm?" He removes his eyes from the road for a split second. "Can you drop me off at Tobias' house?"

"Are you two going to be alone? In the house I mean?" His voice suddenly raises.

"Relax. No, Evelyn is cooking dinner. She'll be in the house as well." I quickly answer.

"Okay, well in that case, sure. Just tell me where to go."

I put the phone back towards my ear. "So Caleb is going to drop me off. I'll see you in ten. Bye."

"Okay, I love you."

"Love you too." I hang up the phone.

Caleb gives me a weird look. "What?"

"You guys are in the "I love you" stage?" He asks.

"Hey! It's not like you and Susan are any different." I exclaim.

"Susan and I broke up." Okay, now I feel bad for saying that.

"What happened?" I ask.

"She's moving away and in the logical sense, long distance is probably not going to work out. So we decided to just end things before one of us gets hurt in the long run."

"Well, I'm sorry to hear that. But if fate really wants you two to be together, who knows, you'll meet again someday." I say even though I don't really believe in fate.

"Yeah..." Caleb continues to stare off into the road.

"Make a left down our street." I point.

"Okay."

"This one!" I point to the two story, white house." Caleb parks the car and I get out.

"If mom or dad ask, tell them I'm here. And I'll be home the latest around nine or ten, maybe earlier."

"Okay, cool. Bye, love you sis."

"Love you too." I shut the door closed and wave as he drives off.

I walk to the front door which immediately swings open before I get the chance to knock.

"Hey." Tobias hugs me close.

"Hey." I mumble against his chest. "Miss me already?" I tease.

"Mhm." He hums. He snuggles his head into the crook of my neck. "I love you."

"Love you too." I break away from his embrace and he pouts. "Come on, I'm starving."

We walk to the kitchen where his mother is currently making sauce.

Mm...lasagna.

"Hey Evelyn." The last time I was here, she made it very clear to me that she would like me to call her my her name.

"Hi Beatrice."

"Do you need help? I make a pretty mean lasagna." I state while smiling.

"That would actually be lovely. Thank you. Could you boil the noodles for me?"

"Yeah of course." I let go of Tobias' hand and open the bag of pasta. I turn around for a split second as see Tobias just staring at me. "What? Are you just going to stand there at let all the ladies to all the work?"

Evelyn laughs. "Oh honey, I wish Tobias was just like you. Never helps out, that one." She motions towards Tobias.

Tobias scowls. "Hey Evelyn, maybe you can show me some baby pictures of Tobias during dinner. I'd love to see him as a little baby." I coo.

"Oh! That's a wonderful idea!" She exclaims knowingly. "Maybe I can even show you some of our home videos."

I give Tobias a evil smirk. "Home videos you say?"

Tobias groans loudly.

"You okay there, babe?" I asks directing my attention towards a conflicted looking Tobias.

"I literally cannot stand you right now." He tells me trying to maintain a completely straight face.

"If you can't stand me, might as well not be able to kiss me. Let's say..." I say tapping my chin. "For a week."

"No! I take that back. I love you. And I'm sorry."

"Oh you two are just the cutest. I'll be right back. Tobias, honey, watch the sauce for me.

Once the noodles are done boiling and are cooked, I strain out all the water from the pot. I then get Tobias to bring me a baking pan.

He helps me assemble he layers of the meal. I gently and efficiently layer the noodles and he layers the tomato sauce and cheese. I continue this process until the pan is filled to the top.

"Yay! We're done! Let me just pop this into the oven." He opens the oven door for me and place the pan in the 375 degree oven.

"Oh. You guys finished? Why thank you for all of the help." Evelyn says. "I found an old cassette tape with the home videos of Tobias."

"I thought you were only joking to mess with me." Tobias shakes his head and buries his face in his hands.

"No, of course not." I say a hundred percent serious. "I want to watch you...in a none creepy sounding way."

Evelyn hooks up the cassette player and puts the tape in.

"Ma ma ma ma ma ma." A two year old looking Tobias pops up into the screen. I think my heart just swelled and did several flips.

"Hey Toby. Tell you dad what we're about to do." Both Tobias and his mother cringe at the mention of Marcus.

"Ma ma ma ma. Da-da!" Tobias exclaims.

"Aw. You were such an adorable baby." I turn to Tobias and pinch his cheeks together. "What happened to you now?"

"Ha-ha. So funny." He exclaims sarcastically. "Next time I'm asking your mother for any home videos."

"Oh you do that." I say. "I was a fabulous baby." And I dramatically pose.

"Well we about to run you a bath, Tobias." Past Evelyn says to her son.

"Bat?" Baby Tobias asks.

"Yes, bath. Come on. Up you go." We watch as a now naked Tobias splashes in their old bathtub.

"Oh my gosh." I hear Tobias mutter besides me. "Kill me now."

A doorbell sounds from the video and Evelyn leaves momentarily to answer the door.

"Look who it is, Tobias. Your friend, Beatrice." Evenly not exclaims.

"Bee-tis! Bee-tis!" Tobias bounces excitedly in the tub.

A little mini version of myself runs into the view of the camera.

"Tobs! Tobs! Tobs! What you doin'?" I ask jumping excitedly in the bathroom.

"I'm doin' bat. Wanna join?" Tobias burst out laughing from besides me.

"I was such a player. Even back then." I elbow him in the gut. "Ow." He whines.

The video soon ends with him getting changed. That was too cute.

"You were adorable." Tobias says. "I hate to say it, but you were even more adorable than I was back then."

"I told you I was a fabulous baby." He rolls his eyes. "Oh don't be jealous now." I tease.

After the video we go back to the kitchen to eat our dinner. Evelyn slices a pieces of lasagna for me and I thank her. She also takes out a salad from the fridge and serves that as well.

"And then Tobias ran straight into the wall." Evelyn says and I burst out laughing.

I can just imagine a little three year old boy running around the house naked and then running straight into the wall. Don't forget the fact that Evelyn mention that Tobias had underwater over his head.

I turn to Tobias and his face is shamelessly red.

"Okay." Tobias draws and abruptly stands ups. "Tris should probably go home now." I look at him and smile.

"Oh don't be embarrassed."

"Oh shut up." He says playfully.

"Anyways," I stand up as well and give Evelyn a hug. "Thank you for the meal. It was delicious and I'll see you later."

"And thank you for helping." She recuperates.

"I'll drive you home."

"It's fine I'll walk. My house it literally down the street.

"Fine then I'll walk you home." I wave to Evelyn one last time.

Tobias offers me his hand and together we walk in the direction of my house.

"Thanks for tonight." I say and turn towards him.

"Thanks for coming over despite everything you did to embarrass me." He says with a sly grin on his face.

"Well," I place my hands on his chest, "I can't help it. I love seeing you blush. It's cute."

He laughs. "Mm.. Really now?"

"Yup." His arms snake around me and of course, his hands lower and cup the bottom of my ass. But I don't say anything.

He kisses me lightly.

"I'll see you tomorrow." I say.

"Okay." He kisses me one last time before I finally tell him to home.

I watch as he walks down the empty, lit street.

"I love you Beatrice Prior!" He yells out.

I smile and say quietly, "I love you too, Tobias Eaton."

A/N: I'm realized I made a blog and haven't been on it like since I made it. But I will try to be more active so you guys can have little snippets from my other stories. I apologize for the long wait, it usually takes a while before a really good idea for my stories come to me. And when I do get ideas, I write right away. Hoped you enjoy, and see you soon! Be sure to check out my other Divergent AU, Finding Home.

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