A/N I'm back! I've been thinking about my next FanFiction so I'm a little behind, but it has been the weekend since the last update so I'm not too late.
Veronica Roth totally wrote those books for free like I'm writing this for free. Totally.
"Yeah..." My voice trails off because I see Tobias kissing Lauren over Robert's shoulder. My blood begins to boil and I storm away.
Tobias's P.O.V.
Bea disappears from my side, and I do not notice for a little bit. I look around and see her about a hundred feet away hugging someone. The someone looks like Robert, our old neighbor. Why would she be hugging him? A jealous rage fills me. I stalk away from the fast-dispersing group and closer to the fence.
When I reach the fence, I stop and run my fingers through my hair, letting out an annoyed growl. Then, I lean my body against the fence and close my eyes so I can think about this. Why would she do this to me, to us? It just does not make sense. I thought we were working great as a couple, but apparently not. Apparently she would rather be with Robert than me. Why Robert? It is all so frustrating!
I feel something roughly hit my lips, and arms wrap around my neck. I know this is not Bea. This kiss is nothing like the kisses we share. I am repulsed by this. I push whoever this is away from me. Of course, it was Lauren. I should have known.
I do not even say anything to Lauren; I just walk away. I really hope Bea did not see that, because I do not want her to think I am cheating on her like she is obviously cheating on me. I may be mad, but I would never cheat on her. Especially not with Lauren.
I nervously glance around, trying to find Bea. Before I can get far, I feel a slap on my cheek.
"Ow." I exclaim.
Tris's P.O.V.
"Bye, Robert." I say over my shoulder with a quick glance his direction. When I look back to Tobias, he is walking away and nervously looking around, probably for me. I walk over to him and slap him hard across the cheek.
"Ow!" He exclaims.
"What was that?" I demand. "Why were you kissing her?"
I will myself not to cry as he answers. "Why were you hugging Robert? There's not much difference in that, is there?"
"So you kissed her? You kissed her because I hugged an old friend?" I keep my voice down and even.
He opens his mouth like he wants to answer, but Zeke and Uriah come over to us. Zeke drags Tobias away and Uriah puts his arm around me to guide me away.
"Uri, why? Why would he do that to me? To us?" I say, finally breaking down into tears.
"I don't know. Guys do stupid things. I'm sure he was just jealous because you hugged that Amity dude and he acted rashly. That's probably all it is." Uriah says in a soothing voice as he guide me back toward the train tracks.
"But- but that was our old neighbor." I say through tears.
"I'm sure he knows that, but how would you feel if you saw him hugging a girl who used to be your neighbor?" Uriah asks.
As I mull this over, I make myself stop crying so I look strong and Dauntless. "I guess I would be mad and jealous, but I wouldn't kiss someone!" I say without tears.
"What would you do?"
"Probably slap him." I answer.
"Well, that is spot on because you did slap him." Uriah says with a light chuckle.
"Oh, I did, didn't I?" I had completely forgot about that.
"Yeah, you did." Uriah says with another chuckle.
I look at him and force a smile. "Just don't expect me to apologize for that. He deserved it."
"I know he did."
Everyone else joins us near the tracks and we jump on when the train gets near. Zeke and Tobias stay on the other side of the train car from Uriah and me. I'm still angry at him, therefore I will not look at them.
Tobias's P.O.V.
"Why did she hug him?" I ask Zeke as soon as we are out of earshot from Uriah and Tris.
"Why did you kiss Lauren?" Zeke asks.
"Because she hugged our old neighbor." I lie stubbornly.
"Really?"
"No, Lauren cornered me and kissed me. I pushed her away. I really hoped Tris didn't see it because it is way easier to explain things like that to her when she didn't see it." I admit.
"Stupid! Why didn't you tell her that?"
"Because I was jealous and I-I'm stupid." I say lamely.
"Good. You admit it."
"Okay, I see why I'm wrong but why did she hug him?" I say exasperatedly.
"I don't know, maybe because that's what Amity do. They hug." Zeke says like it is completely obvious, which it is.
"Duh!"
Amar shouts for us to go to the tracks, so Zeke and I turn around and jog back to where we were. We walked further away from the others as we talked so we are now pretty far away.
We jump on the train. I notice Bea is on the other side of the car as Zeke and I. I start to walk over but Zeke grabs my elbow.
"Stop. I've learned it's best if you give her a while to cool down. And since you didn't actually tell her what happened, she going to be mad for a while." Zeke says.
"Fine." I say with a huff.
We got back to the compound in time for lunch, and Bea avoided me. She chose to spend the lunch with Christina, who I have become to dislike, and I thought she had, too. Then, we all headed to the training room for a workout, per Amar's instructions. Bea worked out on the other side of the room from me. It was getting hard to leave her be. Her trend of ignoring me lasted through supper. After supper, I headed to the chasm to think over what I would, say to her.
Now, Zeke is dragging me to the net so we can "have some buddy bonding time," as Zeke put it. I have no idea why Uriah is not coming, maybe because Zeke thought I would be mad about him taking Bea's side. We enter the room the net is in and I hear the door shut and lock behind me. I turn back around to the door and see Zeke has disappeared.
I nearly jump out of my skin when I hear a very feminine voice speak up.
A/N had to add the whole Tobias P.O.V. at the beginning to make this long enough. I really wanted it to end there. So what do you think is happening here? There really is no telling, right? I hope y'all enjoyed! I'll try to update again Thursday, but no promises. If not I will try my hardest to get something over the weekend.
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-T