Chapter Sixteen
Four's POV
After a 30 minute wait, having things pop out at us, hearing people scream, and seeing Tris grab Al's arm we get off the ride. It's almost nine now. I see a very satisfied Tris and a pale Uriah. He must've gotten very scared. When he sees Tris he tries to play off the fact that he almost pissed his pants.
"That was child's play."
"Yes, of course, Uri" Tris says grinning.
"We still have thirty more minutes" I cut in.
"Let's go to the carousel of progress" she suggests.
Everyone nods and we start making our way over there. There's a line so we wait for about 10 minutes. When our turn comes we take up two rows of chairs. I, of course, sit next to Tris. She seems very happy to be on this somewhat ride. We see the dog and the man who gets older every time they show us the new inventions and everyone laughs when the turkey burns again, just like the year before. When we get off its 8:00. We go to the front of the castle. As we walk I keep staring at Tris. I know she sees me. I don't care if she does or if anyone else does.
"Aww. Four found another tramp to mess around with" I hear Lauren say about 10 minutes from the castle. Before I say anything Tris interjects.
"I'm not a tramp. You said another for a reason though. Were you discretely referring to yourself?"
"Apply cold water on the burned area" I hear Zeke whisper. Everyone laughs including Peter and Eric.
"You idiots are suppose to back me up" she hisses.
"You lost your own battle" said Eric shrugging. She pouts and turns around. I see all the couples kissing by the time we get to the castle. Even Christina and Will. I see Al whispering to Tris. He and Peter are getting a little too close to her. Then I see her face contort, as if she smelled something bad. Al puts his hand on her shoulder. If he uses his other hand I'm stepping in. She seems to be getting mad. Her ears are turning red.
"WHY!" She yells it with such venom. I guess no one was paying attention and they all looked at them confused. She's about to walk away when he does the very thing I was praying he wouldn't do. He roughly pulls her by the shoulders with both hands. She stumbles into him and he hugs her. Hard. She squirms and starts hitting him but fails. Me and Christina are already walking towards them. I pry his arms off of her but he doesn't budge. Christina is pulling Tris. By now Zeke comes over. Her just hugs tighter.
"Al you're hurting me" she wheezes.
He immediately let's go of her. I put her behind me with Christina.
"You're a coward."
"Excuse me, is there a problem here" an officer says. Tris steps up.
"No, I'm sorry. My friend here" she motions her hand to Al "doesn't really understand when it's okay to let go of someone. He's working on it but he was hurting me unintentionally and he's sorry as well as my other friend he was just trying to help."
The officer grunts but leaves.
"That's like the third time you've done that."
"I want to protect-"
"No! You don't. You want me to trust you and then you do the same thing Lauren did to me. I'm not going to look like the vulnerable little girl who's afraid of sex and got condoms thrown at her."
She walks to the front of that castle where the seniors have just arrived. I see the same cop that came up to see what's going on eyeing us suspiciously.
"Let's go everybody. If we're lucky we'll get there around one or two."