Thank you for all the reads and reviews. I love to see that people are appreciating my story. Here's the next chapter. Beware of the change in POVs and timeline.

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Tris POV

'I don't know if I do love her yet but this is definitely more than just attraction' is what keeps replaying in my mind.

Is that really what he said or something my mind conjured up? Also, who was he talking about because it surely cannot be me, right? Right. He wouldn't kiss someone else if he liked me. Maybe he was talking to Lynn about the girl he was with on New Year's. Sounds like he really does love her.

My heart breaks at just the thought. He loves someone else, that someone else being the pretty brunette he was kissing just two days ago and not me.

I guess I should be happy for Tobias, he found someone who is deserving of him, someone who will love him but unfortunately all I feel is tremendous sadness. My stomach is churning at just the thought of Tobias with anyone else.

I slide down against the door, pulling my knees to my chest and resting my head on them. I let the few tears that have gathered in my eyes fall but stop myself before I start full-out sobbing.

Maybe this is for the best. Tobias gets someone he actually deserves. I am sure that I will get over him eventually, all I need is some time but I know it is not true even as I am thinking it.

Tobias POV

It's been a week since I talked to Lynn. Nine days exactly since 'the incident'. I haven't seen Tris even once in this time, I think she is trying to avoid me now. I just wish I could talk to her, tell her everything. I admit that the idea of just camping outside her apartment until she comes out and we can talk has been tempting but I try to remember what Lynn said.

Tris needs her space. I am pretty sure that if roles were reverse, no matter what, I would need time to process all this but I also know that Tris is stronger than me.

I walk into Café Divergent just like I do most mornings now that Tris is gone. When Tris was in the apartment I had breakfast with her every morning before heading off to work but now that she left, I usually join Tori (the café's owner and a good friend) for breakfast. I met Tori through work when I was still working as an intern, she was a customer but now she has become a close friend and a confidante.

Today though I spot Tris sitting at my usual table talking to Tori. She looks nice. A small smile pulled at her lips, her blonde hair falling over her shoulders in an angelic way.

I can't stop myself from walking towards her and am soon finding myself standing in front of her.

She finally takes notice of me and the smile falls from her face, replaced by a look of hurt which is soon gone, replaced again by a look of determination.

Even the moment of hurt on her features make me feel guilty but Tris looks stronger than I feel now.

Tori notices the change in the atmosphere and tells us to take a table near the back and quietly exits from the scene.

I am partly grateful wanting to get some alone time with Tris but also dreadful of Tori leaving because it means that I will need to have the conversation and I don't want to hurt Tris anymore with my words than I already have.

Tris looks like she wants to leave and even makes an effort to do so before I stop her, telling her that we need to talk.

"I missed you" I tell her, its true but we both know that I am avoiding the real conversation we need to have here.

Her eyes soften making her dull grey eyes that always held so much hope, a sparkling blue even if it is just for a moment before turning into steely grey ones "I think this is so much more than that, don't you Tobias?"

I can hear the frustration in her voice, but I can't, I'm not ready. I have so much I want to say, so much I need to say and at the same time so much I don't want to say.

I open my mouth to tell her everything that happened that day, everything that I messed up but I can't. My words fail me and I close my mouth. I try to get out the words again but it doesn't do anything except for making me look like a fish.

"I thought you wanted to talk to me and now that you have the chance to, you are not talking" she says, anger rolling off her in waves.

I try again but it's like I am mute and can do nothing until she briskly walks towards the door and out the café. It is only then that my mind processes anything and I run out after her, finding her just around the corner leaning against the wall and taking deep heavy breaths.

She must have heard me because it is then that she looks up and straightens abruptly, before I can even comprehend what she is doing, she is running away from me.

I doesn't take me long to catch up to her, my long even strides quickly outpacing her short ones and I hold her by the waist, not giving her the chance to escape again now.

"Let me go, Four" she says protesting against me, her voice sounding weak now.

"Only if you promise to not go until I tell you everything, please" I say a little desperately.

"Fine but make it quick" she says but the fight in her voice is all gone now.

I loosen my arms from around her not letting her go as of yet, I can feel her body heat and her breath but cannot see her face now. I think that is for the best because I don't think I could say it while looking at her and knowing that it hurt her.

I tell her everything that happened that day since when she disappeared with Christina and didn't come back. The drinks, Nita, the kiss, everything.

Her posture slowly relaxes, and I tell her the thing I wish I could have told her at New Year's Eve.

"I like you, I really do and even on the New Year's this is what I wanted to tell you" I run my hand through my hair "but you know what happened..."

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