Hey everyone. I want to thank all of you for reading this story, it is amazing to know what you think about it. Here is a slightly longer chapter, hope you all like it. I had fun writing this one.

Tris POV

I am surprised to see Tobias walking in to the meeting room at my office. Zoe, my supervisor had organised a meeting with an architecture firm for the upgrade at Merchandise Mart.

He looks just as shocked as I am which suggests that maybe he wasn't told about who he was meeting either. He stands frozen next to the door and only moves when the brunette behind him leans in close to say something to him. The woman is tall but not too tall, thin but not too thin, and has warm brown skin with dark brown hair. She certainly is pretty and has a figure that would have men falling over their feet for her. Her stride shows that she knows it too. She looks oddly familiar too. Behind her is another man with orange hair, like the color of an old carrot. He looks like he has been inconvenienced by just coming here.

I walk closer to greet them and Tobias gives me a huge, warm smile and turns to introduce his colleagues. The orange haired man is Drew and the pretty brunette standing next to Tobias is called Nita. Its only when I hear her name that I remember where I saw her before.

Nita.

The girl who Tobias said he kissed when drunk was also a Nita. From what I remember of the girl on New Year's, she was also a pretty brunette, roughly the same height as the Nita standing in front of me. Is this the same Nita?

I still greeted her as warmly as I could muster and started the meeting. We outlined all our needs for the renovation and gathered input for possible designs for the store. Through out the meeting I noticed Tobias nervously moving his leg, he seemed jumpier than usual. Nita maintained a sugary, sweet smile through out, occasionally giving some input. Emily seemed to be doing well too, for her first time, she gave ideas and asked the right questions too, although she had a smirk on whenever she looked at me.

The meeting was over quickly and we decided to make more decisions after visiting the site at Merchandise Mart which was scheduled after a quick lunch break.

As everyone headed out to the company cafeteria, Tobias stayed while I was wrapping up the papers and the files. He was hovering by my shoulder when I finally looked up and asked him what it was.

"You didn't tell me you got to lead a project", he said, a little smile on his face, "that's huge."

"We weren't exactly talking until yesterday and you know its a small project only, even then I am very happy, I guess it is huge for me. I also didn't know that we would be working on this project together."

He shrugs, his eyes flitting between me and the door quite frequently. I don't understand what is happening.

"Well I also do know that this isn't the only reason why you hung back, so tell me what is it?" I ask, really wanting to know what has him so nervous.

He shrugs it off as nothing but I do know that there is something bothering him, I let it go for now.

"Lunch?", I say gesturing towards the cafeteria.

"Lunch."

I walk in to see the team already sitting together, Matthew talking to Drew, Emily's excited chatter filling the room when talking to Molly, Nita and Myra. Emily sees me and waves excitedly for us to join the table. She still has that stupid smirk on her face. I really need to know what she is smirking so much about today.

Both Tobias and I head towards the table. Everyone looks up when they see us together, Tobias however just raises an eyebrow and puts on his Four mask and everyone looks away. Not Emily though. She stares at me expectantly and when I pull a confused face on her, she sighs.

"Care to tell how you know Four?", she whispers to me.

"Because we are friends" replies Tobias, oops! Looks like he heard Emily.

This seems to gain the attention of the entire table and I feel like a teenager in high school again. I look anywhere but at Tobias. Emily just smirks again and Nita seems generally annoyed by everyone. The rest of the lunch is spent in silence except for the occasional look by Emily, Tobias seems deep in his thoughts so I don't bother talking to him. Nita, however is a-whole-nother story. She sits on his other side and is constantly trying to talk to him. I can see his discomfort from the way he tenses up when Nita is clinging to him.

Right after lunch, Emily drags me away to the girls toilet and starts interrogating me.

"So where did you guys meet? How close are you two? Are you dating yet?", she fires one after the other, too excited to give me the chance to answer.

"Um.. If you are talking about Four, I met him when I first came to Chicago, we are friends and no", I reply, blush covering my cheeks. My mind goes back to Nita and how maybe she is the same Nita from the New Year's incident. If so, Tobias never mentioned working along with her as well. Although, his nervousness today and Nita's resemblance to the girl the other night suggests that maybe they are the same one. Guess I will never know unless I ask Tobias or he tells me.

Emily seems to have caught onto my sudden change in mood and asks no further questions.

The rest of the day is relatively unremarkable. Its three days later we when all decide to go out for drinks to commemorate us working together as a team because the next day is a Sunday.

As I enter the bar, I see the usually quiet, detached Molly talking to Drew, they seem to have hit it off quite soon and look like they are enjoying each other's company. Nita is talking to Myra and Matthew, while Emily is talking to Tobias, probably bombarding him with questions again. I head to the table where everyone is already seated, greeting them. When the first round of drinks is brought around, I notice that my drink is already there and I nod at Tobias in thanks.

Myra, Matthew and Nita are talking about bad dates and dating experiences. Drew and Molly are talking to each other about god knows what but no one really wants to interrupt them. Emily is off on another tangent, talking to Tobias about Midsummer night's dream and Hamlet, the two striking a debate about which one is better. Emily is her usual cheery self and Tobias looks relaxed too.

Emily seems to suddenly stops talking all of a sudden and Tobias teases her, "What? Finally admit Hamlet is better?"

"N-no, what is that?", she asks gesturing to his soulmate tattoo, which is now clearly visible because Tobias has his sleeves rolled up. Emily sounds more surprised than scared. I look to where my own concealed soulmate tattoo lies, thankful that Emily doesn't know about it.

"It's my soulmate tattoo", replies Tobias.

I see Myra look at me, she knows I have a soulmate tattoo too. I know that she has also noticed that I have kept my tattoo concealed lately because I have seen her staring at my arm a few times, just like she is now. I know it won't be long until she connects the dots, considering how few people have soulmates now. The others are still busy with whatever they were talking about so they miss the exchange.

"Oh my god, that's wonderful, so what is your soulmate like?" asks Emily, back to her usual personality in a flash.

"I wouldn't say it's all that wonderful" I flinch, "considering how I drove her away at the start because of the fact that she is my soulmate. I do have to say though that I am incredibly lucky to have her as my soulmate. She is the best person on earth, she is selfless, brave, intelligent and beautiful", Tobias says surprising me, I didn't expect him to answer, he usually deflects such questions.

I am touched at his words and am reminded of the day in his apartment less than a month ago when he told me about his parents, he spoke similar words to me then.

The rest of the time is spent with fun conversations and Myra and Molly even get Nita to play a drinking game with them, which gets her drunk as a skunk by the time we are about to leave.

The rest of the team heads home, Matthew and Emily helping Myra get home, Molly and Drew having disappeared a while ago. Four and I walk Nita to a taxi to send her home too.

"F-fourrr", she says, slurring her words,"I want you to want me to want you to kiss me againnn, just like that night."

I am left speechless. I was suspecting Nita to be the same woman as the brunette I found Tobias kissing that day but I am still shocked to hear it. It hurts a lot more knowing that Tobias didn't just kiss a random girl that day but someone he knew and that even after the two of us met he still didn't tell me that himself.

Tobias freezes up too, a guilty look on his face directed my way, "I am sorry, I didn't tell you about this sooner. About Nita. I really wanted to but I just didn't know how."

I don't know how to reply to that right now so I just nod at Tobias and hail a cab for Nita and help her in.

"She is too drunk to get home by herself. I will go with her, you should go home", I tell Tobias, leaving him on the sidewalk alone.

I ask Nita her address and after a couple of tries I get one. She seems out of it now, staring out of the window. I am not jealous of her, not really, I feel sorry for her. She seems like a smart, independent, attractive woman who could have anything she wanted but she chooses to hide herself under a face of makeup and has unrequited feelings for Tobias, that much was clear after almost a week of working with them. I am upset but that has nothing to do with her and is mostly because of Tobias and myself.

The cab ride is short and soon we are at Nita's apartment, I help her into bed and place the pills for her hangover and water on her nightstand. I wouldn't have thought yesterday that I would be doing something like this for her but here I am. The universe really does work in strange ways.

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