Welcome to my new story! I had so much fun reworking Return to Me, I decided to take on another one of my favorite movies, Love and Basketball (Special shouts out to the writer and director Gina Prince-Blythewood) while watching the March Madness Tournament this year. Special thanks to the fabulous Lex in The City for helping me brainstorm out this one! If you are a fan of the movie, it will have similar elements but there are lots of new twists and turns plenty of drama for our beloved Divergent characters but I promise you a happy ending for Four and Tris! As with most of my stories the characters are people of color. You can check out my Pinterest board (rdixon417) to see the people I have chosen for inspiration. I love basketball so watching the NBA finals right now is giving me so much inspiration for how I have this story planned out. Love ya'll!
Tris looks out the car window as the trees blur by on the interstate. She wasn't excited about this move but it wasn't like she had a choice about her family moving from Chicago to Charlotte, NC. Her siblings had put up much more of a fuss. As long as Tris had a basketball hoop she was fine wherever they went.
Her father, Andrew Prior, had been in the banking business since he graduated college and had taken a position as the VP of Operations at Bank of America which was based in Charlotte. The Prior clan was not used to the humidity of the south. It had only been a few hours since they entered the South and their mother Natalie was over all the complaining from her children after the two-day drive with the moving trucks to get there the following morning.
"Ma can you turn the air up, It's hot" Caleb whines.
"Caleb we are not doing this today, you will have to get used to the heat" Natalie Prior scolds as Tris snickers under her breath.
She and her twin brother Caleb were 11 and just starting the sixth grade. The prior siblings were close, especially Tris and Caleb since they were twins even though they two were polar opposites they always had each other's back. Tris was the athlete and Caleb the bookworm. Tris could play basketball all day and night if she could, her mother usually had to threaten her to come in the house and didn't mind getting dirty. Caleb on the other hand was already worried about college applications and preferred to have his nose stuck in a book.
Lauren was just starting 8th grade and having an entire meltdown about leaving all her friends behind and knowing no one at the beginning of the school year. Tris and Caleb shared the same honey skin tone as their mother Natalie with almond-shaped lips and hazel eyes. Lauren took after Andrew with smooth coco-toned skin closer to the espresso tone of her father with deep brown eyes.
When their SUV turned into their new gated neighborhood all three kids gasped. They had lived comfortably in a three-bedroom brownstone in Lake Forest, a weather suburb of Chicago. Natalie was able to be a stay-at-home mom while Andrew climbed the corporate ladder in the banking world. This move was a big promotion and a big step for Andrew.
"We get to live here?" Lauren squeaks out as Natalie punches in the code to enter the gate and it slowly swings open.
Andrew had flown down to start work the week before. Natalie finished packing up the house with the kids and waited for the movers to load up all their belongings before they set out on their road trip.
"Are we rich now?" Caleb says with his eyes wide as Natalie follows the GPS through the neighborhood.
"Well living in North Carolina is much cheaper than Chicago, With your father's new position we can afford a much bigger house" Natalie comments as she turns the wheel.
"Is this why we are going to private school now?" Caleb asked curiously.
Caleb had been particularly excited about their new school Abnegation Christian Prep. Lauren complained about having to wear a uniform every day instead of her own clothes while Tris scoured online for any information about athletics, basketball in particular.
"It sure is, we are very fortunate for the opportunity for all of you." Natalie reminds them.
All three kids gasp as Natalie pulls up in the driveway of their new house. Andrew had flown down and sent videos when he accepted his position so they could decide on the house. With the sale of their Chicago home, the family was well-positioned for the move to Charlotte. The house had 5 bedrooms and space for Andrew to have an at-home office as well as a large kitchen which Natalie was over the moon about.
"Do famous people live in this neighborhood?" Lauren asks excitedly.
"I think the family that lives next door, the father, plays in the NBA. I would assume there are more" Natalie says offhandedly as she opens the door.
"Are you serious?" Tris gasps with her eyes wide craning her neck to look at the house. This move might be better than she thought it was. Tris had been playing basketball since she was 7 and she was determined to make it to the WNBA.
As everyone piles out of the car and into the house, Andrew comes out to meet his family.
"There they are! How was the drive?" Andrew gushes as he pulls Natalie in for a kiss.
She smiles softly. Andrew had been requested for a meeting and needed to come to Charlotte early. Natalie didn't want the kids to miss the first week of school so she insisted on making the trip without him instead of waiting another week.
"Hi Daddy, I can't believe this is our house" Lauren gushes giving her father a quick hug.
"Can we go pick out our rooms now?" Caleb more so yells than asks as he and Lauren tear off to the stairs.
"You two wait for your sister!" Andrew yells as Caleb and Lauren giggle and race up the stairway.
'It's okay, I'll take whatever's left" Tris shrugs, moving to hug her father.
"That's my munchkin." Andrew smiles. "The good part is you all get your own room so you and Lauren don't have to share anymore"
"Whoo-hoo" Tris cheers as she takes off upstairs after her brother and sister.
The house was three levels. With the master suite on the top floor. The second floor was made up of four bedrooms. Tris wandered into the room across the hall from the room Caleb had picked. It had its own bathroom which was great. She wandered to the window. Since the house was on a sloped lot, her window was right outside a grassy knoll between the house next door. She peered out the window, she could see a bedroom directly across from hers, There was a decorative letter T on the wall and a poster of a player from the LA Lakers and Lebron James. Tris scoffed, Lebron James was a great player but she thought Bill Russel, Kobe Bryant, and Michael Jordan were the best basketball players ever.
That night Andrew drove the kids around the neighborhood, there was a golf course and clubhouse. Their school was actually on the backside of the neighborhood. It was close enough that they could ride their bikes to school. They rode to South Park Mall for dinner which made Lauren's day to see that there was shopping only about 30 minutes from their neighborhood which was outside of the downtown area. T
hat night they all slept on air mattresses until the moving truck arrived. Tris stared at the ceiling while she tried to fall asleep. Tris thought that this was going to be a good move but she wondered what this move had in store for her.
The next morning the moving truck arrives. Tris was getting a new bedroom set that was arriving that day since she and Lauren now had separate rooms. Tris had peaked out of the window again after breakfast. It was Saturday so she could see three boys playing basketball in the driveway of the house next door. She had been dying to play since it had been three days since had to play. It was hot here, but she was going to have to get used to playing in the heat one way or another. She gets up and throws her wild wavy hair into a baseball hat, She grabs a t-shirt and a pair of shorts, and a pair of athletic shorts. She wanted to look as much like a boy as possible. She already knew most boys her age didn't want to play with her just because she was a girl.
"Tris, where are you going honey?" Natalie asks with her soft southern accent.
Her mother was from Atlanta and the epitome of a Black Southern Belle, with the southern drawl and all. She had been excited to move back down south and never really grown accustomed to Chicago during her 15 years there when Andrew's job transferred him the year after they were married. Even though they had only been in North Carolina two days, Tris swears her mother's accent had been accentuated making her sound even more delicate than she usually did.
"I'm going to see if the boys next door will let me play basketball with them"
"Okay, be careful" Natalie calls out with a sigh as she turns back to the movers bringing in the couch for the family room through the front door. "Lauren, Honey please show them where to put the bedroom furniture, Caleb tell your father you can help him set up the bed frames"
Natalie figured it would be less of an argument if she just let Tris go about her business. There was no stopping here when basketball was on her mind.
Tobias dribbles and pulls up to make a jump shot on his basketball goal in the driveway. It was only around 930 in the morning but he wanted to play before it was too hot outside. Tobias could play basketball all day long if he wanted to.
"Come on T. pass the ball" Uriah shouts. Tobias and his two best friends Uriah and Zeke who lived down the street did this every Saturday morning if they didn't have anything to do. Tobias shakes his head and swings the ball to Uriah.
He and Uriah played on the same AAU basketball team this past summer and he and the Pedrad boys had become inseparable, always wanting to hang out together. Uriah and Zeke had moved into the neighborhood two years ago. Now when Uriah and Tobias weren't playing ball, they were having sleepovers or playing video games.
Tobias's father played professional basketball for the Charlotte Hornets. Marcus Eaton was well known in the NBA and Tobias was determined that he was going to play in the NBA just like his father. Zeke and Uriah were pretty good as well, but Tobias could tell they didn't go to bed dreaming about basketball as he did.
They stop messing around when they see someone walk up the hill. The guy looked about their age but had a hat on.
"Didn't your mom say there were only girls moving in next door?" Zeke asks.
"I don't know, I think she said there were three of them, one of them is a boy I think" Tobias shrugs.
"Can I play?" Tris asks, trying to sound nonchalant and keep her voice low.
"Can you hoop?" Tobias challenges rolling the ball around between his hands.
"Yeah, I can hoop" Tris challenges back and puts her hands up to ask for the ball.
Tobias shoots it over and as soon as Tris catches it she takes off her hat revealing her wild messy wavy hair.
"Ah man, it's a girl" Uriah squeaks out.
"Girls can't play no ball as good as guys, You'll mess up our game," Tobias says with disgust
"Ball better than you" Tris retorts as she steps up to them. Zeke watches her, he wasn't so sure Tobias was going to win this one.
"Okay, you and Zeke here against me and Uriah," Tobias says. This was going to be a piece of cake.
"What a dog" Tobias giggles to Uriah as Tris walks by him. Tris rolls her eyes, she didn't care that she wasn't into girly things like most of the girls her age were starting to get into. She was used to how most of the boys teased her at her old school in Chicago.
"I'm Tris" she smiles at Zeke. Tris looked at his skin tone that was similar to hers, Uriah as more of Lauren's complexion but they had the same smile.
"Zeke, nice to meet you" Zeke offers, he knew his best friend could be over the top at times, today would be no different.
"Check" Tris shoots the ball square in Tobias's face. He's shocked her pass was so strong but he goes with it.
Tris turns on the heat from the second she starts to dribble the ball. Zeke tries to keep from laughing as Tris handles Tobias so quickly. He lets her take the lead and they battle back and forth. Tobias was holding his own against her but he didn't want to admit that she was good.
When she shoots the ball to Zeke he makes an easy layup against his brother and calls for Tris to catch the ball.
"She can't hear you, all she can hear are dog whistles" Tobias taunts and she shoots the ball at him. To prove a point Tris doesn't even dribble she just pulls up into a jump shot that falls right in. She leaves her hand up in the air, her wrist bent and she shimmies her shoulder arrogantly.
Zeke and Uriah both crack up laughing behind Tobias at how Tris just handled him. Frustrated, Tobias now sticks close on her as she takes the ball out again and dribbles closer. Tris and Zeke were up 19 to 15 and only one more shot and they would win.
"What's wrong can't take the heat? I'm gonna play in the WNBA" Tris says as she works her dribble.
"I'm gonna be in the NBA and you're going to be my cheerleader" Tobias grunts out as he spreads his arms trying to keep Tris from passing the ball to Zeke. She fakes him out and goes around him. Just as she is about to pull up for a lay-up to end the game Tobias takes all his frustration and shoves her to the ground. Tris grunts as she hits the grass next to the driveway.
"Ow," She complains as she sits up. She touches her face and sees that she's bleeding, realizing that she must have scrapped the concrete on her way down.
"T. why did you do that?" Uriah says, walking over nervously as Tris looks at her bloodied hand.
"Tris, what happened?" Lauren and Caleb call as they come running over.
Natalie had sent them to find Tris and tell her lunch was ready. Caleb helps Tris up and Lauren glares at Zeke, Uriah, and Tobias. Tris was rough, she always had been but she didn't like anyone picking on her little sister.
"Come on, Mamma's going to flip when she sees her face." Lauren sighs as they turn to walk about to their house. She stops suddenly and walks back to Tobias, Zeke and Uriah.
"Don't ever put your hands on my sister again" Laurens says forcefully before turning on her heels to follow her siblings.
"Damn T. You didn't say sorry," Uriah says, shaking his head.
"I know, I was going to, I don't know what happened" Tobias groans out. He was pretty sure he was about to get grounded for this, especially if Tris's mother talked to his parents.
As predicted, as soon as Natalie saw Tris's face she started fussing. Tris smiled in the bathroom mirror as Natalie cleaned her wound and attempted to dress it. The scrape was on the bottom left cheek and her jaw.
"This is going to leave a scar, I know it. Tris, you have got to stop being so rough running around with these boys" Natalie fussed applying antibiotic ointment on the area with a Q-tip. "I'll need to get an aloe plant to see if this will heal"
"Oh Munchkin is tough" Andrew chuckles as he steps into the bathroom to take inventory.
"Someone needs to talk to that boy who pushed her," Natalie says with her eyebrows furrowed.
"I agree, I'll go over and speak with the parents," Andrew says as he ruffles Tris's wild hair before going to finish talking to the movers.
Andrew has a pleasant conversation with Evelyn Eaton about what happened. Evelyn assured Andrew that nothing like this would happen again and she would bring Tobias over to apologize to Tris later on in the day. An hour later Tobias sits at the kitchen table trying to write an apology to Tris just as his mother instructed him to do. He wasn't great with words so he tried to turn it into a card and was drawing on the front. He had never lost his cool like that before, but being handled by a girl on the court was frustrating for him. He groans when he hears the door open and he knows his father was home. He was for sure in trouble now.
'Hi Baby' Marcus's deep voice booms as he enters the kitchen. "What's going on here?"
Evelyn was busy applying frosting to a cake she had picked up at the grocery store to make it appear as though she had baked it herself. Evelyn smiles at her husband, he was still one of the most handsome men she had ever seen. At 6'5' he was imposing but still charismatic. His mother was a Canadian Olympic hurdler of Scottish and Italian descent who met his father who was Bahamian. His parents met at the Olympic games in 1964. Tobias favored both his parents, Evelyn figured he was going to be tall like his father. He already had the same dark hair and dark eyes as Marcus and a warm olive skin tone similar to both his parents.
"Well, your son lost his temper playing basketball and pushed one of the new kids next door to the ground, scraped the girls face all up before I even had an opportunity to go over and welcome them to the neighborhood" Evelyn explains as he looks over at her son.
"Son, Don't you ever let a woman fool you into thinking she can cook. That's how your mamma did me" Marcus teases seeing what was laid out on the counter.
"I can't do this shit" he sighs. Tobias throws down his colored pencil in frustration. What did she have to push his buttons like that?
"What did I tell you about that word?" Marcus chastises as he walks over to the table where Tobias was sitting.
"Can't shouldn't be in a man's vocabulary" Tobias repeats looking his father in the eye.
"And why?" Marcus asks.
"Because if you say can't that means you, not a real man" Tobias finishes poking out his chest. He always listened to what Marcus tried to instill in him. He wanted to be just like his father when he grew up.
"Marcus," Evelyn says, widening her eyes at her husband.
"Oh, yeah, don't say shit either" Marcus adds. "What do you have to say for yourself about pushing this girl Tobias?"
"I don't know, I lost my cool, She was better than me and it made me mad I guess"
"Is that how you show respect to someone else, let alone a woman?" Marcus crosses his arms in front of his chest.
"No sir" Tobias whispers and lowers his eyes to the table. "Ma is taking me to apologize this afternoon"
"Good, I'll see you after dinner," Marcus says, holding out his hand to give Tobias a fist bump.
"Love you Dad"
"Love you, Son"
"Marcus, you just got home from a 4 game road trip. Are you not going to join us for dinner?" Evelyn complains. She knows she signed up to be an NBA wife but she was continually frustrated that Marcus was gone so much.
"Don't start Evelyn, I got maybe two or three years left to play, I have to set some stuff up for us"
Evelyn sighs and nods. Marcus gives her a kiss on the forehead before walking out the door. Evelyn Eaton was a stunningly beautiful woman with fair ivory skin and dark hair. Her father and mother had run away together to get married when they were 18 from Alabama where interracial marriages weren't popular at the time. They settled in California where Calvin Johnson worked as a car salesman and her mother Lucy dabbled in modeling before becoming a casting director at a film studio. Evelyn met Marcus when she was 18 and he was 19 playing basketball at the University of Southern California. When Evelyn found out she was pregnant, Marcus asked her to marry him. They struggled while he was still playing basketball in college but things made a quick turn around once Marcus was drafted by the Seattle Supersonics. She played her role as the NBA wife, but it was starting to wear on her.
A few hours later Tobias fidgets nervously as his mother rings the doorbell to the house next door.
"Hello, Come in please" Natalie prior offers taking in the woman and child standing on her new doorstep.
"I'm Evelyn Eaton and this is my son Tobias, Your husband came over and spoke with me earlier. I just want to say I'm so sorry about all this. I was planning on coming over to bring you this to welcome you to the neighborhood before my hard-headed son did what he did"
"I'm very sorry for losing my temper," Tobias says standing up straight.
"Well hold one second. Beatrice! Come down here please" Natalie calls. A minute later Tris stands awkwardly next to her mother who is now holding the cake Evelyn brought.
"We moved back to Charlotte after Marcus was traded again about 3 years ago. You have to meet Hana. She lives down the street. We were the first two Black families in this neighborhood. Her husband is a player for the Carolina Panthers. We usually host a family block party every year, her twin boys are the same age as Tobias"
"Well that's lovely, Beatrice here is a twin, Caleb is around here somewhere, and my oldest Lauren. Do you entertain a lot? I used to cook for all my friends' parties back in Chicago"
"Oh, are you a caterer?"
"No, unfortunately, but it might be something I'd like to try when the kids are older" Natalies laments as she tries to smooth down Tris's wild hair with one hand while balancing the cake in the other.
Tris knockers her hand away in annoyance.
"You know I have never seen the inside of this house," Evelyn says.
"Well let me give you a tour, You two take this into the kitchen please"
Tris takes the cake from her mother and eyes Tobias knowing that he was looking at her. She takes her finger and takes a swipe of the frosting. He does the same thing.
"How did you get so good at basketball?"
"I don't know, I just can, my mamma says she don't know where I came from" Tris shrugs as they walk to the kitchen.
"Does your day play for the NBA?" Tobias asks, taking another finger full of frosting looking around the kitchen. There were moving boxes everywhere.
"My dad works for a bank" Tris turns her nose up at his question.
"Well my Dad plays for the Hornets, I'm going to play for them too, Number 4 just like him" Tobias gestures to the jersey he was wearing. Tris notices for the first time that Eaton was on the back of it.
"I like Kobe but I want to wear number 6, like Bill Russell"
"I bet my dad could take him" Tobias challenges her.
"How many championships has your Dad won?"
"4 and He's going to pass MJ"
"Well Bill Russell has 11 and he was the first Black head coach of any professional sport"
"You are different" Tobias remarks with his eyebrows raised. He had never met a girl who knew anything about basketball let alone played like Tris did.
"I don't care," Tris replies arrogantly.
"Well I run this street, so if anyone messes with you just tell me"
Tris looks at him. "If they do I'll just tell my sister Lauren" Who was this kid thinking she needed protecting.
"Well I know how to fight, my Dad taught me how to box like Muhamad Ali"
"Well I know karate from All Mighty Isis" Tris responds by moving her arms in a few karate motions she learned.
"I bet you can't do this" Tobias challenges doing a jump kick.
Tris copies his move exactly and Tobias does it again and so does she. When Caleb comes down he looks at Tris and Tobias like they are crazy.
"This is my twin, Caleb"
"Can you play ball as good as she can?" Tobias asks as Tris goes into the fridge for a bottle of water.
"No, she took up all the athletic ability when we were in the womb" Caleb quips and laughs as Tris shoves him.
Evelyn and Tobias leave after about 30 minutes.
That night Lauren was combing Tris's hair in her new room for the first day of school. Natalie was worn out. This move had been much more of an undertaking than she had realized even with the paid movers.
"Look what I have, your uniforms for tomorrow" Natalie hangs up Tris's on her door. It was a blazer with a pleated skirt and a white collared shirt.
"Oh Mamma, Really" Tris complained. She hated wearing dresses.
"I don't make the dress code" Natalie replies. "That boy next door is going to ride to school with you all tomorrow"
"Oooooooooh" Caleb teases as he walks in to grab his uniform from his mother. " Tris likes him"
"I do not," Tris yells. "Owwww"
"Well hold still, it's your own fault for letting your hair get this tangled, this going to take forever" Lauren complains. Tris has more wavy hair compared to Lauren and Calebs tighter curls. Tris however never wanted to comb her hair so it was usually a wild bushy mess until Lauren or Natalie braided it.
"All right everybody, Chill out' Natalie warns, she was too tired to put up with the bickering tonight.
Natalie holds her head and closes her eyes for a minute as she stands in the middle of Tris's room.
"You alright Mamma?" Lauren asks.
"Yes, I'm just tired, I've been running around all day, I probably just need to lay down for a bit"
Just then Andrew comes in with two shirts held up side by side with coordinating ties.
"Honey, which one do you think for tomorrow, the blue or the gray?"
"The gray" Natalie picks.
"Could you iron them both? Just in case I change my mind" Andrew pecks Natalie on the cheek and hands her both shirts.
Natalie gives a curt smile and takes them. Tris tries to bite her tongue but she can't help it.
"Mamma, can't Daddy iron his own shirt so you can take a nap?" Tris let out.
"Oh I got this sweety, don't you worry" Natalie waves her hand and goes to find the iron in the mess of boxes.
Tris leans back so Lauren can do her hair. She didn't like that her mother just always gave in. She lets her mind wander to Tobias. She was going to see him again tomorrow and for some reason that excited her.
"Make it look nice Lauren," she says quietly.
Tobias sits in his bed, he was supposed to be reading but he was too busy thinking about Tris. He gets up and eases to his window. His light was off but he peaked around his bookshelf and looked into the window. He had a perfect view into Tris's room. She was sitting there letting her sister do her hair. Tobias blows out a breath. She was like no one he had ever met, thinking about her now was making his palms sweaty and his heartbeat fast. Was this what it felt like to be in love? He lays back on his bed, he can hear his parents laughing and moaning. For most kids, it would make them feel weird but for Tobias he smiled, their family was everything to him other than basketball.
The next morning Tobias shows up in his khaki pants and white button-down. His blazer that went with his uniform was tucked on the handlebars of his bike. He kicks out the kickstand and nervously adjusts his blue and grey tie that accompanied his uniform. He had thought about Tris all night before he fell asleep. As he musters up enough nerves to knock on the door and he carries his basketball under his arm, Tris emerges from the garage wheeling her bike out with her own basketball tucked under her arm. Tobias swallows hard, she was the complete opposite from the day before. She had a huge white bandage on her face from where she had fallen, but her wild hair was now in two cornrows that went down her back. She wore the female version of their school uniform with a pleated khaki skirt, and white shirt. He smiles when he looks down at her feet, instead of penny loafers like most of the girls wore, she had on a pair of blue and white Retro Jordan 3s, the same shoe he himself was wearing.
"Nice Kicks" he compliments. She gives him a shy smile.
"My brother and sister are finishing breakfast, they'll be here in a minute"
Tobias nods fidgeting as he stands.
"Do you want to be my girl?" He blurts out nervously.
Tris cocks her head to the side. He surprised her, and the fact that he was paying attention to her after shoving her into the ground yesterday was interesting. But she had laid in bed thinking about him before she fell asleep.
"What do I have to do?"
"Well we can ride to school together, play ball, and when I make you mad, I gotta buy you flowers"
"I don't like flowers," Tris blurts out. She feels bad when she sees Tobias's face fall.
"Oh"
"How about twinkies? My mom won't ever buy them"
Tobias perks up. She was different and he liked it. "Okay"
"I think we should kiss now," He says bravely. He had never kissed a girl before but if there was anyone he wanted to kiss it was the girl in front of him.
"Not out here," Tris says quickly looking back at the garage to make sure Caleb and Lauren weren't coming.
Tobias nods and grabs her hand as they walk to the side of the house behind a miniature tree.
"For how long?" Tris asks swallowing. She had never kissed a boy. She hadn't thought about kissing any boy until this very minute but she wanted it to be Tobias. He drove her crazy, but for some odd reason, she liked it.
"5 seconds" Tobias shrugs and Tris nods her head in agreement.
Tobias leans in and Tris meets him halfway. Their lips meet and Tris presses lightly to his. His lips were soft. Tobias holds up his hand and puts up a finger until he gets to five and pulls away smiling. Tris smiles as she straightens up too. They don't say anything, as they walk back to the front of the house.
"You can ride on my bike," Tobias says as Tris goes to get on her bike.
"But I want to ride my own bike" Tris challenges.
"But my Dad always drives my mom, if you're my girl you have to ride with me"
Tris doesn't say anything as she goes back to her bike fully intent on riding it to school.
"Come on" Tobias challenges.
"I don't have to do what you say" she retorts stubbornly.
Tobias, feeling his pride hurt, lashes out.
"Forget you then, stupid" Tobias growls as he turns to get on his bike.
"Whatever, big head, Your dad plays for the worst team in the NBA" Tris spits out. She was seething. She was so upset, how dare he try to tell her what to do.
"I don't want to be your boyfriend anymore you ugly dog" Tobias spits out in return and shoves her.
"Well, I don't want to be your girlfriend any more big head" Tris shoves him back equally as hard.
The two continue shoving and they stumble in the front grass of the Priors lawn. Rolling around each muhsing each other as they roll across the lawn. Tris gets the upper hand and pushes Tobias into the grass smushing his face.
"What is it with you two?" Caleb yells out, going to help pull his sister up off the ground as Lauren comes behind him.
"Seriously Tris, Mom is going to flip if she sees you on the first day of school fighting in the front yard" Lauren adds.
"He started it," Tris says as she brushes the grass off of her skirt.
"No you did" Tobias defends.
"You pushed me first," Tris says, moving toward Tobias.
"Look, we are going to be late for school. You two need to get over whatever this is, we have to live next door to each other" Lauren says standing between the two of them.
Tris takes a deep breath and nods her head as she goes to get her bike. She sees Tobias roll his eyes at her. What was it about this boy that pushed all her buttons? And why after the last two days did she still want to be around him?
Hope you liked this chapter! Leave a review and let me know what you think! As long as things don't get too crazy with work and home life, I'm going to try and update on Saturdays!