A/N: so i said i was re writing this and so here is the new chapter one.
Walking down the street one day after school I heard a person crying. Maybe it was because my dad always told me to be helpful and put others first or maybe it was because I am so curious but I followed the crying. As I walked over to the boy I knew something was wrong so I started the conversation.
"What's wrong? Why are you crying?"I asked. I wish now I never had.
He replied "like you care my mom just died of course I'm going to be sad" that was when I realized he was my neighbor Tobias Eaton. We continued talking as I comforted him.
"I'm so sorry I should have realized, but you are not alone, I felt the same way when my dad passed away last year. I'm Beatrice, but please call me Tris." I said. I led him to the factionless sector to an old abandoned building. From the outside you couldn't tell it was the old dauntless gym but it was.
Tobias said "Oh so your Beatrice Prior my neighbor. Why are you acting so caring when only Abnegation should? we are Erudite, but please my name is Tobias, call me Toby."
The conversation went on for hours and I learned he was two years older than me. It was the start of our friendship and the reason I'm in the situation I am in now. The street lights flicker telling us it was almost curfew and we have to go home. He became my best friend in a single day. I couldn't wait for tomorrow so we could talk to him again.
The next day I saw him early in the morning I didn't ask him about the limping or why he stood so straight. now I know it was because of his father. I would have noticed signs of abuse but i was only 6 and so oblivious to the world. That day we started a pattern. We would meet and go together to school, be bored all day until lunch which we had together, then go to faction history. We then had to go to the rest of our classes alone. In that first month we became friends with a lot of the people in our faction history class. After school was done we went to the old gym which became our hideout. We ended up eventually inviting our friends as well. That became where we trained for dauntless because together we decided that was where we wanted to go.
This was our pattern for the next seven years. We would stay there for hours training before running home when the curfew lights begin to flicker.
Toby and I began dating when I turn 12 and I even began to love him. I had thought however, we would have two years before we would have to live with being apart. At first he just didn't hang out with our friends anymore then he slowly began to distance himself from me.
I tried to get him to talk to me, to open up, and to explain but the more I pushed the further he drew away until he broke up with me on his 15th birthday. Our friends realized what had happened and all supported me. I should have realized he did it to protect me, but I was so heartbroken I didn't even care. I still didn't know what his father was doing. Christina became my new best friend and we shut out everyone who stuck up for Toby.
Our group split in half all the guys sticking up for him and the girls on my side. All I could do was wonder what would happen next year. We all planned to go to Dauntless but will it still happened with Toby gone now. he's all alone with no one. the guys stick up for him but he will not talk to any of us anymore.
I know he broke my heart, but I still care about him. I want to know if he's happy and safe and I don't want him to change his plans because of me. My brother says I should pay more attention. That i should look deeper into what I see. I guess he noticed it before I did and if I listened I wouldn't be in this mess. I decided to hack into the school computers to watch him over the cameras around town and to make sure everything was ok. Little did I know the monster and problem was in his home.
A/N: so mostly jumping through a lot of time to explain but not go into detail. so now they met when she was six. in this story they mix ages and factions in the faction history class so you get an idea of each culture. below are their friends their ages and their faction. Also all of them are important.
there friends are:
Chris: candor, same as tris
Marlene: dauntless, same as tris
Cara: eruidite, same as caleb
Caleb: eruidite, 10 months older than tris
Lynn: dauntless, same as tris
Uriah: dauntless, same as tris
Will: eruidite, same as tris
Eve: candor, one year older than tris
Veronica: amity, one year older than tris
Ophelia: abnegation, one year older than tris
Zeke: dauntless, same as tobias
Shauna: dauntless, same as tobias
