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Tobias POV
Chapter 13
"Make sure you have everything set up for tonight," Christina says to Shauna.
I get up from my seat, today was the day of Dauntless' second anniversary. I make my way towards the kitchen and grab a cup, slowly making myself a coffee.
After finally spending days convincing myself, I decided to ask Tris to the event, as friends, of course, I would love nothing more to ask Tris to be my date, but let's face the fact.
Tris is a wonderful person, she's respected by people, she'll stand up for herself and others and she'll never let people take advantage of her. On the other hand, I can't even get my father to stop beating me, let alone respect me. She can do much better than me.
I walk back to my desk and abandon my cup of coffee there and make my way to the ground floor towards Nita's desk, hoping she will know where Tris is.
"Hey Nita," I say approaching her, "I was wondering if you knew where Tris was, does she have a meeting?"
Nita looks at me smiling, "Hey Four," She purrs, "Tris has a meeting right now, it ends soon, but can I ask why you want to see her?"
"I need to ask her something," I reply nonchalantly.
"Does this have anything to do with tonight?" She questions.
I nod as she gives me a small smile, "If you're going to ask her, you may as well save yourself now, last year she denied everyone who asked her, you're her friend right?" She says, pausing, "Well that would be very awkward, I could save you the embarrassment though, how about we go together."
I gulp, going with Nita is something I definitely don't know what to do, but I don't want to seem pathetic, so I suck it up and nods.
Nita smiles and tells me she'll meet me at the destination.
I sigh and slowly make my way up, Nita was probably right, why would Tris want to go with me. She's Tris Prior, she could go with anyone she wanted.
Time passes slowly and it's only when I check what the time is 3:30 pm. Is when I realise Tris is walking towards me with a bright smile on her face.
I give her a small smile and walk up towards her.
"Hey Four," She addresses, her eyes seem to be everywhere besides on me and her bottom lip is trapped under her teeth, a thing that she does when she is nervous, "I was wondering if you wanted to," she takes a deep breath, "I was wondering if you wanted to go with me to the anniversary event tonight."
I freeze, Nita said she would just reject me. Suddenly I feel stupid, of course, she would say that she wanted to go with me, I should have rejected.
"Tris, I'm sorry, but Nita asked me, but I can" I start, but Tris cuts me off.
"Oh, no don't worry about it, I was just...I wasn't going to...i just...Nevermind...I'm not feeling well anyway...sorry.." She rambles on as she takes a shaky breath and walks off before I can even talk.
"Alright, Shauna you go chose your nail polish colour and then Mar will paint them for you, and can someone please tell me where Tris is?" Christina announces.
Currently, everyone but Tris is at Zeke and Shauna's place. I sigh knowing I'll have to tell Christina what happened soon enough if Tris doesn't turn up.
I join the rest of the guys who are already ready and plop down on the sofa watching whatever is on Tv, trying not to spill the drink Zeke has just handed me on my suit.
I find myself wishing I never agreed to go with Nita, I don't even like her, heck, I wouldn't even consider her an acquaintance, and I turned down Tris, my boss and a very close friend to me.
"Zeke, can you try call Tris she's not picking up any of our calls?" Shauna asks with a small pout.
Before I can stop myself and rethink saying this, or at least word this better, I mumble, "She told me she wasn't coming,"
Christina stops what she's doing and stares at me as if I magically grew another head, "What?" She whispers, "No, that can't be right, Tris was excited, we all went dress shopping together, I'm not crazy as Shauna and Mar," Christina argues as Marlene and Shauna nod their heads confirming Christina's statement.
"Did she reject you, Four?" Marlene asks confused.
"Well..." I say dragging out the word and try my hardest not to sound like a complete idiot while explaining, "I was going to ask her today, so I went down to Nita to ask where Tris was, she told me she was in a meeting and then asked if I was going to ask her, I said yes and she proceeded to tell me she would just reject me, so long story short, I said I'd go with Nita, and then out of nowhere Tris came and asked me and I had to tell her I was going with Nita."
Everyone's quiet taking in what has happened, Shauna is first to talk, "Just go to her house and tell her what happened, it's all a misunderstanding,"
After Shauna's suggestion, a chorus of 'yeah' is heard as well as a 'hurry up you pansycake,' by Uriah.
I get into the car and arrive at Tris' house in record time.
I walk to the front door and ring the doorbell. After only a minute, Tris comes to the door, she's wearing sweatpants and a hoodie, showing no sign of even thinking about going tonight.
"Tris," I mumble and proceed to tell her all about our misunderstanding. She listens carefully and when I'm done she begins talking.
"Four, it doesn't matter, I'm fine, I just don't want to go."
"Come on, Tris it'd be fun,"
"I just really don't want to go," She states.
"I'm going to cancel with Nita," I tell her truthfully.
"Good for you."
"Listen, if this is about Nita, then maybe you shouldn't have thought I was so pathetic and wouldn't get a date," I say anger beginning to bubble up inside me.
"I never said you were pathetic," She says, her voice rising.
"Well, who's the pathetic one now?"
The second that sentence leaves my mouth, I instantly regret it. Tris stands there, a look of hurt and sadness crosses her face but she puts up a mas, and with gritted teeth, she says,
"I think you should go now,"
My mind in a full panic mode as I stutter," Tris, wait..I-I didn't mean to-" My explanation is cut short as she slams the door shut.
I stay outside as I hear her lean against the wall as she then sinks down to the floor. I don't break out of my trance until I hear soft crying.
My blood runs cold.
I hurt her.
"Four, you're late?" Nita whines as I enter the venue.
After I heard Tris crying it took me fifteen minutes to convince myself it'd do no good in staying there, which resulted in getting to the venue five minutes late.
"Listen, Nita, I'm not really looking for a date anymore, I think I'm just going to hang out with my friends," I inform.
Nita sighs loudly as she makes her way inside mumbling something about how I'd 'make up for this later'
I walk towards the table where everyone's sitting, Christina notices me immediately, "Where's Tris?" she questions.
I sigh, "She didn't come, I'm afraid me going there just made things worse," I reply solemnly.
Just then Christina's phone rings, "Hey Tris," She answers, pausing for Tris to reply, "Are you okay, you sound like you've been cr-" she says worriedly.
"You have a cold, is that why you didn't come. And you got it today?" Christina looks at Will who begins a rant about colds.
"If she got the cold today, we should have seen at least one of the symptoms, which include, Runny or stuffy nose. Sore throat. Cough. Congestion. Slight body aches or a mild headache. Sneezing. Or a low-grade fever," Will states.
Christina manages to repeat that into the phone and pauses waiting for Tris to reply. She frowns and looks at the phone.
"She hung up," Christina huffs.
"Don't worry about her, you guys enjoy your time, I'll make sure she's okay," I say.
Everyone agrees with some form of 'okay', except for Christina, "Be careful, okay, she's my best friend and something happened, I think she's crying and she never cries," she whispers
I assure Christina that I'll proceed with caution and tell her if anything happens. I walk out of the venue and make my way to the mall that thankfully is open late.
This will be a long night.
A/N I hope you guys liked that chapter, it is quite short, only around 1,500 words, but please let me know if you enjoyed it or not.As I said previous in one of my A/N I'm writing a new fanfic, although I want to prewrite a few more chapters before I release it.The summery would be:They say sometimes bad things have to happen before good things can, although for Tris Prior a recent addition to the CPD as a detective, the good is yet to come. With a tattered past and a pair of blue eyes that seem to do more harm than good at times, will the pressure finally get to her and push Tris to her breaking point.The fanfic would be called Breaking point, let me know if you'd be interested in reading something like that.I hope you enjoyed this chapter, until next time,-Divergent31