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A/N: I really hope you guys enjoy this chapter.

Tobias POV

Chapter 20

"Miss Prior, you have been requested for a meeting now, it would be appreciated if you bought your teem along with you, Miss Mathews has requested you in room 23," Johanna, Tris' personal secretary informs her, sounding somewhat scared or distressed.

Tris frowns, "Miss Mathews or Jeanine, owned Erudite telecommunications, she is one of our biggest competitors, but Dauntless has always managed to come first. " She explains, seeing my confused expression.

Deciding to see what she's up to, Tris gathers the team as we enter room 23 to see Jeanine already seated in a chair with one of her employees sitting next to her.

The man, her employee, sends shivers down my spine as I glance at his cold eyes. He has multiple piercings that make me question how he got a job at such a picky company. He shoots me an unnerving smile as I take a seat.

"Jeanine, next time you show up at Dauntless, I would ask for you to book a meeting, my team and I have work to do and we won't always be available for unorganised meetings." Tris discloses.

I look at Jeanine as realisation hit's me. She's the same woman that came to Marcus' house. Whatever will happen today, won't be good, I think to myself.

"Oh Beatrice, we won't be taking much of your precious time, I just thought I'd give you the news before anyone else had the pleasure of informing you."

Everyone has the same puzzled look on their face as Zeke asks Jeanine, "What news exactly?"

She laughs, a high pitched laugh, one that I've decided I hate, "Erudite is now the US' number one telecommunications company."

She gets up to leave as the man that she introduced as Eric does too, "Good seeing you, Tobias," She whispers as she walks past.

"Alright, guy's, so what if Erudite beat us, we're dauntless, we can still beat them," Tris assures everyone as people cheer.

I make my way outside the building to get a well-needed coffee for both Tris and me, fortunately, I know just the place.

After quickly purchasing two large coffee's I make my way back into the building, it just so happens to be that I catch Nita's eye.

"Four, babe, is that for me?" She purrs, pointing a manicured finger in the direction of the second coffee I have in my hand.

"Nita," I reply monotoned, "This is for my girlfriend, Tris," I say emphasizing Tris' name.

"You know she's just using you, she doesn't really want you," Nita replies, twisting a strand of her hair on a finger.

"Oh, how's that?" I play along.

"Well for starters, has she ever once told you about how that guy Al, the one she called the police on a few days ago hung himself? Or that she was abused by her parents, Oh and she that she has intimacy issue-"

"What the hell."

I turn back to see Tris standing in the hallway, her eyes are burning a hole in Nita's head as she somewhat struggles to keep a professional attitude towards her.

Triss approaches Nita, "Miss Pablosis, I'd recommend not telling lies about others, especially your boss."

With that, being said, she walks out of the room as I follow her, with a coffee in each hand.

"Tris-"

"What do you want Four," She mumbles.

I frown slightly, "Listen, I was just getting us a coffee and then Nita started talking, I swear, she just started talking about how you were just using me, which is complete rubbish, but.." I trail off.

Tris raises a brow, I want to ask her if what Nita said about her parents is true, but she seems relaxed now that I told her Nita was talking complete nonsense, I don't want to upset her or bring back bad memories if it's true.

"Tobias, spit it out," She urges.

"Nita said your parent's abused you, is it true?" I question.

The moment those words leave my mouth, a look of sadness, anger and annoyance cross her face.

"You believe her?" She practically screams, " I don't know what bothers me more, the fact that you seemed to believe her or the fact that you accused my wonderful parent's of abusing me when they were the most selfless people ever."

No words come out, I suddenly realise how bad that sounded, but before I can apologise Tris storms out of the room, leaving me here with my now two cups of cold coffee.

"I don't know what you did," Christina remarks as she enters the room, "But I just wanted to say, she's secretly a sucker for cute romantic gestures."

The cold morning air gives my cheeks a tingling sensation as I trudge through the thick blanket of snow on Tris' front lawn that fell yesterday.

With a gloved hand, I grab a fistful of snow, shaping it in what I consider a good snowball shape and the position myself underneath of Tris' bedroom window that's on the first floor.

The snowball taps her window as it brakes into smaller pieces of snow when I launch it. A few snowballs later, I see the subtle movements of the curtains as they're pulled away to reveal a sleepy-looking Tris.

She looks slightly confused, but makes her way downstairs and opens the door for me. I greet her with a quick hug that she seems to accept.

"I'm sorry, I shouldn't have believed Nita, your parent's seemed like wonderful people. It just took me so long to tell people about Marcus and I didn't want you to feel like that, I'm sorry.' I apologise.

She seems to take in this information before wrapping her arms around my neck, pulling me into a hug that I happily return.

"Forgive me?" I ask

She doesn't answer, and instead runs outside, gathering a small ball of snow and tosses it over to me as it gently hits my chest.

"Oh, game on."

"Let's just go to that clothing," Christina whines as we all debate on where shop.

After mine and Tris' snowball fight this morning, we just spent the day baking and reading until Zeke called and decided to get everyone to go to the mall with him and Shauna.

We all end up deciding to eat something from the food court before going to any shops. I go the place that sells pizza's and order both Tris and I a slice while Zeke and Uriah go to the burger shop to get their dinners and everyone else orders from either Taco bell or subway.

"This is so good," Tris groans as she takes the first bite of her pizza.

Several bites later we're all finished and reluctantly head to the clothing store Christina was wanting to go to. All the girls browse around while me Zeke, Uriah and Will awkwardly stand there, considering it's a woman's clothing store.

"So what's going on with you and Tris?" Will asks as we walk around the store.

"Well," I reply, "You already know we're dating, so things seem to be going pretty well, I really like her, I think I love her, I just don't want to scare her," I confess.

"Take my word of advice, she probably feels the same way, shes had her fair share of boyfriends, but she talks about you like your amazing. "

I thank Will for his advise, Christina finally purchases a handful of clothes as the other girls purchase one or two, and we then make our way towards a shop that sells a variety of stuff.

Marlene suggests we buy our Christmas presents for each other from this store. We all split up, trying to find a good gift for one another.

After around 10 minutes I have several items in my basket, a Dartboard for Zeke, a nice watch for Uriah, the newest book in Will's favourite series as well as a cashmere sweater for him.

Finding presents for the girls was a bit harder, considering I've never had to buy presents for a female before besides Shauna. For Marlene, I decided on a set of 20 nail polishes, and Christiana will be receiving a few pairs of earrings and a reusable coffee cup that changes colours depending on how hot the coffee is.

I walk down an aisle and decide a foot spa will work for Shauna considering she states that Zeke never gives her feet the treatment they deserve.

To my delight, I manage to find the perfect present for Tris. I bring my items to the counter to get them wrapped and pay for them before waiting for everyone else.

It doesn't take long for the rest of them to show up. We bid each other goodnight and begin to make our separate ways home.

"Where do you think you're going?" Tris asks as I begin walking away.

"Home?" I question.

"You can't just spend the day at my house and not stay the night," she mumbles with a small smile," Who am I going to cuddle all night."

A/N Sorry for not uploading for a while, I'm halfway through writing the next chapter and it should be posted in the next few days.

I have assessments going on at school and a bunch of tests, but I'll make sure to find the time to upload more chapters for this fanfic swell as my other.

As requested, there are some arguments with Nita, Tobias and Tris. Please review and tell me what I can do better. Until next time,

-Divergent31