A/N: Really, really important author's note at the end of this part. Please, please read it.
Three years ago…
Tris knocks on Christina's apartment door three times, and wipes her tears.
Three seconds, stop crying.
Two seconds, you are better than this.
One second, he isn't worth your tears.
"Tris? What are you doing? It is like one in the morning." Asks a half-asleep Christina.
"Hey Chris," she sniffs, "do you still need a roommate?" After Tris moved in with Tobias almost a year and a half ago, Christina decided she was lonely and wanted to share her apartment with somebody. Although Christina and Will are a couple, their relationship isn't too serious, so she didn't ask him.
"Oh my, what happened? Come in, come in." She wraps her arms around her best friend and Tris sobs.
"I-I, I broke up with Four." She sobs.
"Oh honey, I'm so sorry. What did he do?" Christina gently rubs Tris' back.
When Tris is finally calm enough to speak somewhat clearly she manages to say,"there was another girl in our apartment. He cheated on me."
"He what?! I am going to kill that bastard. I promise you I will, maybe a slow and painful death, how do you think about that?I can-"
"Chris! I'm fine, you don't have to do any of those things. I'm fine," She repeats again. "I'm fine."
"Obviously, you are not fine. You just broke up with your boyfriend- no fiancé, you are obviously not fine. If anything, you are not fine Tris! Gosh, when I get my hands on that little bitch, I am going to march up to him and cut his balls off, I swear on my grandma's grave."
Tris lets put a strangled laugh, "thanks for cheering me up. By any chance do you have ice cream?"
"Mint chocolate chip?"
"You know me so well."
"Of course I have it, now come on, we are going to watch a sappy chick flick while drowning ourselves in food." Christina declares.
"You're the best, Chris."
"I know."
Present Day…
"Oh." He sees the ring on her fingers. "You're married." Those were the first words that she heard from him the whole day.
"Huh? What? Oh, the rings? Yeah, I'm married. Wait, no. Wait, well it's complicated, well sort of."
He raises an eyebrow. Complicated? How the hell is marriage complicated? One part of him is screaming. The fuck? She's married?! How the hell did I not know about this? How long have she and a guy been married? In other words, he's jealous. So freaking jealous and pissed at the same time.
"He's dead."
Oh.
"He served in the military for almost a year. He claimed he wanted to do good for our country before he died. He only had like three weeks left before he could be home free. He was on his last mission to capture some terrorist. Apparently their troop stepped over a bomb. No survivor. None." I will not cry, she tells herself. "He did do good for our country, just didn't make it, you know?" She doesn't know why she's telling him this, maybe it's because after five years of dating him, it was accustomed for her to tell him everything. Force of habit.
"You still wear the rings?"
"Of course." She snaps.
"Sorry, I didn't-"
"No, it's fine. I'm sorry." She apologizes.
The two of them stand their surrounded by an awkward silence. Tobias rocks back in forth with the heel and toes of his feet.
"I'm sorry." He blurts out. "I was such an idiot, I still am. I messed up everything. I'm sorry."
She stands there glaring at the floor. What am I suppose to say?
"It's all in the past, right?" She grits her teeth. "At least you found someone you actually love?"
That literally felt like a punch in the stomach to him. I never moved on, never have, never will. I still love you- no, I still have feelings for you.
"No, I haven't."
"Oh."
"Yeah…" More silence.
"Tris!" A voice calls from behind them. Thank god.
"Hey. Uhm, Four, would you like to join us? We are going to eat dinner." Tris ask politely. She is secretly hoping he would say no.
"No thank you, Zeke and I just ate. Uh...I'll see you late?"
"Yeah, see you later."
"What was that all about?" Uriah asks her after they leave.
"Nothing," she lies. Uriah raises an eyebrow at her.
"Just leave it, okay?"
"Fine."
"I can't believe I agreed to this." Four complains.
"Technically you did not agree on coming with me to LA, I forced you." Zeke clarifies.
Four groans, "fine, I can't believe you forced me into this. Do you know how awkward it was yesterday? I mean like yeah it was sort of fun, but it was so damn awkward until your brother decided to split up in the middle of the day."
"Hey, I did this for a reason. Did you even talked to her at all the past two days?" Zeke asks his best friend.
"No." He lies.
"You're lying."
"What? No, I'm not."
"Four, your ears turn red every time you tell a lie, and plus, you're blushing." Four's hand immediately flies up to his ears. Do my ears really turn red when I lie?
"Fine, I might have, but it was nothing important." He lies again.
"Wow, you are a terrible liar. What exactly happened?"
Four groans again, "nothing."
"Four, just tell me."
"It was nothing." He says again.
"Four." Zeke warns.
"Zeke, just leave it!"
"Damn it, Four! What the hell happened between you two?!"
"We talked, okay?! I apologized to her. I that enough for you?!'' Maybe he shouldn't have yelled at Zeke.
"Oh. Look, I'm sorry, I didn't mean to-"
"It's fine." Four interrupt him. "So, since your brother and Tris are at Vidcon, might as well do something fun, right?"
Signing posters for three hours straight wasn't as fun as she remembered. On top of that, she and Uriah had to take pictures with several fans for another hour, also. Don't get her wrong, she loves her fans to death, but it was tiring. Tiring as hell.
"How much more longer do we have, Uri?" She complains.
"Says the one who was so excited to be here." He mutters.
"What?"
"Nothing. We have like another half an hour and then we are going back to the hotel with the boys." The boys which consist Ryan, Anthony, and Ian.
"Right, where are we going to meet them?"
"In the front."
"Okay. So, I need to talk to you about something." Oh fuck, he thinks. "So Four and I had our first actually conversation in like three years." Tris tells Uriah as she signs a fan's poster. "Have a nice day, Anyway, he apologized."
"Really? What did he say?" Uriah questions her.
"He was just like 'I'm sorry, I was an idiot' and all. I wasn't exactly sure how to respond. I mean like, yeah I may still be pissed off, but I should at least appreciate his apology, right?"
"I guess so. How are you feeling about this?" That's the thing about Uriah, he's really good with talking to her in these situations.
"I don't know, I guess I'm a little stressed out and angry. Okay, well more angry at Zeke for putting me in this situation, Did you talk to your brother at all?"
Uriah sighs, "I did. Apparently he did this for a reason? What ever that means."
"Uhm, okay? I hate this, I really do."
"Hate what? The fact that it's only three o'clock and we still have like fifteen minutes left or the fact that Four is here?"
"Both."
Tris and Uriah had just finished making a video for their new youtube channel, and had said farewell to their friends.
"I am freaking tired, my god." Tris falls face first onto her bed, and groans loudly.
"True that. What time is it right now?"
"10:57." She answers. "Let's upload the video."
"Okay, let's. Hand me my laptop, please." She says dragging out the e.
"Tris, what are you going to do with Four? I mean we are going to be here for another day and a half. And those days we will be hanging out with him and Zeke." Uriah says between clenched teeth.
"Calm down, Uri." She nudges him. "I guess I can try to figure something out. At least mend our friendship or something? I don't know. Maybe I can try to avoid him as much as possible. I mean, I have been for the past few years."
"Yeah...I guess."
The sun shines brightly through the hotel room in which Uriah and Tris are staying in. It's almost quiet. To quiet for anyone's liking.
"Boo!" Uriah jumps on Tris and she screams a piercing scream. They have their own little game. It started in eighth grade. In the beginning of their eighth grade year, when Uriah was formulating a crush in his best friend, all he would do is try to impress her as much as he could. One day, on Valentine's day, he thought it would be sweet to buy her lilies- her type of flowers. He wasn't the romantic type at that time…
As Tris was walking home- she lives two blocks away from school, she feels a pair wrap around her eyes. She screams like no tomorrow- thrashing and kicking the person that had grabbed her, she thinks it's a good idea to bit him. Hard.
"Tris. Relax." Uriah places her right in front of him.
"What the hell?! You scared the shit out of me!" She starts crying. It's not everyday you think someone is kidnapping you.
"Tris. I'm so sorry. Gosh, I'm stupid. I- I- don't cry, I didn't mean to-" She starts laughing.
"I got you! Just don't scare me like that ever again."
"Okay, I won't." That was a complete lie. He handed Tris the tulips and kissed her cheek. "Happy Valentine's."
She blushed, madly. "Thank you."
The following week, Tris got her brother to help plan for a little revenge scene on Uriah for scaring her like that. Let's just say, it ended up with Uriah shaking like a chiwawa while being drenched with whipped cream and chicken feathers.
That was the start of their little 'war'.
"I got you!" Uriah laughs at a red-faced Tris.
"That was not funny. You know how when you are having a really good dream, but then your really annoying alarm clock interrupts you from the dream? Right now you are that alarm clock!" She chucks a pillow at him. "I'm going to change."
"Okay, I'll be in the buffet. Meet you down for breakfast?"
"Sure. I'll be down in ten." She answers.
Four wasn't having the best morning ever. He and Tris learned a while back that the Pedrad brothers are really early risers. It's as if their blood is make of coffee in the mornings.
"Four. Four. Four. Four. Four. Four. Four. Four. Four. Four. Wakey-wakey." Zeke pokes his friend.
His eyes open from his slumber and he stares at his best friend. If looks could kill, Zeke would be dead. Twice.
"Can you please- just? Hmff...what time is it?"
"6:15." Zeke answers. Zeke woke up an hour and a half ago and he just felt like waking up his friend now.
"Oh, great. That's just wonderful. What are we doing today, Ezekiel?"
"Don't call me that. We are going to go to the beach. But first, we are going to go down and get breakfast. Now change and I will meet you down." Zeke instructs. He hoists Four from his bed and ushers him into their bathroom. "Be down in ten." Zeke slams the door shut and heads to the buffet.
"When he arrives down, he sees his brother."
"Hey."
Uriah looks up from his phone. "Hey, Zeke. I need to ask you something, brother to brother?"
"Oh gosh." Zeke knows where this is leading to. "What's up?"
"I like a girl." Uri answers.
"Thought so." Zeke mutters out. "But go on."
"I like her, but she doesn't notice me. Well, she notices me, but not in that way." Uri tells him.
"So what exactly do you need my help for?" Zeke urges.
"I just need advice. I can't tell her I have feelings for her."
"And why is that?"
"Because I still like Tris." He stutters out. "I've liked her since eighth grade and I've never stop liking her."
Great.
Now Zeke has to deal with the fact that his brother has feelings with his best-friend's ex fiancé.
Great. Just great.
"Hey guys!" A cheery voice says from behind them.
"Oh hey, Tris."
A/N: The only reason why I decided to publish this part is because I need to deliver a message and also because you guys deserve this part. I honestly have no idea what to write about. So I'm basing this story on your ideas. I'm doing this because I know many of you like this story and I really don't want to stop writing it, but I just don't know what to write about. I know what I want for some of it, but every chapter, I'm going to select someone's idea (that they suggest- I will acknowledge you of course). Please comment a suggestion of what you guys want me to write about. I will try to get everyone's idea and to incorporate it to the best of my ability. I don't want to discontinue (I was thinking of doing it because of my lack of interests, but I want to start writing this again). I write because I love doing it and also because I love fulfilling what you guys want as well. Please leave a comment of what you think and some of your ideas. Thank you for understanding and I hoped you enjoyed.