Happy New Years, guys! Best of wishes for the next 366 days! I just came home from China and had the best 18 hours sleep of my life...whoops?

Chapter 7

Three years ago...

Christina's heart aches as she hears loud cries from the other room. Last night, Tris came into her apartment a sobbing mess. Christina is totally unfamiliar with this Tris. She's only had one other boyfriend in her life and that was Uriah. Even then, their breakup was mutual and did not even up in a heaping mess.

"Tris, babe." Christina lightly knocks on Tris' old bedroom door. She carries a wooden tray with with two blueberry pancakes, a bowl of yogurt, and apple juice. Fresh squeezed apple juice. If apple juice was a food and not a drink, Tris would probably live off of it. Apples are meh, but apple juice is like a freaking gift from the heavens to Tris. "I brought you some breakfast."

The loud cries suddenly disappear and gradually turn into soft whimpers. Christina takes that as a signal to come in, so she slowly opens the door to find Tris laying flat on her face and stomach.

"Oh honey." Christina sighs. She places the tray on the empty night stand and sits on the edge of the bed. "You have to eat."

"I don't want to. I'm not hungry." Her voice is muffled from the pillow.

"Okay. Sit up." Christina rips the blanket off of her and attempts to place her into a sitting position. "Oh okay. You're a lot heavier than I remembered, which makes no sense because you're as skinny as a hell. Totally not fair, I'd kill to have a beach body like yours." She mutters to herself.

"Christina." Tris whimpers. "I just want to be left alone."

"I know you do, babe. But bottling up these feelings up is not going to be any use. And plus, I'd like to give that dip shit, Four, a piece of my mind."

"Please don't. I'd rather not see him."

"All of your stuff is in his apartment. You are going to have to see him eventually."

"I'm never going to that damn apartment ever again. He can have all my stuff, I refuse to ever step foot in a mile radius of his home." She angrily says as she wipes off another tear.

"Tris, you're just angry-"

"Of course I'm angry!" She cries. "You want to know what happened last night? I went home and he was asleep. He freaking slept with another girl. Do you know how much that crushed me? How long has he been cheating on me? A day? A week? A month? A year? And that's not even the worst part. He said he didn't love." Her voice wavers and she goes back to sobbing into her pillow. "He played me Chris, and we were going to get married next month."

Christina allows all the information to sink in, which just makes her heart ache even more for her best friend. The worst feeling in he world is being cheated on. To have someone totally demolish your trust and everything they ever did. She can't even imagine what Tris is going through.

When Christina looks back at Tris, she is fast asleep. Good, because she needs to rest. She's been through hell and back. Christina silently prays that Tris would be alright. She will help her get through this shit, Four made. She hates him for it.

Oh what she's going to do when she gets her hands on him...

"Hey." Christina stumbles into her, well, their apartment now, with several boxes in one hand. "So I got Will to help me-"

She sees Tris buried into the couch with several blankets laying over her, and holding a Ben and Jerry's tube of ice cream in her hands. Of course, she's watching her favorite movie, The Avengers.

She sniffs. "Hey."

"Oh sweetie. Okay, so I went to Four's apartment and got all of your stuff."

"You what?!" She sits up.

"Yeah, well someone had to do it, and it wasn't going to be you. Uriah, maybe, but let's be real, he tries to be intimidating and all, but in reality, he just looks like a little barking chihuahua."

"How was he?" Her voice sounds so small.

"Well..."

An hour earlier...

"You listen to me you little piece of shit." Christina practically attack a him. Thank god Zeke and Will had been there to hold her down. "Get off me, you sons of bitches! I'm going to rip him apart!"

Four had been just standing there, shoulders slumped, eyes glossed, he was a mess.

"Okay, tiger, call down." Will pulls her away. He gives Zeke and apologizing look and tells him that they're just going to pick up all of her stuff. Will has to whisper some soothing words to her in order to calm her down.

"Let go of me! I'm not done with him!" She screams.

It takes a while to calm Christina down, and when Will successfully does, she said still glares daggers to Four.

"Tell her I love her, and I'm sorry. Please, can you do that for me?" Tobias says, defeated.

Christina scoffs. "We'll see."

Luckily, Christina and Will brought several boxes and by the time they packed all of Tris' stuff away, Tobias' apartment looked almost sad and so dull.

"Eh...is was alright." Christina says bringing herself back to reality.

"Did he say anything about me?" Christina almost wants to go up to Tris and shake her until all of the positive energy returns, but it's almost helpless.

"Some bullshit, like he's sorry and still loves you. But serious, how can a guy swoop so low? Will just left. I'm going to join you in this god forsaken movie. I swear, you've seen this a million times. How are you not sick of it?" Christina says.

Tris is able to make out a small smile. "I love you, Chris, you know that?"

"Yeah, yeah. Who doesn't? I love you too, babe. Now hand me the popcorn."

"It's Chris Evans, he's so hot."

Present day...

"Rise and shine, lover boy." A blanket is ripped off of Tobias' body leaving him laying in only boxer briefs. Light fills the room as the blinds are raised.

"Fuck off." Tobias mumbles as he shifts himself onto his stomach, burying his face into his pillow. Sometimes, he feels as if he can still smell Tris on her pillow that she would sleep on. But then, he knows it's just his mind playing stupid tricks on him.

"Look Tobias, I don't know what the hell you have been doing, but you need to live a little. So I got you a date." Zeke explains. "She's a colleague of mine. Her name is Shauna and she's really nice."

Tobias groans. "No thank you."

"Come on. It's almost the end of the year, you have to live a little." Zeke says.

"No." And then he pulls the covers over his body.

"Cheesecake Factory at 6pm. I'll text you her address." Zeke will not take no for an answer.

"Fuck you!" Tobias calls as he watches his best friend leave his apartment.

"No thanks, I'm not into guys. But I still love you."

"So...how was Thanksgiving at the Pedrads?" Christina asks as she surfs thought Tris' TV.

"It was fun. The usual. We had dinner, and I got to catch up with Hannah and Zeke. We played Twister. I have a picture. " She laughs. "When it was Zeke's turn, he landed in a really awkward position, Hannah's butt ended up in Zeke's face." Tris says showing Chris the picture she took.

"Oh my gosh!" She exclaims, laughing. "You need to send me that, that is definitely going into my scrapbook." It's a little thing Christina and Tris have. They created their scrapbook in eighth grade to capture all the little moments in their life. So when their old, they can recapture all the amazing memories they had.

"Yes, most definitely." Tris replies while smiling.

"Hey." Christina says earning Tris' attention. "My mom and dad made reservations for dinner tonight for their anniversary, but they decided not to go because they wanted to go sight seeing instead. Do you want to have dinner with me tonight?"

"Aww, Chris. Are you asking me in a date?" Tris smiles.

"Hell yeah I am." Christina exclaim. "It's at the Cheesecake Factory, so you don't have to dress all fancy."

"Okay, cool. Want to make a video with me?" Tris asks as she walks to her room to grab her equipment.

"No, I'm good. I am not having a good hair day today and I would rather not have the whole internet be able to see me." Christina exasperates.

Tris rolls her eyes. "Okay then. I'll just do it myself."

She puts a tripod in front of her bed and set up the camera. She puts up the rest of her camera equipment and calls for Christina.

"Christina! Can you press the record button for me?" Tris shouts.

"You do it yourself!"

Tris groans. "Ugh, fine."

Tris goes on her Twitter account and tweets, 'About to do a video, can you guys give me a list of dares to do?'

She drags herself to the camera and starts to record.

"Hey guys! Tris here, and today I was planning on doing a challenge with Christina, but since she refused to be on camera, I guess I'll be doing a series of dares that I asked you to give me." Tris looks at the first comment that she sees.

"Feed yourself Nutella using only your feet and a spoon." She reads. "Well, it's a good thing I'm flexible. So I take yoga classes and...nevermind." She quickly goes to her kitchen and grabs a spoon and a half full container of Nutella. She runs back to her room, gaining a strange look from her friend.

"I'm not even going to ask." Christina mutters to herself.

"Okay." Tris lays the stuff on her bed. "I'm assuming I have to open the jar with my feet? I don't know." She uses her left foot and rubs her foot along the rim or the cap to uncap it open. Her foot pushes along the side until she is able to remove the cap. Next, the picks up the spoon by squeezing her toes together.

"This is a lot more difficult than I thought it would be." Slowly, Tris dips the spoon into the Nutella and bends her foot and moves her face towards the spoon. She does this easily and successfully feeds herself the chocolate deliciousness.

"Okay, done." She throws the Nutella and spoon to the side and reads off another dare.

"Oh fuck. I hate all of you. Dip your toothbrush into the toilet and brush your teeth." She sighs. "Why do I even bother with this? Sometimes I wonder why I try to please the Internet."

"Do you know what, I'm just not going to do this." Instead, she stops the video and enters the living room.

"Done? That was fast." She hear Christina say.

"I give up. I'll just continue doing videos with Uriah."

Christina laughs. "Aw, Tris, you're such a cop out."

"Oh shut up."

If you murder someone, would you have to spend a lifetime in prison if you get caught?

That's what Tobias wondered the whole morning as he got himself ready for work. Like, if he were to strangle Zeke, how long would he have to spend in prison?

Oh fuck Zeke for making Tobias go on a date with some chick that he doesn't even know.

Tobias poured himself a bowl of Luck Charms because they are probably the best cereal Tobias would ever have. He slowly ate his food as he thought back to his friend's wedding night.

Oh how he wished he could just pin Tris against the nearest wall and kiss her dry. Of course after moving pass all of the awkward tension, he was finally able to feel happy. He missed Tris, god how much he missed her. It was his fault anyways. It was him to blame for getting drunk and having a one night stand with some chick he ran into at a bar.

Tobias hadn't realized how hard he was gripping onto the box of cereal until he heard a loud crunch noise due to squeezing the cereal too hard.

"Whoops."

Zeke had left a few minutes before Tobias came down. His friend had concluded that him and Tris were made for each other, soul mates even. But if his friend is not going to do anything about it and sulk all the time, why should he even bother to bring the two wonderful people back together? So as an alternative, he decides that Tobias needs to move on a try to meet other women, or men, he won't judge.

The ringing of his phone brings him back to reality.

"Hello?"

"Hi. Is this Four?" A voice, a female, asks from the other line.

"This is he. Uhm, may I ask who I am talking to?"

"Oh! Right, sorry. My name's Shauna, I'm not sure if Zeke mentioned me."

For a split second, Tobias wonders if he says that Zeke has not mentioned her, he would not have to go to this blind date almost. But then, as the good person [sort of] he is, he decides against it. Maybe he should live a little...

"Yeah..." He scratches the back of his neck.

"Oh great! So I assume you know what time to pick me up, I guess?"

"Yeah. Six-thirty, right?"

"Six." She corrects.

"Okay. So...should you..uhm..so what's your address?" Gosh, he can be so awkward at times.

"Oh, right! Yeah, you can't pick me up without an address." Kill me now, is all he can think.

"It's 23 Winchester Avenue." Shauna tells him.

"I'll see you then, I guess."

"Yeah, cool."

"Uhm, bye." He hangs up the phone before she can say anything else, and he sighs in relief. That was god awful, he concludes. The phone call just makes him not want to go on this date even more.

"Fuck my life." He says to himself as he leaves for work.

Tris isn't a one to believe in fate. She's more of a perfect timing girl. Her timing is impeccable, but that doesn't stop her to think of all the times she ran into Tobias these past few months. It's not fate, she believes. To her, it's more of a timing thing. But at the same time, none of that timing shit makes sense because Tobias didn't happen to be in the same hotel Tris and Uriah were in. It was because Uriah invited Zeke who invited Tobias on purpose. And Tobias didn't happen to be at the wedding, he was there to work, same with Tris. So maybe it was fate who-no.

Tris refuses to believe in this "fate" thing. If fate was really a thing, it wouldn't have set Tris and Tobias up, just for him to break her apart. Or fate wouldn't have allowed Robert and Tris to meet just to break her, again. She refuses to even let her thoughts think further in this. She's just wasting her time.

"Tris, oh Tris my darling!" She hears Christina call her from the other room.

She quickly dries herself off from her long shower and puts on her purple fuzzy robe. On her bed, is a plain, red long sleeve dress and a gray sweater.

"I figured you'd want something super simple. And not only would this outfit look cute on you, it's super casual so it doesn't look like you're going someplace fancy." Christina tells Tris.

"Thanks girl. What would I do without you?"

"You'd fail in life's. Now get dressed and ready. I'll be in the living room waiting."

Tris spends the next ten minutes blow drying her hair and combing through it.

"Chris, just wondering...do you believe in fate?"

"Yeah, I do. I mean like, I feel like everything happens for a reason right? Good or bad, fate helps you be the person you are. It's the events that happen that help you decide what to do next. I don't know, that's just me." Her friends says. "Why are you asking?"

"No reason." She answers.

Tris slips on the clothes that was kindly laid out for her and then goes back to the living room to where Christina is at.

"Let's go." Both of them grab their purse and head towards Christina's car.

The drive is a lot longer than they anticipated due to the heavy traffic and rain.

"Anderson, reservation for two." Christina tells the worker when they finally arrive to the Cheesecake Factory.

"Wait, one moment." The worker tells them and walks somewhere else to get their table situated.

"Okay. Hey, Chris, I'm going to go to the bathroom. I really have to pee." Tris tells Chris before scurrying off to the nearest restroom.

Christina laughs. "Then go pee."

Tris quickly goes to the bathroom and finds Christina at a two person window seat.

She sits down in the seat across from her and looks at her friend.

"Hey, you okay?" Tris asks when she notices that her friend looks a little distressed.

"Not really." Her gaze is fixed at something, more like someone behind them.

"Why? Is there something on my face?" She touches her cheek.

"No, no. Don't worry about it, it's nothing." She assures Tris, still looking at Tobias.

How dare he?! Christina screams in her head. But then again, she can't blame him for trying other women. It's not like he and Tris are still together.

"What are you looking at, Chris?" Tris turns around and her eyes land on what her friend was staring at.

"Oh."

Shauna isn't as pretty as Tris was- or is, Tobias concludes. Tobias always noticed how Tris was able to light up a whole room with just her smile. She had this fire burning in the back of her eye that easily captured the attention of every man she passed by. Tris just had natural beauty both inside and out.

Although Shauna is very pretty, she doesn't seem to amuse Tobias in any way. Zeke was right, she's very nice and all, but the only thing is, she's no Tris.

"Can I just be honest with you?" She says. "I'm not exactly into this date either."

"Why?" Tobias asks, bewildered. "Am I that obvious?"

His comment causes her to laugh, loudly.

"Yeah. You seem super bored and you look like you want to bolt out to the nearest exit." She tells him.

"I'm sorry." He says staring elsewhere.

"No, it's totally fine. It's just, I've had this huge crush on Zeke for a really long time. And I sort of implied that I wanted him to ask me out on a date, but look how this turned out." She says motioning to both of them.

"Yeah, Zeke isn't the most perceptive person. He's incredibly smart, but when it comes to girls, he's super oblivious, it's kind of sad." Tobias smiles.

"He's an amazing guy." Shauna smiles to herself.

"Yeah. I'll see what I can-holy shit." Tobias drops his fork and stares wide eyed at the two girls sitting in front of him.

"What? Are you okay?" Shauna gives him a worried look.

"Not really. See the blonde girl over there?" Tobias asks pointing to Tris.

"Yeah. What about her?"

"She's my ex." He doesn't know why he's sharing this information with a stranger.

"Okay. That's not so bad, right? How long did you guys date? A week? A month?"

"Ex fiancé." He clarifies. "And five years."

"Oh damn. I'm sorry, I didn't mean to make it imply like your-"

"No it's fine." He interrupts her and sighs. He glances back just as Tris happens to turn around. Their eyes lock for about three seconds. She's so beautiful, he concludes. The way the red dress hugs her body perfectly. Red and blue was always her color.

"Fuck."

"Hey, I'll make you a deal, Four. You help set me up with Zeke and I can help make your ex jealous."

"That's not really necessary." He shakes his head.

"You still love her and don't you deny it. I may be a high school teacher, but I majored in psychology. I know that look. It's the look my dad always gave my mom, even when they got in a serious fight. Look, I can help you."

He can't deny it, and Shauna even knows, and he literally just met he half an hour ago.

"Why? What are you going to do?" He asks her.

"Just play along."

Tris cringes as she hears loud laughter coming from the other table.

The thing about her and Tris' relationship was that both of them were extremely stubborn people. Not only that, the two of them were easily jealous people as well. So when she sees Tobias with another girl, laughing, it not only hurts her, but annoys her as well.

"Is it me, or did Four get even hotter?" Christina asks earning a look from Tris.

"What? Tell me that thought hadn't crossed your mind."

Tris let's out a small smile. "Okay, it has."

"Hey. I need serious Tris right now, can you do that?"

Tris runs her hand down her face which instantly changes from all goofy looking to serious.

Christina laughs at her action. "I think I'm going to be an aunt."

"What?! Is Rose pregnant?" Tris whispers the word pregnant.

"During Thanksgiving, when I visited my mom and dad's place, she was throwing up in the mornings, and the smell of her favorite foods would make her nauseous. I don't know if her husband knows or not, but Owen was completely oblivious to why she seemed quote on quote sick."

Tris scoffs, "men."

She's about to reply to Tris, but Christina glances behind her. "Oh my gosh, it's really hard to talk to you when Four keeps glancing your way. He should just-"

"Hi, welcome to the Cheesecake Factory, my name is Oliver, should I start you guys on any drinks or appetizers?" The waiter is a cute looking man, Tris decides, with short brown hair and eyes. Dimples too and roughly around the age of twenty-five, twenty-six, maybe?

"Can we actually order our meals as well?" Tris asks.

"Yeah sure."

"I'll get the chefs special and she'll get the fettuccine with shrimp." Tris tells the waiter.

"Any drinks?"

"Do you guys have apple juice?."

"Yes, we do."

"Okay." Tris replies, "I'll get that then."

"Water for me, please."

"Okay, cool. I'll be back in a few, then." Once he leaves, Christina smiles widely at Tris.

"He was so eyeing you, girl." Chris smirks.

"He is pretty cute isn't he?"

"He so is." She laughs.

More laughing.

Tris scoffs. "Get a room." She says under her breath.

"No way. I don't believe you right now, Tris. Are you jealous?" Christina asks.

She scoffs. "No. As if. Four can do whatever the hell he wants. What I don't understand is that three years later and he suddenly shows up all over the place."

"Is that why you were asking about all of the fate shit?

"Mhm." Their drinks are placed in front of them as well as their food.

"Thank you." He girls say in unison.

"Come on. All I want to do is eat this meal and then go home. I'm tired of all these complications in my life." Tris sighs.

"Same. Okay, you know what? New Year's Day Day, we are going to have a girls day. Go to the spa, and everything and let's get drunk as well, deal?"

Tris smiles, "deal. Now, how do we get rid of hotshot over there?" She asks nodding her head in the direction of Tobias and the other girl he's with.

"Oh my dear Tris, I'll deal with him later. After all, three years and I never got to finish what I started."

Their meal was lovely. Since Christina and Tris were such close friends, they had an easy time talking to one another. Tris was finally able to ignore the fact that her ex is sitting a merely ten feet away from her with another girl.

As soon as they dismissed their meal and had paid the bill, they walk towards the exit passing by Tobias' table on the way.

Christina had a glass of cold hidden behind her back and as she walked passed by him, she dumps it over his head drenching him in the liquid.

"You are so gosh darn lucky Zeke and Will was there to restrain me the night I came by to pick up Tris' stuff. I hope you burn in hell, Four."

And that was that.

Shauna looks, totally shocked, at the girls.

"She's you ex? The blonde one? Damn, Four you must be an idiot to let her go. She's freaking gorgeous." Then she laughs. "Her friend must be one hell of a charmer then."

Tobias wipes his face. "Mhm."

"You're going to have to do a lot more work if you want to get your girl back."

He sighs. "I know."

A/N: Phew! I hope you enjoyed. Leave a comment/review on what you think will happen next or any suggestions for the next chapters. Happy New Year!