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Chapter 44
Tobias P.O.V
Waking up with Tris in my arms, can't get any better then that. The feel of her body, the warmth against mine. The littlest things are our miracles.
I slowly untangle myself from Tris, wishing not wanting to wake her. I look in on our daughter, she is still swaddled and sound asleep. She looks so peaceful. So beautiful. So perfect.
I walk back in my room, and decide a much needed cold shower is in order. Needing nothing more then a cool down before starting the day. I stand in the shower lathering my up, when I glance down and notice my Raven that lays over my heart. Her Raven. True to this day, she will and always own my heart and much more. I dress in a normal blue jeans and black shirt, having breakfast on my mind.
Deciding on chocolate chip pancakes, would be a great way to start the morning. I start making the coffee, and then get to work on the batter adding the chocolate chips at the end. The sound of the sizzling of the skillet fills the silence. The smell of the pancakes overtaking my senses. I hear footsteps slowly coming from behind me, and I don't have to look to see who it is.
"Mmm... That smells so good!" Tris says taking a sniff of the pancakes. She wraps her small arms around my waist.
"Chocolate chip pancakes." I say wrapping a arm around her from behind. "I hope your hungry."
"I am now." She says.
A knock on the door draws us out of our daze. "Ill get that, probably just Christina." I say walking over to the door. When I open it I'm not disappointed, I was surprise she didn't call or show up yesterday.
"Dude seriously, did you see that storm last night?" She ask walking right in with Will at tow. I notice that Will has a apologetic look on his face. I don't blame him at all, Christina is her own world.
"Good morning to you too, Christina. Please, come on in." I say trying to make light on things, she is already half way to the kitchen joining Tris.
"Four! Tris! Good morning!" She says, I start suspecting something up her sleeve. "Oh good, you are about to eat. Mmmm Chocolate chip pancakes. That works, I'm starved."
I can't help but roll my eyes at the thought of typical Christina.
"Morning Christina, Will. How are you?" Tris says smiling at them.
"We are excited this morning, Tris. Sorry I couldn't ring her in." Will says confirming my suspension.
"Christina, don't take this the wrong way but... What do you want?" I say smiling at her.
"Right now, I want breakfast. And apparently helping you not burn the pancakes." Christina says.
"You know Tris is back, you can burn those adoption papers now." I say laughing.
Flashback
My front door opens, I didn't realize I didn't lock the door... I walk out of my room to find Christina is my intruder I find her invading my kitchen. It appears she is putting away groceries in my fridge. Why is she here? Doesn't any one understand that I don't want to talk, and I don't want the company.
"What.. are... you... doing... here?" I say with each word getting angrier.
"I am making sure there is food in the house. Don't want you going hungry on us." Christina said.
"You know, I don't need your help. I don't want this. Thank you. But you can leave now." I told her.
"Look, I get that you're angry, I get it. But Tris didn't just leave you, she left all of us." She started to say... I cut her off.
"Left you! She left me with nothing, Christina! She was the one thing I had left! The one thing in this Damn World I cared about! I agreed not to use the memory serum. I agreed to go through the motions and to honor Tris' legacy. Isn't that enough for you, for her?" I said almost yelling.
"No it's not, Four. Eventually you are going to have to laugh again, to care about people, and to live again. Four, I loved Will more then anything. But I had to learn to live again without him, I had to learn how to laugh again. To understand that it's ok. It's not betraying them." She said matching my tone.
"You were her friend! HERS! Why are you here? Because she sure as hell isn't." I said still yelling.
"Because I made a promise. I would be here, and I'm your friend too damn it." She said.
"I'm not a child, Christina. I can take care of myself!" I said starting to calm my tone down.
"I know you can. But we are all we have left of her, and I won't let that go. So consider it how ever you want... you have been adopted! So welcome to family BIG BROTHER!" She said firmly.
"How the hell did you get in here?" I asked.
"I have a key." She answered.
End of Flashback
"Old habits die hard, Four. And no I'm adopting the three of you now." She says smiling and reaching her hand to pat my shoulder. As annoying as Christina is... I can't help but think if I had a sister, I would want her to be just like Christina.
"So Will, how have you been? If you ever need to runaway from Christina, you know my door is always WIDE open." I say laughing at the imagine Will running down the hall to my apartment to escape Christina.
"Thanks, I might need to one of these days." Will says returning my laughing and getting a smack on his chest from Christina. We all join in the laugh.
The cries of a little one comes from the room, breaking us out of our laughter.
"Oh I'll get her, think she is hungry too." Tris says leaving us three to finish breakfast.
"Christina, fruit duty." I order her.
"Yes, Sir." She says laughing.
"So whats on the agenda today guys." I ask flipping more pancakes on a serving platter.
I notice they both go quiet and giving each other suspicious looks.
"Alright... whats going on?" I ask. Will doesn't say anything other then pointing at Christina. The master mind! I glare at her, waiting for her response.
"Alright, we have plans for each of you. Will is kidnapping you and the other guys, to do … guy stuff. I am taking Tris and Abigail to do girlie stuff. Oh and Shauna is coming." She says with a satisfy smile.
"What... I don't know Christina. Don't you think it's too soon for all that?" I say. Its not that I don' trust the girls, and tempting to spend time with friends. But am I ready to walk away for a long period from Tris and the baby. We haven't been separated for long periods yet.
"Four.. Tobias" I cringe at her using my given name, she doesn't use it often. "I think this will do both of you some good. We all need to move forward and start to heal." She says seriously to her words.
"Yea but..." I start to say but cut myself off, truth is I don't have a real good excuse other then the need and want to be next to them. Not ready to have them out of view.
"I promise if anything happens." She starts.
"If anything happens... nothing better happens." I say in a threatening FOUR tone.
"Go have fun and we will meet at that AMAZING Italian place... for dinner at... six o'clock?" She says and confirming the time.
"Fine." I finally give in. Placing the platter of pancakes on the island next to the maple syrup and the bowl of fruit salad that Christina prepared. "Breakfast is served!"