Chapter 17: Wait, what?

The second after I realize what I just thought I can tell my expression changes. It's obviously noticeable, because Leo comments on it.

"Tris? Are you okay?" I'm too confused to answer. Instead I just stand up and run away. Poor Leo, I like him, but I just had a horrible epiphany.

I do the only thing I can think of; I run. I run for the confusion I feel. I run for the anger I feel. I run for the shock I feel. I run because I'm an emotional mess who can't get her life together.

I see a blur of surroundings. I run by the school where there are people just getting out of class. I see the diner I had lunch at. I run by the woods where my special clearing is. The clearing where I exchanged jokes with Four. Oh god. I speed up.

I pass Paris and Leo's house. I eventually run as far as the Wesley's house. I stop about a mile after that. I feel like Forest Gump. I guess I'll turn back now.

I pass all the same places. I wonder where I'll end up. I consider going to Tori's house. No, I'm not in the mood. I'm definitely not going to Paris's house or my own. I'll most likely run into Leo or Four there. I don't know the Wesley's well enough to visit them, plus I don't want to burden them. Christina Will question me if I visit her and Wills most likely with her.

I have nowhere to go. Maybe, just maybe... I guess I could visit them... I should call Caleb first though to make sure Four's at our house and not theirs. I might completely lose it if I ran into him right now.

I pull out my cell phone and dial Caleb's number. He picks up on the third ring.

"Caleb, is Four with you?" I take note of how weary and tired my voice sounds.

"Yes. Why?" I hang up. He doesn't need to know anything about what's going on right now. Especially not about the fact that I've fallen for his best friend.

Wait, what? Fallen? Who said anything about me falling for anyone? I don't even like Four! I just once thought I might like kissing him. Wait, no. Not even. I just wished that Leo had his dark blue eyes. And his beautiful long eyelashes. And his lips. I wonder how his lips would feel on mine?

No, Tris. Bad. Thou shall not think of Four like that. It makes me shudder just to picture us as a couple.

Then again sometimes happy thoughts make you shudder.

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I can't believe I'm going here, of all places. I hardly know these guys! I hate both of them and one works with me! Oh well. I've got nowhere else.

I knock on the door. It's picked up quickly by a girl whose in our grade but I don't know too well. She looks at me strangely. Then she slowly recognizes me. She smiles in a friendly way. She seems very girly.

"Oh! You're Caleb's sister, right?" I nod angrily. Why must I be compared to him? He's a product of popularity and a bully. I'm an outcast and a victim. The closest I've ever come to being popular is Cupid.

"I'm unfortunately the sister of that monster. Who are you?" I know I could and should be a little nicer to this girl. I am, after all, the one who is knocking on a random acquaintances door.

"I'm Marlene. You're brother isn't here right now. I'm sorry." I almost facepalm. She thinks I'm looking for my brother? Why on earth would I do that?

"Because you care about him," a tiny voice inside my head whispers. I laugh bitterly at the voice. In my head, of course. I'm not insane enough to do that out loud.

"I'm not looking for him. I'm looking for Uriah. May I please speak to him?" Marlene frowns slightly at me before smiling again.

"Yeah, sure," she says before turning around and shouting his name.

He bounds down the steps that are across from the door. Marlene gestures to me at the door. I can tell he notices and recognizes me. I do a little wave. He gives me a little one back.

"Um, hi Tris. Marlene, may you excuse us?" Marlene blushes a little and nods. She likes him. Uriah smiles timidly at her. He likes her. They'd be quite cute. Ms. Perky McGirlypants and Captain Idiot. They will be wed one day and have extremely annoying children that will drove the mini Tris's insane.

"What are you doing here, Tris?" I'm snapped out of my thoughts of a mini me by Uriah. The question is worded coldly but Uriah asks it in a curious voice. I shrug.

"I had no where else to go. Oh, and Marlene totally likes you back." This baffles Uriah.

"How did- Was I that obvious? And how do you know she likes me?" He asks loudly. I laugh.

"Don't be that loud or she'll hear! Plus it's extremely obvious! She blushed when you spoke to her. It wasn't even something romantic! And then you gave a cute timid sort of smile! You like her and she likes you back! You'd be an annoyingly sweet couple!" I giggle a little. Relationships in the making always make me feel giddy.

Uriah gaps at me while I beam at him. Eventually another girl, this one with a buzz cut, comes and pokes him. He looks at her and then at me. She turns to me.

"What'd you do?" The giddy feeling has worn off so I'm not nearly as pleasant anymore.

"I'm trying to help set Uriah up with Ma-" Uriahs hand claps over my mouth before I can finish her name. The girl grins.

"Uriah likes Marlene?" I nod. Uriah looks absolutely mortified.

"Please Lynn-"

"Oh Marlene! Come here!"

"Lynn! Please!"

"What is it Lynn?"

I bite down on Uriah's hand that he has still not removed from my mouth. He shouts and pulls it away. I look at him and he shakes his head. I then look to the girl, Lynn is what they called her, and she already has her mouth open. I want to beat her to it.

"Uriah likes you!" I scream. Marlene looks at me.

"Me?" She asks. God, this girls dumb. That's probably why Uriah likes her in the first place.

"No, me." Lynn says, her voice dripping with sarcasm. Marlene looks crestfallen. I literally facepalm this time.

"That was sarcasm." I grumble from underneath my palm. Marlene perks up. She then jumps on Uriah and kisses him smack dab on the lips. Lynn and I grin.

I high five her.

"I think I like you..."

"Tris." I beam. She smiles back.

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After Marlene and Uriah came back up for air Uriah said I could stay. I grin at the two of them. Cupid strikes again!

I sit in his living room watching tv with Lynn. We turn on Keeping Up a With The Kardashians and make fun of the idiots on the show. Uriah and Marlene are on a corner of Uriah's couch making out.

It's nice to have a distraction from all the confusion I was going through about an hour ago. I know once I leave this house I'll eventually run into either Four or Leo and then I'll have to face my problems but until them I'll just enjoy the stupidity of the Kardashians and how adorable Marlene and Uriah are.

I'll just hide from all my shocking and horrible epiphanies here for now. Next to a couple that can't stop making out and a girl who keeps shouting insults at the Kardashians. Right her, right now, is perfect for me at this moment in time.

This chapter did not go the away I planned it to go. I planned for it to be a chapter full of confused Tris being confused but it ended up with confused Tris going away, Cupid helping set up another cute couple, and then Tris gets all deepish at the end. This is why I don't make plots, because everything eventually goes sideways.

Anyways, you guys are extremely lucky I updated today. I'm at the beach and it's really rainy today so I had a lot of free time and decided to write. Also, has anyone else noticed that in my ANs I always start my second paragraph with the word "anyways"? I guess that's a tradition now. Yup. Deal with it.

So... My birthday's coming up and I'm super excited! Yay! Im about to be a year closer to my death than I already am! Wow, birthdays can be made very depressing.

QOTD: What's your birth month?

My Answer: August baby!

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