Chapter 5

You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.

~Wayne Gretzky

Tris POV

As I left Tobias, I saw Uriah. At first, I froze. What was Uriah doing here? He knew I already wasted my two days. As I stood, he glanced over in my direction. As he laid eyes on me he waved and floated over. I was already expecting the worse.

"Hey Tris!" he said. "How are you? I though you were traveling the world still."

I was," I replied. "I'm just taking a break."

"Mind if I join you on your journey after today."

I sighed with relief. I remembered that Uriah didn't know about my second trip down here. "Yes, I would. You shouldn't come with me Uriah."

"Pansycake. You just don't want me around."

"I don't want to spoil it, and that word is never coming back."

"Yes it will, you know it."

"Lynn might say otherwise."

"Is she here?"

"Maybe."

"Well, bye Tris. I've got to go."

"Go where?"

"To Zeke's apartment. I plan on scaring him. Want to come?"

"Sure."

Smiling, I follow Uriah to Zeke's apartment. Uriah has this devilish grin on his face. He nods over to Zeke, who's sleeping on the couch. He whispers instructions into my ears about how he plans on pranking Zeke. Then, we get started.

The first thing we do is carefully lift Zeke's couch(with Zeke on it) outside of his apartment. Then, Uriah proceeded to turning on his TV while I raided the fridge. Once I found the whipped cream, I went outside to find Zeke. We wanted to keep the inside as clean as possible, so I sprayed whipped cream all over Zeke outside of his apartment where he lay. Uriah and I both carried the couch back inside. Once inside, Uriah grabbed a bowl of warm water, and lowered one of Zeke's hands into it. He immediately woke up.

" Who did that!" he said. No response. " It's not funny!" Uriah and I barely contained our laughter. Looking down on the ground Zeke saw the bowl of water. The only problem was that it appeared to be floating. " Witches! This apartment is haunted. First Four's apartment, then mine. I'm moving out!"

He turned to leave, and saw all the whipped cream on his face. The look on his face was priceless. Both Uriah and I burst out laughing. "Now I'm hearing Uri and Tris. That's it I'm leaving." He wiped the whipped cream off of his face.

"Sure, go and leave. You were always a pansycake," Uriah says while trying to sound ominous.

Zeke turns around to see if anyone is in his apartment. Uriah picks up a sock from the ground, and hits Zeke with. "Boo!" Uriah says. Zeke screams and runs out of the room.

"I'll follow him." I tell Uriah as I float after Zeke who is headed to Tobias's apartment.

"Okay," Uriah responded. "See you around. Oh, Tris, there's a special event next week. Everyone gets to go down to Earth for a month, or a whole year. It'll be great, so you'd better come!"

I slowed at his last comment. I'd only have to hid for another week, and then I would be able to stay here on Earth for free. Pondering this, I ran into the apartment and found Zeke talking about our prank. I laughed out loud as he was talking to Tobias about it. Spooked by my laughter he left, but I could tell that Tobias knew I was there.

Once Zeke left the apartment, he looked over in the direction of my laugh."Tris," he said sternly, "you're going to make Zeke move out of the apartment building. What did you do?"

I told Tobias about how I meet Uriah, and agreed to help him prank Zeke. In the end we were both laughing. He was still laughing when there was a knock on the door. "Wait a moment," he announced before whispering to me. "Hide Tris, or better yet, turn invisible. It can't be Zeke over here now."

Tobias got up and walked over to the door. As he opened it, I was surprised to find Christina there. Now invisible, I floated above the door, suspicious of her reasond for arriving here. Hopefully, she wasn't going to try to hit on Tobias again. It wasn't her style at all. I knew something was wrong with her, but there wasn't anything I could do to help her. I would worry about solving Christina's problem once I figured out what she was going to say.

"What are you doing here, Christina?" Tobias asked rather coldly.

"I was coming to tell you that the band recording got rescheduled for next month, if you don't mind. Caleb left with Cara on a surprise vacation." Christina replied.

I didn't know that Caleb was in love with Cara. I thought he liked Susan. Maybe he's friends with Cara. I thought that I'd know my own brother that well, but in Abnegation, you never knew somebody very well. Still, I paid attention to Caleb somewhat in the past years. He's nineteen now, so I guess he's changed a bit. I would be nineteen too if I was alive now. By now, I'd probably be married to Tobias already, but I was a sixteen year old ghost, and he was a twenty one year old living person.

While thinking, I heard Christina say " Susan was going to be there to. She was coming with this guy. Cara was telling me she has a crush on the guy Susan's bringing. Susan's only coming to be with Caleb. I think Caleb and Cara are going for Susan and that other guy. We'll have to see about that when they return, I guess, but they won't be back till next month."

"Why do you care so much about their relationships anyway?" I heard Tobias ask.

"My two most favortie things are playing matchmaker and shopping!" Christina exclaimed, seeming normal again.

"What about you're relationship? Shouldn't you work on that?"

"I'm working on mine, slowly, but today I'm here to work on your relationship. Zeke is calling me a liar, but Cara and I noticed that you've been happier recently. We thought that maybe you've finally gotten over your depression about Tris's death, and moved on. Cara told me that she thought that you'd found another girlfriend. Zeke told me that if you were dating someone, he'd know, and that you hadn't told him anything. So, I came to confirm the rumors."

"I think you're very mistaken Christina. I've haven't followed your advice at all. Another girlfriend won't solve all of my problems. I found a way to be happier without that."

"Tell me, honestly. What is it?"

Tobias froze at the sound of her question. "I don't think I can answer that."

"Why not?" Christina asked, her voice cold. "I've tried to be a good friend to you Four, but you turn down all of my advice. You're always depressed. You rarely look happy when we hang out. I thought we could be friends. That I could be a good friend to you like I was to Tris. That I'd understand what Tris saw in you, but you have pushed me away. In your own wat, you push us all away, even Zeke. I'm the only one who really notices, or cares enough to say something. The Candor in me can see through all your lies. If you wanted me to keep my distance, just say something. I've lost lots of friends, my boyfriend, and best friend. I just don't want to lose you as well."

I realized the concern that Christina had for Tobias was probably what was bothering her. I had a plan to ask her about it later. I barely came out of my thoughts fast enough to hear Tobias's response.

"I do value your friendship, Christina. I'm just not used to telling people things all the time. I decided to trust Tris with all my secrets. She was the one for me, and I didn't always tell her everything, no matter how hard I tried. Now, I having a bit of a hard time too. Now that I'm not so sad, I'll try to stop shutting you all off."

Christina was smiling at Tobias's response. " Great! Well, I've got to go. Bye!" As she left, a troubled look crossed her face. I glance over at Tobias. He still looked a bit shocked from his talk with Christina.

"I'll be back," I tell him. " I have to talk to Christina."

"How?" He asks.

"We ghosts have some tricks up our sleeves," I say as I float after Christina. I finally spot her as I come close to the park. She looks stressed out. I walk over to her, and whisper in her ear. "Go back to your apartment. You look tired."

She looks around. "Tris?" She whispers. "No, it can't be her.I do need a nap." She turns aroung, and heads over to her apartment. Then I decide that it's time to share some wisdom with Christina.

I appear into the room, and try to appear ghostlike, with a white aura. When I'm near Tobias, I try to seem more humanlike. "Christina," I say, "stop looking so troubled."

At first, she looks shocked to see me. "Tris?" she says with disbelief in her voice. "Is that you?"

"Can't you see me?" I asked her. "You have looked so troubled lately. I would always come to help my good friends."

After her disbelief washes away, Christina looks rather tired. "Well, Four has looked down. I thought maybe I could get him to feel better. I went through many options in my head, but they're all bad. Once, I thought being his girlfriend would help, but he rejected the idea before I spoke it."

I try to hide my anger as I realize that she was trying to go out with Tobias. "Tobais is fine now. I've been watching him. You can stop worrying about him. You need to let all this stress go, Christina. Look after yourself. You can care about others, but you spend too much time worrying about their relationships."

Christina looks a bit defeated. "I've just been so unlucky in love ever since Will died. I knew that it would be a while before I felt that way again, but I thought it would come sooner, you know?"

I smile at Christina. "Your time will come soon enough, my friend. Right now, go enjoy yourself. It'll be better in the long run. You'll find someone eventually."

"Well, I could use a nap. I don't suppose you'll be here when I wake up."

"Nope. But I might come back someday soon. I'll have to see. We aren't supposed to talk to humans, unless they really need help and advice. You are in need of it. Enjoy your nap. Life is precious. There is power in self sacrifice, but you have to enjoy yourself during your life. I know I did." I bite my lip to stop myself from talking anymore. I feel like I belong on Earth more than I do on Heaven. I float out of the room after turning invisible.

I float back to Tobias's apartment. I see him in there, staring out the window. I just float beside him, remaining invisible. I wonder if I said too much to Christina. I don't know, I don't know. As I float away from the window, I prepare to say something to Tobias.

I turn visible over by the door. Tobias glance over,and sees me there. "Where'd you go?" he asked me.

"To see Christina." I responded.

"How did it go?"

"It was successful, but I'm afraid I said to much to her." I walked over and plopped myself on top of his bed. Tobias came over, and sat next to me.

"Why do you think that?"

"I think that Christina might know too much about our spirit world. I'm afraid she's going to day something, or cause problems for us. I might even get in trouble with the people up above. They hate us spirits talking to living human."

"It will be fine Tris, don't worry." Tobias leans over and touches his forehead to mine. "I'm sure Christina won't talk about it. She might be worried about what the others would say."

I still wasn't too reassured by Tobias's argument, but I decided to let it go. I kiss him before leaning back onto the bed, realizing that I would have to leave soon. "I'm going to leave soon," I announced.

"Why?" Tobias ask, looking a bit sad.

"Because we can come down for a whole month next week. It could even be a year. Uriah told me about it, so I need to leave today so I can use this privilege. That way, I can be with you without breaking the law."

"Well, I guess that's reasonable of you. That's a first."

I try to look annoyed by his comment. "What's that supposed to mean?"

Tobias is smiling as he responds to me. "You're rarely reasonable. I can't think of a time when you were."

"Take that back!"

"Never."

As soon as the words left Tobias's mouth, I sat up and tackled him to the bed. "Take it back, now!"

"You'll have to do better than that!" Tobias says. He shifts his weight so I fall off of him.

"Ghosts don't have a lot of power." I try to get back on top of me, but Tobias has pinned me down.

"Yes, you do have a lot of power. You look like you did before. And when you pinned me down, I could see how strong you are. Excuses, Tris, excuses."

"Fine. I give up."

"Okay." Tobias slowly get off of me. I take the opportunity to pin him down again. I jump on his back, and pin him down. He looks surprised.

"Hah! I knew you'd fall for that," I say triumphantly. "Who's being reasonable now?"

"I guess you are." Tobias responds. I get off of him. After he sits back up, Tobias pulls me on top of him.

I lean over and whisper in his ear, "I love you. Even though you are a bit mean."

"I love you too," Tobias says as he leans over to kiss my cheek. "I'm glad you're back."

"But I'm leaving tonight," I say sadly.

"So, lets enjoy our time together until you leave. Aren't you going to come back soon anyway?"

"Yeah." I lean back into Tobias. "Let's go somewhere. I haven't had any fun since Uriah and I pranked Zeke."

"If we go somewhere, I'll seem like a weirdo talking to nobody, and everyone will recognize you if you're not invisible. I don't think Zeke is going to come back to his apartment, and I certainly don't want him over at mine. You should apologize."

"And what, reveal myself to another person." I try to sound happy, but thinking about revealing myself to another person already has me stressed out.

"We can just stay here," Tobias say, "and you don't have to apologize to Zeke."

"Deal," I say as I lean over to kiss him. He kisses me back, and it reminds of the first time we kissed in the chasm, and the last one we shared, before I dies. I remember how glad I was when I finally revealed myself to him. Now, looking over at Tobias, I feel a prickling sense of doubt. I don't know if what were doing is right.

I'm a ghost. I'm dead, but he's alive. I scoot away from him, not sure what to do. Our love shouldn't be existent anymore. A ghost in love with a living man is unheard of. I glance over at Tobias, and realizes that he senses my unease. I don't want him to ask me what's the matter.

"I hate to break it to you, but I have to leave now," I glance over at him.

"See you when you come back, beautiful," Tobias says. He kisses me on the cheek and whispers, "When you come back, you better tell me what's the matter."

I force on a fake smile as I turn invisible. "Of course I will."

I floated out of the room, and tried to find people to hide behind of on my way back to Heaven. I spotted two guys, and hid behind them as they floated up into Heaven. I passed by unnoticed by the guard.

As I floated down to our house, I saw my mom floating down the road. I wave and walk toward her. As I reach her, I decide to see if she has ever heard of a ghost dating a living person.

"Mom," I say, "have you ever heard of a ghost dating a living person."

"Once, yes" she responds cautiously. "The ghost got in big trouble. Nobody is supposed to talk about it, though."

"How do you know about it?"

"This was happening after I died. It had just been resolved actually."

I figured that my mom wasn't going to spill the beans. "Well, thanks mom."

I walked over and found Will over by the house. As I ran to catch up to him, I called his name. "Will, over here!"

"Hey Tris," he says as he meets me. "Back so soon?"

"Yeah," I reply casually. "I heard about the possible year or month on Earth, and came so I could use that."

"Uriah mentioned seeing you on Earth earlier today. I thought you were supposed to be traveling the world."

"I took a break." I hoped I told a convincing lie. I didn't want to have to deal with others judging my decisions right now.

"I thought that you already took your two days off, during your birthday and Tobias's birthday."

Now I was stuck. "Yeah, but that's not what I came to talk to you about."

"You took more than two days off?" Will looked shocked.

I suddenly realize a great excuse that'll get Will to drop the subject. "I have points, remember. 10 of them."

"But you didn't spend any. I'll drop for now, though. What did you want to ask me?"

I'm so relieved that Will decided to forget about my extra trips that I almost forget what I called him for. "Do you think that it's okay for a ghost to love a living human?"

"Probably not. Last time that happened, some citizens got angry, and everyone had to get involved. Needless to say, it all worked out in the end for the couple. The girl had some trouble from those clubs, but she snuck down to Earth one day, and hasn't come back since. Why are you asking?"

"No reason."

Will looks sternly at me. "I can let one thing slide, Tris, but I want to know why you're asking me these questions. Or would you rather me ask why you spent extra days on Earth?"

I stood there frozen for a few seconds. I didn't know what to do. "Well, they're both related, in a sense."

"Tell me how."

I look around, wondering if anyone will hear us. "Can we talk about this somewhere else?"

Will nodded, as if he understood my fear of being overheard and punished. "Let's go back to the house. Al left, and your parents are gone."

We head into our house in silence. We go into my room, and I close the door. I sigh, wondering if there's anything I can do to lie to Will, but I don't come up with anything. I could use a friend who knows my problems. I sigh, knowing that I'm just going to have to spill the story. I tell Will about how I went down, and meet Tobias, and how I revealed myself to him. I also told him about Christina.

"So, you see, I love Tobias, but I'm not sure if he should still be in love with me. A ghost in love with the living seems unheard of. I don't think I'm being fair to him. He could move on, and find someone else to love. I feel like he could find a person who is actually alive that he loves."

Will stays silent for a long time. "Well, I won't report you. Everyone slips a few extra days every once in a while. I know I have. I'm not sure what you should do about Tobias, though. I'll stick with you for a few months, if we get those extra. I've always wanted to speak to Christina. I never got the guts to. But falling in love with a living soul can be very dangerous, Tris. As long as you know the dangers, and believe in it, I'll side with you."

"But that's the thing, Will. I don't know if I should do this. I want to, but I want to be fair to Tobias."

"I'll go with you, and you can ask him about it. I'll probably leave for a while, and try to talk to Christina."

"Deal."

Al comes running into the room. "It came early," he said, looking a bit winded.

"What came early?" Will asked.

"The month we get to go down to Earth. We get six months, and it starts right now! Let's go." After he delivered the news, Al sprinted towards the crowded staircase, Will and I close behind.

I ended up getting pulled against that red haired girl and her blonde husband, again. I searched for Will, and couldn't see him. I exited towards Chicago, and spotted Will in front of me. I ran up to him and tapped him on the shoulder. He looked relieved to see me.

"Looks like we get half a year," he stated.

"Yep. I've never been more excited!" I say.

"Excited so you don't have to break the rules anymore, huh?" he says teasingly.

"You bet," I respond smiling.

Soon, we reach Tobias's apartment. I slowly walk over to the door.

"I don't think I can do this, Will," I whisper to him.

"You'll be fine Tris," he responds. "I believe in you. Just be yourself and speak truthfully.

"Thanks Will," I say. I slowly push open the door. "Here we go," I whisper as I materialize. Tobias hears the door open, and turns in my direction. I open my mouth, and begin to talk.

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