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Four POV:
We finish loading up the cars, Caleb's Trail Blazer and Uriah's SUV, and I stand back pondering if this is really such a good idea. "You ready?" I hear a small voice beside me ask. I smile and look down upon Tris' face. It was crazy to think that only a bit over a week ago we hadn't known each other. We were just two strangers sitting beside each other on a plane ride.
I wrap an arm around her bare shoulders. I shrug "I guess, I'm not looking forward to a car ride with those morons." I say jerking my head toward Uriah, Marlene, Will and Christina. We were riding in Uriah's SUV with all the camping equipment and most our bags. The others in Caleb's Trail Blazer had the other portion of the luggage, and Buster. I think we got the better half of the deal.
"Alright, everyone ready?" Caleb asked us, a huge smile on his face. I rolled my eyes, and I could tell Tris was too beneath her sunglasses. I peered over at her again, looking her over. Her hair was up in a bun, she was wearing a brown tank top, and jean shorts. She had a white bandana pushing the hair out of her face, and she had her anklet on with a pair of flip flops. She was absolutely gorgeous, even without trying. I have met plenty of girls who tried to hard to achieve this look, and none of them worked the way Tris worked it.
"Let's get this over with." Marlene sighed as we piled into Uriah's SUV. "Babe, please. You know you're excited to share a tent with me alone all weekend." Uriah said smirking. "Good luck with that." Will mumbled. "What do you mean?" Uriah asked him, furrowing his brows. "Caleb decided it would be a good idea to have the guys in one tent, and the girls in another." Will said rolling his eyes. We all groaned and settled into our seats. Uriah and Marlene were in the front, Will and Christina in the middle, and Tris and I in the back. We were surrounded by random bags and suitcases, with a bunch of boxes from the equipment.
I draped my arm across her shoulders and we began to prepare for the long drive to the campground that Caleb suggested we stay at. I rested my temple against her head and I felt myself relax. Maybe this trip wouldn't be so bad. Conversation continued around the car for a few hours, and I could feel Tris becoming restless. "Are we there yet?" she asked impatiently. "Another hour cupcake." Marlene said, huffing. Tris groaned, and Christina whined. "I can not stand being confinement." Tris mumbled. I laughed and shook my head at her. She was such a little firecracker. "It's okay. We'll be there before you know it." I said tightening my arm around her shoulders.
"Hey Tris?" Christina called. "Yeah?" Tris answered tiredly. "I had an idea." Christina said smirking. "What would that be Chrissy?" Tris asked with a sneaky grin. "Well it involves Uriah going above the speed limit…" she trailed off. "Please, just because my brother and practically sister-in-law are cops doesn't mean I follow every single law." Uriah said snorting. I laughed a bit and shook my head at him."Well we all think Caleb is ridiculous for wanting us to stay in different tents right?" Chris continued. Will nodded his head and wrapped an arm around her shoulders. "I think we should get there before Caleb and set up ALL the tents we brought." Christina said smiling deviously. The car went silent for a beat.
"Uriah, step on it. We have a genius on our hands." Marlene said smiling wildly. We all laughed and set up plans for us to make it there before the others. This was going to be insane. We would get in so much trouble, but honestly at this point I couldn't care less. "Anyone else notice how much more daddy-like Caleb has been acting since Tris showed up?" Will asked us. I thought of this, it was very true.
Before, Caleb seemed like he was all about fun. He never wanted to take any responsibility and wanted to party all the time. Finally about a month and a half ago, he sobered up and focused on work and Susan. Before we knew it he was calling someone every night. No one knew who he was talking too, or what he would cry almost every time he hung up the phone. Christina and Susan knew, we were sure of that. I remember asking him about it once, and he looked like he was in pain. I knew how much Caleb cared about Tris, and it made me upset not knowing then.
I figured he would tell us in due time, which he did. He told us about his parents, and how he had a little twin sister named Bea. He begged us to have her move in with us. Of course we all agreed the minute it slipped out of his mouth. He talked about her, in such a way that had painted a picture of her in all of our minds. It didn't do us any justice however, she was so much more than he led on. When he, Susan and Christina went out to visit her from her graduation we were concerned, but knew Caleb was strong. It was part of what I admired in him. He wasn't just strong physically, but also mentally and emotionally.
He pulled himself together for Tris, and he wanted to make sure she would be okay once she came to him. I guess he never pictured her and I together. It made me feel a bit guilty knowing I stole his sister away from him. I looked down at her, and decided it was worth it.
She fiddled with her hands as she talked with the others in the car about Caleb before he moved out here. "He was always the outgoing one, and the one who dealt with people at school. He always made sure I knew he was my big brother and would do anything for me." she said rolling her eyes and smiling. "He's a really good brother, and it was hard to live without him for a few months. I'm really glad I got to come out here." she said with another smile.
I smiled a small smile, and thought about all those nights we pretended we couldn't hear Caleb crying in the bathroom or the office after getting off the phone with the mysterious person. How he cried for his sister. "He really missed you, you know." Uriah said softly. I looked up, and from the look on everyone's face, I wasn't the only one who remembered those nights. "Yeah?" Tris asked, beaming. "Alot more than you'll probably ever know." Will said, and I looked over at him. He was giving us all a sad smile.
"Well enough of that. We're almost here." Marlene said pointing out the front windshield. We all looked out the windows, a "Camp Dauntless" sign was put up, gesturing that it was only five minutes away. We all smiled and prepared to get out. We cheered and hollered and yelled at Uriah to drive faster.
When we pulled into the our lot, we realized we were about a half hour ahead of schedule. It was the perfect amount of time for us to complete our plan. We piled out and stretched our legs, the girls stayed by the car and started to unload boxes unto our campsite. Uriah and Will went to go check in with the camp advisor. I helped the girls set up the tents, there were five. Enough for two people in each tent.
I glanced over at Tris who was working on making a fire. I noted her anklet, which also had a fire symbol. I wondered what was with the girl and fire. She should know that it's dangerous to play with it. I finished setting up the last tent, and the other two boys returned. We began to unpack the cooking supplies, as well as other things like bug and sun spray. When we moved onto our suitcases we all stood around at the tents.
"Zeke and Shauna will probably like that one." Uriah said pointing off to one surrounded by some trees. "Caleb and Susan would like that one." Tris said softly pointing to a bigger tent off by some other trees. "Babe! Let's go over there." Marlene said dragging Uriah off to the one by the rocks. "We'll stay closer to camp by the fire. Someone is afraid of the dark." Will said nudging Christina playfully. Tris smiled, she must have known something I didn't. "What do you say?" I asked her nervously. "Want that one?" she whispered. I followed her finger as she pointed to the tent by the lake. It was close to the sand, but not to far away from the main camp spot. "Yeah. Looks good." I said, hiding my excitement. I was sharing a tent with Tris Prior. "Let's go." she said sighing, and slinging her duffel bag over her shoulder. She was off and already marching to the tent before I could even offer to carry her bag. I smiled and quickly followed her.
I ducked into the tent following after her. She was sitting on the floor and looking around it. "Cozy." she said noticing how small it seemed on the inside. Maybe it was just the heat playing tricks on me, but it suddenly seemed much smaller on the inside than it did on the outside. "Well. Let's unpack." she said unzipping her bag and pulling out a sleeping bag. "How about we make just one bed, with both the sleeping bags?". I instantly regret asking this. Bad move Eaton. "Sure sounds good." she said nonchalantly. "Okay, here." I said passing her my sleeping bag as she unzipped both of them and made a make-shift bed. I passed her my pillow and she set up both of those at one end, making it as if it really were a bed. I rolled my eyes and smiled at this. I set a lantern up on the top tarp of the tent. It was nice.
Tris plopped down on top of the sleeping bags. "I'm exhausted. Can I just take a nap here?" she asked half joking. "If you want." I say. "Nah. Let's go see what the other's are doing before-" Tris began to say, but was interrupted by a male voice yelling. Caleb. We both looked at eachother with big eyes. We scrambled out of the tent "WHAT THE HELL." Caleb screamed.
We both ran over to the spot where he seemed to be having problems. "You decided to what?!" he yelled at Christina. "Caleb!" Tris yelled. He locked eyes with her, and his face softened a bit. "Don't you yell at her!" she exclaimed, pushing him away from her. "You are not sleeping with Four!" he yelled. "Of course i'm not sleeping with Four. I am simply sharing a tent with him. God, who died and made you dad?" she screamed. "Dad did!" he yelled back.
Everyone slowly started to back away. This was clearly none of our business, and we needed to abandon the place immediately. We all turned and walked away quickly. We could still hear them in the distance though. It was a very unpleasant conversation, and we all felt bad.
Tris POV:
"Dad did!" Caleb screamed, and I instantly regretted asking him that question. Everyone walked away from us and I knew that I had to take care of this with him now. "Why would you take us here Caleb?" I demanded out of him. "You know this is where they took us on that family vacation years ago." I asked him. Years ago, our parents brought us here to Camp Dauntless, where I learned to hunt. It's symbol was a fire, and this is where mom and dad got me the anklet that I was currently wearing.
"Because I thought it would be fun to spend a vacation with our new family here." he said giving me a look that was both defensive, and broken. "Mom and dad are still our family Caleb. We can not ruin this trip for our friends. You need to stop being everyone's father and be a friend. You're scaring them all." I whisper, and gesture to them. They were all looking over at us nervously.
He sighed and nodded his head. "God Tris, why did you have to grow up?" he asked me quietly and painfully. "I'm the same age as you." I tried to joke. "That's not what I mean. You're supposed to be the little one. The one who doesn't party or share a tent with a lover. It's a lot for me to take in." he said slowly. "Caleb. You know I'll always be your little sister, but you also have to remember that I am an adult. Have been for quite a while now." I say, placing a hand on his shoulder. He stared off at our group of friends, who had seemed to find a new conversation and were laughing.
"You know, I'm glad it's Four. Not some random tool who could break your heart in an instant." he said swallowing. "Are you sure?" I ask him. He nods his head. "Is he nice to you Bea?" he asks me. "Of course he is Caleb." I say, my heart breaking a little bit. Caleb was just trying to look out for me. As always. "If there ever comes a time that he's not you'll be the first I go to." I say. He nods his head. "I just want you to be happy. This isn't exactly what I meant, but if it works then it's what I want." he says looking at me reassuringly. I smiled and nodded my head. "Thanks Caleb." I say with a huge grin.
He nods and then looks at me with a smirk. He scoops me up and I screech in laughter. He throws me over his shoulder and runs over to where our friends are surrounded by the campfire. "How about you guys' show us where our tents are yeah?" Caleb asks with what I can tell is a big smile. I wiggle around and everyone laughs. "Caleb put me down!" I laugh. He laughs and sets me down. "Where are the fishing poles?" I can hear him ask Uriah as they walk off. I shake my head and roll my eyes. He always had done that every time we went camping with my dad. Mom and I however, we did something they would never have guessed we did while they were gone.
"Trissy. Wanna play some cards?" I heard Christina ask me. "Of course." I say smiling. "Watch out boys. Best player of Texas Hold 'Em right here." Christina said. I rolled my eyes and Christina dealt me in. We played cards, drank beer and sweet tea, ate snacks, and we laughed. The only person who didn't drink beer the whole trip was Susan, I noticed she hadn't been drinking it lately. I shrugged, maybe she just was into wine. It was a pretty great day.
It was starting to get dark and Caleb and Susan came back from fishing with a few fish. I laughed "The tradition lives on." I say raising my beer. Caleb shrugs. "You know, you never did tell me what you and mom did while dad and I were away." he asks curiously. I smirk to myself "Wanna see?" I ask him. He shrugs "Sure.". I smile, and stand up. "Follow me." I say sauntering off. A few of us grabbed some flashlights and they all asked where we were going.
"What were you and mom doing way out here?" Caleb asked us. "I'll show you." I said smiling and flipping a giant switch that was connected to a fake tree, which was really an electricity pole. Lights shone on, and you could see the targets. The targets connected to ten trees. "What?" Will asked for everyone, they were all obviously confused. "You did archery?" Four asked me, question in his eyes. "Not exactly." I say sheepishly. I pull a knife out of my back pocket.
"Girl. How long have you had that in your back pocket." Shauna asks. "It's not just a knife." I say, and I push a little button that the naked eye wouldn't have been able to find. A little key pops out and I push it into the box that hangs below the switch, and it opens up to dozens of different types of knives. They all stand there silently. I grab a handful of them and stand up close to the target. "Tris!" Caleb shouts. "Don't you dare hurt yourself!" Christina yells. I roll my eyes and begin throwing the knives.
Pounding them into target after target.
Hitting bullseye after bullseye.
The yelling eventually stops and once I run out of knives I turn around. "That's what mom and I did while you were gone." I say. Their faces range from admiration, to shock, to fear. "Why didn't I get to do that?" Caleb whines. Everyone laughs "Because mom decided you were too soft to learn her special talent." I say smirking. "Well I guess we don't even need the security system anymore." Zeke says beaming at me. I blush and go grab the knives. "You have to teach me how to do that! It could be really helpful on the job." Shauna exclaims. "Maybe you could teach some knife throwing at the gym." Uriah brings up excitedly. I smile, and nod my head nonchalantly.
My eyes travel over to Four, who smiles at me and raises his beer to me. I grin and wave a knife at him. I put the rest of the knives in the box, and slip mine into my back pocket. We walk back and we talk about everything and anything. When we make it back to camp, we make smores. Uriah and Zeke at almost all of them. I laughed as I watched Caleb toast his to perfection. He smirked at me as I torched mine. "Mmm Caleb. Isn't this just your favorite way of having a marshmallow?" I ask him teasingly. He shudders and shakes his head. "I don't know how you can eat that." he says. "Like this." I say popping it in my mouth. "Yuck." he says sticking his tongue out at me. I stick mine right back out at him. It feels so nice to be able to joke around with him again.
Slowly we drift off to our own tents. Four was the first to go to bed, and I stayed around a little while longer. When it was just Chrissy and I left. I said goodnight to her, and kissed her forehead. I headed off to my tent while she sat for a bit longer, just looking at the fire.
I hop into the tent where I find Four passed out, and shirtless. I took in my breath and took in him. His lips were pursed slightly, and his forehead was scrunched in concentration. His breathing was erratic. I slipped off my shirt and slipped on a pair of comfy sleep shorts. I slid under one sleeping bag and onto the other. I slowly slid closer to Four. When my hip touched his stomach, he jolted awake in his sleep and looked at me with eyes filled with fear.
"Four?" I asked him. He caught his breath, and the fear in his eyes dissipated. "Tris." he said, pulling me close to him. I turned over on top of him, and he gripped onto my hips tightly. He held me close to him, and shoved his face in my hair. I rested my head on his chest, and gripped his shoulders with my hands. "Are you okay?" I ask him once he calms down. "Yeah. Bad dream, that's all." he says. I pull up and rest my hands on his chest, and look down at his face which is looking at me in question. "Are you okay though?" I ask him once more, looking him over.
He looks at me with that look that he used once before, that I can never quite place what it is. And he shakes his head no. "It's okay. You don't have to talk about it." I say, running my fingers through his hair. He nods his head and his eyes darken, and I know what look is on his face now. Lust. I lean down and kiss him slowly, he returns every motion. Mirroring only what I do. I know he is holding back, and I really wish he wouldn't, but tonight it is about him. "What do you want?" I ask him in between kisses. "You." he says out of breath.
He grabs the back of my head and pulls me closer to him. I give in and I let him take over. He flips us over so I am now on my back, and he is leaning over me. He slides his tongue into my mouth, and presses his body against mine. I reach up and dig my hands in his hair. He runs one hand down the side of my body, and uses the other to hold himself up above me. I feel his fingers trace gently along my sides, as his tongue dances with mine. He tastes like sunshine and warmth. He fingers the edge of my bra and I feel my heart race in my chest. I know that if I let him go along, I'll have let him break through all my walls. Within a matter of over a week. He stops suddenly though and removes his hand.
He rests his head against my forehead and I look up at his face, he catches his breath, and then leans back, and looks into my eyes. "I want you Tris." he says quietly. He's asking the question that will break all barriers. "You sure?" I ask him. "I don't just want you like this." he says gesturing at me up and down. I blush and look down at myself, I'm a hot mess. My hair is all over the place, and my stomach is shaking with anticipation. "I want you in public. I want to be able to have you sleep in my room, and have you hold my hand, and be able to kiss your cheek without there being any question." he says looking at me, shaking.
I look back up into his eyes. "I would love to be yours." I say without missing a beat. A smile breaks out on his face. "Really?" he asks me. "Of course." I say. He leans down and kisses me once on the lips and then he flops over on his side, and pulls me close to him. I snuggle up in his arms, and rest my head against his chest, wrapping my arms around his neck. "Thank you." he says quietly. "Thank you." I say back. He grins and slides his hands down my back. "I'm so damn lucky." he says quietly, probably thinking I couldn't hear him. "Me too." I whisper back. He smiles, and I fall into the most comfortable sleep I have in a long time.
We wake up in the morning to Christina and Will shaking our tent. "Wake up. Dad has plans for us." Christina says, I can practically hear her eyes roll from her. Four groans in protest and pulls me tight to him. "Five more minutes." he mumbles. "Your loss man. We're leaving in a bit." Will says a bit sarcastically. "Can't we stay here?" I grumble. "Nope! Up! Up! Up!" I hear Caleb pronouncing from outside the tent. "Caleb, it's Sunday. Plus vacation. Go away." I groan. I hear Caleb sighing. "Fine. If you don't want to go hiking-" Caleb begins and I hear everyone outside cheering, as he gave up. After a minute it was silent again, meaning everyone must have gone back to their tents.
"Nice work Prior." Four says smirking. "Thanks, I like to think I have him wrapped around my finger." I say grinning. "Well it got him away." he says pulling me close to him. I sigh in content and snuggle closer. "What should we do all day?" I ask him. "I don't care. As long as it's with you." he says. I grin from ear to ear. "I just wanna stay here all day." I say. "That can be arranged." he says smiling, reaching down and grabbing my butt. "Four!" I giggle, trying to scoot away from him. "Where do you think you're going?" he asks me, pulling me close with one arm, and cupping my ass with the other. "Away from your hands!" I laugh. "You don't like this?" he asks massaging my butt. I laugh "I bet you like it." I whisper. "Not as much as I'd like to do this." he whispers back before placing a hand on one of my boobs.
I feel my breath hitch, as he cups it. I nod my head and he begins to knead it. I let out a sigh as I close my eyes and let the sensation take over. I sigh and shudder. "See, I knew you'd like it too." Four said releasing my chest and giving my butt a slap. "Four, I had no idea you were into this kind of thing." I giggle and swat his head as I turn around to face him. "Well i'm definitely into my girlfriend." he said with a big grin. I grinned back. "I suppose I'm kind of into my boyfriend as well…" I trail off. "Good. Because I hear he's pretty protective of what's his." he says pulling me close to him, and rolling over onto his back. I giggle "It's a good thing I'm all his then." I say looking down at him.
"God Tris. Why do you have to be so perfect?" he asks me. I feel my face fall. "I'm not perfect." I say giving him big eyes. "You are in my eyes." he says before leaning up and kissing me, "Thank you." I say after he leans back down. "Come on, what do you want to do?" he asks me, sitting up. "We could play cards?" I ask him. "Sounds good, just not Texas Hold 'Em again." he says sternly. I laugh and nod my head. As he crawls out of our bed and over to his suitcase, I notice how well his basketball shorts fit around his hips. I sit up out of our bed and pull my hair up in a messy bun and flatten the surface so we can play on a nice surface.
"I'll go get some breakfast while you deal it out." I say. I get up out of the tent and stretch, it's so nice outside. I see Christina and Will sitting by the fire snuggled up in a blanket. I walk over to them and take some fish off the platter. I also grab some fruit and water. I give them a questioning look as they feed each other breakfast and giggle. I roll my eyes and walk back to our tent, Christina definitely knew how to play her cards right.
As I re-emerge in the tent, I see Four has set up some sort of card game. "Uh, whatcha got there?" I ask him sitting down, handing him his breakfast. "Go fish!" he says excitedly. I laugh and nod my head. "Right, okay let's play." I say. We then proceed to eat and play go fish for around an hour. "We should probably come out of our tent sometime today." Four says slipping on his shoes. I nod my head and put on my flip flops. "Let's go see what everyone else is doing." he says opening the tent door for me.
I smile and we emerge from our tent. I breathe in the fresh air. It feels so nice. I look over my shoulder and see the pretty lake behind us. "There you are!" Zeke hollers. We walk over to our bonfire area and Four sits down in a chair. I grab a blanket and hop on his lap and jump into the conversations. We talk about anything that comes to our minds, whether it be politics, weather, conspiracies, books, movies, or similar interests. I laugh at a joke Marlene tells me, and I feel Four lean his chin on my shoulder. I lean back and he smiles. I couldn't help but grin and look around the campfire. I see Caleb staring at us, probably trying to figure out what it going on, but he smiles at me anyway.
I turn my attention to Will who asks me a question about a culinary trick. I smile happily and hear barking in the distance, it suddenly comes to my mind that I haven't seen much of Buster since they got here, and I see him running up to us with a stick in his mouth. We all laugh and the boys go off to play with the dog. Us girls sit around and drink tea and eat licorice, a popular camping snack in my family.
"So tell us, how are things with you and Four?" Shauna asks me. I laugh at their faces and gestures. "We decided we are officially together." I say making a face at them. They all laugh and I ask them all about their love lives. Marlene, Susan and Shauna are all getting anxious waiting for a proposal, and Christina says it's just a thing with Will. Even though, I can tell it is so much more than that.
"Well are you and Four going to stay in the same room together then?" Susan asks me. "I doubt it, besides, I like living with Christina." I say smiling at her. "That makes one of us, I miss my bed." she whines, jokingly. We all laugh and continue to talk about the house, and things that we could do to improve it. "We'll have a bigger budget with Tris living here now!" Marlene squeals and I smile. It makes me so happy knowing I can help them in any way possible. "Gosh, I can not wait to get home." Susan says looking around the woods. "Why is that?" Shauna asks rolling her eyes. "Couldn't be the bugs could it?" Christina asks her. Susan shrieks and shudders. "Bugs are gross!" she exclaims. We all laugh and apologize for teasing her.
We continue to talk about everything and we all agree that the boys have been gone way too long, and we begin to grow hungry, so we go ahead and start to cook dinner. Besides, it had to have been around three or four in the afternoon at this point anyway. "I wonder where they are." Shauna asks concernedly. We all murmur in agreement. "Come on, this is our boys we're talking about. I'm sure they're okay…" Christina mumbles. I wish I could agree with her, but it has just been too long.
We eat dinner and we gather around the campfire, waiting for them to get home. It begins to get dark, and we huddle together on the ground, wrapped in blankets, and smushed together. "Come on Shauna, you're the cop." Susan whispers. "Yeah, when I have weapons and a bulletproof suit, and Zeke as backup." Shauna whispers back. That's when we begin to get scared. "Let's just go to our tent and wait. That way, we can stay hidden and warm." Susan exclaims, they did have the biggest tent afterall.
We nod our heads and grab snacks and blankets and run to Susan and Calebs tent. Marlene was smart enough to being a flashlight, and we sat in the tent whispering to eachother, and waiting impatiently for the boys to show up. "Where the fuck are they?" I ask nervously. "Hopefully back soon." Marlene says. We all nod and wait. I snuggle in closer to Christina and we wait impatiently for the boys to return. Suddenly we hear a rustling from outside our tent. We all tense up. I look over to Shauna who locks eyes with me. We both nod our heads and we move towards the entrance of the tent. Shauna counts down with her fingers, and unzips the tent.
I hear someone scream and the rest of us scream, before I know it, I'm punching the person in the face. "What the hell?" we hear the voice say. "Will!" I hear Christina shout in anger and relief. Suddenly three flashlights are being shone on us. Four, Caleb, and Zeke all holding flashlights. Uriah standing behind Will, helping him stay vertical. "Tris?" Four asks me. "Four!" I exclaim, running out, Christina following me. "Where the hell were you guys?" Marlene scolds as the other girls walk out.
"Well we were playing with Buster, then he just disappeared! So we went looking for him. When we found him, we realized we got kinda lost." Zeke explained, they all shrugged sheepishly. "Dear god. Don't do that." Susan exclaimed. Buster came wagging up to us and all us girls rained hugs and kisses on him. "You naughty dog!" Shauna exclaimed.
"Nice pack you got behind your punch there Trissy." Will said with a smile. "Oh my gosh Will! I am so so sorry!" I say stepping back, shame burning on my face. Christina laughs. "Don't be sorry, they deserved it." she said observing his face. "He'll be fine." she says waving it off. I sigh in relief and then walk back over to Four. "Don't you ever do that to me again." I scold him. "Yes ma'am." he says, saluting me. "I'm serious." I say laughing. He smiles and nods his head "We won't." he says smiling at me. "Let's go to bed. Long drive tomorrow and i'm exhausted." Susan said, resting her head on Caleb's shoulder. We all nodded our heads and walked off to our tents. "Come on you. Get changed, I'll get you something to eat." I say walking off to our campfire.
I grab some leftover fish and some crackers. I shrug, good enough. When I get back into the tent I see Four is almost passed out. "Come on hun. Just eat this." I say coaxing some into his mouth. He sleepily chewed each bite. "Is this what it would be like if I was sick?" he asks me. I smile softly and nod my head "Of course." I say. "I want to be sick everyday." he says smiling at me. "If you're sick though I can't kiss you." I say. "Never mind I don't ever want to be sick." he says shaking his head no. He finishes his fish and then flops under the covers, pulling me with him. "Thank you Tris." he mumbles, before completely relaxing his body. "You're welcome Four." I say. I then fall asleep again, and I know that when I wake up, I might not get to fall asleep in his arms again for a very long time.
When we wake up we clean up our campsite, and pack up the cars. Four and I sleep for almost the entire ride home. When we make it home, it feels so good. When we walk into the house it feels like we have been renewed. Buster barks and picks up his favorite chew toy. We all smile and Christina flips on the lights and Uriah flips on the baseball game. We all laugh and talk about how good it feels to be home. We all disperse and we shower. It's around three, and I decide after I shower to make an early dinner for everyone. I begin to make pennines, and some pinwheels for everyone.
"That smells good." Caleb says walking into the kitchen, I notice he looks so much more comfortable now than he did at the campsite. He's in a pair of basketball shorts and a t-shirt. "Thanks." I say. "I have something for you." he says. I put down the pickles in my hands and give him my full attention. "What?" I ask him. He pulls a little box out of his pocket and sit's down at the island. I open the box after he slides it across the island. I flip it open and see it's a pair of earrings, silver flames, that match my anklet.
"I figured you might like those. Turns out mom and dad liked the anklet most out of the options at the Dauntless gift shop." he said smiling slightly at me. I felt my heart and tears well up. I put them in, and looked at him. "How do they look?" I ask him. "Really nice Bea." he says. We hold eachothers gaze for a long time, seeming to know what words we need to say without saying them.
I'm sorry.
I love you.
I'm here.
None of them come out however. He stands up from his chair and I run around to him. He picks me up and wraps me in an embrace. We both cry, and I realize we haven't done this yet. Cried together. It made me wonder if he ever did cry. "God I missed you Bea." he says squeezing me tight. "I missed you too Cale." I say crying. "We won't ever be apart for that long ever again, understand?" he asks me sternly. I nod my head and rub my face into his chest. He and I were all we had now. My only blood left. I don't know what would happen if I lost him. I wouldn't be able to stand it. "Come on now. Don't burn dinner." he says wiping the tears from my face and giving me a watery smile. Just at that moment the timer goes off and I nod my head. He kisses my forehead and walked off to the living room. I sighed and finished making dinner.
When I finished everyone came into the kitchen, and we stood around the island, eating dinner and drinking beer. This was how life should be I thought. Four nudged my shoulder "You alright?" he asks me smiling. I nod my head. "Oh yeah, I'm great." I say smiling back. Four nods his head and continues to eat his pinene.
"Everyone. We have news." Caleb says looking over at Susan who nods smiling. I look over at Four and grin, this is it. Caleb finally asked her to marry him. I grin from ear to ear, and I know this is going to be one of the biggest moments in their lives. I smile encouragingly at them.
"Yes well, Susan is pregnant." Caleb says.
Silence.
Everyone's faces fall.
This was not what we expected. "Seriously?" I ask quietly. Susan nods her head, and burns bright red. I see she must be embarrassed. "Caleb! You're doing this out of order!" I yell at him, and everyone laughs. "Yes well, I'm sorry to have missed one of the most important steps…" Caleb says sheepishly. "How far along are you?" Christina asks excitedly. "About a month. The doctor says my baby bump should start to show soon." she says excitedly. "This would make such a great scrapbook Chris!" Shauna exclaims. "Oh I hope it's a girl!" Marlene exclaims.
I walk over and drape my arm around her shoulder. "Thank you so much!" I exclaim. "For what?" Susan asks confused. "Making me an auntie!" I exclaim, smiling at her stomach. "Can I?" I ask her. She nods her head shyly. I place my hand on her stomach. "Hi sugar, I'm your auntie Tris. You are very loved by everyone here, and we can't wait to see you!" I exclaim.
One thousand thoughts run through my head at once. "Wow. This is insane." Zeke says slapping Calebs shoulder. "Congrats man." Four says shaking his hand with a grin. I know that this is going to be the best environment for this child to be brought up in. Sure sometimes we can be inappropriate, and immature at times. But hell, we love eachother.
"Where will the baby stay?" Christina asks. Everyone falls silent. "We don't know-" Caleb began. "In our room." I cut him off. I'll move in with Four, and Christina can move in with Will. It works out that way, so then the baby can be right next door to you guys." I say, cutting off all protest from Caleb. "Does that work?" I ask Christina, Will and Four. "Yep" "Uh huh" and "Of course" sounded from all three of them. "It's settled. That's where the baby will stay." I say turning to Caleb and Susan. Susan was grinning from ear to ear, and Caleb looked like he just swallowed something painful. "Oh good! Caleb was too scared to ask if you would be okay with that!" Susan exclaimed, slapping Caleb's arm. I look at Caleb with big eyes, he wanted me to sleep with Four.
"Well we have eight months to prepare for this baby, and not a second to spare. We should get started with reorganization plans with the rooms!" Christina exclaims. All us girls excitedly exit the room to the living room where we begin to plan out the baby's room, Fours room, and Wills room. Susan tells us they will be finding out the gender of the baby before it is born, so we will be able to plan accordingly. We decide we should start with Will and Fours room then.
We call the boys into the room, and they slide in next to us. "So, we need to ask you what we can change and what we can't change in your rooms." Christina asks them patiently. "You can have as much control as you want." Four says wrapping an arm around my shoulder and resting his forehead against my temple. "Same here. Just try not to make it too girly." Will says nudging Christina playfully. I smiled, and listened to some of the plans, and what the guys liked. We told them what we liked, and we decided we could come up with plans sometime soon. Right now, we needed to celebrate Susan and Caleb's baby.
"We have to start stocking up on Apple Cider huh baby momma?" Marlene asked Susan. We all laughed and Susan nodded her head. This was beautiful. Who would have known that this would have been my life four months ago? I certainly didn't. Whatever it was that woke me up to this beautiful setting and brought me to these blessed people, I wanted it to keep me this way.
Awake.