Here's the next chapter. Guys, come on. Gimme some ideas, anything, you guys are so quiet. :)
Tobias' POV
Last night, we slept over at the Pedrad's since none of us could stay up finishing The Tigger Movie, one of my favorites. It was quite the day since Uriah stayed quiet the whole time during Lilo and Stitch and Zeke didn't even make any jokes about how Cinderella's dress turns from white to blue. We all knocked out at around three after drinking Mountain Dew and microwaved s'mores. Now, we're all groggy and gross since none of us have showered and Will is making us some omelets with the help of Christina fixing the plates and glasses. Since it so quiet, I take out my phone and plug it in to Uriah's speakers and bring up my Foo Fighters station. Everlong comes on first and I slide to Beatrice while singing.
"Hello, I've waited here for you, Everlong." I sing to her while Zeke looks at me bobs his head to the guitar. He joins the next verse.
"Tonight, I thrown myself into, And out of the red, Out of her head she sang." Now Uriah's put more volume to it and Will's just waiting for the chorus. I look at Tris and she rolls her eyes, but at the same times sings so only I can hear her.
"Come down, And waste away with me, Down with me." I wink at her and nudge her shoulder with my own. She sighs and sings louder.
"Slow how, You wanted it to be, I'm over my head, Out of her head she sang." Zeke and I stop so Will and Tris take lead.
"And I wonder, When I sing along with you, If everything could ever feel this real forever, If anything could ever be this good again, The only thing I'll ever ask of you, You gotta promise not to stop when I say when she sang." They sing while facing each other and Uriah's in the background pretending to play the drums.
"Breathe out, So I can breathe you in, Hold you in, And now, I know you've always been, Out of your head, Out of my head I sang." Everybody is yelling except for Christina, who only likes Monkey Wrench and My Hero by them. But she rolls her eyes and adds her voice to our off-tune mix.
"And I wonder, When I sing along with you, If everything could ever feel this real forever, If anything could ever be this good again
The only thing I'll ever ask of you, You gotta promise not to stop when I say when she sang." I have a whisk at hand and give it to Tris and Will when one of them start to sing.
Uriah whispers the next part, "So Dad would take the Sunday's off, And that's the only time he could ever get any rest, And so, because we were loud on Sundays, He'd make us hold his construction Boots over our head, till we'd sleep, And they were really heavy Boots and id used to say dad come on please, And like start crying, cause they're too heavy."
We stop and shout, "And I wonder, If everything could ever feel this real forever, If anything could ever be this good again, The only thing I'll ever ask of you,-" A voice interrupts us and sings the last verse.
"You've got to promise not to stop when I say when!" We look to the stairs where Hana, Uriah and Zeke's mom, stand in her work uniform. Uriah and Zeke automatically clap for her since she's their mom, but the rest of us stay stunned that somebody heard us fooling around. In the end she smiles an bows at the applause she receives from us. Once she leaves, Lithium by Nirvana comes on and everybody starts smirking at each other while we wait for Marlene to start singing since this is one of her top songs. She rolls her eyes and starts at the same time that we start to eat. She stops mid-lyric to finish her omelet. I smile at Tris, who grins at me since I started this whole karaoke marathon. I squint my eyes and smile back.
(Afternoon)
After our concert in Zeke's kitchen, everybody went home to get some rest, except for me since I stayed and help clean up. Now, we're sitting on the couch, watching Disney channel and talking crap about the new shows and saying how even Hanna Montana was better than Austin and Ally.
"My mom can sing better than his bleached hair!" Uriah shouts at the TV. I look at him with my eyebrows furrowed.
"Dude, your mom sings amazing." I tell him.
"I know." He says while looking at me with a dumb look. I don't question him and continue watching pretty boy lip-sync his way through a career. Zeke changes the channel to Zoey 101. He smirks at me and with his eyes tells me to look at Uriah. I look over my pillow and see Uriah whining and starts rolling on the floor, begging Zeke to change the channel. Zeke starts cracking up and I can't help but let out a chuckle. Uriah gets up and starts smacking Zeke in the head with a pillow while yelling at him.
"Zeke! You know why I hate this show! Stop shoving it in my face!" Uriah says with a final grunt.
All Zeke does is give him a knowing grin and says, "Why what do you mean, brother dear? Is it because you had a crush on-" He's interrupted by Uriah yelling and straddling Zeke so he can cover his mouth with a pillow." I get up while laughing and shove Uriah off of Zeke and hit Zeke with a pillow.
"You guys are idiots. I'm leaving for a while, be back in a bit." I say while walking to the front door. Zeke yells bye while Uriah holds on my leg like a four year old and tells me not to leave. I shake him off and pet his hair. Before I leave, I tell Uriah, "And don't think I don't know about your little crush on Quinn." I grin at him and wink while I close the door. Leaving the Pedrad's, I hear Uriah grunting and Zeke laughing.
As I'm walking to the end of their driveway, I realize that I'm not far from Tris's house, only a couple blocks away. I smile at the thought of Tris. Beatrice. I grin like an idiot and think of the time we went swimming for Uriah's tenth birthday and how everybody had a terrible time since Zeke's dog, Spike, poked a hole in their pool because of his spiked collar. Uriah cried for a while until he saw the cake and the ten candles surrounding his name. The cake was pretty good since it was red velvet with buttercream frosting.
I look up, realizing that I'm at Tris's house. I don't see any cars in the driveway, so I assume that none of her parents are home. I knock on the door and Caleb opens the door. He smiles at me and tells me that Beatrice is in her room. I tell him thanks and go upstairs. AS I'm about to knock, I hear Bon Jovi on and decide to enter instead. When I turn the knob and nudge the door open a smidge and peek inside. Behind the door stands Tris with running shorts and my brown hoodie while bend over a little to hit a note since she's singing Livin' On a Prayer.
"Tommy's got his six string in hock, Now he's holding in, What he used to make it talk, So tough, it's tough." I watch her finish the song and Fat Bottomed Girls comes up and I decide to join in. Shes still facing away from me, cleaning her bookshelves and singing loudly.
"Fat bottomed girls you make the rocking world go round!" I sing as loud as her. She turns around and hits her elbow and heel of her foot on her desk by accident.
"Tobias, stop doing that!" She says with rosy cheeks and holds her elbow trying not to laugh at me still singing. She skips this song and Wheel In The Sky by Journey comes on. She rolls her eyes and joins me for the chorus.
"Wheel in the sky keeps on turnin', I don't know where I'll be tomorrow, Wheel in the sky keeps on turnin'." We sing while facing each other and she grabs a pencil as her microphone and I grab her 3rd grade art trophy as mine. I let her singe the next part.
"I've been trying to make it home, Got to make it before too long, I can't take this very much longer." She says and takes a break so I sing the next part.
"I'm stranded in the sleet and rain, Don't think I'm ever gonna make it home again, The mornin' sun is risin', It's kissing the day." I take a big breath and we yell the chorus once more.
"Wheel in the sky keeps on turnin', I don't know where I'll be tomorrow, Wheel in the sky keeps on turnin'!" We finish the song and lay down on the floor, tired from our duets. Dust In The Wind by Kansas comes up, and we lay down across form each other, but our heads are beside each other. Tris starts the first verse.
"I close my eyes only for a moment, and the moment's gone, All my dreams pass before my eyes, a curiosity." She says and her eyes get watery. I look over at her and kiss her temple while we sing the chorus lightly.
"Dust in the wind, all they are is dust in the wind, Same old song, just a drop of water in an endless sea, All we do crumbles to the ground, though we refuse to see" We sing and look at her fan painted like the universe. We finish the song without letting our emotions get the best of us. I change the station so we can keep cleaning. I scroll through her music, but find nothing I'm in the mood for. I put The Killers, but she looks at me and shakes her head.
"What do you want, then?" I ask her, out of breath. She shrugs.
"Anything but that." She states and goes back to taking out her books so she can organize them for the third time this month. I list her stations, which aren't that different from mine except that she likes The 1975 and I like the Naked and Famous.
"The XX?" She shakes her head.
"The Ramones?" She scrunches her face.
"Gorillaz." She thinks about it, but then shakes her head.
"Cage The Elephant? Tallest Man On Earth? Anything!" I say, embittered.
She looks at her phone with her eyes squinted and says, "Radiohead." I groan and put on Coldplay. She punches my arm and puts on Of Monsters and Men, our favorite band. I smile and help her fix her books. I pick up Of Mice and Men and put it where her classic are, her favorites. She puts Rainbow Rowell on the second shelf and mumbles how she love/hates her.
I chuckle and give her shoulder a shove and lay down on her bed. She's my favorite person next to Ezekiel. Nah, she's way better than him. I look at her, concentrating at the order of her paperbacks. She doesn't know how beautiful she is, her hair in a frizzy bun, my hoodie slung over her scrawny shoulders, those neon running shorts giving her a wedgie- but she wants to be a lady and not pick it- and her bare feet, her nails covered in two layers of black. And my favorite part of all, her eyes. Those big blue eyes always making me nervous and at the same time giving me courage to talk to her. She looks over at me and smiles with her teeth, even though she hates her smile I don't know why. She always looks so striking and salient whenever I look at her. I go up to her and tell her I'm gonna get us some snacks.
Going downstairs, I see Caleb and Susan watching The Sandlot. They're in perfect felicity, holding hands and leaning each others heads on the other. I smile and hope that one day, Tris and I could have that, maybe soon.
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~Mrs. Waters-Eaton