Chapter 5: A Reason to be Happy
"I remember you too, Beatrice."
My heart floats to the top of my throat and I think it might fly away.
"I, I uh," I stutter.
His gentle fingers from the hand I'm not holding delicately lift my chin closer to his face. He presses his forehead to mine.
"I think I might like you, Tris but I'm waiting until I'm sure," his voice is so quiet right now.
"Sensible of you," I say in between heavy breaths.
"Fine. I like you Tris. A lot."
"And maybe I like you as well, but I haven't decided if I'm going to tell you or not."
"And why is that?" I can see the ghost of a smile on his face as he speaks.
The Ferris wheel starts to move again and I hear Four sigh and he begins to pull away.
I don't know why, but I decide to be brave. I unravel our hands and place both of mine on his face pulling his lips to mine.
I begin to regret my decision when he breaks the kiss almost immediately.
"Tris, you know I want to, but you're not exactly in the best place for this right now what with the case and everything-"
I interrupt him, "-just shut up Four." And I press my lips to his again.
We get off the ride and walk hand-in-hand. I feel like the smile on my face is permanent and won't ever leave. I don't mind at all.
Suddenly, Four-Tobias tugs my elbow and pulls me behind one of the carnival tents.
His lips find mine again and his touch is gentle but it feels dangerous to me. Giving my heart to someone else has bruised me in the past. But this is now. And this is Tobias. I listen to the voice in my head and let myself fall.
"What was that for?" I ask.
"I wanted to kiss you again because I have established that I like kissing you." And with that he kisses me again and I giggle.
"I like kissing you too, Four."
He stiffens. "Don't call me that. It's good to hear my name again."
"But it isn't allowed, Tobias. We work together. We're partners." I say admitting the horrible truth.
"Then it'll have to be our little secret," it's dark but his face is so close to mine that I can see him wink.
"I'd like that," I say and the magical night at the Pier continues.
I unlock the door and see that Christina is ready to pounce.
"Where have you been? It's 4 o'clock in the morning!" she yells.
"Shhh Christina, we have neighbors. It is 4 o'clock in the morning, you know," I say jokingly.
She groans and she must notice the smile plastered on my face. "You were on a date weren't you?" she squeals.
"Shhhhh," I tell her again. I leave her standing there with her mouth wide open and walk to my bed and plop down face first, my head hitting the pillow.
She jumps on my bedding clapping "Who was it? Tell me!"
"Ow! You're on my hair!" I whine.
"Sorry! So are you going to tell me or not?"
"Hmmmm," I say pretending to think about it. "Not."
She won't shut up about how she's my best friend; practically sister and I won't tell her who I was out with.
"Maybe I'll tell you tomorrow if you let me sleep," my voice is muffled through the pillow but I know she hears me.
She gets up and I hear her grumble words like, "Urg. So. Difficult. Terrible. Friend."
I sigh and dream about the perfect night I had.
I wake up and stretch with my eyes still closed. Only when I open them, Christina is not even a foot away from my face.
"Gah! Space!" I yell.
She sighs and sits up straight. She waits for me to talk.
I know I have to tell her because she is my best friend and probably won't even let me leave for work if I don't. "Okay, I'll tell you but you have to do one thing for me."
She nods too quickly and ends up looking like the bobble head that I told Tobias he looked like last night. I smile and say, "Do my hair and makeup today?" and she is giddy at that so I dive in to the story.
"It didn't begin as a date, he just told me that I needed to take a break from, and that he was going to make me either way, so we went to the Pier."
She squeals excitedly, "I knew it was a date! Now who was it?"
"I'm not going to tell you if you keep interrupting," with that, she closes the invisible zipper on her mouth, locks it, and throws the invisible key over her shoulder. I laugh at her.
"Well... It was with Four."
"Ahhhh! I knew it! I knew there was something between you two!"
"Christina, listen to me. People at work can't find out, okay? They'll make us switch departments and we won't be able to work together anymore."
She nods, "Ah forbidden love is the best kind." She hums and twirls to the bathroom.
I decide to get up and get dressed. I'm without warning very nervous of going to work today, but I get to see Tobias again and it'll all be worth it.
Sorry for another short chapter. This is the last one I've already written so the others might take longer to update. Sorry:(
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*Next chapter will also be in Tris' POV again so I hope you actually read these notes at the bottom.
I'm not Veronica Roth.