Ok,ok I'm really sorry for posting this so late. I did make this chapter longer and have it separated into smaller sections. So the reason that I couldn't post is because I didn't know how to publish a new chapter! Now I do so...I'll be publishing a lot more and taking feedback (sorry if this chapters not very exiting)

Enjoy!

Tobias's (16 years old) POV:

When I walk home, I think how amazing that girl was! She was one of my first friends I have ever made.

Tris is different from the other abnegation, Maybe that's why I like her so much. She's brave, smart, and self-less. Maybe when we become better friends I'll tell her, I'll tell her about my parents, but the choosing ceremony is only in 2 weeks. That's what I forgot to ask her! How old she was.

I trudge along the concrete footpath, then slow down. I don't want to go home, who knows what could await me? And an angry, torturing father? Or a calm abnegation-like one?

After a minute of walking, I finally reach my old, plain, and gray house.

I take a deep breath, and open the door slowly. I see my father, Marcus sitting on the sofa, reading a newspaper. I tiptoe up the stairs, trying to be as quiet as I can, and go into my room. I flop on my rough bed and drift off to sleep...

I wake to the sudden thumping of footsteps, I quickly check the time, five o'clock. I overslept! I haven't done my chores, My dads going to kill me! The footsteps come closer, finally they reach my doorstep, Marcus's enraging eyes look at me, "son" he says with an angry tone "you need to be more responsible! If I can't trust you to do your work, who can I trust? Your mothers gone so you need to take more responsibility! Keep up to abnegation standards boy! This has been going on long enough" Fear strikes through me, "I... I'm sorry, I didn't me-" "this is for your own good". His words pierce through me, please no.

Marcus slips his belt out of his pant loops one by one, I'm too weak, I can't fight back, I can't yell for help, I can't do anything but let him continue.

He half-wraps the belt around his fist and takes a step forward. WHIP! Marcus strikes my back with fury. The sharp pain in my back spreads all through-out my body, making me collapse to the floor.

WHIP! WHIP! I feel the blood rushing down my back, deep red cuts and black bruises already start to form, the open wounds sting so badly, the pain is unbearable, please let this be over soon...

After a few more whips to my back, Marcus leaves the room like nothing had happened, except noticing the blood covering his entire hand. I feel dizzy and my vision is blurry. I get up slowly and wrap my back carefully in bandages.

Without thinking of taking a shower or changing out of my bloody clothes, I lay down on my bed and try to go to sleep. Waking up a few times, then resting again, I finally dose off...

7:00am

The next morning I awake with pain rushing through my body, the beating. I let out a small groan when I get out of my bed, I can feel the bags under my eyes puffing up, I hardly slept at all last night, at least it's all over, for now.

I check downstairs to see if Marcus is home, luckily not. I couldn't bare to face him again and pretend like everything is fine, pretend like nothing bad happened between us.

Carefully I un-bandage my back, take a painful shower, and slip on new clothes and start to get ready for school.

After I've packed my bag, I check the time. 8:25. Oh crap, I forgot! I need to pick up Tris, I walk out of my house slowly, the pain hurts too much for running.

Tris's POV: 7:15 am

I awake with a giant grin on my face, yesterday was the worst, yet best day of my life! I can't wait for school! Hopefully Hamish and the others won't attack me today.

Tobias is the best thing in my life right now, without him I wouldn't be happy, without him I would have hurt myself, and without him, I wouldn't be here right now... Tobias, what you've done to me...you changed my life, for the better.

I jump out of my bed and get ready in my room, I rush out of my door and dart straight down the wooden stairs. "Good morning Beatrice!" Shouts Caleb. Tris, I remember, that's what Tobias calls me. "Can you call me Tris?" I ask with a pleading look on my face. "Sure" he smiles, and I have plain, but delicious breakfast. I see my parents doing the dishes together and stop suddenly, "hey mum, hey dad" I smile. "Hi Beatrice, looks like you're in a happy mood" She says. I look at dad, he doesn't seem happy, "morning dad" I whisper. He just grunts, but I'm too happy to care. I rush to the front door and sit down.

I check the time: 8:27, Tobias should be here any minute. I wait for around a minute or 2, and then hear a knock at the door, I jump up straight away "I'll get it!" I say and Open the door.

I see Tobias standing right in front of me, "hey" he says, with a week smile. Tobias looks worn out, he doesn't look the same like yesterday, I can see the bags under his eyes, he's slumping down like he can't hold himself up, and I can see a bruise and a few cuts peeking out from his shirt.

I close the door carefully and starting walking, matching his slow pace.

"Tobias, what's wrong?" He seems suddenly worried, like I can tell what happened to him. "Oh...um nothing" he says, I know he's lying, but why can't he just tell me what's wrong?. "You know you can tell me anything, right?" He stops, "yeah I do... it's just...can we talk later? meet me in the alleyway at 11:40, ok?" And starts walking with me. "Sure" I smile, and we walk in silence.

I'm worried for him, but I can tell he won't say until later. So, I just have to wait.

Tobias's POV:

When we finally reach the gate of the school, I look at Tris, she looks back at me, scared. Her skinny pale frame seems elegant and dainty, she doesn't look weak though, it looks like she's been through a lot, but inside Tris is a strong, fast, capable woman. I still feel the need to protect her though...

Now I see why she's worried, Hamish's friends are 20 meters away, sitting on a tree, staring at us, Luckily though, there's a dauntless yard-duty teacher near by.

I see Tris smile at Hamish sarcastically, he looks so surprised that she is looking that way at him, maybe she always stares at the ground, trying not to be noticed.

We walk on the path towards our lockers, "I need to put my things away in my locker, I'll be back" and runs away in the opposite direction I'm in. That means she's not the same age as me, or maybe there's locker somewhere else for the year 10's. when Tris comes back, the bell rings and she stops, "oh well I'll meet you at 11:40?" "Yep" I say. We wave to each other, then walk to our classes.

When maths is ending, I start to become nervous.

What If she'll treat me differently? What if she doesn't want to be my friend anymore? What if she thinks Marcus beating me is the right thing to do? All of these questions are whirling inside my head, I need to tell her though...

The bell rings and I pack all my things up, pain strikes up my back when I bend over, I'm quite use to it, so I try to ignore it. When I put all my books back in my bag, I can't find Tris.

She must be already there. I sneak past the teachers and jump over a fence and start sprinting towards the alleyway.

I see a small pale figure with dark blonde hair, Tris. She's sitting down reading a book, quickly she looks up. "Hi" I say, she smiles "hey", "how long have you been here?" "Around 7 minutes, I came straight here".

"So...are you going to tell me what happened last night?" I think, should I? Of course I should, I said I would.

"Yeah, but is it alright if you keep it just between us?" "Of course". I sit down, I open my mouth and tell her from the start. I feel good to get this off my chest, especially when I'm talking to her.

After I've finished, she just stares at me for a while, her eyes are glassy, suddenly she reaches out her arms and wraps them around me gently, I close my arms around her too. We stay in that position for a long time, but it comforts me, makes me feel safe when she's there.

Finally she speaks "No one deserves to be treated that way...no one". We break apart and look into each others eyes. "Tris, you know for all these years, I've never told anyone about this, so please don't tell anyone", she nods slowly.

"And Tris another thing, this year I'm going to choose which faction I will stay in for the rest of my life". She sighs " I wish I could come with you, I really do but I can't, I'm only 14 Tobias. If I could I would fake my age to be with you, but the computers would know my age and birth, only a computer genius would be able to-" "I'm pretty good at computers you know" I interrupt her, "I was tutored every day for 6 moths this year" she looks hopeful and exited, I would do anything to make her go to the choosing ceremony with me. This might actually work.

We start chatting, and thinking of plans of how we could escape abnegation, what other factions we could go to, even if they aren't our test results.

We joked about going to Amity, impersonating them pretending to make daisy chains, and playing the guitar. Only three factions to choose from: Dauntless, Candor, or Erudite. Amity would definitely not suit either of us, they're just too happy and light-headed all the time.

Since it's Thursday, I'll only have a week until we have the aptitude tests, then the next day we have the choosing ceremony, so I think I'll have enough time.

"How about I'll go with my dad to help serve the drinks on Monday night? All the faction leaders have a meeting together about the choosing ceremony, then I'll help with the abnegation sectors to get all the names in alphabetical order for who's choosing this year, and I'll add your name in?" I say.

"Yes that's a great idea! Are you sure you want to go with your dad though?" says Tris. "I'll be fine, he won't hurt me in public would he? If anyone knew, Marcus's abnegation leader badge would be ripped off right away! But if I did something bad, then...well...yeah" I say awkwardly. "Oh ok, well if your fine with that then...I'm so exited!" She blurts out. I laugh, finally we get to leave this place.

When we hear the faint school bell ringing, Tris and I start running towards the school, we grab our things out of our lockers and head straight to class just in time.

I sit down and the second bell ends.

When school has finished, I walk home with Tris and we talk about random things, half of the time I'm not even listening, just gazing into her bright, bluey-gray eyes. She goes back to her house and I go back to mine, thinking about the plan.

Tris's POV:

When it finally becomes the weekend, I think of how I could contact Tobias, I don't have a phone, or a computer, we use to have letter boxes, but the abnegation leaders didn't want to waste paper for writing letters to people.

Maybe I'll see him when we're giving food to the factionless. I always wondered what it would be like to not have a home, no faction, little food, and to catch colds or diseases really quickly, and no one would help you. That is a life I would not like to live, if the abnegation didn't give any food to them, most of them would be dead.

I eat breakfast and head out the door to help out with the abnegation jobs.

While I'm walking past Tobias's house, I see him eating breakfast through the window, so I walk up his doorstep and knock on the door.

A few seconds later, I see Marcus opening the door, looking down at me with a kind face, who knew such a kind man could be so vile and cruel? Snap out of it Tris, he's faking it. "May I help you?" He says with a low voice.

"Ye...yes please, sir, I was just wondering if Tobias would like come help out with me to feed the factionless" I stammer.

He glares at me for a while. "Tobias, would love to" without even looking at him. "Tobias, your going to help feed the factionless, get up and go now" his words are strict, but calm. Instantly he rushes towards him, obeying his orders like a dog.

He hasn't noticed me yet, but he will soon. He turns to look at me with a smile on his face, I can tell he's happy to see me. I'm glad he looks better, almost back to normal, except the cuts and bruises on his back.

"Go, now. Bye" says Marcus, we quickly walk away until he closes the door, then we run happily together.

When we get there, I see around 50 abnegation helping out the factionless.

We walk over and take food out of my bag, handing it to the factionless. I look over at Tobias, he takes out a few cans of food, then hands it to an old man dressed in different coloured clothing.

"Thankyou" he says weakly, "Do you need anything else?" Says Tobias. The man asks for some water, I take a water bottle out from my bag and hand it to him, he smiles crookedly, and walks away. We both just stay where we are and think for a moment.

"Do you want to get out of here?" Says Tobias. I nod, he takes my hand and we run off again, I don't know where we're going though.

Finally we reach a small lake and sit down, as I look at the water, it glistens in the sun. All around us are beautiful plants and trees. "This place is amazing!" I say. "How did you find it?" "Well, I used to go on 'adventures' when I was little. I found this place, and have come here when I just want to be alone, but I like it when you're here" he smiles. I like being alone with you too.

We both start up a conversation about what we think's on the other side of the wall that surrounds our city, maybe there's people just like us, or maybe we're the only ones.

After an hour, we walk back to our homes, I can't wait until Tobias changes my profile on the computers. If he can though, I never knew an abnegation could be so good at technology, I'll just have to wait until Monday.

Tobias's POV: Monday 5:00

Today is where I can change Tris's age, she'll finally be able to go to the choosing ceremony with me, and we will both be together in the same faction. Hopefully we don't get caught.

"Tobias it's time to leave!" Marcus shouts. "Ok!" I say, and walk down the stairs.

We both start walking together, towards Candor headquarters, where the meeting will be.

After 20 minutes of walking, we finally reach the entrance, I look up to see the tall black and white building in front of me. 2 Candors greet us, then lead Marcus and I towards the top of the building.

We step out of the elevator, then walk towards a large table filled with all the faction leaders. I ask if anyone would like a drink, then rush off to make teas and coffees, and make a hot chocolate for myself.

When I come back with a tray full of warm drinks, I hear them talking about which factions should go first or last. I hear people saying dauntless should go first so they don't have to be waiting to choose, Amity third? I don't know, all I hear is muffled voices. When I open the door, the room falls silent. Quickly, I hand out the drinks, then rush back out. An abnegation shows me where the computers are and I turn one on. This is it.

After I put all the Abnegation in the file, including Tris, tomorrow I'll tell her the good news. I walk back home and fall asleep instantly. Tomorrow I Tell her the good news.

Tuesday

When it's finally recess, I tell Tris how I put her into the file. Her eyes brighten up when I say we can go into the same faction together. "This I amazing! We can finally be together!" She says, and hugs me tightly. I smile, this is going to change our lives.

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