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Here's chapter eleven
Tris
The train ride moved all too quickly for my liking. Not because of where I was heading, but because of who I was with. From the moment his arms wrapped around my waist to stop me falling of the train, I felt all hot and flustered, even when we weren't in contact. I found myself instantly missing the tingling feeling his skin on mine had made, missing his warm breath on my neck as he pulled me into his chest, and all together, missing him. Even though we were in the same compartment, not even two meters away from each other at all times.
All throughout the train ride I had sat next to him as he stood and looked out at the land flying past us, but I had kept my distance, refrained from reaching out and curling my arms around his calfs and pulling him close, no matter how much I had wanted to. It had been an odd feeling, stronger and more demanding that what I felt in the Chasm, and it felt like the further I was away from him, the tighter my heart constricted. I had no idea why it was that I had felt like that, why I still do, but all I knew was that I had to be next to him, near him.
No words had been spoken on the journey, no sounds made other than the clanking of the train on the tracks, and the chattering of my teeth. The hoodie I was wearing had provided little warmth from the oncoming wind blowing through the compartment, and I was, to say the least, suprised when I felt Tobias's jacket around my shoulders. He hadn't said anything, just smiled before going back to looking out of the train.
I guess I should have said something, thanked him in some way, but I didn't. I just pulled the jacket further around my shoulders and deeply inhaled the scent that could only be Tobias. The scent I had recently come to love.
Without his jacket on, I could see through his thin white t-shirt. I could see the defined muscles in his back, and the tattoos that covered him, the five symbols of the factions. Dauntless and Abnegation I understood, his home and previous home, but Erudite, Candor and Amity I didn't. And I didn't dare ask because then he would know I'd been looking, although it's not as if I haven't seen his back before. He didn't, and still doesn't I hope, know that during initiation I had accidentally walked into the training room and seen him hitting a punch bag, shirt off and glistening with a fine layer of sweat. Of course I had left immediately...after ten minutes of staring.
The cold didn't seem to affect him, even when we were walking through the deserted streets of Erudite. I was going to give him his jacket back after we jumped off the train, I would have fallen, again, if it wasn't for his arm around my waist, again, but he didn't ask for it back, and I was still cold, so I pushed my arms through the sleeves and pulled the collar up around my neck.
"So where are we going?" I had asked him as we walked through the park, past a giant silver statue that looked like a bean. The silence that had surrounded us had been eerie, and I had wanted nothing more than to take his hand and have him pull me close, to nuzzle his nose in my hair and tell me not to be afraid. Although I wasn't. But that hadn't happened.
"The main building, we should just be checking security and then we can leave." Of course then, I hadn't known he was lying through his teeth.
When we had arrived at the huge library that was the main building of Erudite, I had been flanked by soldiers as soon as I stepped over the threshold. I had recognised two from Dauntless, although I didn't know their names, and the rest were from Erudite.
Tobias had done nothing as they started pulling me away, none to gently, down a long corridor, even as I had repeatedly said his name, panic clear in my voice. He just avoided looking at me, anywhere but me, as I was dragged down a series of foreign hallways, left right, up down, to many that I could possibly remember, by strange men, who threw me in a strange cell, and locked the door with no further explanation.
And that was how I ended up here, hours later, sat in the corner of the cell, the cold slowly seeping into my bones, despite the jacket that still hung around my shoulders, still holding the scent of Tobias, who I had, and still do, love.
Now before you murder me, just remember…err….*runs away*
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