Tobias.
I roll the vile across my palm. This is it. The blue transparent liquid can bring Tris back. I just need to find the right time and place to convince her to take it. It shouldn't be hard. She has spent several years trying to concoct the same exact one. I slide it into my coat pocket and zip it up.
I take a deep breath. Tris comes back from work in about 45 minutes. I will be conveniently in the lobby. I'll accidently bump into her; the serum will somehow fall out of my pocket. I can't over think this. I should be excited. I'll finally find out what the hell happened to her. And I'll find out the one thing that has been on my mind the most for the past month.
Whose body was it?
I remember holding her small, cold, and dead hand. I remember kissing her dead lips. Her body was lifeless. So how is it possible that the same body is still here and alive? Was it even the same body? I have come up with no theory or assumption for this. I need to find out or my curiosity will eat me alive.
Only the serum can give me the answer. I need these 43 minutes to go by very soon. I don't think I can do this anymore. I haven't spoken to Tris in a week and it's driving me completely crazy.
I hear Zeke step in.
"You know how to do this right?"
I give him a look.
"Dude, I did this for a job."
"Right, sorry. I forget just about everything that happened back then. It feels like it was a different life. I mean our lives just took a 360."
"Yeah, I know what you mean. And I also know that when Tris comes back, it's not going to just go back to the way it was. It can't."
"Same, but with Uriah."
I bite my lip. I know that he's going to suffer when he realizes that Uriah just isn't alive. I can't help him from that pain and telling him now will only piss him off. I'll just have to be there for him.
We send the next half hour talking about our lives in Dauntless. Apparently Zeke is Amar's second cousin. I haven't spoken to Amar in a while. Last month I received a wedding invitation from him. He got married to George Wu. I never saw it coming. But I went to the wedding. I was his best man. That's when he drunkenly told me about his old feelings for me, and how Tris knew about it. I'm not going to lie, I was flattered.
"It's time, Four."
It's strange, I used to always be called four and it was only Tris that called me Tobias. I preferred it when she called me Tobias. Now it's the other way around, and with Zeke.
I make my way down the stairs, grab a newspaper from the main desk in the lobby, and sit down on a chair. A few minutes later I see Tris walk in. She looks amazing, as always.
I slowly get up and walk towards her. I turn my head the other way to make it look like I didn't know where I was going. I stop when I feel something small bump into me I internally smile. My plan is working. Before she sees me I take the vile out of my pocket and gently toss it onto the floor. It's made of indestructible glass so it can't break.
"Sorry sir! Oh, I think you dropped something."
She bends down to pick it up and only then looks at who she has run into. She looks at me, then the vile, then back at me. Her eyebrows furrow.
"You did that on purpose."
I don't say anything.
"You got the serum" She whispers and then shakes her head out of it. "No. Listen. I don't need this. I don't need you stressing me out with your crazy idea that I'm your girlfriend. I don't even need this serum because I don't care what it will do for me. I'm a CEO of a major company. I have more money than most people could ever dream of. I'm young, single, and perfectly satisfied with my life right now. I don't need-"
I stop her and chuckle. I know what this is really about.
"Tris, stop. I know what you're doing to yourself and I won't let you do this. Even if you don't believe that you are Tris Prior, you still want this serum. But you're scared. You've spent years of your life imagining a million different ways your life has been spent; you've put your expectations so high. And you're terrified you might be disappointed. You're terrified that I might not be lying to you. You don't know who you are, and it scares you."
She doesn't speak. She nods her head down. Her eyes look duller. Then I remember something. The picture of her in my wallet. I never got a picture; we didn't exactly have time with all the war going on. But thankfully Christina did. She gave it to my while I was still coping with her death. Chris still lives in Chicago. She's been my best friend for five years. That is until she got a girlfriend. She's been spending so much time with her and she never had any time with me and our other friends. But that's beside the point right now. I quickly grab the picture out of my wallet and hand it to her. Her eyes widen as she snatches it. She looks at me, an indescribable look on her face. She must understand now.
The picture might not be of us, but she can't deny it's not her. It's her, Chris, Al and Will standing together, posing, and smiling. She looks so much younger than how she does now.
I ask her one more time.
"Tris, do you want the serum or not." I can't help the smile that forms on my face. It grows wider once she answers.
"Yes."
Twenty minutes later we are in the hidden room in her office. She has all the wires connected to her and the memories will appear on the small screen in front of me so I can see too.
I am about to inject the serum in her neck. I take a deep breath.
This is it.
"Be brave." I whisper.
I haven't been updating as much as I should or wan to be. Sorry for that. I'll definitely update this weekend sometime next week but then im going to freaking California to disnyeland for spring break! Im sure you can all understand why I won't be able to update then. Lol. But I really can't wait to write the next chapter. If I get a ton of reviews I might have enough motivation to update tonight. Also, heads up I hear we are getting a sneak peak at the Four short story thing. I can't wait.
So I feel like a bum today. I ditched school. Idk I just hate math so much and I had a test today. I also had a giant headache last night and I couldn't concentrate or study or anything. So then it was like 3 in the morning when it went away and then I just fell asleep. Thankfully my mom let me skip and I just pretended to be sick. I am like a horrible person. But now I have the whole weekend to study I guess. Agh. It's just one day.
Also thanks for reviewing! They were all really sweet and I appreciate them so much.
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