I just have 2 things to say: 1) thank you all for your kind reviews, they are really encouraging and inspirational and... just very helpful! They mean a lot to me and I'm just really glad that you guys like the story so much. 2) I'm SUPER sorry for not updating for so long. I have to admit that I had a writer's block. I knew what's gonna happen next but I didn't know how to write it so it's not boring and too confusing. But thankfully, my writer's block is over and I'll be updating with my regular speed now :)
Anyway,
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Finally, the girls- Will and Zeke included- calm down and Four demands an explanation.
Christina and Will look uncomfortable.
"Um…" Christina starts. She looks at Will.
"What? You're not gonna tell them… right?" he asks.
"Not gonna tell us what?" Tris is confused.
"Well, the reason it seemed like we're mad at you guys!" Christina explains.
"Yeah, if you're not actually mad at us then what was all the avoiding everybody stuff?" Four asks.
"Could you just excuse us for a minute?" Will says pulling Christina away from the crowd that has gathered around them.
People nod, so Will and Christina go have a talk in private. In this case that's actually just the other side of the building and is therefore not very private at all.
Will and Christina return, holding hands and looking slightly ill.
"Ok, so don't overreact when you hear it, but we have important news to share with you," Will announces. He takes a deep breath and everyone stares in expectation.
"Um… something… pretty bad has happened to us and we have been really stressed about it…" he starts.
"Depressed even!" Christina admits.
"Yeah… a little depressed. And it has been a though part of our lives… it still is so we… well, we kinda weren't ready for any social stuff. We needed some time alone, and we're sorry we didn't tell you what's going on before but it's a… It's the kinda news that's really, REALLY hard to deliver…" Will continues, his voice shaking.
Christina sympathetically hugs him and puts her head on his shoulder.
"I… it's just too soon to talk about this…" Will says.
"Oh god… Did someone die?" Shauna is the first to speak up.
Will shakes his head. "On the contrary…" he cries.
"What?"
"What's that supposed to mean?"
"You mean like…"
People start asking questions, ignoring each other's words.
Christina raises a hand to hush them down. "Yes. It means… MOMMA'S HAVIN' A BABY-CHILD!" she exclaims theatrically and holds her stomach.
"Momma's havin' a baby-child?"
"What?"
Everyone seems to be more surprised by the sentence itself than its meaning. Chatter erupts.
"SHUT UP YOU IDIOTS!" Will yells. "She just told you she's having a BABY!" he can barely finish the sentence without crying.
"Will's very emotional over this," Christina explains.
"Christina, are you…?" Tris starts.
"Pregnant? Yes. I'm pregnant. With Will," Christina replies.
Silence.
More silence.
"Nooo!" Uriah says sarcastically. "And I thought you were having a child with Gollum!"
"URIAH! THIS IS NO TIME FOR JOKES!" his brother yells at him.
During all this, Four is looking at the floor like he's trying to put together a puzzle.
"Wait, wait, pardon me! Excuse me, sir! Move!" a girl's voice says from the back of the crowd. She makes her way to Will and Christina. It's Cara and she looks angry.
"Shit. I knew there was a reason I should not have just told you all the bad news," Will says.
"ARE YOU TELLING ME YOU'RE HAVING A CHILD!?" Cara literally yells at him.
Will seems to have ran out of words.
"Um, yeah? What's not clear to you about momma's havin' a baby-child?" Christina asks.
Cara ignores her. "HOW DID THIS HAPPEN?!"
"Did you skip health class in school?" Zeke laughs.
"I meant WHEN did this happen!" Cara corrects herself, still furious.
"Weeeeell…" Will starts.
"Well?"
"Weeeeeeell…"
"JUST SAY IT!"
"FINE! It was…" Will starts.
"During 30 Minutes In Heaven…" Christina admits.
Ooohs spread through the crowd.
Four's face lights up, his mouth opens in surprise.
"Four, don't…"
"I KNEW IT!" he exclaims. "I KNEW IT! I KNEW IT! I KNEW IT!" he sings loudly and jumps around.
"FOUR!" Tris barks at him.
"I CAN'T HEAR YOU OVER THE SOUND OF VICTORY!" he does a victory dance. "Also, I can't hear you over the sound of MY AWESOMNESS!"
After a long, confused silence, Cara bursts into tears.
"MY BABY BROTHER'S GONNA BE A FATHER!" she sobs.
"Ha ha, that rhymed!" Zeke laughs. He gets punched in the ribs by Shauna a second later.
"Show some sympathy!" she says.
"I'M STILL SO RIGHT! AND IT FEELS AWESOME! Who was right? Four was right! Who-who-who was right? Four was right!" Four keeps singing and dancing and getting lots of angry glares from Tris.
"I hate children!" Cara cries. "I don't wanna be an aunt! I JUST WILL NEVER EVER STOP HATING CHILDREN!"
"Me neither!" Will joins her sobbing.
Christina gasps for so long, she almost chokes. "YOU HATE CHILDREN?!"
"I'm sorry, Chris, I was gonna tell you-" Will tries to explain.
"HOW COULD YOU DO THIS TO MEEEE?!" she yells and cries.
"This sucks!" Lauren cries, too. We all know she has some crying issues.
Four's singing can still be heard somewhere in the background.
But as if the situation isn't bad enough, Fernando's extraordinarily un-dead head pops up from the edge of the rooftop.
"I'm still here!" he announces. He is surprised as nobody comes to help him or notices him at all, so he has to climb onto the roof himself. He observes the situation in silence.
Suddenly, someone joins them on the rooftop. It's Edward who got back from his first zip-lining. "Did I miss something?"
After they have managed to calm down enough to explain everything to Nando and Edward, they return home.
Christina and Will decide to invite Four, Tris and Cara to their apartment and discuss everything over some fine tea.
"But, really Four, if you don't wanna get kicked out you have to stop dancing and singing about your oh-so-magnificent victory!" Christina warns him. He agrees to put that off for some time.
In the meanwhile, even though no one has noticed it, he replaces his happy, victorious grin with a much more serious and concerned look.
"That's more like it!" Tris says when she notices his new expression.
"You bet it is. And now we're gonna set some ground rules cause these two hooligans clearly aren't qualified to be parents!" he says.
"What?"
Four stands up and crosses his arms. "Starting tomorrow we're going to have yoga class. Every morning. Then, for Christina we'll discuss DOs and DON'Ts in pregnancy. Both of you will also be on a special diet for the next nine months-"
"Me too? Why? I'm not the pregnant one!" Will objects.
"Shhh! Trust me, I know about this stuff!" Four tells him very seriously.
"Four, do you have a child that I don't know about?" Tris asks.
"Why would I? Can't a man study about pregnancy just for the fun of it?"
"No."
"Why not?"
"Because it's messed up."
"Well I'll have you know that I used to work at the hospital for a little while, here at the Dauntless compound. And we had to know this stuff! We had to know it alright…" he explains.
"Sorry, Four, but I'm not gonna let you boss me around for nine months! I am a proud, independent woman!" Christina protests.
"You are a teenage girl who irresponsibly got herself pregnant at the age of 16, so shut up and listen to me! I know what's best for you more than you do," Four commands.
"Is he joking?" Cara asks Tris.
"Lately, I have been wondering the exact same thing!" she replies.
"Well, if I'm allowed to say something I'd like to point out that Christina didn't exactly get herself pregnant. In fact, I believe it's more Will's fault if anyone's!" Cara says, sending her brother an 'I-hope-you're-ashamed-of-yourself' look.
"Why does everyone keep saying it's MY fault? Getting her pregnant was a team effort!" Will says.
"TMI! TMI!" Cara covers her ears with her hands and shakes her head as if she's trying to get Will's words out of mind.
"Who else said it was your fault?" Tris asks.
"Well, you know, Christina's mother?" Will reminds them of the prank call from Uri's party.
"Oh god..." Christina looks sick.
"What's wrong?" Tris asks, putting her hand on her friend's shoulder.
"The prank call!"
"Oh my god!"
"Yes! What's mum gonna say now that I actually AM pregnant?!"
"Well, we know, don't we?" Four raises his eyebrow. "Sick, sick little man!" he mimics Christina's mother.
Tris and Christina chuckle, but it's too much for Cara and Will.
"Are you scared Will?" Christina teases him.
"Actually, yes. Your mother is the scariest person I have ever encountered. Actually, if I went through my fear landscape again, I'm sure I would now have 15 fears!"
"14? I have only one fear less!" Christina says.
"Aw, you're fear soul mates!" Tris says.
Christina kisses Will and Cara looks like she's going to throw up.
"I better go! I can't take this anymore! All this kissing and children talk!" she says and marches straight out of the room, muttering a goodbye.
"Ah, yes. Children talk," Four says and puts his hands together. "If I'm not mistaken, Will has stated today that he hates children. Now that's going to be a problem since he will be having one himself."
Christina turns grumpy when she remembers the cold, sad truth.
"I don't hate children! I only said that because I was under a lot of pressure before!" Will defensively puts his hands up.
Four gives him an unconvinced look.
"Ok, maybe I'm not, like, the biggest FAN of kids, but I certainly DO NOT hate them…"
Four keeps his eyes on Will.
"I mean… I slightly dislike them. That's all!" Will continues.
"Will?" Four says.
"Okay, I hate them. But is that so wrong?" Will finally admits.
"Yes it is!" Christina hits him with a pillow from her bed.
"Ow…"
"SILENCE! We will discuss everything in a friendly matter here," Four says. He waits for a while for Christina and Will to calm down. He looks at Tris who is observing them with intrigue.
Four clears his throat.
Nothing.
Four clears his throat again, this time louder and faker.
"Sorry, are you trying to tell us something?" Tris asks.
"No. Not 'us'. You," he says.
"What about me?"
"Excuse me, but did you make an appointment here at…" he checks his watch. "At ten o'clock?"
"Well, sorry, Dr. Four!" she says sarcastically and leaves the room.
"Better," Four says. "SO. Where were we?"
"Um… the children problem?" Christina says.
"AH- yes, yes. What I would like to hear from you, Will, is WHY you no like children?" Four stands up an dramatically waves his arms at the 'y u no like children' part.
"Um… Cause I don't like 'em?"
"Wrong!" he smacks poor Will with a rolled magazine he pulled out of nowhere.
"Ok, if I'm gonna keep getting beaten up here, I'm gonna leave!" he says, frustrated.
"This is a tested and trusted method, don't question it!" Four snaps. "So… huh. Where was I again? Oh, yes- WRONG!" he smacks Will again. "Here you will, along some other things, learn how to answer a psychologist's questions properly. And- hint, hint- this was obviously not the way!"
"Psychologist? Maybe, just without the LOGIST part…" Christina says quietly.
Not much later, she is smacked in the head by 'Dr. Four'.
"WRONG! You don't speak when it's not your turn!" he says. "So, Will, I ask you again- Y U NO LIKE CHILDREN?"
"Ugh… Because… I… " Will struggles, but soon, words start flowing out of him. "Because of their tiny little bodies! Their tiny little hands, tiny little legs… EW! They're like bugs, but WORSE! Know why? Because they're supposed to be HUMAN! And then, they chew on EVERYTHING in their way and…" he shivers.
"Interesting…" Four nods and writes something in a little notebook. "You are aware that, you too, were once a baby?"
Will shivers again. "Don't… Just… don't."
Christina looks crushed.
"And how does this make you feel, Christina?" Four says in a professional tone.
"Well how do you think it makes me feel? I feel like he's abandoning me! I found out I'm pregnant and he HATES children! This is already a terrifying thing for me and to think that he will…" Christina's voice breaks and she starts crying. "… He will never even like our child! I'll be stuck with a little daughter or a little son who will never have a proper father! It's like the worst thing that can happen to me! Well, besides being pregnant at 16…" she sobs.
"There, there!" Four hands her a box of tissues.
"And… and I just always pictured this happy family that I wanted to have… But how can I even have that family if my first child is with someone who doesn't WANT a family?! I feel so foolish… and naïve! Ugh! I hate myself for being such an idiot! I can't believe I got pregnant… I don't even know if I love Will at all!"
"WHAT?!" Will yells.
Four smacks him. "Now, now… What do you mean by that? Are you saying that you are currently in a relationship that you actually don't want to be in?"
Will looks at Christina. She is unable to respond.
"Because if that is so… then I think that… that… Is there something you'd like to tell us, Will?" Four looks at Will.
"What are you implying?"
"I'm not implying anything, I am simply WONDERING if perhaps the events from the closet were… more your idea than Christina's? Maybe Christina didn't want that at all? Perhaps, the thought of it even disgusted her, and now haunts her?" Four asks.
"GOD, Four!" Christina exclaims.
Four is merciless and uses the rolled magazine again. "It was not your turn to speak!"
"Christina, is he right?" Will panics, his eyes fill with tears, he looks like he's close to an emotional breakdown.
Christina has tears in her eyes, too. "I… Will!" she pulls him into a hug and cries on his shoulder.
Four observes with interest.
"Will, I do like you! That's not what I meant when I said that I don't know if I love you!" Christina sobs.
"Really?" he asks.
"Yeah."
"Because… I… I really like you and I don't want to be in a relationship with you if you don't like me the way I like you…"
"I like you! I promise! I just wanted to say that you're my first real crush… I've never liked anyone as much as I like you before, but how can I know that you're the one that I'll spend the rest of my life with?"
"Yeah… I get it. But, I think I could…"
"Could what?"
"Spend the rest of my life with you…" Will says and blushes.
Four is nodding in the background, apparently proud of himself.
Christina just kisses Will.
Four applauds. "Bravo! Bravo!" he says. "Ok… ok, that's enough… Guys, that's enough!" he decides, but they ignore him. Eventually, he has to pull out the magazine again and smack them both with it.
"You know what? I think it would be best if we just ignored my hatred for kids right now. I promise I won't show it and I'll even go to a psychologist about it if you want…" Will promises Christina.
"Oh? Then I'll just make you an appointment… How's Monday working for you?" Four asks.
"I meant a psychoLOGIST!" Will says and he and Christina laugh.
Four grabs the magazine, but Will promises him to visit him every Monday, so Four calms down.
"Now, you two… GET OUTTA MY OFFICE!" he yells.
"Four, it's MY… I mean, OUR apartment!" Christina says. Will looks happy when she says our.
Four grumpily leaves, but as he walks down the hallways, he tells himself: "It was a good day today, Dr. Four!"
Oh, and congrats to those of you who guessed that Christina's pregnant :D
