Hi guys! Going back to school soon! Well, chapter here!
Tris P.O.V:
"So?" Tobias rubs tiny circles on my back. "What did you say?"
I sniff, swallowing a reproachful comment. "I said that I loved you. And that I would rather leave them-" My voice breaks at the same place it did when I was talking to my parents. "Then...leave you." I whisper the last words. Almost immediately Tobias stiffens beside me, his hand dropping from my back.
"You shouldn't have done that," he says, jaw working. I gape at him, withdrawing my hand from his.
"What are you talking about? I love you, and-"
"You have parents that love you, Tris. When did you decide that I was worth more than that? I've known you and loved you for two years. Your parents have known you and loved you for your whole life! I can't-"
"Do you know what my father said to me when I chose Dauntless?" I ask Tobias, my voice quiet and low. "He said that he was ashamed and never wanted to see my face again. Don't you think that maybe, possibly, he was a little...taken aback that I'd found a new life so easily? Didn't you wonder that maybe I thought you'd give up the act and show them that I fell in love with a reasonable guy? Because I didn't fall in love with Four. I know he's a part of me, a part of you, but in the chasm, the night you let me into your fear landscape, I fell in love with Tobias. Not Four, not anyone else. So...so maybe I did say some rash things...but-"
"Some rash things? You really have to think before you talk, Beatrice. Think before you act. Think be-"
"Tobias-"
"It isn't my fault you're so hopelessly in love with me that you can't even function right!"
He is trying to make this better, right? Did he just tell me that? My eyes brim with tears, overflowing and running down my cheeks in a continual stream. "I-I can function wi-without you," And I tear through our apartment, beelining to the door. I hear him calling my name, hear him catch the door I slam and run after me, calling my name again and again, but my ears are filled with white noise and rushing water, static and the beat of my heart. Suddenly strong, vein corded fingers, thin like a piano player's, circle my wrists, pulling me back from the railing of the chasm I didn't know I was clinging to until the cool, wet metal left my fingers.
"Tris," He says, wiping my cheeks free of tears. "Tris, look at me." And since I have nothing else to do, I look.
"It's going to be okay. I promise. I love you and we have to be together, because everything would be wrong if we weren't."
"That's true." I say weakly, folding myself into his chest.
His hands cup my neck and I know what happens next, so I lean closer and his lips brush mine in the gentlest of embraces. And everything it perfect.
Until my phone belts out Sherwood Forest.
I swear, fumbling with my pocket to get it out.
From: Unknown user
GET A ROOM!
-the initiates
Sent just now
I roll my eyes and show Tobias the text. He laughs and points to the dormitory where my initiates are sitting on the floor, texting. Jay flips his phone around and the other kids laugh.
Ugh.