Chapter 7

...until, I can hear my mother's voice. When I hear it, my pencil stops moving and I slowly look up. The couch can be seen from the door so I can see my mother on the other side of the door. I stand up and walk to the door and stand beside Tobias.

"Mom? Why are you here? And where is dad?" I ask with a very confused look on my face.

"I'm here because I missed you and your father is at a meeting here with the other factions. I decided to come with him so I could see you."

"Why are they meeting here?" Tobias asks

"Each faction takes turns holding the monthly meetings. This month is dauntless' turn."

"Oh, well, you can come in if you want." I say. Tobias opens the door more and my mother walks in. I show her to the living room and she sits in the arm chair next to the couch. Tobias sits next to me on the couch.

"So Beatrice, how have you been?" She asks.

"Good. Umm, life has been treating me well here. I've made lots of friends. A few enemies, but nothing too bad."

"Enemies?" She questions.

"Yeah, a few guys tried to kill me during initiation. No big deal." I say like it's a normal thing that happens in dauntless.

My mother just looks surprised, and kind of frightened. "So Beatrice, who is this?" She asks gesturing to Tobias.

"Oh. This is my boyfriend, Four."

"It's nice to meet you Four," she says reaching out to shake his hand, "I'm Natalie."

"Nice to meet you too," Tobias says accepting her hand.

"How long have you two been together?" my mother asks.

"About ten months. We started dating about a two weeks and a half into initiation, and have been together ever since," I say grabbing Tobias' hand and holding it in my lap.

"You two look so cute together," my mother says. She sounds like a teenager that sees her best friend fall in love.

"Thanks I guess," I say awkwardly. Right after I say that, there is a knock at the door.

I get up and open the door to see my father. "Hey dad," I say.

"Hi Beatrice. Is your mother here?" I nod and let him into the room. "Natalie, it's time to go." My mother stands and walks to the door with my father.

"It was very nice seeing you again Beatrice," my mom says pulling me into a hug.

"I liked seeing you too. Have a save trip back to abnegation," I say releasing her, "love you."

"I love you too. We'll see you another time okay."

"Okay. Bye." I close the door as they leave and sit back down on the couch with Tobias.

"Well. That's something that doesn't happen every day," Tobias says.

"No, it's not."

"So, what do you want to do today?" he asks.

"Don't you need to go to work?"

"Nope. I have the day off, so we can do whatever we want."

"Not whatever we want I bet you anything that whatever we want to do is going to interrupted by our friends."

"Yeah, but there is no harm I'm trying," Tobias says leaning in to kiss me.

I pull back a little trying to keep myself from ripping all of his clothes off. "Wait," I say, "maybe we should lock the door."

"Good idea," he says.

Tobias stands and walks over to the door to lock it. When it's done, he walks back over to the couch and pulls on my hand to make me stand up. I wrap my arms around his neck and begin to kiss him so passionately the kiss is almost hungry. Tobias' hands go to my waist and slowly slide down. To my butt, then my thigh. He pulls my legs up and wrap them around his waist. The entire time doing this we did not break apart once.

Still kissing, Tobias walks to the bedroom with me wrapped around him like a child. Before I know it I am lying on the bed with Tobias over top of me and both of our shirts on the floor. I push him to the side and sit on top of him kissing him furiously.

He tosses to the side again and climbs on top. He starts at my lips and works his way down. Lips, neck, my tattoos, chest, stomach, then back up to my lips. I let out a slight moan hoping he wouldn't notice. Then like it was on cue, here is a knock on the door. We both let out an irritated sigh.

"Told you," I say picking up my shirt and putting it back on, "I'll get it."

I walk out to the living room, then to the door. I smooth my hair down before I open it and when I do, I see Christina.

"What?" I ask, and as I do I realize that I sound a little pissed.

"What's your problem?" She asks.

"Nothing. What do you need?"

"Oh right, umm, Zeke is having a party on Saturday and I need you to go shopping with me for a new outfit."

"Christina. You have like a million clothes. Besides the party is Saturday. It's Monday. Do you need to go shopping right now?"

"Well not right now, but I just want to spend some time with you. We almost never get any alone time together because you're always with Four."

"I guess you're right. We can hang out after lunch okay? Four and I are watching a movie right now."

"Sure you guys are 'watching a movie'," she says in air quotes.

"Goodbye Christina," I say pushing her out of the doorway.

"Bye! See you at lunch!" she yells.

I walk back into the bedroom and Tobias is still sitting there. "I swear. No matter what we say we are doing our friends think we are either have sex or making out."

"Well in Christina's defense, we weren't actually watching a movie," Tobias says.

I sit next to him, "I know, but I just wish they didn't think that all we do is have sex or make out. I mean, we do other things, like we sit together on the couch and watch TV, or you do work on your laptop and I draw. Normal couples do that stuff too right?"

He grabs my hand and holds it in his lap, "why is it so important that people think that we are a normal couple?"

"I don't know." I fall backward, my back hitting the bed and my free hand goes over my forehead.

"Besides," Tobias says, "who wants to be normal? Normal is boring."

"You always know how to make me feel better," I say smiling.

"Its part of my job as you boyfriend."

"Well you're doing a good job," I say. I sit back up and kiss his cheek, "what time is it?"

"Just after 10. Why?"

"Zeke is having a party this Saturday and Christina wants us to go shopping with her."

"Oh. When are you guys going?"

"After lunch," I kiss Tobias' cheek, "I'm going to take a shower."

I stand to walk into the bathroom, but Tobias me back to him, "you call that a kiss? No. This is a kiss." He plants a from kiss right on my lips then pushes me off into the bathroom.

I am in the shower for a good half hour just letting the warm water run down my body. I get out when the water turns cold. I wrap my hair in a towel and dress in very dark blue jeans, a maroon tank top and a black sweater.

I allow my hair to dry as it is because I don't feel like doing anything to it today. I line my top eyelid with black eyeliner and put on mascara. When I walk into the living room I see Tobias sitting on the couch with his laptop.

I go into the kitchen to get some water. The clock reads 11:45. Did it really take me an hour and a half to get ready? Must have. "Tobias are you ready to go?" I ask walking back into the living room.

"Yeah I guess."

"Come on," I extend my hand and he takes it. We walk out the door and head down to the dining hall.