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Tris' POV
I stand at Tobias' door, paralyzed. What am I going to face when I go in there? Does Tobias really just want to have sex with me? No. He's different. He's different than other guys. Slowly, I raise my hand and lightly knock on the door. Almost immediately, Tobias answers the door.
"Tris! Wow you look… amazing," he says with a huge grin on his face. I give him a tight smile in return.
What are you doing? He complimented you! Do something!
We share a couple moments of awkward silence before I break the ice and say, "Aren't you going to invite me in?"
"Oh my god, yeah, sorry." He nervously ushers me into the apartment, ducking his head down adorably.
The first thing I notice about his apartment is that it is dark. The walls are either painted black or dark gray. As I walk in, I see there is a black leathery couch that sits across from a large flat screen TV and a glass coffee table. The floor plan is open; the living room and the kitchen connect. I see a hallway that I assume leads to the bedroom. Tobias diverts my attention when he leads me to sit on the couch.
"Sorry, it's really messy in here. I tried to clean, but it didn't really work out." He laughs
"It's fine."
My leg bounces nervously and I start wringing my hands. Tobias gives me an odd look.
"Tris, are you okay? You seem really tense." His expression softens. "You don't have to be nervous around me."
I stare at him for a moment and see the concern in his eyes. Christina doesn't know what she's talking about. He's nice. He won't try anything. I push all thoughts of Christina and sex out of my mind and relax.
"It's nothing," I say with a smile, "Just nerves, I guess."
"Well, what do you want to do?"
"You mean you didn't have an evening of romance planned out for us?" I tease.
"I was thinking pizza and a movie, but I guess that's not good enough a woman of such high caliber." He flashes me a coy smile.
I fight to keep my expression neutral and let out a disappointed sigh. "It will suffice." He laughs and gets up to order the pizza. I wander over to his large flat screen TV. I look through the rack of movies. He has so many, it's hard for me to decide what we should what we should watch. My eyes land on the movie Psycho. It's one of my favorites. When I was younger, my brother, Caleb, and I would watch this movie in secret all the time. My parents didn't like movies like that in the house, but we had a secret stash of banned movies hidden in our bedrooms.
My eyes start to tear up at the memory of Caleb. Not here, Tris, I think to myself.
Tobias come back in the room and I hold up the movie to see if he wants to watch it too. He smiles widely at me.
"Psycho. Excellent choice. One of my favorites." He says as he puts the movie in the DVD player.
"Mine, too. At least we have that in common."
"Come on, give us more credit than that. We have a lot in common." He plops down on the couch next to me. I try to calm myself when he laces our fingers together like he did last night, but despite my best efforts my cheeks turn pink.
"Really? Like what?" I ask.
"We both like ballet," he says with a smirk.
I turn to him indignantly. "I love ballet. You liked me in the ballet. Not the same thing."
He rolls his eyes and presses play. "Details."
About 30 minutes into the movie the pizza comes and we realize we haven't been watching the movie at all. And somewhere in that time he's put his arm around me and I've nuzzled up against him. It's oddly comfortable and I feel a pang of disappointment when he gets up to pay the pizza man.
We sit facing each other on the couch with the pizza box in between us. I try to eat slowly, but I still finish my first piece embarrassingly fast. He looks at me, amused. I move to put my crust back in the box when he suddenly grabs my wrist.
"What?" I say, startled.
"You're not going to eat the crust?" He asks.
"No, I hate crust." I throw it in to the box.
Tobias' eyes widen. "You don't like the crust?"
"Why would I? It doesn't have sauce, it doesn't have cheese. It's just bread. Plus, it's all… crusty and stuff."
He picks up the piece of crust I didn't want. "That would be the official definition of crust."
I smack his arm playfully. "You know what I mean." He smiles at me and eats my discarded crust.
After we finish the pizza, we fall back into the comfortable position we were in before. I suddenly realize how exhausted I am. I try to fight it, but eventually sleep overcomes me and I drift off in Tobias' arms
I'm in my room and nerves have taken over my body. Where is Uriah? He said he pick me up at midnight.
Everything has to go perfectly or else I won't be able to get out. I won't be able to run away.
Uri is going to drive me to my dance camp in Chicago. I would drive myself but the drive from Connecticut to Michigan is killer and I wanted someone to split the driving with. My parents don't approve of dancing as a career, but I'm 18 and I can do what I want. The dance camp is just a stepping stone. If I do well there, they'll offer me a position in the company.
I hear a tap at my window and see Uri at the window. I smile at him and get my bags. Thank god my room is on the first floor. This would be much harder if it was up high. I throw my luggage through the window and then climb through it myself.
We run to his car which is parked on a street outside of my neighborhood. When we finally get in the car and are ready to go Uriah turns to me. His eyes are filled with concern.
"Tris, are you sure you want to do this?"
I don't hesitate with my answer. "Uri, this is the opportunity of a life time! If I go to college like my parents want, when am I going to have time to dance? I'm going to lose it all. I have to do this. This is what I want."
"Okay Trissy,I just " He says with enthusiasm
The dream fades and comes back with me in my dorm room two days later.
I have a missed call from Caleb and another from a number I don't recognize.
I call Caleb first. When he picks up I have a horrible sense something is wrong.
"Caleb, what's up?"
"You," He says with malice. His voice is thick, like he's just been crying.
"Yeah, me, stupid. What's up?"
"They're dead."
I stop. Panic tears through me. "Who's dead?" I ask slowly.
"Mom and Dad. They knew where you ran off to and they were coming to get you. They were going too fast down the road. They crashed and flipped their car. Dad died on impact. Mom died shortly after."
Tears start to stream down my face and I all can think is it's my fault. It's my fault. It's my fault.
Caleb starts shouting at me but I can't even hear him because I can only think about the pain and the guilt and the grief I feel and it's selfish but I can't find it in me to care.
"Why did you have to fucking do it?" I hear him scream. "Why couldn't you just do what they wanted?"
It's my fault.
I killed them.
Tobias wakes me and I am momentarily disoriented until I finally realize I'm not in my dorm from two years ago, I'm in his apartment.
I touch my face and feel the tears from my dream are real and I let out a sound that is somewhere between a choke and a sob.
"Tris, what's wrong? Please talk to me." Concern is written on his face and I want to tell him what's happening but I can't, I can't, I can't.
I can't even form coherent thoughts, but I know I have to get out of there and go home. I rise from the couch and start to make my way toward the door.
Tobias tries to stop me again. "Tris, where are you going? Please tell me what's happening?" He looks as if he's going to cry with me.
I open the door. "I'm sorry. I can't stay."
I run down the hall and hear the door slam behind me. Tears blur my vision.
Nightmares don't usually bother me. But this one is real and it won't leave me alone.
AN: OKAY. I worked really freaking hard on this chapter so please review! It would mean so much to me. Also, if you don't know what Psycho is then here is my summary: This woman steals money from her boss and then runs away. Overnight she stays in a motel and the owner ends up murdering her. After that a bunch of fuckery ensues and that was a shitty summary but you have to watch it to really get it. ANYWAYS REVIEW PLEASEEE.