When I was a child my father always told me to share. We were the selfless children. Nothing was ever mine. I remember one day I was tired of trying to live up to his standards. I wanted to be selfish for once. The look on his face was something of rage. Unable to believe that I - Beatrice Prior - disobeyed him.
It wasn't so much that the situation related to the struggle I was in right now, but the same look that crossed my fathers face was painted on Tobias's. Fury.
"Is that a pregnancy test?"
I slowly rose to my feet, all my words stuck in my throat.
"Why do you have that?" he said, stepping closer to me.
I don't know what it was, but something about the way he spoke made me fear him. I bit down hard on my lip.
Do not be afraid.
"To curl my hair," I snapped, "What do you think?"
"You seriously think you're pregnant, Tris? Have you never been drunk at a party?" He shouted.
I winced. I don't know why he was getting so angry, and I sure as hell wasn't going to put up with it.
"Yeah I have actually, but nobody has ever gotten me as bad as you did."
"Call me a bad influence then."
I scoffed. "That's all you've got to say?"
"You're not pregnant!"
"Tobias, you need to calm the hell down."
He took a step back and viciously ran his fingers through his hair. Groaning, he glanced back at me.
"Why does this keep happening to us?"
I scowled. "What?"
"Everything is fine. Then we argue."
"You make us sound like a married couple." I mumbled.
I looked up to see the corners of his mouth twitch.
There he is.
I took a step closer to him.
"Look. I can't remember and neither can you."
He opened his mouth to speak but I cut him off.
"I know you hate the idea, but lets just be sure."
I didn't wait for him to reply. I grabbed my bags and rushed upstairs.
My hands shook as I set the test down on the sink
Wait for 5 minutes. The test will show + for positive and - for negative.
I set the instructions back down and shut the toilet seat down for me to sit. My legs trembled. I knew this all looked stupid. Plenty of people go to drunken parties and come out only carrying themselves. But that thought didn't stop me from being nervous. What if I was-
The test started to bleep. I guess I'll find out.
I took a deep breath before picking up the test.
Before I could stop myself the scream escaped my lips. I leaped up from where I was sitting and rushed downstairs. Tobias was sitting with his head in his hands. The sound of my thumping down the stairs made his head snap up.
"Tri-"
I threw my arms around him. The force of my body made him subconsciously pick me up.
"What?" He asked. Unable to hear what I muffled into his shirt.
I pulled away and looked up at him. "It was negative."
His shocked expression was quickly removed with relief. I don't know what came over me - apart from how happy I was feeling - but I held the back of his neck and pulled his lips to mine.
It felt wrong to be so happy over not having a child, but neither of us are ready for a responsibility as big as that. It wouldn't have been right.
I instantly pulled away and stared at Tobias with wide eyes.
"I- I'm sorry."
He shook his head. "Don't be." He whispered before connecting our lips again.
I couldn't believe it. Tobias was kissing me back. Its no secret that I still like him in that way. He's immensely handsome.
After a few long seconds, I pulled back. He grinned down at me.
"Tobias… I." My words came out as whispers.
Shock still taking over me. "I thought you hated me."
"Hate you?"
"I mean, I accused you of cheating, then sprung this bombshell on you."
"I could never hate you, Tris. You might piss me off sometimes though." He chuckled.
I laughed too.
"But that's the thing," He continued. "Nobody has been able to make me feel like that before."
I furrowed my eyebrows confused that this could somehow be a compliment.
"What I mean is… I've never cared about someone so much before. I care about what you think, what you do."
I took a sharp breath. Stopping myself from throwing myself at him.
"I don't know what it is about you… but I'm hooked."
As Tobias finished speaking, he hooked his hand around my chin and pressed his lips to mine. I smiled into the kiss.
Tobias pulled away and said "I'm sorry I got so angry before. I just… I knew myself that neither of us could remember. I just didn't want to admit that I could have been so careless."
I shook my head. "It would have been both of our mistakes. Don't beat yourself up about it."
I sent a trail of kisses from his nose to his cheek bone.
"Can we be a proper couple now?" I whined jokingly.
Tobias chuckled and kissed my cheek. "Yep."
"No more arguments?"
Kissing my cheek again. "Nope."
I smiled. "Good."
Tobias's lips landed on mine now. "I've missed kissing you."
I pulled away and raised an eyebrow. "You know. We never actually kissed that much in Italy."
"Oh really?"
I nodded.
"Then we better make up for what we missed." He said before latched his hands around my waist.
Sorry for such a short chapter! Please review. The more I get, the quicker the next chapter comes out!:)
