Chapter 23
Last time: "Sure."
Present:
Fours POV:
What I see breaks my heart. I see her dancing with a random guy. He looks like he's a sophomore and would be better for Tris than I would.
I keep telling myself that hoping that will make the pain more bearable. I leave sometime in the next ten minutes. I walk up to Marcus's car and turn on the radio. Then the most bizarre thing happens, the perfect song for how I'm feeling comes on.
And it starts
Sometime around midnight
Or at least that's when you lose yourself
For a minute or two
As you stand
Under the bar lights
And the band plays some song about forgetting yourself for a while
And the piano's this melancholy soundtrack to her smile
And that white dress she's wearing, you haven't seen her
For a while
But you know
That she's watching
She's laughing, she's turning
She's holding her tonic like a cross
The room suddenly spinning, she walks up and asks how you are
So you can smell her perfume
You can see her lying naked in your arms
And so there's a change
In your emotions
And all of these memories come rushing like feral waves to your mind
Of the curl of your bodies, like two perfect circles entwined
And you feel hopeless, and homeless, and lost in the haze of the wine
And she leaves
With someone you don't know
But she makes sure you saw her, she looks right at you and bolts
As she walks out the door
Your blood boiling, your stomach in ropes
And then your friends say "What is it? You look like you've seen a ghost."
And you walk
Under the streetlights
And you're too drunk to notice that everyone's staring at you
You don't care what you look like
The world is falling around you
You just have to see her
You just have to see her
You just have to see her
You just have to see her
You just have to see her
You know that she'll break you in two
This is all true except one part. I would never picture a girl lying naked in my arms. Especially not Tris.
She isn't like that.
Christina POV:
I leave Tris as soon as we get to the place where the ball is. I'll tell her I'm sorry later. I walk around the room looking for blonde haired guys. I quickly rule out some and finally I find Will.
But unfortunately he isn't alone.
He's dancing with a blonde haired girl who seems to be much prettier than me. I ca practically feel my heart breaking. I look for Tris and find she dancing with someone, too.
I guess I'm alone then. Oh well.
I leave and walk alone in the parking lot alone for a while and am surprised when I see a car that's blasting some song about losing the girl the singer wants. Maybe they should just get over it! Maybe the singer should just calm down and realize that the person they like doesn't like them back!
"Yes, and maybe you should calm down." I'm surprised to hear another voice say that. Is this it? Have I finally gone insane? I'm heading voices, so I guess I have.
Or, did I say that out loud and the person in the car heard me. I look up and see a boy with dark blue eyes and a matching color mask on.
"Haha, ummm. Hi?" I say feeling extremely embarrassed.
"Hi. What's your problem?" He asks with a little too much 'tude for my liking.
"Excuse you! What's yours!" I say with just as much attitude.
"You wouldn't understand. It's guy problems." Oh my god. He sounds like a whiny emo teenager.
"Okay. Now stop being a whiny emo and tell me why you seem like such a grumpy puss." I say.
He sighs. "Fine! The girl I like is out there dancing with some guy I don't even know!" Oh my god. We have the same problem.
"Oh my god." I say unable to say anything else.
"What?" He asks with attitude. Ugh! I thought we got rid of that!
"Stop with the tude!" I shout. " I said oh my god because we have the same problem." I explain. He looks at me confused.
"You're a lesbian?" He asks still confused. I facepalm.
"No idiot! Switch the genders up and it's the same problem!"
He just looks at me. Then he says, "What's your name?".
"Why?" I ask wondering the same question.
"Because, I might know you. You seem familiar." He says.
"My name is Christina. See! I knew you didn't know me!"
Again he just stares at me.
"You're a freshman." He says. He takes off his mask and I immediately recognize him.
"And you're Four." I say in response.
"Indeed I am. Wait, so are you serious? Will was dancing with another girl?" He asks.
"Hey! I never said it was Will!" I say slightly embarrassed he knows who I like.
"That's so not cool! You need to march right over there and give hims piece of your mind!" He goes on ignoring me.
Then I remember something.
"Wait, Four. Who do you like?" I ask excited because I know he can't lie to me.
"Charlotte." Lie. I raise my eyebrows at him. "You know I can sense when people are lying, right?" This makes him look nervous.
"Fine. Fine, I like... Tris."
I'm shocked beyond comprehension.
OH MY GOD! MORE CHRISTINA POV! I'm sorry I just love writing from her point of view. I also like writing from Fours POV and Tris's POV. The song is "Sometime Around Midnight"By the airborne toxic event. My dad sorta got me hooked on this song...
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QOTD: So you ever listen to music that people would not expect you to like?
My answer: Yeah. A lot. "Sometime around Midnight" is one, another is pretty much any song by Imagine Dragons or OneRepublic. The list just goes on and on.