I wake up the next morning full of regret. I try not to think about the possible kiss I missed. Well, this kiss I 'missed'. I have no idea that I would kiss him, all he did was tilt his head. Besides. I don't like him. He is a brother to me and I'm dead sure that I am like a sister to him. I swing my legs across my bed, ready to face the day.
"Where were you last night? You came home rather late, you said you'd be back by what 10? And I remember hearing footsteps about midnight-ish. What over ran?" Christina asks as she emerges from our bathroom with a half done face of makeup.
"Well, after you banished me from here thanks to your little make out session; I roamed around the school, until I found Uriah, he said he was going to shoot a muffins off Marlene's head, he saw I was in a crappy mood so he invited me along. "
"You guys shot a gun on school property? " She looks puzzled.
"Oh God no, we'd never do that. We went to some backstreet over the other side of town."
"You guys went to the other side of town at night? Tris, Chicago is a dangerous place, there's a huge gang section, you could've been stabbed."
"Well, Chris! I'm still new, I had no clue I could've been stabbed, thanks for making me panic. But back to my story, then Marlene and Lynn showed up, Marlene was... frosty towards me to say the least. I learnt long ago to know where I'm not wanted; so I decided to leave. "
"-On your own? Tris! Are you crazy?" She looks panicked, she really shouldn't be, I'm here aren't I? I'm fine? She can see that?
"Well, I needed to go, I was already in a bad mood and she only made me more angry, if I had hold of that gun God knows what might have happened, I might have shot her and everyone in sight. "
"I doubt that, Tris. You're exaggerating. " Chris has the tendency to be slightly condescending towards me, or anyone really.
"Well, we'll never know will we? So I started wandering the streets until I saw this dark figure looming ahead, I wanted to run, but if they were a killer surely they'd only notice me more then wouldn't they?So I just stood there, I know it wasn't a clever thing to do, luckily though, it was actually Four. "
"Four? What was he doing over that side of town? Sounds... quite stalkerish surely?"
"Well, he was out letting off some steam, he and Zeke had kind of been fighting so he went out to walk and I guess he ended up in a similar part of town. "
"Sure, okay. What were he and Zeke fighting about?"
"Well, let's put it this way Four got into a little fist fight with Eric," I try to avoid the fact that Four got into that fight in order to defend me.
"Four was in a fight? He never fights with anyone! Why were they fighting?" I'm going to have to tell her aren't I?
"Eric, Peter and Co decided to come up to us yesterday-"
"-Us?" She flashes me a cheeky grin.
"We were walking back from dinner, they were 'teasing' Four and I, so he lashed out. Zeke walked by and he was angry, he got Four out of the fight and we left. He was pissed.
"That's all very well Tris, but I think it's time we go eat, I'm hungry."
"Well, Chris, I would have been done a while ago if you didn't make me explain where I was last night. "
"Whatever."
We sit down at a table with Al, Will and all our food. Uri paid little attention to me as we walked in, he gave me an apologetic look, but nothing more. I doubt Marlene would let him. Christina and Will keep themselves to themselves leaving just me and Al. he looks at me differently today, I don't know what it is, it's just...different.
"How are you, Tris?" He eventually asks.
"Well, fine, I got in really late last night, so I'm quite tired. "
"Out late," he jokes, " what were you doing?"
"It's a really long story, put it this way, I got home at like midnight and woke up at like 6." I mention no more, I really don't need another person teasing me for being friends with Four. Behind me a person clears their throat as if to announce their presence. I turn around and to my surprise see the last person I thought I'd see; Uriah.
"Tris, can I talk to you?" He asks sheepishly.
"Okay, yeah sure." I wait for him to continue.
"Privately? " he insists.
"Oh, sorry, " I feel quite embarrassed, I can't help but feel that the privately was implied, yet with my lack of sleep I really can't think straight. I stand up and leave quietly bidding a bye to Al. As we step outside the cold mid-November air pricks my skin sending goose bumps dancing up my arms. Gently, Uri grabs my arm, he pulls me around a corner in between to of the school buildings.
"Look, Tris, I owe you an apology."
"Uri, it's not your fault, " I reassure, dropping in a hint; we both know who's fault it really is that I ran off last night.
"I know, I know, but since she won't apologise, I figured the next best thing would be me."
"You've done nothing wrong though? Last night you even offered to walk me home. It's just that Marlene hates me, I can't change that and-"
"-You don't get it Tris, no one ever told you. Marlene and I used to date, in fact, we dated up until we came back this year. That's why when you came and we became friends, she became... different." That makes sense, more sense than a lot of things have over the past twenty four hours.
"That... make sense." I stammer.
"Just don't think that that means we cannot be friends. I love you as a friend and I don't want to lose this friendship, however new it is, over Marlene, me ex-girlfriend."
"Thank you, I just really don't want to get in the way."
"You won't" he says as he leans into a hug, I wrap my arms around his neck and nuzzle my face into him.
I finished Allegiant. I cried like a baby. I personally really like the ending, like it was all really well written. Any thoughts guys? Talk to me on tumblr; I need someone to talk to about this. (sherloco-and-juan .tumblr .com)
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