I don't own Divergent, Veronica Roth does.
The town is near silent most likely due to the celebrations continuing into the early morning, long after we were asleep. No children are out playing, there's no cars driving on the road only the occasional cat scrams from an ally.
Tobias' house is like every other here, it's compact, bland and wouldn't catch your eye; it's uniform with the rest. The wind bites my exposed skin as I pace up his street. To my recollection, the last time I was here was on the day of Tobias' mother's funeral, I stood in the corner watching everyone else chat fondly of her, drinking and consoling people. Tobias also stood in the corner, I made awkward eye contact with him every now and then, but nothing more. A few times I felt like I should have gone over, but I never did and actually, no one did. Everyone steered clear of him maybe throwing him the odd smile, but no more.
I feel like I shouldn't be here, if I was welcome then maybe Tobias wouldn't have left as early as he did, and in such a panic. Still, I ignore this feeling as I walk up the path. There's a slam, a shout of some form and a yelp of pain. I shouldn't be here, I need to leave, but my feet won't move. A thud and another shout of pain; that's Tobias. My Tobias. I shake the doorknob to try and gain access, yet the door is locked. I can't get in so I walk around to a window I try to get it to budge, yet no such luck. Inside is now silent, I stay still by the door and wait for anything else. There's thudding footsteps and suddenly Tobias is standing in front of me. He looks angry, then panicked once he realises it's me.
"Tris, what are you doing here? You should leave before-" He stutters. A dark figure looms over him.
"- You. Got some guts showing up here don't you." Suddenly, the Marcus Eaton I've been familiar with all these years is gone, he seems more like I thought he really was; a selfish; manipulative man.
"I'm sorry?" I reply. Tobias stares down at the floor saying nothing, I need him to give me eye contact, to talk to me anything.
"You're in a relationship with Tobias aren't you? He was with you last night when he didn't return home. I was so worried," he says with a conceited smile.
"No, sir. I'm not in a relationship with your son-" I plead.
"-Give it a rest. I told him." Tobias interjects, we exchange mild eye contact.
"You told him? " I'm shocked, honestly I never thought that he would give in to what his father wants, he's never once said a nice thing about him.
"I told him we're in a relationship, yet he has this misconstrued idea that I was at your house last night!" He shouts as he moves out of the door frame. He starts to walk away in a fit of anger, leaving me in by his house alone with his father. I should run after him, I should leave them alone, I have no place for being here.
"Why was there screaming?" I spit quietly.
"Beatrice, so naive aren't you? I would have thought you've seen them by now," I have no idea what he's thinking, but I know what he's done. I need to go find Tobias, talk to him about this.
"You monster," I mutter as I turn and leave. He's moved far, I run down the quiet streets looking for his recognisable figure. "Tobias!" I shout, "Tobias, wait up. " his figure stops, he doesn't turn just doesn't move. "I'm sorry. I shouldn't have begged you to stay last night."
"Tris, it's fine. " he turns around to face me," I was happy there, I had the best night sleep in ages, it was worth it." he breathes. On a day like today you can see his breath.
"No, I was stupid and emotional and-" He cuts me off with a hungry kiss; a kiss unlike any other, it's like this will be our last kiss; which it may be.
"Tris, shh. It's fine, it's my fault for now leaving earlier. This thing with my dad happens sometimes, it's okay. You don't need to worry," these words sound stupid to me, of course this matters. His father is a monster and it 'doesn't matter?' But I'll leave it. I know that he'll talk about it when he's ready, and if that's in a while, then so be it. "Why were you there?"
"I had a fight with Caleb, I wanted to leave and I didn't know where to go, so I went to find you. " I mutter, I feel shameful. This is petty.
"A fight? What about?" he seems concerned," he was behind you this morning wasn't he? He knows. Shit," he seems exasperated.
"Yes, he knows. He saw us last night when he arrived, we were," I pause like it's shameful what we were doing. We've kissed, we just did and suddenly the 'old me' Caleb was talking about is showing. I'm suddenly shy about public displays of affection. "We were kissing Tobias and he knows. He's threatening to tell everyone and-"
"-he told my Dad, that's how he knows we're together. He told my dad so technically-"
"-he caused this all. The asshole. God I really hate him," I mutter. "I'm so sorry, Tobias. " He pulls me into a hug, obviously seeing how bad I feel. He rests his chin on the top of my head, our height difference now obvious.
"It's okay, we'll make it through, two more days and we can go back," two days seems like an eternity now. I want to go now.
"We could always rearrange out flights, I mean, we move them to tomorrow. I mean if you want," I mumble. I just want to leave, so badly.
"If we can move them, then move them, Tris." he keeps me close as he whispers these words.
"So it's a plan, we leave tomorrow. "
Thank you all so much for reading! I'm so glad you all liked the last chapter, I apologise for the load of typos in it, I wrote it at like one in the morning. I almost didn't put the chapter up, but now I'm so glad I did!
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-LMC
