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Tobias's POV
The ring sparkled in my fingers like a dagger to the heart. I saw Tris's face fall in horror. She had forgotten about it, I could see it in her eyes. She was the one wondering if things had changed for me, meanwhile she was the one with an engagement ring in her pocket. I didn't know what to say to her and I didn't know if she planned on saying anything to me, then she slowly stood up from the sofa.
"Tobias, I can explain…" she trembled slightly. I couldn't look at her. I turned my gaze back to the diamond ring that I held in my hand.
"It's not what it looks like…" she continued. I let a nervous laugh. Really? I thought. I think I know an engagement ring when I see one.
"It's complicated… please listen to me." She wanted me to look at her, the desperation in her voice told me that, but I didn't. I couldn't bring myself to look away from the small object I was holding. I heard her walk over to me, her bare feet making a soft padded sound on the wood floor.
"Tobias, please." I shifted my gaze to look her in the eyes. She was closer than I expected. Tris seemed to relax a little when she saw me acknowledge her words.
"I- you see- I mean there is so much I need to tell you. This is not what it seems. I'm not-" I couldn't listen to this.
"Stop." I mumbled lifting up my hand to stop her from continuing. "Tris I don't want to know. I have only had you back for less than a day and I have already been lied to. I don't think that I can do this. I can't go through the same relationship we had, I've relied that even that relationship may have been unhealthy. I may have needed it then, but I can't deal with this now." My eyes were stinging and I was trying not to cry. I cried a lot more than is should these days, but it was hard to stop it, when your heart was constantly being yanked and squeezed, shattered then glued back to together only to be broken again.
"No, no, no, no. Tobias I can't lose you again." When she said those words I lost my cool. My grief turned to rage within seconds.
"Lose me! Lose me! Tris I'm not the one who DIED for two years! You didn't lose me! I lost you!" I stopped and took in a deep breath. My chest was heaving. I had been holding that in, from the moment I saw her, maybe since the moment she died and shouting it like that made me feel so much better. I she was stunned at my abrupt anger. I could tell Tris hadn't had a chance to accept what I had just said so I continued
"And by the looks of it, you moved on pretty quickly." I spat throwing the ring at her. She caught it and looked at it like it could burn her.
"NO!" she shouted so suddenly it made me jump. Tris paused for a moment searching my face to make sure I was paying attention. I could hear my heart thumping in my chest and I don't know if it was my imagination but I could swear I heard hers too.
"This means nothing!" she hurled the ring over her shoulder. It bounced off the sofa and onto the floor. I watched it lay there, but Tris acted as if it had been vaporised the second she let it go. "It is a cover! I was undercover! I'm not ENGAGED!" her face was red from screaming and I stared at her through the sudden silence as what she said sank in. She was undercover? What did that even mean? She squeezed her eyes shut and pinched the bridge of her nose.
"When I was shot, I should have died, but I didn't. Someone found me and helped me. I had been asked to take an undercover job high up in the government a few days before we had planned to take down… to take down David..." she trailed off to see if I was listening. I was.
"I said no." She continued "but then when I woke up I was informed that I was dead. They had used my near death experience to their advantage. I was dead to you. To everyone I cared for, Tris was gone and I had to move on." She let out a heavy breath. She thought that I understood. She thought that I believed her.
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