Chapter 16- Truth or Dare: Part Four of Four.

Tobias POV

'Because I dare you to call Erudite Headquarters, ask for Caleb Prior and tell him that you got Tris pregnant.'

My eyes widen further than they have ever gone before.

Oh what great friends I have.

I consider my options. One option is that I sneak into the control room and call Tris' brother and tell him that I got her pregnant and then for him to scream at me undoubtedly. Or the other option is I take off my boxers and strip naked and expose myself to everyone.

So honestly I only really have one option. I do want to go home tonight with at least some dignity. Tris stares at me, begging with her eyes to tell me what I am thinking. I can't tell her because I don't want her to know how I honestly feel. How do I feel you might ask?

I'm petrified.

The room's is eerily quiet now; it seems everyone has also evaluated my options. Sorry I should rephrase that: my option. Even Zeke's mischievous demeanour has evaporated, replaced by a slight look of regret. He knows he is going to be repaid later, one way or another.

'Fine,' I say, regaining my voice. 'But I am putting my clothes on and only Tris is coming with me to the control room.'

Shauna nods as I am greeted with Tris' eyes, expressing many emotions, including worry.

Her eyes show everything I need to know: she is as petrified as me. She pulls herself off me and rapidly puts her close back on, her tank top and her dress. I quickly chuck my shirt on and pull up my trousers and hook the button in place and zip up the zip. Once we are both dressed, I take her hand and we slowly glide out of the room.

I'm clutching Tris' hands as I leave Zeke's apartment, my hands are tingling with nerves to the point they are almost numb. I slide along the walls of the pit forgetting how high up I am since I have Tris distracting me and slowly stride up the stairs to the Pire, Tris short legs rapidly trying to catch up with mine. The walk consists of silence so far.

'You shouldn't have to do this, Tobias,' she whispers breaking the eerily silence on the staircase. 'You know how my brother would react,' she continues, we stop at the landing.

'I wasn't going to take my boxers off Tris!' I say too coldly than I want. Her eyes widen and she gulps.

'I know that,' she whispers quickly almost too quiet to hear. 'But it's a stupid game,' she continues. I can barely see the side of her face in the dark but I know she is as scared as I. 'We could just ditch.'

'I would like to do nothing more, but they will come and find us and then we will forever have a reputation saying we ditched a game.' She slowly nods her head, but doesn't reply. I squeeze her hand. When she doesn't squeeze back I pull her in my direction and engulf her in a hug, noticing her body trembling a little.

'Hey, look at me,' I whisper bringing her chin up with my finger. 'I love you,' I whisper lovingly gazing into her eyes. Her mind is in a distant land.

'I just don't want to see you get hurt Tobias, Caleb can't hurt you physically but he will mentally,' she whispers.

'Don't worry about me, Tris,' I reply. Before she can respond, I pull her gently into a kiss. As she stands on her tiptoes, her hands graze down my face slowly until they reach my neck and stay there. My hands graze down her cheek then all the way to her waist where I pull her closer. Since we are not exhibitionists we pull back breathless before anything more heated happens.

'Let's go,' she smiles.

We intervene are hands once again. We walk closer than before so our arms are brushing. We take long strides towards the elevator and once inside I press the fourth floor. Tris squeezes my hand, momentarily making me forget my fear of confinement. When the elevator announces it is on the fourth floor with a ding Tris and I rapidly step out.

We follow more signs to the control room, even though I know the path of by heart. We come to the end of the short corridor and around the bend I open the door to the control room and switch on the light. The room is lifeless. Tris scans the room since she has never been in here before. A wall of black blank screens that usually show different parts of footage of the city: The Amity field, the streets around the Hub, the Dauntless compound and 'Merciless Market' salutes us. Left, right and centre are more screens with desk, chairs and headphones neatly tucked away. I walk past my desk on the right near Zeke's and walk towards the back. I stop in front of a small door there. I turn the handle, Tris on my heels. Inside is once again very dark so I turn on the light and search for the emergency mobile phone, there is only a few, maximum 10 phones. They are mostly for the leaders. Tris and I both look for a couple of minutes until I find a black box. Enclosed is a small phone with big numbers and smaller letters underneath on the buttons. The brand of the phone is 'Nokia' although I have never heard of it.

I shift towards Tris and she glimpses at the phone a trace of regret of finding the phones in her eyes. We parade out of the Control room, switching off all the lights and return back to the dimly lit elevator. The elevator announces once again with a ding that we are on the right floor and we slowly walk out, holding hands.

We retrace our steps until we are back in front of Zeke's apartment door. I inhale a deep breath and slowly exhale and unhurriedly, hesitantly turn the door handle.

Time to face my doom.

I step inside the apartment.

Everyone's heads turn straight to the door when they hear us walking in, wondering what the sudden noise is. As Tris and I peregrinate into the apartment, we are met by a different change of ambiance. Everyone is now fully dressed, they must have been cold. The room is deadly quite again everyone surveying our eyes expectantly; it seems they must have been whispering before we came back. I accumulate my hands so that they indicate that the phone is in the small dark box. Everyone gasps or hurries as a result.

I move towards the circle that our gang has reformed and sit beside Tris. She places her hand on my arm, showing me support. I run my hands over the black box and I find the side bit and quickly open it so I can slip out the phone and the protective cover. I quickly unwrap the plastic protective cover, careful not to cause any destruction since I have to put the phone in its normal position in the Control room. All eyes are peering at me in silence as I pull out the sleek half an inch wide black phone with a 'Nokia' name at the top of the phone in the centre. Near the bottom and in the middle is numbers 0-9 while there are smaller letters underneath the numbers to text. The screen is small but practical and the button in the middle makes it easy to navigate. To the left is a green button and to the right is a red. From my knowledge from computers, I know that in order to turn on a phone you need to hold down the red button. I do so. Soon the phone makes a little sound and there is two hands connecting while the background is white with the company's name. Afterwards, I am met with a home screen that has a green blank picture on it and a few icons. I gaze upon the contacts. I press the button for Erudite Headquarters number and soon find it listed after 'E'. I press the green button, assuming that is how to call and place the phone more firmly in my hand. The phone makes a little dialling sound and I quickly press a button to put it on loud speaker. The phone- more like the deathly weapon of communication- begins ringing.

Beep.

My heart is racing.

Beep.

My stomach is churning.

Beep.

My head is fuzzy.

'Hello,' a gentle female voice says. 'This is Erudite Headquarters front desk, how may I help you?'

My voice catches for a moment and I let out a gasping like sound, before I am able to speak. Everyone looks up at me, forcefully telling me to speak. I clear my throat, my Four mask and intimidating voice on.

'Hello,' I begin. 'I would like to be put through to Caleb Prior immediately please.'

'Sir,' the gentle voice responds. 'Have you taken into consideration that it is quite late in the night? Maybe this could wait until tomorrow?' She suggests.

'I am sorry, it is extremely urgent.' I reply intimidatingly. Everyone is still looking at me encouragingly.

'Very well then sir, your name please?' I hesitate to answer at first, knowing Erudite would think it is suspicious that I would want to speak to Caleb Prior. I glance at Tris and keep my eyes on her.

'I am speaking on behalf of Tris Prior,' I respond.

'A few minutes sir, he will be coming shortly.'

There is silence for a short amount of time and I swear Zeke whispers underneath his breath that he can't believe I am still doing this. No one speaks. No one dares to speak. We just stare at each other. All attention on me.

Promptly, there a small muffled sound of someone moving the portable phone and Caleb's voice bounces out of the phone.

'Beatrice?' Caleb asks worryingly. 'What's wrong? Are you okay? Why are you phoning me?' I gaze at Tris once again and she beams back then I attempt in a strong voice to respond.

'Caleb, this is Four. Tris' boyfriend,' I say slightly steadily. Everyone, even Lynn is consumed into the phone call.

'Four?' he says raising his voice a little in suspicion. 'What are you doing? Where is Beatrice? Is she okay? Why are you calling me?'

'Nosey isn't he?' Zeke chuckles slightly, still everyone is so consumed with the phone call they don't register his comment.

'Tris is fine,' I assure him. I look at Tris once again and then glumly look back down at the phone. 'We have something important to announce.'

'What's that?' he replies instantly. I take a deep breath before answering. My head is fuzzy and I feel dizzy. On the outside though, I look calm as ever. Tris squeezes my arm and brings me back to reality: to my deathly dare.

'Tris is pregnant,' I announce, showing no emotion in my voice or face.

The line is dead for a couple of milliseconds before a massive explosion of outrage, pounds in everyone's ears.

'WHAT?!' Caleb shouts. 'Are you telling me that my sixteen year old baby sister is carrying a developing offspring within herself BECAUSE OF YOU?!' He roars furiously. 'In nine short months or less depending on when she last had her time of the month she is going to become a mother BECAUSE OF YOU!' Caleb shouts furiously.

His last words sting worse than Marcus' whip slashing against my bear back.

What if this was real and not a dare? I am unable to accumulate any words so he carries on savagely.

Awkward tension has risen in the air with our friends sitting next to each other.

'I CANNOT BELIEVE THIS! I AM TELLING MOTHER AND FATHER! FOUR YOU WILL NEVER BE GOOD ENOUGH FOR MY SISTER! YOU DON'T DESERVE HER AT ALL! STUPID DAUNTLESS FOR ALLOWING THIS TO HAPPEN, IT IS AN STUPID FACTION!'

I am holding back my fury that is rising to the surface of me. As I quickly look around a lot more of our friends are angry now because our faction just got insulted.

I let him continue.

'YOU ARE AN ARROGANT BASTARD! I CAN'T BELIEVE YOU DID THIS TO HER, THIS IS YOUR FAULT!' Caleb screeches. Everyone in the room looks a little paler their eyes still piercing at us. I gulp, unable to comprehend any words together.

'CALEB!' Tris screams in outrage. 'How dare you say that to Four! Apologise now!'

'I will not apologise for that filthy bastard that got your pregnant!' He screams. Out of anger, Tris snatches the phone out of my hand and turns the loud speaker off, not able to look me in the eye.

'For goodness sake Caleb! I am NOT pregnant! It was a dare! We are playing a stupid idiotic Truth or Dare game and Four was dared to tell you I was pregnant!' Tris stands up and walks away her back towards us.

I can't hear what Caleb or Tris is saying so I gaze around at our friends. They are sitting there awkwardly, not knowing what to do. They don't speak a word and neither do I. I am embarrassed to say the least and from the look of Tris she is too. She quickly ends call we Caleb and turns back to us. Her eyes look puffy like she was holding back tears.

'Right, Tobias and I are going home now.' Tris says roughly breaking the tension. 'It was fun up to now, but it's already late. See you all soon.' She takes my hand and I get up, no one speaks they just nod and we rapidly dispatch from the door. Tris and I don't talk towards our way to our apartment and we don't even hold hands to my surprise.

I fumble around in my pocket from my key, quickly finding the valuable important object and unlock the door. Tris walks straight in without a word and walks towards the bedroom and slumps herself on our bed, looking miserable. I grab two water bottles from the fridge and make my way to the bedroom. Once inside the bedroom, I find Tris silently crying into her hands on the edge of the bed. Her elbows rests on her knees as she cries into her hands, I immediately run straight to her.

'Tris,' I start, bending down so I am face to face with her. Her eyes are puffy and red. I sit on my knees on the floor while I wipe away the tear on her cheek and pull her into me.

'He called me things,' Tris interrupts. 'Horrible things, no brother should ever say,' she mumbles into my shirt. I wrap her tighter in my arms, comforting her. Her tears still freely escape from her eyes and the moisture is soaked up in my shirt making it wet, but I couldn't care less.

'Tris, my sweetheart, whatever your pathetic brother said is false, you shouldn't be upset with anything he said Tris. It is my fault.'

'I'm embarrassed Tobias,' she looks up at me 'I'm embarrassed that all our friends heard Caleb's horrific reaction. Oh Tobias,' more tears swell up into her eyes. 'Everything he said about you,' she cries freely now and I wipe away her tears with my thumb. 'None of that is true Tobias, I hope you know that.'

'Tris I will never be good enough for you,' I whisper.

'Tobias don't you dare say that!' Tris barks. 'If anything I am not good enough for you,' she admits placing her head back on my slightly damp shirt.

'That is not true,' I claim. We hold each other for a long time, not speaking. We lay on the floor on our knees, clinging to each other. Her head rests on my chest and her arms are securely around my back while mine are around her waist bringing her closer. Not an inch of sound erupts around us, it's pleasant. After what seems like years she tilts her head and looks up at me. I kiss her longingly. We slowly untangle ourselves from each other and get ready for bed; it's been a long night.

Tris grabs a plastic bag and walks into the bathroom. I advance to my side of the closet and pull out my long sleeping pants that go down to my ankles and slip them on while I chuck my shirt in the washing bin leaving me shirtless. After a few minutes Tris walks out of the bathroom and what I see stops me in my path.

Tris stands in front of me looking slightly nervous in a beige silk lace nightgown knee length with a peculiar design in black lace around the chest area. Around her is also a tightly secured robe that is also beige with black detail around the wrists.

'That's new,' I manage to say steadily, gazing up and down. 'You look amazing.' Red rises to her cheeks.

'Thank you, I thought I should wear something that isn't your shirt,' Tris responds.

'I liked you wearing my shirt,' I say, 'but I love you wearing that,' I point towards her nightgown and she blushes again. I walk towards her and kiss her quickly. Once our lips part I walk into the bathroom and rush to the sink. My arm moves in a quick circular motion as I clean my teeth and tongue and then I rinse with mouthwash. After I feel fresh I take a small white face towel and wash my face. Minutes later I return to the bedroom. Tris is lounging in bed, resting her head on the headboard and sitting upright, the cover wraps around her. Her robe is thrown around her tightly. She smiles at me once I walk towards the bed. I climb in the bed making the covers make a soft swoosh noise. I pull her hand up to my lips and kiss her hand.

'What are you thinking about?' I ask. She doesn't look at me, all she does it stare at the wall in front of her, in some sort of trance.

'What if it was real Tobias? What if I was actually pregnant at the age of sixteen, my family would despise me.' She replies slowing turn her head towards me.

'They could never despise you Tris.'

'It just scares me.'

'Come here,' I say. She doesn't break down into tears but she comes closer towards me and I wrap my arms around her. 'It scares me too, Tris,' I whisper into my ear. It does scare me; I don't think I could be a good enough dad after having Marcus as a father. She turns her head more and kisses me. It's not a goodnight kiss because this kiss is full of passion and intensive love. She sits in a more comfortable position and kisses me harder more fiercely. I kiss her back just as fiercely. Somewhere in the middle of our conversation, desire filled both of our eyes. We break apart breathless and I leave a line of kisses from her jawline to her neck, slowly removing the robe but putting it back in place afterwards. A soft barely noticeable moan escapes her lips and she blushes, embarrassment overwhelming her. This turns me on even more. I raise my head back to hers so I can kiss her again while her hands drape over my hard chest. She runs her delicate fingers down my front. Her touch is spine-tingling. I open her mouth with mine and my tongue runs around the edge, asking for entrance. She accepts and soon a full on battle of dominance in our mouths erupts. I smile into the kiss when I win. She breaks apart and starts to kiss my neck, I can see while she moaned. This feels amazing. My hands run underneath her silky robe around her shoulders. The small thin silky fabric of a robe is getting looser by the minute. My hands slowly dip down towards the bow around her waist that ties the robe together. I look into her eyes for a few seconds and slowly untie the bow and slip off the robe. The unwanted robe slides to the floor.

My hand caresses her face as I kiss her for a long passionate kiss. It isn't heated but it shows us both everything we need to know: our love for each other is so full and indescribable. I don't press any further. Once we break from the kiss breathless, I move back a little and snuggle into bed. Tris gets the message and snuggles up to me, resting her head over my heart which is still beating.

'Goodnight Tris, I love you,' I whisper kissing her forehead.

'Goodnight Tobias,' she whispers back.

We drift off into much needed sleep.

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