"Honey I'm home!" Remi yells and walks into the bedroom. "Oh goodie you're dressed." I notice she has a huge Hot Topic bag.

"How much did you spend."

"Your bank account is crying, can you hear it? I can." Remi falls backward on the soft bed and Eric takes her bag and looks through it.

"Holy shit Remi, how much shit do you need?" He pulls out a smaller back with pure fear and shock on his face.

"Hey give that here." She tries to snatch it away but Eric pours the contents onto the bed. A lacy thong and a matching bra falls out and he slowly looks at Remi then to me.

"Who are you going to wear that for?" Eric asks and she laughs.

"No one man, it's Valentine's Day and I've been complaining that I don't have a valentine and it's been taking a shit on my self esteem so I need to feel confident. And sexy is confident and confident is sexy." She says and puts everything back in the big HT bag.

"Okay ew..." Eric says and I laugh.

One week later.

"You know I can't live without you please Tris, give me one more chance, I'm begging you." Tobias begs in the middle of the dining hall. Eric scoffs beside me but I'm actually thinking about it. Eric's eyes grow worried and Tobias's overflow with hope.

"I-" I pause, not knowing what to say. "No." All of the hope drained to heartbreak and I avert my eyes. "You fucked my best friend. There is no way I could ever forgive you for that. Just...promise me you won't end up like Al." I choke out, a lone tear rolling down my right cheek.

"I can't make promises I can't keep." He tries to push past me to the exit but I grab his arm.

"Tobias please." I beg and he looks me in the eyes. His face is a mask of calculated steel and I flinch at the almost deadly look in his eyes. It reminds me of his Father in his fear landscape. I wrap my arms around his middle and he freezes then hugs me back, his warm embrace makes my heart flutter and I can't help but mumble a soft. "I love you." I feel his heart skip a beat, telling me he heard me. Fuck.

"I love you too Tris." He practically shouts, making sure Eric heard him. I hear fast footsteps walking past us.

"I hope you liked playing with my emotions Tris." I hear Eric mumble as he bumps his shoulder with Tobias's

"Eric wait please." I untangle myself from Tobias and run after Eric. I grab his shirt and he roughly pushes me away. My back hits the wall and worry and guilt flash over Eric's face before nothing but flames of anger burn in his eyes.

"I hope you got what you wanted out of this, I hope my emotions were entertaining for you. I haven't opened up in years to anyone other than Remi and just like Nita you just wanted entertainment until you moved on from Number Boy. I hope you two are happy together." He spits and walks away, leaving me to slide down to the floor in complete shock.

"Eric please." I sob and he shouts back at me.

"Please what Tris!? You want me to open up so you can crush me again!?" I flinch and get up, walking over to him.

"Look, I'm sorry." I wipe my cheeks and sniffle. "I honestly don't know how I feel with everything else but I know I'm desperately in love with you Eric." I grab his hand and he scans my watery eyes but sees nothing but pure sincerity. He pulls me close to him, resting his forehead on mine.

"I'm so...so sorry Tris, please forgive me." He begs and I kiss him lightly.

"How could I not?" I mumble and he smiles.

"I'm in love with you too." He kisses me passionately, poring all of the unvoiced emotion into one kiss and it's almost enough to make my knees buckle. I grip his shoulders for balance and he holds onto my waist. He walks forward, pressing my back against the wall and then pulls away from the kiss, he pins my hands above my head and starts kissing my neck. I squirm when he sucks in my pulse point.

"What a slut." I hear Marlene mutter and push Eric away from me.

"Marlene!" Zeke scolds and she shrugs.

"It's true, she tells Four she loves him then runs out here to make out with the faction jackass." I flinch then shake my head.

"I didn't mean I was in love with him, I meant I love him, in a friend way, like how I say I love you to Uriah or anyone in the group but that doesn't mean I want to date them." I run a hand through my hair and shake my head again. "I'm done with drama, Four, it's over, it's been over since you fucked my best friend. Deal with that okay? Eric isn't a jackass once you get to know him, he has his reasons for acting the way he does. He's actually just a huge teddy bear."

"It's true." Remi says, walking out of the big group of people in the hallway. "He has emotions and you guys calling him an emotionless jackass can hurt him. Even if he doesn't show it he cries every once and a while, he can smile in a non sadistic way, and Tris brings these things out of him, minus the crying and plus the always horny." Everyone laughs but Four scoffs.

"Name one time he's cried."

"About a week ago he cried when he found out I'm suicidal. He felt as though it was his fault so he cried and held onto me." Everyone stands there shocked as Eric burns red.

"Oh my god he blushes too!"

"Oh my god I have emotions!" He laughs and everyone but Marlene, Chris, and Four do too. They just walk away. "But, that doesn't mean that I'm not going to be a jackass from here on out." Eric says, pulling me away from the group. "Now if you will excuse us we are going back to the apartment."

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