A/N: I have an authors note at the end of this chapter, so please read it:)

This chapter is not edited (due to my pure laziness), but nonetheless, I hope you enjoy.

Chapter 21

Tris' POV

"License fee, fifty dollars. License fee, fifty dollars. Fifty dollars. Permit fee, thirty dollars. Thirty dollars, thirty dollars. Okay, got it." I repeat the information in my head several times when looking at the pamphlet. it isn't the smartest idea especially since I'm reading it right in the middle of the hallway while trying to go to my locker.

"What are you doing?" A voice from behind, startles me causing me to jump a little.

"Ah shit, you scared me." I put a hand over my heart.

"Are you serious?" Tobias takes the small book from my hand. "Are you seriously studying for a permits test? I literally read the damn thing twice the day I took the test."

"You know what? You can shove it up your ass because unlike some people, I like to be prepared especially when it comes to test." I shove him lightly on the arm.

"You're ridiculous." He smiles. "Hey so I was wondering, you doing anything after school today?" He asks.

"Yeah I do. I'm running swim tryouts today, so I'll be busy." I tell Tobias.

"Right." He rolls his eyes. "Miss Captain of the Swim Team."

"Oh shut up. You're just jealous that I'm more athletic than you."

He narrows his eyes at me. "You take that back. You take that back right now." He gushes. "I will not tolerate this."

"Ha, as if. My lips remained sealed." He raises and eyebrow at me before attacking me in the sides. I yelp and start laughing like a maniac.

"Stop! Stop! I'm very ticklish. Stop! Tobias, I hate you so much! Ugh." He continues tickling my sides causing my tummy to hurt due to me laughing so hard. "My tummy hurts."

"Your tummy? How cute, you still say tummy."

"Stop!"

"Admit I'm more athletic than you." He taunts.

"Never." I make out.

"Fine then. I will continue-"

"Fine! You're more athletic than I am." I say though I don't mean a word of it.

"Good." His arms drop to his sides and I relax. Thank god.

"Hey, I'll see you later, okay?" I tell him after the fell signals us to get to class.

"Okay, bye."

I head to my first period class, which is AP Euro. After seating myself in my assigned seat, I feel a tap on my shoulder.

"Hmm?" I turn around.

"Hey."

"Oh...hey Tyler. How are you?" I ask and the press my lips into a thin line. My bet's is that he's going to bring up the whole "friend" thing.

"I feel like I haven't talked to you in forever." He tells me then smiles. "I miss you, you know." He says quietly as I try my best to avoid all eye contact.

"Yeah, so I've literally have been busy with managing school, homework and my practices." I say.

"Yeah, you're great at time management." Is that supposed enhance me? This is so much more awkward than before. Tyler is the sweetest guy and what we had was great, really great actually. Shut up! I scold myself. He's still really handsome though. Ugh...

"Yeah, but how have you been?" When is the damn bell going to ring.

"Okay. I'm coping." He tells me softly. "Actually, my cousin is coming in tomorrow. She's moving from New Hampshire because my uncle's company is moving in Chicago."

"That's cool! What's her name?"

"Samantha." Tyler answers.

"That's a nice—" The finale bell finally rings after what feels like forever and my teacher starts with his lecture on god knows what. I hate this class so much.

"Okay girls...and guy. James, where are all the guys?" I ask the junior, named James.

"I think they're still changing." He answers before jumping into the pull.

I sigh and zip up my swim parka up all the way to my neck. "I'll guess I'll wait."

It takes a while for the boys to finally arrive the pool area, where our tents our setup. They toss their fins and swimming boards to the side and jump into the pool while I impatiently tap my right foot at a rapid pace.

"Where the hell have you scrubs been?" I ask them.

"The football jockeys had the changing rooms until three-thirty." One of them tells me.

I groan. "Great. I want you to do one IM, one hundred for each stroke with a five second interval per person. Start at the top." I motion to the large timer counting upwards every hour. "Ready, go!"

I count the number of seconds it takes for the swim team to finish the warm-up I assigned. Two hundred forty-sev—okay.

"Okay, now that everyone has finished their warm-up, I want all of you to practice your diving. I want you do dive and the swim to the other side, you get to choose what stroke to do. Everybody up!" One by one, they push themselves out of the pool. "On the whistle."

I blow the whistle and watch as the first few people dive beautifully into the pool in a swift motion. I continue the routine until everybody is on the other side. I take my time to walk to the other side because I can and I'm too lazy to rush to the other side.

"Do it again, but a different stroke this time."

"Prior!" Oh great. Just what I needed— an idiot.

"Tobias." I say with feign enthusiasm. "How are you? Don't answer that, I honestly don't really care."

"The charmer you are." He taps my nose. "Swim team." He nods his head towards the thirty or so people currently studying our every little move.

"What are you waiting for?" I ask them. "Everyone should be on the other side by now." Within a few seconds, the first group of people are already diving to the other side.

"Well you look at that, they're scared of you." He teases.

Two can play it that game. "Hey you see that guy on the other side?" I motion to a tall blonde guy talking to his friends.

"Which one? The one wearing speedo underwear or speedo shorts?" I feel Tobias' body press against mine as I gesture to the guy.

"His name is Austin Moore, super duper cute. Man, he fine." I stare at his defined abs, he does not disappoint. "And I think ask me to formal."

"What? He's not that good looking." He clears his throat. "I have better abs than him."

I bite my lip to surprise my laughter from escaping my lips. "But you don't mind, right? Because I'd totally tap that." I say as seriously as I can.

"No, yes, no. I don't care. You can date whomever you want— because I obviously don't care." His voice cracks, and I know I have won.

"Okay big boy." I pat his belly. I walk back to the other side of the pool where everyone has been waiting for me the past few minutes. "Austin, you want a hug?" Before he can answer, I wrap my arms around his body. I wave to Tobias as he stands on the other side staring at me.

Tobias isn't jealous. He's not jealous at all. Obviously.

I'm not exactly sure how to describe his facial expression. I pull away from Austin and finally burst out laughing. "Sorry." I apologize to him and then pat his tummy like I did with Tobias. "Holy shit. Those abs. Sorry." I pull my hand back and apologize again.

Austin shakes his head at me and smiles. "No problem."

I finally get Tobias to go away mainly because he is being a huge distraction and he also has to go to football practice, not that I care anyways. The rest of practice goes by slowly and I manage tire the team out. Though it technically was try-outs today, everyone makes the team— experience or no experience. It's mainly just to see where everyone is at and what level the members can swim at.

I strip my clothes off and put on my blue speedo one piece. I just finished completing my homework and decided I can go for a night swim. During season, I would always enjoy working myself out just to get into the groove of things. Diving into the tepid water, I swim around the pool outside in the backyard of my house. It's almost dark, and the lights hanging on the walls of my home illuminate the whole pool area. Lights shine underwater as well. My whole surrounding is such a calming affect. I flip myself so I am floating on my backside and stare off into the night's sky looking at every last star blossoming in space. Technically, they're not "blooming" because they're all dead and have exploded millions and millions of years ago. Nonetheless, I let my mind and body calm itself into a state of oblivion.

"What are you doing?" I see a face above me and I scream, not at all expecting a person to randomly pop out of nowhere.

"Holy fucking shit! You scared the fuck out of me! Don't do that ever again!" I splash the person. I swear, everywhere I go, Tobias is there.

"What are you doing here?" I ask him.

"I was going to ask if you wanted to watch a movie." He holds up a DVD of Mulan. How cute. "But your parents told me you were outside, so I came to see you."

"That's really sweet. But you can go home Tobias, I have a feeling I'm going to be here for a while."

"Would you mind company?" He asks in a hopeful tone.

I think about it for a while. "No. But you probably shouldn't— nevermind." He strips into his boxers and dips his feet into the pool. He could have just borrowed one of Caleb's swimsuit, but you know what, I am not complaining.

"Fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck. It's freezing." He chants.

"It's not that bad." I splash his face causing him to hiss.

"Fuck." He groans. "You're killing me, Tris."

"You'll get used to it." I tell him. He continues to suffer in the pool and I finally take pity on the poor guy.

"C'mere." I open my arms for him and waddles his way towards me. I feel his arm wrap around my small body, his thin fingers rubbing to small of my stomach.

"You're warm."

"Same goes with you." There is barely any space between the two of us which causes little nervous bubbles to spread throughout my body. Tobias Eaton freaking does something to me, and I don't know i whether I like it or not.

"You look cute today, I didn't get the chance to tell you that." I see the whiteness of his teeth flash in the dark.

"Thank you." I mutter against his chest. I pull away from his embrace. "Do you know how to do a flip from the diving board?" I ask, suddenly a flash of excitement running through me.

"I've never done before." He admits.

"It's really easy. It just hurts like a bitch when you dive into the pool. You usually land on you back and it feels like a belly flop, but on your back." I push myself out of the pool and make my self on the board.

"Wait, you're actually going to do it?"

"Mhm." I bounce myself on the board a couple of times until I have enough momentum to jump and flip myself over.

When I have jump high enough, I lean forward and flip myself. My back stings when I feel the water hit me. I swim back to the top of the water.

"Your turn." I wipe the water off my face and eyes.

"I bet I can do better." He gushes.

"As if." He copies everything I did before hand, bouncing a few time on the before flipping himself into the pool.

"Ah shit. That hurt." He tries to rub his back. I laugh.

"It's fine. It goes back to normal after a few seconds." I inform him.

We play around in the pool for what feels like hours. Stepping into the house, I make sure not to make such a wet mess around the floor, which ends up failing miserably. I grab a towel for Tobias and toss it towards him. I also find a pair of boxers that Caleb no longer wears and hands it to him as well.

"You can keep it." I tell him. I tell Tobias to change in the bathroom at the end of the hall. He comes out changed into his old clothes.

"Though that wasn't planned, I had a lot of fun tonight." I say to Tobias.

"Mhm. Me too. I'll see you tomorrow, kay?" Tobias looks me into the eye as he says this. Letting him blue eyes capturing me, I unconsciously nod my head.

"Bye Tobias." I walk him to the front door and closes it behind me when he walks out.

I don't understand the deal with him, but something about him makes me feel so safe and so cared for. He's my anchor, but the difference is, is that I don't want to let him go.

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