A/N: I know, I know this is way overdue. But, I know for sure you will like this chapter. I'm pretty proud of it, it's a lot longer than I thought it would be. Enjoy, I hope to get another update for Finding Home this week, but I'm not so sure if that will happen (hopefully). See you soon:)

Chapter 22

Tris' POV

"Six o two. Nice job, Prior." I place my hands on my knees and pant heavily. Layers of sweat cover my body as I try to even my breathing out. My PE teacher, Mr. Martin, records my mile time as I watch the other students pass by finishing their last lap when I have already finished mine.

The fast group of guys slowly file in a couple of seconds after me. However, there are still a quite a few boys who still beat me.

"We're running short on class, so once you finished, you may get changed. You may leave when

the bell rings." Mr. Martin dismisses us.

I walk to the girls' locker rooms, getting a drink from the water fountain on the way. After changing back into my regular clothes which consist of a t-shirt, blue jeans, and a navy blue sweatshirt with our school's name on it, I put my gym clothes in a little bag and place it into my

backpack. I make a mental note to wash it later, mainly because it's starting to reek of sweat.

As the bell dismisses us, I fling my backpack over my shoulders and head to my next class, choir. I always enjoyed that class. We get to perform for music fundraisers and school events. Tyler and I chose that class together, but now, it's sometimes awkward passing by each other during that period. Nevertheless, I do enjoy getting lost in music with my fellow peers and friends.

Unfortunately today, our teacher is out sick so we end up having a sub with no lesson plan whatsoever. The students in my choir class end up having a karaoke competition which ends up being super fun.

One of the boys, Dean, starts playing a song. When the music starts playing everyone starts cheering and laughing. He plays, 'Baby' by the one and only Justin Bieber as joke and sings it very, and I mean very off key. He's one of the lead sopranos, so it's even funnier when sings terribly. Not only so, he purposely sings it as the thirteen years old version of Bieber.

"And I was like baby, baby, baby, oh. Like baby, baby, baby, no.." Everyone joins in and sings like a maniac as the sub just gives us extremely odd looks. Our class roars in cheers as the song finishes. It's an extremely enjoyable hour as everyone enjoys themselves and sings— something we all enjoy to do.

"You're in a good mood." I practically skip to my lunch table as the lunch period starts.

"I am." I smile at my best friend as I plop down next to her. "Oh shit, I left my lunch in my locker. I'll be back in five." I dismiss myself and head towards the locker halls I go to every

morning to store my binders and books.

I hear someone about to sneak behind me (assuming it's Tobias), so I turn around.

"Hey." I shut my locker and see Tobias holding a white rose. Like always, I'm correct. I see him standing there with his gaze focused on a specific spot on the ground.

"Uhm, what is this?"

"I don't know, I just thought I'd bring you a flower today." He says cutely. That's so sweet.

"Oh okay, well thank you." I take the flower from him.

"No problem." He smiles warmly at me.

He continues to stare at me. "What?"

"I-" He scratches the back of his neck. "I want to take you on a date tonight."

I know I told myself I wouldn't be in another relationship for a while, but for the past few weeks my thoughts have always been on Tobias and his perfect face. Why does Tobias Eaton have to be so perfect? Ugh.

Not only do I surprise him, but I also surprise myself when I blurt out, "sure. What time are you going to pick me up at?"

It takes a while for him to process the information. "Wait, you said yes?"

"I mean if you don't want to, then that's totally fine—" I start, knowing he's about to protest.

"NO! I mean, nah mate." I almost laugh at his awkwardness, but I remain composed— well, as composed as I can possibly muster. "I mean I want this. And to answer your question, wear something warm and comfortable, I'll pick you up at six-thirty."

"I'll see you later, okay? Bye, Tris." He kisses me on the cheek and scurries off before I can say anything else.

As he leaves and I touch my right cheek where he had kissed me. A large grin fights its way onto my face. The tingles from the little intimate moment has me in an even better mood than before.

"I feel like every time I see you, you are in an even better mood than before." This time, I sit next to Christina with my lunch. Marlene and Uriah sits across from us and they bicker quietly to themselves.

I try to bite my lips to keep me from bursting with giggles. Tobias just asked me out.

"Okay, now I'm just worried. What happened to you?" She glances at me weirdly as she eats her lunch.

"Guess what?" I say, giggling. What is wrong with me.

"Oh my gosh! What, girl? You are literally killing me right now."

"Tobias asked me out on a date." The smile doesn't seem to leave off my face.

"Wait, are you fucking with me right now?" She asks.

"No, I'm not." The smiles makes its way back onto my face. "I really like him, Christina. And I'm just so damn excited."

"I know, after what he did to you last time, I was sure I was going to kick his ass the moment you two started talking to each other again. But now, seeing you two together, has my heart swelling overtime. I wish Will was as sweet to me as Tobias is to you. He's really a great guy."

"I know. He's also really hot and good-looking, same thing, but that's a plus. He's so sweet, and gah, just..perfect."

"Oh my dear Tris, you are so smitten over him. It's kind of funny. Now, what time is he going to pick you up?" Christina turns serious all of the sudden.

"He told me six-thirty, as well as to dress comfortably." I inform her.

"Wait, what are you two talking about?" Marlene asks, suddenly aware of our intense conversation.

"Tobias asked her out." Christina gleams.

"What?" Uriah asks, shell-shocked.

"Yeah…" I feel a tingle of warmth rise up onto my cheeks. "Well, technically he asked me on a date." I clarify.

"Same thing, Tris! It doesn't matter. What's important is that your relationship with him is actually going somewhere."

"Shut up, that's not true." I argue.

"Yeah whatever. But moving on, I'll be at your house at five to help you get ready and we can also finish the episode of Sherlock we never got to finish. I'm bringing the snacks, so there better be drinks when I arrive." She tells me.

I roll my eyes. "Yes, ma'am. You can come as well Marlene, and as for you, Uriah, sorry, but I'm guessing this is an all girls thing."

"Aww…I was really looking forward to painting my nails and helping you girls to mani-pedies. Thanks a lot Tris, you got me real excited for a second." He remarks sarcastically. "But seriously, I wouldn't have been able to make it anyways. I have to help my mother reposition our living room. She wants to change it up a little, whatever that means." He tells us. "I'll see you girls later, I have to help a teacher. See you Mar." I watch as he gives her a quick kiss on the top of her head.

"Isn't he the sweetest?" Marlene sighs.

"Uriah's a great person. You two are very lucky to have each other." I smile.

My mind goes back to Tobias and his perfection. Tobias is practically a bundle of warmth and a ray of sunshine in a human form. He's the perfect mixture of sweetness, intelligence (okay, that can be debatable), and he's exceptionally handsome. He's the epitome of every girl's dream— if only there were more of him in this world. Tobias is mine, though. As selfish as that may be, I'm grateful of him being in my life and I'm grateful for forgiving him for his stupid actions.

"Great, she's dreaming about Tobias again." Marlene's comment drives me back to reality.

"Oh shut up." I try to say seriously, but they end up laughing at me. Such friends.

"So Mar and I were heading back from the movies, right? I was driving when we felt this huge bump. So I pulled over the car and I realized I had ran over a raccoon." Uriah explains.

"Oh my gosh! That's terrible! How the hell did you not see it?" I say throwing a tater tot at his face.

"I didn't mean to! It was just there at the wrong time." He throws his hands up in the air. "You're not going to defend me, Marlene?"

She pops a tater top in her mouth. "Eh, I wasn't the one who was driving."

"Wow, rude." Uriah places his hand over his heart.

"Anyways, this is our stop." Uriah walks over to his car. "I'll see you guys tomorrow." I bid farewell to both Uriah and Marlene and then turn my attention towards Christina.

"You, my good friend, are my ride home."

"Yes indeed. Let's go."

"Nope." Christina throughs another article of clothing behind creating a huge stack of clothing pile.

"It took me forever to fold all of those, you know." I tell my friend. I turn on an episode of Sherlock and continue watching the episode while Christina continues to rummage through my closet for an outfit for me to wear. I don't really understand her sometimes. I am fully capable of looking for an outfit especially since I'm the one going on a date with Tobias. But hell, she enjoys doing this, so I'll let her.

"Here, try this one." I remove my t-shirt and replace it with a knitted sweater. I don't really care if she sees me in just my underwear, we're all girls here, and plus, I'm used to changing in front of a group of girls.

I pick out a pair of jean and place them to the side. I am currently content with wearing a pair of pajamas with Mickey Mouse ears.

"Nice." She tells me. She plops down onto my bed and places my laptop in front of the two of us. She surprises me by taking my hand and laying it on a portable mini tables that is usually used for laptops to place on top of people's laps. She places my hand on the flat surface and spread my fingers apart. She takes out a small nail polish bottle and begins painting them black.

"I'm here!" I think I hear Marlene's voice. Marlene comes in with a box of pizza.

"Pizza!" I nearly scream. "Thank you, thank you, Mar! I love you so much right now."

She smiles. "Now? You're supposed to love me all the time."

"Yeah sorry. I love you Mar."

"Love you too, babe."

"I'm surprised Tobias asked you out. I was seriously thinking he wouldn't have the guts to do it until at least next month, but I'm glad he finally did. The two of you really deserve each other." Marlene tells me as I watch Christina concentrating on my nails.

"You know, I heard from someone that Lauren is really trying hard to get her and Tobias back together." Christina joins the conversation.

What?

"Yeah." Mar joins in. "She's always been a pain in the ass. What surprised me the most was that Tobias never broke up with her until you confronted him, Tris."

"Yeah, well, he can be a real knucklehead sometimes. A cute, sweet, charming knucklehead." I smile.

The two of them roll their eyes. "She's smiling again."

"Shut up." I throw an article of clothing at her.

"I can't take you seriously with you smiling like that Tris." They continue to tease me. "But point is, I literally stopped caring what Lauren does with her life. She is her own person and can do whatever the hell she want to do."

Christina laughs out loud. "You know what that reminds me of, Lauren has no filter and really enjoys talking, in detail, how she likes be taken by boys. It was way too vivid, and don't get me started on how she got Tobias to be involved in that conversation."

I give her a look. "And where did you hear this from?"

"During cheer." I scrunch my nose together. Although I know that there are many students that are not virgins, many student in fact, I don't have to be reminded. Seriously.

"Oh..." My mind wanders and I am suddenly reminded of something. "Do you guys know the band Panic at the Disco?"

"Nope. Never heard of them." Marlene shakes her head, while Christina looks completely lost. I shouldn't be surprised though, Christina is more of the mainstream girl, while Mar is more into classic.

"Nevermind. But, you should listen to them. Bibo is literally my favorite person in the whole world." Brendon Urie is a freaking god.

We continue to watch Netflix on my laptop until my date with Tobias. He arrives five minute early, which is a huge surprise for me because he's probably the worst person to ever count if you need them to arrive on time.

I see him arrive into the driveway, and take my time to go downstairs. I'm excited, but he doesn't need to know that I'm way too excited.

I'm dressed up into the knitted sweater and jeans with warm boots. I hope this is fine because he told me to dress comfortable and nothing can get better than an oversized top and jeans. I allowed Marlene and Christina to eat whatever they want and watch whatever they want on my laptop (which I'm starting to debate is a good idea now that I think about it).

"Hi." I blush red when I realize that I'm actually going on a date with Tobias.

"Hey." I smile. "I brought you a box of chocolates because I know how much you really like chocolate. It's Godiva and I remember seeing you used to eat them all the time." Mm..chocolate.

"Thank you." I smile, widely. He's so considerate and such a gentleman.

I take the box from him and place it on a nearby table. I make a mental note to bring that to my room later.

I catch myself looking at him from head to toe. He's wearing khaki pants with our school sweatshirt. A red and white flannel is over his sweatshirt. Did I ever mention the fact that I find guys extremely attracted when they are wearing flannel. Or a bowtie. Bowties are cool.

I mentally scold myself for talking to myself...in my head. Even I surprise myself with how much I seem to ramble in my head sometimes. Gosh, I'm doing it again.

"Yeah, no problem."

"So," I start a conversation, "where are we heading?" He opens the passenger side door for me, allowing me to enter his car. He quickly goes to the driver's side and positions himself.

"You'll see."

He drives all the way to an modern-day looking building with at least fifty stories. He parks out in the front of the building. The building is made of glass, probably bulletproof glass so it wouldn't be easy destroyed if anything were to ever happen.

"What is this place?" I ask Tobias. He pulls out a key and unlocks the front door.

"This is my mom's office. She owns the damn thing." He smiles. "I asked if I could come here tonight for our date."

"Uhm, okay?" I don't really know what to say, so I just continue to follow him. He leads me to the elevator and brings me to the fiftieth floor.

"Tobias, where are we going?" I pull on his flannel shirt.

"Patience, Tris." He puts a finger over my lips and shuts his eyes close. I look at him strangely as his breathing starts to become labored and increased.

"Are you okay?"

"Mhm." His eyes remain shut and I continue to try to figure out what is wrong.

"Are you claustrophobic?"

"Mhm." I sigh. I try to figure out how to calm him down.

27. The elevator says.

"Hey, look at me." He stares at the floor. "Tobias, look at me dammit." He has to force his eyes towards me and it softens suddenly. I give him a small smile and take his hand in mine. His hands are so warm and so soft. The elevator finally stops signaling that we are at the top floor. I am pulled out of my trace with Tobias and he pulls me out of the elevator.

I am hit with an illuminated room with christmas lights hanging up and little fake candles. There is a huge screen in the middle of the room with a large couch in front. To the side of the rooftop is a table with a shit load of snacks.

"What? This is so cool, Tobias." The fiftieth floor, to what I learned it not another office room, but a rooftop the basically overlooks the city. I can see other small buildings in the sunset that fill the city with bright lights bringing life to it. The cars look like little ants from where I am. The sight is absolutely breath-taking. What I don't understand is how Tobias managed to do all of this because this is so amazing.

"I hope you're hungry." I hear him say from behind me. "Because I bought pizza." I follow him to the table of food which consists of a few bags of chips, fruit, juice, pizza and little vegetable platter. I fill my plate with fruits, vegetables and dip as well as some chips, but not forgetting the pizza. I go the couch as Tobias takes out his laptop and connects it the the projector. He picks out a classic movie- Home Alone 1 and sits next to me. He lays a blanket over us.

"This is amazing, Tobias. Thank you." I lean into him and he wraps his arms around me and brings me closer to him. He smells like apples and whatever deodorant he is wearing.

"It's my pleasure." I love his smile. He's one of the few people whose smiles reaches up all the way to his eyes. His eyes twinkle in the (almost) darkness and I can perfectly see the whiteness in his teeth.

After finishing my food, I toss the plate away and snuggle back with Tobias. This is nice. I feel so relaxed and so content in the moment. I just wish we could stay like this forever.

"I had an amazing night." I tell him after he walks me up to my front door.

"Me too." I take both of his hands and stare up at his face and gaze into his eyes.

"So...are you going to give me a goodnight kiss? Or should I just...Mmm..okay." His fits on mine and his arms wrap around my waist. His lips feels so good. As much as I hate to admit it, but I wouldn't mind kissing him for the rest of my life.

"G'night, Tris." His lips are so soft and so warm.

"Bye, Tobias."

The next day when he comes to my locker he asks me, "Tris, would you be my girlfriend?"

I don't even have to hesitate, "yes."