Tris POV:
"Hey, there are the two lovebirds." Shauna beams as me and Tobias sit down with our trays. It's currently breakfast and I have sun-side up egg on a piece of toast, garnished with herbs.
"Yes, here we are" I smile, and pick up my toast and bring it to my mouth. I bite down on a coroner of the crunchy toast.
"Where were you two by the way; we couldn't find you anywhere?" Uriah asks looking between me and Tobias, pointing his fork at us. I smirk inwardly, because I know what the outcome of this conversation is, but I try and fight it off. I glance at Tobias, and he has a bit of colour in his cheeks. I notice that Tobias only does that when he is caught doing something or is complimented.
"Wait, your blushing" Will squints his eyes and points at him. Causing everyone to look at Tobias. Tobias ducks his head down starts to pick at his fruit with his fork, his cheeks still stained.
"Yes, he is" Shauna laughs.
"Why are you blushing?" Uriah asks with his mouth full of fruit, pointing his fork at Tobias. In response, Tobias just shrugs and continues to twiddle is fork. Everyone looks to me for answer, because I'm the Four translator.
I give in to my smirk "Because I made him fold." There is an roar of euphoric reactions from the girls and Zeke just screams "Fuck" and slams his fist down on the table. Uriah and Will just look so pissed off, as there jaw is tense and they are glaring at Tobias. Ha! I knew I could make him fold. I gotta admit, I was scared I wasn't going to intimidate him but I was wrong! Also it does prove my point of guys being more obsessed with sex then girls.
"I'm so proud of you Tris" Christina wipes a fake tear from her eye.
"Thanks, Chrissy and even more thanks to you for that amazing dress" I laugh, but seriously that dress did wonders, and it made me feel like a boss woman.
"Anytime Tris" She winks, and takes a bite of eggs.
"So you could go two years without sex and now you can't go without it for a couple of days; unbelievable" Zeke scoffs at Tobias and crosses his arms over his chest. I don't like how he is talking to Tobias, but I'm not gonna fight his battles for him. So I keep my mouth shut to see how this plays out.
Tobias raises his head, and the blush disappears from his cheeks. He has is 'Four' mask on now, you know the look where he looks cold and emotionless. It's like he is in a staring competition with someone else but he is always winning. "I obviously can go it with out, duh, I'm not an asshole. And-"
"-Beg to differ" Zeke mutters, cutting him off.
Tobias' face doesn't even twitch with a reaction, he continues "You guys, where doing it to see which gender is the most obsessed with sex-" Everyone's mouths opens to protest but he holds up a finger, effectively shutting them all up. "As I was saying, I think that is extremely unfair to say that just one gender is addicted to sex because in reality it depends on the person ;not all men are are obsessed with sex, for example, me- I'm living proof of that. And the same goes for all women. What I was playing for, is similar, but my intention was not to win a political argument. It was just to see who could go without sex the longest but for fun." He finishes his lecture and bends his head to eat some more of his eggs. My man is so intelligent and I love it, what he said is true, but statistically men are and I can back that argument up easily, by just going into the bar ,for example. And it's okay that me and Tobias don't agree on the same thing all the time; I mean opposites attract.
Shauna smirks at Tobias "The man has a point you know."
Marlene nods "Yeah, I see where he is coming from, it does depend on the person but I still think men are more obsessed" I agree with her.
"I agree with you Marlene, statistically thinking men are, and that is a fact and you Erudite's love your facts" I smile sweetly at Will, causing him to huff at me and rolls his eyes. Me and Christina laugh at his reaction.
Lynn points at me "Exactly, you can't argue with the facts."
Uriah rolls his eyes at us "Well I still think women are, but I won't argue any further. At least you women don't have to spend a night in a sweaty gym."
"OH MY GOD" Will groans loudly, whilst rubs his hands down his face. Oh yeah, I forgot Will is like the biggest germaphobe ever, he hates sweart, dirt, phlegm and mucus; the place to find all of that in one place is the gym! It is really a mystery how he got through initiation!
Zeke laughs at him "Oh yeah, Mr Germaphobe is going to freak."
"I hate going to that place, I obviously have no choice since I have to keep fit, but every time I go there I sanitise every piece of equipment before using it. Can I please bring my hand sanitiser?" He removes his hand from his face and looks at us with pleading eyes.
"No way José, it's supposed to be gross and disgusting, that's why Tris suggested it." Lynn shoots him a 'duh' look. Unfortunately, everyone nods in agreement, even Christina! I kinda feel bad for him but at the same time a deal is a deal.
"Even you, Chris?" he looks at her like a kicked puppy. She gives him a sad smile and kisses his cheek "It wouldn't be fair, babe". He sighs defeated and resumes eating his fruit.
"Anyway, when are we going to the hell hole" Uriah scoffs, picking at his eggs with his fork.
Tobias lifts his head up "Tomorrow?" he offers, glancing at the guys.
"Yeah, whatever let's just get it over and done with." Zeke says. Uriah and Will nod sadly.
"Look on the bright side guys," the guys look at me hopefully "at least you get to make friends with little rats." I smile sweetly and all their faces drop, all the girls laugh at their facial expressions.
"Bitch" Zeke mutters 'under his breath' but loud enough for me and the rest of the table to hear. What did he just call me? We stop laughing immediately and Tobias stiffens beside me but I put my hand on his forearm, silently communicating that I will handle this. Thankfully, he relaxes and lets me take the reigns. I turn my attention to Zeke and glare at him, his eyes flickers from his plate to me and stiffens when he catches my inflamed glare.
"EZEKIEL," Shauna scolds, she is about to say more when I raise my hand up to stop her.
"Don't worry, Shaun, I will handle this." I suck my teeth and continue to glare at him, trying so hard not to blink or it will ruin my plan. His eyes grow wide with fear and he quickly focuses on his plate.
"No," I snap my fingers at him "Look at me" He raises his head and looks like he shat himself. His eyes are wide and I can see his bottom lip trembling, the fork in his hand is shaking, but that is because his hands are quivering out of fear. I smirk inwards, I never knew I was that scary! I can feel everyone's eyes on me, but I try not to let it break my performance.
"Tell me, Ezekiel; what did you just call me?" I narrow my eyes at him, my nostrils start to flare.
"I- I called you a b-bitch" he stutters out quietly
I reach my hand up to my ear and push it forward "Sorry, what was that?" I ask sarcastically
"I-I said, called y-you a b-bitch" he tries again, louder this time but he is still fumbling over his words.
I drop my hand "Exactly, you don't even have the balls to say it to my face without being scared " he shrinks back in his seat. Good. Don't ever call me a bitch again.
I lean across the table, as he is sitting right across from me. I get close to his face, leaving about 15 centimetres of space between us. Beads of sweat are collecting on his forehead. He squirms as he takes in my flaring nostrils; seeing how pissed off I really am.
"The next time you say something like that to me or anyone else. I will break your spine and rip it out of your body and make it into a my own xylophone. You got it?" He gulps and nods. I return to my place next to Tobias and bend my head to eat my toast. A few seconds into eating, I notice that there is no sound coming from our table. I swallow my bite and I look up to find everyone gaping at me.
"What?" I shrug, I feel a little colour forming on my cheeks from the attention.
"Tris- that was fucking incredible" Christina laughs. I give her a small smile; thankful.
"Yeah, I mean who knew a little Abnegation girl could be so scary" Uriah praises. Hey! I'm not little, I'm now pushing 5''4!
"Dude, your woman is scary; almost as scary as you" Will chortles and points at Tobias
I turn my head towards Tobias and he is already looking at me; his eyes are darkened and his lips are parted. Did that...? Did that turn him on? Since his body is already facing me, I glance down to his crotch and a tent has been formed. Huh, I guess it did. But I don't want him to be ridiculed for it when he gets up, so I lightly slap his arm to break him out of his haze. He jerks and blinks, bringing him back to reality.
"Four, do you think I'm as scary as you?" I cock me head to this side. He swings his leg back over the bench so that he facing the group again, but his head is still turned to me.
"I'm not gonna lie, yes you are, hell sometimes even more. When you were speaking to Zeke like that, I felt scared for him."After a few minutes of everyone talking, the conversation disperses into a few mini conversations. I take this as an opportunity to talk to Tobias. He so engrossed in his food, his brows are furrowed , like he is deep in thought. I lean to kiss his cheek and he turns his head to me, he swallows the food he was chewing and smiles at me.
"A penny for your thoughts?" I ask, taking another bite of my toast.
"I was just thinking about what Max asked me to do today, he wants me and Zeke to take down a few cameras from the some of the hallways. And when I asked why, he just said because there is too many and besides we are Dauntless, we should be able to take on anything." Tobias scoffs. Take down cameras?
"Why would he want that, does he not care for the people's safety at all?" I don't like where this is going. First the blueprint and now this? The people's safety aren't in their minds and it's pissing me off. Maybe we should add an extra leader, one who will actually make sensible decisions.
"That's what I'm thinking, and to back it up with we are Dauntless, we can take on anything doesn't justify shit." He says exasperated. Just then an idea pops into my head.
"Because I'm a dauntless leader, I can override instructions. Do as Max says and take down the video cameras and-" I pause because he looks confused "Bare with me" I say and he nods "anyway, take down the cameras and replace them with micro cameras, the ones that are hardly noticeable and are used for laparoscopy. As the cameras are placed in the corners of walls in hallways, place them there and no one will notice as they are hardly noticeable. In fact, I can go with you tonight to plant some more so we can see what is going on here, because they know something is about to happen." Why else would Max want to take cameras down.
He nods in understanding "I definitely think the blueprint and this is connected." Tobias is right they are both too weird to be coincidences, everything happens for a reason.
"Oh, a 100%, we should use the mini cameras to
spy on them and see what they are conspiring" I say
"Yeah, I agree"
"Anyway, are you going to the council today?" He asks, switching the lanes of the conversation. Oh my God! I forgot I had to go today! But I think I have to be there at twelve and I think it's only around eight-thirty so, I got some time to kill.
"Yeah" I groan "Thanks for reminding me"
He gives me a cocky smile, "No problem, baby- Oh yeah, Amar and George are coming round later today for dinner at our place" Nice, I like Amar and George.
"What do you wanna make?"
"Some burgers and some salad, what do you think?"
"That's sounds good;you know, you are really good cook." I smirk
"Really?" He grins
"Yeah, the food taste amazing but another pro is that you are irresistibly sexy when you cook" I wiggle my eyebrows. He laughs and leans forward to press a kiss to my forehead.
"But most of my cooking skills are dedicated to Hana, she taught me how to cook." He says reminiscing with a smile. I love how Hana is a mother to all; parental love brings tears of joy and sadness to my eyes.
"I will tell her thank you, because without her you would probably be eating dirt." I joke, and he snaps back out of his memories and looks offended.
"You think that low of me?" He asks, shocked, but we both know we are just kidding around.
"Yes" I smirk, he just gives me a playful glare and I laugh.
"But I don't commend her for you being so sexy, you did that all on your own" I wink, calming my laughter down.
"Gee, Thanks" he chuckles, I lean in and press a kiss to his cheek.
"Oh, by the way on the way home from the council. Can you stop at the Supermarket and get a pack of toothbrushes, I accidentally dropped mine in the toilet this morning." He smiles at me sheepishly.
"How do you drop toothbrush in the toilet?" I ask,amused
"I was brushing my teeth and I needed to pee, so I took my toothbrush to the toilet, I just kept it in my mouth and I did my business. When I was finished, I opened my mouth, forgetting that there was a toothbrush in there. And it fell in the toilet as it was flushing." He shyly explains.
"How do you forget that there is a toothbrush in your mouth?" I start laughing, he shrugs then starts laughing with me.
"Yeah, how do you forget that there is a toothbrush in your mouth. " I hear Zeke laugh, that snaps us out of our bubble and turn my head to face the rest of the group, to find they are all staring at us like it's their favour scene from a movie. I don't know, how I didn't register the lack of noise, for most of the time me and Tobias were talking. I guess when I'm with him the whole world is drowned out. In the corner of my eye, I see Tobias turn his head to face everyone, realising that we have an audience. We both glance at each other, then we turn away blushing.
"You guys are so cute." Christina squeals, clapping her hands together like some fan girl.
"Yeah, you guys could totally have your own romance show." Marlene laughs. Nah, too much drama. I hate and love them so much as they are so emotionally manipulative; one minute I can be happy for them, the next minute I'm crying my eyes out.
"Four is such a cutie, isn't he" Zeke says in baby language, jutting out his lower lip.
"Who asked you, dickhead." Four snaps.
"Oh, don't want to get the wittle guy mad" Zeke teases, and he erupts with his howls of laughter.
"Sorry, about him" Shaun, glances between Tobias and I, apologetically.
"It's fine; it's Zeke. I'm used to the big asshole by now." Tobias chuckles lightly. Zeke stops his laughing immediately and glares at him.
"I'm not an asshole" he tries to defend. Oh for the love of God!
Tobias snorts "Yeah, if we were in an alternate universe, maybe."
"You know what you motherfucker-"
I cut him off, not in the mood for any more. "Okay, everyone give it up for Ezekiel Pedrad, he has been great at pissing off people" I smile and clap sarcastically. Zeke narrows his eyes at me but, I can see he doesn't really mean it, because the corners of his mouth twitch. Everyone at our table, claps and stomps their feet for him. He stands up, with his spoon in his hand.
He dramatically puts a hand over his heart and wipes fake tears from his eyes. He raises the spoon to his lips, so it can be a microphone.
"I just like to thank you all- I'm gonna cry, oh my God" he waves his free hand in his face to 'calm his tears'. "I get so emotional when it comes to this shit guys, anyway I'd like to thank my family" he points at Uriah, who winks at him "without you I wouldn't be able to piss people off easily, thank you, brother." Uriah rolls his eyes and laughs.
"I'd like to thank my amazing girlfriend, who has to put up with my antics everyday." Shauna snorts and nods.
"And finally, I'd like to thank my friends, whom I tease every day. Except Tris she now scares me, shitless and I kinda like being a live." The whole table breaks out with laughter and we clap and holler for Zeke, who fake curtsies, making us laugh even harder, and he sits back down.
"I love being a comedian." He genuinely grins, watching us die of laughter. I'm so happy I have Zeke in my life, yes he can piss me off but he reminds me of a big brother. I also love how I have a group of friends that I can laugh and chat with, I have never had that before and I'm glad I get to be apart of the experience.
We chat more until everyone has to go to work. I give Tobias a hug and kiss, then I walk to my office and I plan to stay there until 10:30 so, I cant be late for the council meeting.
Sorry for the long wait! Life has been a bit up and down recently but I managed to finish this chapter! :)
