Learning to Let Them In | Fourtris

Chapter 9

Chapter 9

Four/Tobias' POV

As Tris and I sit down at the lunch table, I can't help noticing how closed off she is from everyone. She observes every move that anyone makes and looks like she is cautious around everyone…like one wrong move and something will blow up. It's like she doesn't even know what friends are.

She is mysterious, careful, and doesn't talk, which makes me wonder what ever happened to make her like that. Maybe she was abused…like me. Surely not though… I was abused for ages and still talk and I made friends. It must have been something having to deal with friends or family…I hope. No one should have to be abused by their OWN family. It just isn't right. That's why I don't call Marcus "dad". He doesn't deserve that.

I start to talk to Zeke, but I still wonder about Tris. What happened to her? I look over at her every once in a while. I am suddenly being pulled into a conversation with everyone about last week's paintball match. In that match, Uriah got shot in the butt by Zeke and I, so when Marlene brings it up, everyone starts laughing hysterically. Even Uriah does.

I look back over at Tris while I am laughing and see her eyes start to well up with tears. What did we do!? I see her get up and run off. She has a half-eaten apple in her hand and I see her throw it away as she goes. She didn't eat barely anything! What happened!?

Everybody must've seen this too, because we all look at each other and get up and run. I can tell everyone is worried about her even if we haven't even known her for a day. Uriah even leaves half of his Dauntless cake behind. Wow…I never thought I'd see the day! "Guys, wait!" I say. Everyone stops to look at me. "Have you ever thought that we may need a teacher? I mean, we need access to all the rooms we can get to." "Ya…I guess we do. Who should we recruit?" Uriah says. "I think we all know this." Shauna says. Of course we do.

We all run to Tori's room. She's pretty cool, even though she's new here. She's the best teacher for this job! Once we get there, we all burst in shouting different things. It's so jumbled and loud that I can't hear myself speak. "WAIT! SHUT UP!" Tori shouts. We all shut up instantly. "Now I need one person to explain to me what the heck is happening!?" Uriah steps up. "Well, Tris ran off at lunch. Where to? I don't know. We need access to a lot of rooms and we knew you would be the best teacher to help us look and everything…so…here we are now. We've got to find her!" Then he mumbles, "I left my Dauntless cake behind for this." Of course. I roll my eyes. I knew he would remember his cake sooner or later. Unfortunately, it was sooner.

Tori noticeably paled when Uriah explained that Tris ran off. Why? I don't know. Maybe it's because she's new and could get hurt? No...Tori could handle that. I don't know why she paled white as a ghost, but I will find out most likely. Tori says, "Well...what are we waiting for? Let's go find Tris!" She grabs a set of keys as we run out the door. For a teacher, she is pretty fit. She runs just as fast as us, maybe even faster than some. We try door after door, but there is absolutely no sign of her at all. Then I remember the Pit. She obviously wouldn't have run off if she wanted to be found right away. She went some place where she knew she wouldn't be found for a long time. I tell this to the group. "Hey guys! We need to check somewhere like the Pit! Only the Dauntless know about it, but nobody goes there during school most of the time. It's hard to find. She probably went there or somewhere else where she knew she couldn't be found." I say. Everyone sits there for a minute, taking the idea in. Tori nods her head and says, "Yes. That's probably a great place to search." So we head to the Pit.

We get there and start searching every shop, every room, just everywhere you could possibly imagine. We even check behind the dang fake plants. But she's not there! You can tell that Tori is getting mad. "TRIS!" Christina yells. We all look at her like she's crazy. She just shrugs and says, "I know it isn't the best idea, but this is what it's come down to. Why not? What have we got to lose? Tris, Please!" I guess the idea isn't bad.