Learning to Let Them In | Fourtris

Chapter 34

Chapter 34

It took the whole car ride back plus 20 minutes in the hotel room, but I've finally figured out what my plan is.

First, I need to call Christina.

"Hey, I'm gonna call Christina, okay? I wanna talk to her," I say to Tobias and get up from off the bed.

"Why not just go to her room?" he asks and raises his eyebrow, already suspecting as I grab my phone. But I don't worry; I've already planned for this question.

"I'm not sure if I really want to go to her room uninvited...Christina isn't as private about her love life as most people and, well...she likes to give details. Like details details...about...you know…" I say as convincingly as possible. It works. His eyebrow drops and he makes a face.

"Thanks for that visual, Tris."

"Hey, you asked!"

"Yeah, but you at least could've made up another excuse for my ears, Tris," he says, still with that face.

"Well I'm so sorry for upsetting my little baby over here," I say and ruffle his hair. He grunts at me and turns back to the TV. I would probably laugh if I didn't feel so bad for lying to him.

I step outside the hotel room with a keycard so I can get back in when I'm done. I go to the elevator at the end of the hallway and ride down to the main floor that way no one will hear me (*cough* Tobias. *cough*).

I sit down on one of the couches in the lobby and dial Christina's number from memory. It rings a few times, and I start to think that maybe she won't answer. At last minute, she picks it up.

"Hey Tris!"

"Hey Christina!"

"What's up?"

"I need a little favor…."

I can tell she's debating whether or not to do it.

"Christina, at least listen to what it is first! Then decide!"

I hear her sigh. "Okay, okay, fine. What is this so called favor?"

"Can you organize, like, I don't know, some sort of group get-together?"

"Yeah, of course! I thought you gonna ask something else! What do you want to do?!"

"Actually Christina...I'm not going to be in this," I say cautiously choosing my words.

"Wait-what?" she asks confused.

"I need you to get a mandatory group get-together, but I won't be joining."

"Okay, you're going to have to explain more than that." I hear the finality in her tone. I sigh and go along with it.

"I just really need some time to myself where I can think and get lost in my thoughts. But I know To-Four won't leave me if he thinks something is wrong, so I need you to get the group together and do something." I desperately try to continue on without sounding suspicious and swear to double my amount of caution from here on out. I almost just said Tobias' name in front of Christina!

"He still won't leave! I don't see how this is going to-"

"That's why I need you to get the whole group together! Come to our room and drag him out if you have to!"

"Wait- Tris, is there something wrong?"

I slightly shake my head and frown. "What do you mean?"

"Did you two have a fight?" she asks gently.

"No! Christina! We didn't have a fight! I just really need to think about some things for a while!"

"Like what?"