Effulgent

Chapter 21

Tobias POV

I hate keeping things from Tris but I have to hide what happened with Lauren on the way to her place from mine after my shower. Obiviously  she can see that something's wrong with me but dosen't ask me about it. But I just can't stop thinking about the encounter with Lauren on the way here....

I just finished showering and , Oh crap!! I forgot to tell Tris. I gotta go quickly.

But on the way there, I run into the last person I wanted to see today. Lauren. Her face looks tear- stained and her hair is disheveled like it hasn't been brushed for days.

" Lauren? Are you okay?" I ask.

"No, I'm obviously not!!" She screams at me and starts crying."What do you even see in her that I don't have?!"

Then I realise that she's talking about Tris. I know she was angry with me for rejecting her but I didn't know that she was so angry. But she has to know that I love Tris. So I decide to tell her.

"Lauren, listen. You know I love Tris an- " I'm angrily interrupted by her.

"Stop saying that! Stop talking about...h-her!" She yells while crying.She grabs hold of my collar and twists her fingers into my shirt. I try to push her away but fail miserably. She starts rocking me back and forth violently. " Break up with her and date me!" She screams.

"No, I can't and I won't! Now, let go of me!" I yell back.

"Why?!" She asks me.

"You don't like me?!" She cries.

" What I meant was I don't like you in that way! I've only liked you as a friend!" I say to her.

She looks as if someone just sucked the life out of her. She slowly backs away from me.

"You don't like me!" She says and keeps repeating it. Suddenly she screams and runs somewhere. I follow her to make sure she doesn't anything stupid. She goes to the edge of the chasm and turns to look at me.

" Goodbye, Four." She says and jumps. Leaving me in a state of shock. What just happened here?! She just commited suicide. I turn away and make my way to Tris's.

I don't say any of this to Tris. She will get flustered. But guilt is killing me slowly.