Forever and Always

Chapter 11

*hi!! So, I can't update every day and I'm really sorry. But I will do my best to update when ever I can! So, let me know if you want other POVs and I will do it! First Day of my Summer break! Let me know if your already out or when your getting out and I will sympathize everyone who isn't out yet. Bye*

Tris POV

By the time Four comes back, the gang has gone to go get their food. So it's just me and him for right now. "You sure you don't want to eat?" He asks. I nod. He furrows his eyebrows, but let's the subject drop.

The gang comes and sits and I get asked tons of questions. "Aren't you going to eat?" Will asks. I shake my head. Then, of course, their is the questions about my crutches. "What happened?" Zeke asks. "It looks like you got hot by a bus." He finishes. Gee. Thanks. I already know this. I give him a sarcastic thank you smile and his eyes widen when he realizes what he said. "No offense!" He says quickly. Four is giving him a death stare. "Be careful what you say when I'm around." He threatens. Christina chimes in. "Peter just broke a couple of her ribs, that's all." She says like it's no big deal. I'm thankful she said it like that though.

After a few minutes, I feel someone touch my shoulder. I jump and turn around, praying that it isn't Peter. It's not. It's Caleb. "Hey. You feeling better?" He asks. I nod for his sake. "Good. Um...I need to talk to you." He says. I feel wave of fear invade my body. The way he said that...something's wrong. So, I just nod my head. He helps me up and we walk out to the hallway, which is empty, and he leads me to a corner. We sit down.

"Uh, I don't really know how to put this." After a moment of silence, he speaks again. "Dad called me. He said that Mom was back," I feel more fear rush across my body, "And that this time, it's different. She was threatening you, saying she was really going to kill you this time, she apparently thinks that you ran away and she said that she saw you drinking, and that you told everyone about her." More fear, more fear, more fear. "She was so drunk that she imagined all this and it seems like it really happened. She said that the threat that she threatened you with when you were 8, that she'd kill us if you told, she...she said that your just going to get a beating that you'll remember instead." He finally finishes. My breath hitches. No, no, no. "I'm so sorry Tris." Through the fear, I manage to shrug like it's no big deal and I open my mouth to say something, but no sound follows. He hands me a sheet of paper. I write 'it's no big deal. I'll live.' On it and he gives me a half smile. Then he gets up and leaves.

I feel tears running down my face, and I'm shaking. I realize that I'm in a hallway, where anyone can see, so I manage to get up and lock myself in a girl's bathroom stall. I let the tears fall as the fear just completely takes over my body. Then, about 2 minutes later, I hear knocking on the stall door. "Tris?" I can hear the smile on this person's face. "Tris?" That's when I hear it. The voice belongs to Caleb. He's still laughing and I hear my stall door open. I see Caleb standing there with a huge smile across his face. "I won!" He proclaims. I look at him in confusion. "See, Peter, the guy who beat you up, said that I wasn't brave enough to make you cry. Which is pretty hard, by the way. But I did it! And all that stuff about Mom was a lie. That was how I got you to cry!" He says. WHAT!! Who jokes about being abused!

I quickly stand up and grab my crutches. I walk by Caleb in a hurry. I thought he was better than this. Then I remember Four's words, 'they just don't understand.' He's right. They don't. I sorta jogged out of the bathroom with crutches. Or, walked as fast as possible. I slowed down before I got into the cafeteria. I didn't want it to look like something was wrong.

I walked in casually and sit down next to Four. "Everything okay?" He asks. I nod. "Good." He kissed my forehead. After a few more minutes, the bell rings for science.

Four helps me up and we go to science. Well, I go. He has to get his transfer slip from the office. I sit next to Peter and get out my things. I have my homework out on my desk, ready to go, and I start to draw, to get my mind off Peter. When I hear the door open I stuff my drawing paper into my binder. Four walks in with a yellow transfer slip. He goes up to Mr. Langley and hands him the note. He looks over it and says, "You can sit on the other side of Beatrice, over there. Maybe your grades will rub off on her." I feel my face get hot but at least Four is next to me. He sits down and smiles. I do too, but mine is more of a self conscious smile. Then, class begins.

"Okay everyone! We have a student that has transferred so go ahead and introduce yourself." Four stands up. "I'm Four." He says, then sits down. He's real simple. "Well, hopefully we won't have another idiot in the classroom. I just couldn't stand two." He says. "Okay, today we will talk about minerals. But before we do...I want to see if Beatrice actually knows this stuff. Beatrice. What can only scratch a diamond?" I stay silent. I know only a diamond can scratch a diamond, but I can't talk. "Oh. Well look what we have here. She's even stupider than we thought!" Mr. Langley exclaims. "I didn't know that was possible!" Peter chimes in. I feel my face get warm. Four has tensed up beside me, but the subject drops. Mr. Langley starts to teach and at the end of the class he says, "Beatrice! I need your homework! Now!!" He proclaims. I get up and hand him it. He narrows his eyes but I go sit down. "I think we're all a bit curious, why is your name Beatrice? Beatrice means happy of bringer of mean joy. You don't make anyone happy. You certainly don't bring joy. I mean who would want to be around you? Your ugly, stupid, you don't look like the other girls-" He keeps going but I drown it out. I feel tears running down my face. Then, it happens. Four gets up and says, "Since when are you Mr. Perfect? You have flaws just like she does!" Then the bell rings.

I race down the hall. I go outside and start to go as fast as I can go, to get home. As more tears fall I think, he didn't deny it, he didn't deny it, he didn't deny it. I don't want to see Four ever again. I storm up to my room when I get home 30 minutes later. My dad's not home, he always comes straight from work when he picks us up. I take a shower and when I get out I close my blinds and curtains. I don't want Four to even see me inside the house. I go and lay down and 40 minutes later, when school would get out, I get a text from him.

F- Tris? Are u ok? Did u go home?

I don't respond. 5 minutes later, he texts me again.

F- Tris please answer me.

I don't answer. 3 minutes later I get another text from him.

F- Please answer. I care about you.

I still don't answer and then I hear Caleb come upstairs with Dad behind him. Dad comes in. "Are you okay princess? You weren't there when I picked up Caleb." I nod and grab a sheet of paper. I write, 'I just wanted to walk' on it. He nods and leaves. I lay down and eventually fall asleep.

*so I know it's shorter than usual but I had 1,000 more words but my thing went crazy and deleted it so I went back and I was really mad. Anyway, I'm not sure if I should continue it. I'll continue it if I get 3 votes. Or a super nice comment. Bye.*

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(Made it up.)