What could have happend

Chapter 16 -Can't wait for eternity

Zeke Pov

I was so excited and furious and happy all at once when I found out that Amar was back. But after he revealed himself, Four told me that he was going to give Tris a promise ring and needed our help. I couldn't stop that big goofy smile of mine, that's how Uri calls it, from appearing on my face and staying there for a long while. I mean could you imagine big, mean scary Four is going to do one of the softest things ever? He's giving his girlfriend of two or three months I think it was, a promise ring. A promise ring! I never even thought of giving one to Shauna. Wait! Now I have something to tease him with. Hahaha, Four is going soft, Four is going soft. I mumble in a sing-song voice while preparing dinner for tonight.

Four only told me this morning, but we're going to find the perfect promise ring, and maybe if we find a matching one or we get like the perfect wow, that is the one thingy, then also an engagement ring. All for Tris! She's like the little sister Uri and I never had, and I swear if Four ever hurts her I will hurt him. But yay, my little Four is growing up!

"I'm so excited, I just can't hide it." I sing as I set the table, and use the wooden spoon I stirred the food with I am preparing as a microphone. When Shauna comes home, I just can't wait to tell her!

I hear a key slide into the keyhole and the door opens to reveal my beautiful girlfriend. I walk towards her, take her hand to make her do a pirouette thingy, and after I dip her while planting my lips on hers. After what feels like a minute or so we break away and I set her on her feet again.

"Oh, I smell food!" She yells excitedly. That never gets old. I love her so much and I can't wait to..... 

Eat Dauntless cake tonight...., no! Zeke focus, I mentally scold myself. I can't wait to someday call her my wife, but the thought of proposing makes me shit my pants. I'm hungry, so I sit down with Shauna at our simple dinner table and we say grace. After we dig into the food devouring it. After she walks towards the freezer and pulls out some Dauntless cake! I can't believe she hid that from me! That night I discover that frozen Dauntless cake is even better than regular. NO! That is not true! Actually, it is, but that's not the point, it's not what I wanted to say! I meant to say that that night I discovered that I want to wake up every morning next to her for the rest of my life, I want her to be the mother of my children, I want her to be mine, forever.

Tobias Pov

It's been a while since Tris was shot and she is still in the hospital. She has practiced walking on crutches with Caleb who is her physical therapist. If everything goes as planned she will be back in Dauntless on Friday night. Today I'm going ring shopping with Zeke and Uriah tho, so that should be interesting. Amar couldn't help today because he and George are getting an apartment today if they are let back into Dauntless. I hope they are, for their sake and mine, I need them to be Dauntless again, I need them again to be those parents that I never had. I finish that thought while walking into Uriah's hallway.

"Zekey is going soft, Zekey is going soft!" Uri yells in a singsong voice so loud that I hear it from the other end of the hallway when I walk towards Uriah's apartment. I am laughing so hard when I knock on the door that I need to lean against the door to not fall over. Of course, the door is being pulled open when I lean with all my weight against the door, resulting in me falling face-first on the floor. Luckily I didn't break my nose, I mean I could have.

A little while later we're on our way to the jewelry store when I hear Zeke say something along the lines of: If I find the right ring I'm gonna go it. So when I walk next to him I throw my arm over his shoulder and lean into his ear.

"Is my bestie tying the not?" I say in his ear so happy that he finally found the courage to do it that I may be saying it a little louder than I meant. 

"AHHHH, Four! Now I have ear thingy damage!" He yells, while my face is still close to his ear, causing me to also get 'ear thingy damage'. 

"But are you?" I ask still waiting for my answer. Zeke's cheeks are turning crimson red and I let out a laugh. I've never seen Zeke blush, and it's kinda cute, I get why Shauna loves him. But my heart is for Tris and her only.

"Yeah, I mean if I find the right ring I will be," He says still blushing. We get to the jewelry store and we look around for a little while before I hear a gasp and I am being pulled away from the rings I was looking at. Uriah is happily jumping up and down while pointing at a beautiful ring with a round black stone and a few diamonds framing it. It's pretty, but it isn't quite what I'm looking for. I look at the ring next to it, and it is perfect. It's a ring with an oval gemstone with a black, super dark blueish color and two diamonds next to it. Next to the diamonds, there is on both sides a little pointy oval-shaped sapphire with a silver-colored band, though it could be white gold. Just like Tris, simple, stunning, not too plain. Perfect. But that would be an engagement ring. I look at a few rings and find the perfect match, a thin band set with little diamonds all around, and on the front, the metal is bent into a V-shape (see picture above). Zeke falls in love with the ring Uriah pointed out and he gets it for Shauna. For some reason, he can't wait to propose. Like really can't wait, like wants to propose as soon as possible can't wait. We decided that a night truth or dare would be a perfect moment to ask. He looks like he is so nervous he's soiling his pants, but that look disappears as fast as it came. We buy the rings and head back to our apartments, I can't wait to give Tris the ring, I know it's very soon to give her a promise ring but it already feels like I have known her for 3 years instead of 3 months and 24 days. And only 3 months and 10 days have gone by since that first kiss below the chasm. And I already can't wait to call her my wife.