Chapter 19 - They brought the torture to me

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Tobias Pov

Tris gets up to open the door and lets out a scream. I jump up from the couch sprinting towards the door. I see Tris leaning against the doorframe with a look of pure horror at what is outside the door, which is opened just a crack. I open the door a bit more and see why she screamed. Christina who owns a clothing store (A/n I changed Christina's job so that this chapter made more sense) With a whole clothing rack with dresses and heels and all sorts of other clothing. I am laughing so hard that I need to lean on the wall for support. Tris said she couldn't go out shopping because she couldn't walk that far, so the girls brought the shops to Triss instead of Tris to the shops. This way she won't even need to leave the apartment, whoever thought of this is a genius. I open the door and pull Tris against my chest so Christina can roll the clothing rack inside, while Tris looks defeated. I hand Tris over to Shauna and Marlene and whisper in Christina's ear,

"Put her in something she's comfortable in but something a little more revealing than she'd like..."

"Don't worry, you're gonna love the things I picked out for her." She tells me in an evil voice. 


Tris pov

Oh no, they brought the torture to me instead of me to the torture. They set me down on the couch and begin showing me dresses and practically forcing me to try them on if I hesitated. So eventually I try on 45 dresses from the 60 or so they brought. With all 44 dresses, I said no, they were too revealing and I just didn't feel comfortable in it. There was one dress left. It was dark green and made of some soft comfortable fabric. It dips down pretty low with two straps that cross and go around my neck. It's pretty revealing but yet comfortable. "I love it... I mean I like it more than the other ones" I say. Okay, that is the one! They all squeal and before I know it I'm pushed back into the bathroom to change and they are hanging all the other dresses neatly on the clothing rack. I change back into my leggings and Tobias' shirt. He snuck out after about 15 minutes with the excuse he needed to help Zeke, Amar, and George to set up for the party, but I think it had something to do with Christina saying something to him the minute before he left. When I open the door of the bathroom I am dragged towards a chair, and I am poked and prodded in the face by Christina while Shauna pulls on my hair and suffocates me in a shit load of hairspray.

After an hour of coughing and the girls telling me to sit still and stop complaining they pull me out of the chair and push me back into the bathroom where I put on the dress with a tube top, shorts, and a panty (the see-through legging thingy) underneath and my leather jacket on top. When I'm done changing I walk out of the bathroom and Christina hands me black high heels with thin straps with little sparkly thingies. They aren't that high and I have walked on higher heels so I consider myself lucky that I'm probably not going to break my feet today. I grab my black clutch and the girls are almost ready to go so after half an hour of making jokes with Lynn about how her heels are so high she wouldn't be confused when she stands and her head would appear in space. We head out and walk to Amar and George's apartment. We knock on the door and when it swings open we're hit with the amazing smell of freshly baked dauntless cake. While we awe over the amazing smell the boys are standing there wide-eyed with their mouths open. When we walk in Christina calls them out on it,

"Close you're mouths you're gonna catch flies," She says. All their mouths imminently shut and I sneak into the kitchen to see George frosting the cake. 

"Hey, George!" I say cheerily, "Whatcha doing?"

"Hey Tris!" he greets me and a blush creeps onto my cheeks, "And if you're trying to get a piece before everyone else it won't work, whatever you do." I pout, and he sighs, 

"The bowl the batter was in is over there," he says pointing towards the kitchen island.  Like a little kid, I jump up and sit on the island and sit with the bowl in my lap, scooping up the batter left in the bowl with my finger and licking it off. "I get why Four loves you, you're charms are irresistible" He jokes.

"George?" I ask, he hums while smoothing out the frosting "Why is the batter almost better than the actual cake?" He laughs and shrugs. "I don't know, it took me a while to get the recipe perfect tho."

"Must have, Dauntless cake is better than all the other foods I've tasted," I say, shuddering at the thought of the bland abnegation food, because all it did was feed you, nothing more. Most of the time it didn't even taste good and the texture was awful most of the time, so when I came to Dauntless the only thing I wanted to make from Abnegation was the scrambled eggs. That was my favorite food before I tasted Dauntless cake, now it's just my favorite breakfast, no that is a lie. I love those pear pancakes from some ancient person who was called something like Jamie Oliver I think? The erudite found out that there was something called YouTube before the war. You could watch anything on it including recipes, the cafeteria ladies were kind enough to make those pancakes for me when Tobias had written down a random recipe from YouTube in the control room, which is the only place here in Dauntless that has advanced enough technology to watch YouTube. I feel my eyes stinging from staring off into space that long, and when I blink I see that George is standing in front of me waving the air in front of me to wake me out of my trans.

"Hey Tris, you in there?" George asks. I nod. There is a comfortable silence for a few minutes as George begins to clean up the kitchen while I'm still eating the batter

Tobias steps into the kitchen breaking the silence, "Amar said the kitchen was off-limits for me when I tried to walk after the most beautiful lady I've ever seen." He says chuckling a bit. He walks towards me and when I dip my finger into the bowl again to eat a little bit of batter he licks it off my finger.

"Hey!" I yell "That was mine!" I pout and go on eating the batter while Tobias jumps up on the counter next to me and helps me clean out the bowl. After a few minutes, I see George staring at us. So I raise my eyebrows at him and he says

"You are the cutest couple ever, even Waffles and Chewie can't tip that."

"Well while I'm flattered you're wrong, I ship ChewieWaffles over us," I say kissing Tobias' cheek

"Me two" Zeke calls

"Me three" That would be Uriah

"Me Four," Tobias says with a goofy grin.

"What did we agree with?" Uriah asks peeking his head into the kitchen.

"That we ship ChewieWaffles over us," Tobias says

"Nah uh, I take back what I said FourTris is better than ChewieWaffles, sorry guys!" He yells to the barking dogs. 

"Alright, who wants to do Candor or Dauntless?" Zeke yells through the apartment. We all gather in a circle and Zeke goes first

"Tris, Candor, or Dauntless?"

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