Divergent UNIVERSITY ✅

chapter 34

The next morning Four wakes before Tris. He goes down to the kitchen to get them something for breakfast. When he gets down there, Will is in the kitchen."Hungry this morning Four?" Will asks noticing the amount of food that he is preparing."Yeah, I guess," Four says without looking at Will.He hands Four a plastic bag. "The girls sent Tris clean clothes up so she wouldn't have to leave here in the same clothes that she wore yesterday.""They are amazing friends," Four says."Well, they have both spent the night here before. There is something about being able to walk out of here in her own clean clothes that Chris prefers."Four takes the clothes and the food and goes back up to his room. When he walks in, he sees that Tris is still sleeping soundly.He takes the food over to the bed and sets it down on the side table. He places the clothes on top of his dresser and he moves around to his side of the bed and crawls under the covers."Tris," he says kissing her on the cheek. "Tris, its morning, wake up."She stirs slightly then opens her blue/gray eyes and looks at him."Good morning," she says groggily. Then she quickly sits up, "What am I still doing here?"Four snickers, "Good morning, I brought you some breakfast. When I came out of the bathroom last night, you were asleep. So I laid you down and covered you up. I called Marlene so she wouldn't worry. She and Chris sent you some clean clothes."She sits up and sees the food sitting on the table. "Bacon and eggs, my favorite!" she says. He hands her a plate and she starts eating."Did you cook this food?" she asks."Surprised?" he smirks."Is there anything that you are bad at?""Yes, as a matter of fact I'm really bad at singing."She snickers, "Is that so?" She leans over and kisses him. "The food is amazing, I guess I can overlook the fact that you can't sing.""Is there anything that you are bad at?""Yes, I can't really cook very well. I've been known to burn toast. My mother says I get distracted to easily and don't focus when I try to cook.""Well, I guess that will have to be my job. I'll just have to cook for us from now on."Her mind wanders with the possibility of them being together forever. He has made other comments like this one that insinuate that he wants to be with her forever, but she doesn't know if he really means it or not. Is he just saying things or does he really mean that he wants to spend his life with her? She wishes she could just come out and ask him, but she's afraid to ask him and scare him if that isn't what he is talking about."Tris? You okay?""Huh? Oh yeah, I'm fine. Why?""You zoned out there for a moment. What were you thinking about?""Oh, nothing. Nothing important," she lies. She can't tell him what she's thinking about. What if it freaks him out?He moves closer to her and pulls her into his lap. He places his hand on her cheek and makes her look at him. "What were you thinking about? I know it was something.""Well, it's just you have made a couple comments like that before and I was wondering what you mean.""Comments like what?""Nothing," Tris says looking away. She's pretty sure that he doesn't mean what she had hoped."You mean when I make comments about cooking for us in the future or other things that we are going to do in the future?"She nods but doesn't really look at him or speak."Tris, it's because I'm not looking at this relationship as something short term. I'm looking at this being a long term relationship. I have no intention of going anywhere. If you want me, I'm here to say."She smiles, "That's good to know. I think I'd like to keep you around for a while.""Just for a while?" he asks with a raised eyebrow and a smirk."Yeah, just until I get sick of your cooking."~oOo~After breakfast Tris showers and changes into the clothes that her friends send up for her. She looks at the clothes and realizes immediately that they decided that she wasn't wearing her own clothes today. They sent her a pair of tight black capris and a tight half shirt with three-quarter sleeves and a scoop neck. She shakes her head when she looks in the mirror and wonders why they love to make her show off her body so much.She leaves the bathroom and Four looks at her in shock. "You can really tell when your friends dress you," he smirks."Why is that?""Because they dress you like they would dress instead of in your own clothes. I must tell you though, you really do look hot." He leans in and kisses her as he goes into the bathroom to shower and change.When he emerges from the bathroom he sees her sitting on his bed brushing her hair and putting it into a pony tail. He watches her for a moment then begins talking."Do you have any plans for today?" he asks."Not really. Classes are done. The coaches have given us a couple days off to recuperate before they start practicing us for the World Series. How about you?""Nothing today. Tomorrow we go back to practicing every day. So what do you want to do?" Four asks."I just thought of something, classes have been done for a two weeks. When is graduation?""A week or so ago. When we were in Lexington. Why?""You missed your graduation?""I wasn't going anyway. The idea of sitting through that sounded too much like torture to me. Anyway, I've already got my diploma and my license to practice," he says pulling both out of his drawer and handing them to Tris. "I'm officially a college graduate and a licensed physical therapy assistant."Tris looks at the documents that he handed her and smiles. She moves around the bed and gives him a hug. "That is so great!" she says smiling."So you never answered my question, what do you want to do with our last free day on campus?""I don't know. We should probably pack and get ready to take our things to Bud's house.""Or we could go back to the pier and spend the day at the fair."She smiles, "Okay that sounds great!"They take Tris' car and talk on their way. In the past twenty-four hours, they have learned about each other's families, childhoods, likes and dislikes, and all of those other little things that couples typically find out about each other when they have time to spend together. That is something that Tris and Four never had the opportunity to do. They were always surrounded by friends, federal agents, jealous girls, and teammates. They never really had the chance to be alone with no other obligations hanging over their heads and occupying their thoughts. Even the days that they were alone and watching movies, they really didn't talk about their pasts or their families, they just enjoyed their time together and watched the movies.~oOo~They spent the day at the fair riding rides, talking, and playing games. In the past nine months they have never really spent an entire day together without some obligation, drama, or something happening that caused problems and got in the way. But this day was the perfect day. No one bothered them, no one tried to separate them or tell them that they weren't right for each other and neither of them had any obligations weighing on them. What they have both realized is that they really didn't know much about each other. And now that they have finally focused some time on each other what they both discovered is that they really enjoy each other's company. They are both sarcastic, they like the same kinds of things, and they both want the same types of things from life. They don't need others around to have fun. They can easily be themselves around each other, more than anyone else.After a long day of riding rides and eating, they go back to campus. When Four pulls Tris' car into the driveway of her house, he pauses for a moment and looks at her."What?" Tris asks when she realizes that Four is staring at her.He shakes his head and smiles. "Nothing," he says. "It's just, I'm going to miss you until we get to your mom's house."She smiles, "Yeah, the past two days have been pretty great. I never realized how little we knew about each other before. We were always so busy playing ball or worrying about other things that we never really got to know about each other. I think I'm more in love with you now than I was before."Four pulls her into a hug, "I feel the same way."They separate and he gets out of the car, rushing around to the other side so that he could open her door for her. He takes her hand and walks her to the door. "Do you want to run with me tomorrow morning?""Absolutely! Six o'clock?""Yep," he says. He kisses her cheek, "I'll see you in the morning. Love you.""I love you too, Tobias."~oOo~She walks into her room to see Marlene packing her things. Tris doesn't say a word, just gets to work packing the things that she won't be taking to Oklahoma City with her. Once she is finished filling a box, she piles it into the corner. She makes three piles, one for storage, one to go to Bud's house, and one that will be going to Oklahoma City."So, what happened to you and Four last night? We were having fun dancing and eating and all of the sudden you two were gone.""We hadn't spent any time alone, so he surprised me and took me out on a date by ourselves. He took me to the Navy Pier to the fair.""How did you end up staying with him?""We were talking. We learned a lot about each other last night. Things we never really talked about before. We realized that we have spent a lot of time together, but it was always training or we were with friends or we just had so many other things going on that we really didn't talk about many personal things. We finally shared many of those life details that we never did before.""That's nice. Your relationship has been filled with more drama than anyone ever needs," Marlene says. "One last question. What happened to Gabby? She has a broken nose and two black eyes. She was found in the dining room like that and you and Four were gone.""She was hitting on him and she wouldn't take no for an answer so I punched her in the face. I didn't know I broke her nose though.""It was kind of funny, Gage went into the house to get something and found her lying on the floor crying. When we asked her what happened, she just took off back to her sorority house.""I didn't think about that. We aren't going to have any problems with any other sorority because of that are we?""Are you kidding? Those girly girls are too afraid of most of us. Especially the softball and basketball players."Christina and Kenzie walk into the room and greet Tris and Marlene. "And where have you been?" Christina asks Tris winking."Hanging out with Four. We spent last night and all day today at the fair.""Oh, that sounds like fun. I should get Will to take me when he comes back from Omaha.""Aren't you going home?" Marlene asks."No, I don't want to go back to Michigan. I decided that I'm going to stay around Chicago. I've just got to find an apartment or a house or something. Will is going to stay too. What are you doing this summer?" Chris asks Marlene."I don't know. I don't want to go back home, Uriah is here. He, Zeke, and Shauna are getting an apartment near Park Ridge. Shauna got offered a job in a women's shelter in Chicago. I was thinking I'd see about staying there for the summer. They have two bedrooms.""Really?" Tris asks. "My mother's tattoo shop is in Park Ridge and Bud lives in Evanston which is only about twenty minutes from Park Ridge. Four and I will be staying in Evanston for the summer and I'll be working at the tattoo parlor.""Four is staying with you for the summer?" Shauna asks walking into the room."Yes, why?""I just thought he'd start to try to find a job or something.""I'm sure he will, the MLB draft is on June fifteenth so he's probably going to wait to see what happens there. He has a good shot at getting drafted.""Zeke told me that there have been scouts at their last couple games. They have been talking to him too.""Have either of you heard anything from Lynn?" Chris asks Kenzie and Shauna."She was accepted into the New York Theatre Ballet summer dance program," Shauna says. "She hasn't decided if she's coming back to Chicago for her senior year or not. But she will be spending the entire summer in New York, performing.""I will be going to New York to spend the summer with her. My father made a couple calls and got me job at a small magazine," Kenzie says. "The nice thing about a journalism degree is that you can write anywhere.""So that leaves you and Will," Marlene says to Christina. "You have to stay around here somewhere.""Will and I have to talk about what we want to do. I'd like to stay in the area, but to do that, we both have to get jobs and a place to live.""I can talk to my mom and Bud. Maybe they know of some businesses that are hiring for the summer or something.""Thanks Tris, that would be great."Everyone goes back to their rooms and Tris and Marlene climb into bed. "Doing anything tomorrow morning?" Marlene asks."Yeah, Four and I are going to train in the morning before practices. We're probably going to just go run and maybe get some batting practice in. I should be back by eight or nine o'clock.""Is that all you two do is train? Or are you doing other things?""No, all we do is train.""What about when you've spent the night with him? Are you telling me that nothing has happened between you two?""Nothing has happened. I don't know if I'm ready for that yet.""And he's okay with that?" Marlene asks kind of surprised."He doesn't pressure me to do anything. He's the one that said that we could sleep in the same room without anything happening that we don't want to happen.""Really? Very interesting," Marlene says. "Well, do me a favor and wake me when you get home. Our practice isn't until noon.""I will," Tris says.She falls asleep thinking about her wonderful day with Four.