Chapter Twenty Nine - I Lied

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Tobias

"Please stop." Tris whispers. "Please, please stop. Stop!" Tears have stained her cheeks, she's sweating all over, panicking. I rip off my sheets and jump off the hospital bed. Tris is withering on the chair beside me.

"Tris! Wake up!" I gently shake her shoulders. It doesn't work.

"Tris!" I shout. "TRIS wake up!" She jerks awake. Her eyes wide, tears still flowing freely from her eyes. She's gripping onto my biceps, looking at me with an intense gaze. Her blonde hair is in a messy ponytail and she's wearing one of my shirts. She said she went back home, our apartment, to grab it.

I pull her into my arms and stroke her hair. It takes her awhile to react but when she does she holds onto me for dear life. We stay like that for God knows how long. When I eventually pull away from her she looks at me with sadness in her eyes. I don't blame her.

"Nightmare?" I ask even though I know the answer. She nods.

"Was it about... Him?" I question. She nods and I pull her to me once again. Her arms automatically make their way around my neck and my hands find her hips almost instantly. Slowly, I kiss her neck, not out of lust, out of love. I don't want sex, I want her to know that I love her.

She moans and I smile with my lips still pressed to her neck. I might have been longing to hear that too. I leave a trail of light kisses up to her lips, her perfect, soft lips. We move in sync, me asking for entrance and she gladly let's me in.

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At some point in your life you have to realize that people have a choice to stay in your life or not. People don't stay with you by default, like there's no one else available to them, they choose to stay. Life is full of choices, decisions and mistakes. Everyone says you learn from your mistakes, you don't.

You learn from the consequences.

Have you ever heard someone say that they're scared of falling? I have, I myself have said it thousands of times. I lied, they lied, we lied. No one's afraid of falling, no one. People don't fear the fall, they don't fear the landing either.

Pain.

Pain is what people fear, no one likes pain. Only sad, sick people do. Some people enjoy other people's pain, that's common but everyone fears their own pain.


Pain.

Pain.

Pain.

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