Those Five Words

11.

Chapter 11

FOUR POV

I walk into our apartment and see mum and dad sitting on the lounge. I wonder if they have been waiting for me to make an appearance. They both would have known I would be coming here to grab my clothes. I'm glad I got to come up here and see them before I go to the dormitory. I am really glad to see them alive after what I just witnessed in my fear landscape.

"Well?" dad asks. "Are we still able to call you Four?"

I can't help but smile now. Remembering back to that day when I told dad I would only have four fears. "I told you," I say.

Dad starts laughing. He then tells mum about how he gave me my name. She looks over to me and says, "are you kidding me, you really only have four fears?"

I nod and go over and give my dad a hug. Although we are having a laugh about it, it shows just how much faith dad has had in me, right from the beginning. I don't think I would have been able to get through the last few years if I hadn't had his support. I sit down and we are all talking when I see a black and white picture on the coffee table.

"What's that?" I ask.

"That is a picture of your baby brother," mum says.

"You're having a boy?"

"We are," says dad with a huge smile on his face.

"I won't be the favourite son anymore," I say. I am joking and luckily my parents can see that and start to laugh with me.

"I think this little guy is going to have a lot to live up too with you as his big brother," mum says while rubbing her stomach.

I am really happy for dad and mum. But especially dad. He has been the best dad I could have asked for. He has never treated me like anything other than his son. He didn't have too and he could have kicked me out when Evelyn left, but he didn't, he has always been here for me. I have no doubt that he always will. I feel really happy for him. I am especially happy that he is going to be able to have this son with mum, they have treated me so well and mum has treated Charlie and me like we are her own. I'm a little jealous but not because they are having this baby, it's because the baby will only know love and lots of it. They won't have the nightmares that plague my sleep every night. Or have the sadness that Charlie sometimes feels when she thinks of Evelyn. It doesn't happen very often to Charlie and ever since mum and dad got married Charlie has been nothing but happy.

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I am sitting on my bed waiting for Shauna and Zeke to come back from collecting their clothes from home. It's weird to think that we will all have our own apartments soon, not have to live with our parents anymore. I think I'm going to miss that, although I won't miss getting grounded. And now Zeke and I can finally play dare again. I can't wait to rub that in to Uriah. He has another two years before he is allowed to play. The last game of dare we played always brings a smile to my face.

"What are you smiling about?" Zeke asks.

"Just thinking about our last game of dare and that we can now play it again," I say.

Zeke's eyes light up. "I forgot that, YES! We can play it again. We are going to have to organise a game. I bet Amar will be in on it," Zeke says.

"As long as Lynn isn't playing," says Shauna. "She is just waiting to get me back for making her shave her head; mum was so pissed at me."

Zeke and I are both laughing. Lucky Lynn is banned from dare too or Shauna would cop it big time from her sister.

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MARCUS POV

I wake up in a white room with bright fluorescent lights above me. I look down and see I have a hospital gown on and tubes and electrodes hooked up to different parts of my body. Where the hell am I? How did I get here? Then I remember. Tobias.

The machine next to me starts beeping loud and fast. As I think back to the Choosing Ceremony the beeps are getting quicker and I'm finding it hard to breath. A nurse comes into the room.

"Mr Eaton you need to calm down, you are going to faint again if you don't calm down," she says.

I can't calm down I think to myself, I just saw my dead son. I need to get out of here, I have to go and see this Four. He needs to know his father. I start to rise from the bed when the nurse pushes me back down. "Calm down Mr Eaton," she tells me again. "If you don't calm down we are going to have to sedate you."

"I don't care, I am leaving and I am leaving now," I demand. I go to stand up but I am feeling dizzy. All I can think is that I need to get out of this place. The nurse is trying to get me back into bed, she has pushed a button on the wall and a loud wailing noise is now piercing my ears.

All of a sudden what looks like a doctor, security and Jeanine Matthews has walked into my room. What the hell does that woman want? Jeanine is the last person I would want to see in my room.

"He won't calm down, he is insisting on leaving," the nurse says to the people who have just come into my room.

"We will need to sedate him," the doctor says. He leaves the room and comes back with a needle in his hand.

"I don't need sedation," I tell them. "I need to see my son; you need to let me see my son."

The doctor pushes the needle into the IV that is in my arm. The effects are almost instant, I start to get drowsy.