You And Me Against The World | ✅

Chapter 9

The next morning, I wake up and find Tobias' side empty and cold. I blink a few times to wake up properly and see that the clock reads 6:30 AM. I turn around and see the bathroom door ajar and hear the water running. Tobias is taking a shower. I don't want to get out of bed so I just sit up and wait for him to come out. After five minutes or so he appears with a towel wrapped around his hips while towel drying his hair. He is so engrossed in what he is doing that he doesn't seem to notice that I'm awake. Which is actually not so bad. I can look him over as much as I want without blushing. Oh, who am I kidding? I'm probably red as beetroot right now. While I'm still taking in his perfect form he turns around and catches me devouring him with my eyes.

"Like what you see?" he asks.

"Very much actually," I answer boldly.

"Interesting," he says grinning and walks over to the bed sitting down on my side. He leans in and captures my lips. We kiss for a while leisurely but then get carried away again. I wrap my arms around his neck and pull him closer to me. He now lies almost on top of me holding himself up with his arms. When the weight becomes too much he pulls back and I pout. He laughs and places a soft kiss to my lips.

"We should stop Tris. Otherwise I can't promise I'll be able to control myself any longer," he says panting. I look down at his lap and can see that he is very much excited right now. At the sight I blush crimson and he stands up, walks to his dresser, grabs an outfit and disappears into the bathroom, this time closing the door.

If things continue this way we'll have sex by the end of the week. And it's Thursday. I get out of bed and put on some black skinny jeans, a black tank-top and my combat boots. I walk into the kitchenette and wait for Tobias to come out.

"Ready?" he asks when he walks toward me.

"Yeah. Let's go. I'm starving."

We walk down to the cafeteria and sit down at our usual table. Uriah and Marlene are already here and we are soon joined by Lynn, Shauna and Zeke. I'm eating my second sandwich when Will and Christina get here. Christina hurries with her breakfast and we get going. Tobias and I decide to see each other in an hour back at the apartment and we kiss good bye. It's a sweet, innocent kiss but Uriah yells "get a room". Tobias glares at him and I blush.

Christina is awfully quiet this morning and I wonder why.

"Chris, what's wrong?" I ask concerned.

"Uhm, nothing."

"Come on. Tell me."

"It's just... I feel like I've lost you," she says in a pitiful voice.

"What? Why would you say that?" I ask surprised.

"Well everything has changed. You are a leader. You are divergent. You are Four's girlfriend. So many changes. And you haven't told me anything," she accuses.

"Christina, I'm your friend. I haven't told you about my divergence because back then I was afraid for my life. It's not that I don't trust you, but what if things wouldn't have turned out the way they did. What if someone would have captured you to get to me? I would have never forgiven myself for that. Make sense?"

"I guess it does. But why haven't you told me about Four? I told you about Will," she takes that accusing tone again. I hate it when she does that.

"First of all, I really don't like it when you attack me like this. And second of all, Four and I started seeing each other shortly before initiation was over. I didn't tell you anything because it wasn't really something I wanted to advertise. I didn't want you to think that my ranking had anything to do with my relationship with our instructor. And it didn't. It really didn't. I worked my ass off and you know it."