You And Me Against The World | ✅

Chapter 40

A/N: Warning! Explicit language in this chapter.

Lunch was uneventful. I decide to take the train, since I haven't done that in a while. Tobias wants to protest, but I put my foot down. I love jumping the trains. It's so exhilarating and I feel more alive than ever.

I walk outside the compound and leisurely make my way to the tracks when I notice a figure approaching me. I turn around and look at the person and am surprised to see Evelyn Johnson, Tobias's mother. I wait for her to close the distance between us. I'm thinking of what to say to her. God, I want to tell her so much. Like, how could she abandon her child and leave him with an abusive father? But then I realize I officially don't know her. I can't just go and say what's on my mind. I need to be smart about my next move.

"You can't be here," I say as if she would be any other factionless.

"And who's going to stop me?" she asks mockingly.

"I will. I'm one of the Dauntless leaders," I reply and she tsks at me.

"I knew you looked familiar, Beatrice," she says spitting my name.

"It's Tris," I say coldly. "And who are you, if you don't mind me asking?"

"The mother of the real Dauntless leader," she answers, I think with actual pride in her voice. Is she actually proud that her son is a Dauntless leader?

"Well, you're not my mother, which means you must be Four's," I say using the same mocking tone she does.

"His name is Tobias," she says angry.

"Not around here and if you would actually talk to your son you would know that," I say glaring at her.

"Listen to me, girl. I'm Tobias's mother."

"And I'm his girlfriend," I reply calmer than I thought possible. The calmness I'm displaying is deceiving, because inside me rages a storm.

"For now. He will soon find someone better, someone older, smarter. Someone that is better suited for a true leader," she says mocking me, while glorifying him.

"What's your problem anyways?" I ask, using a slight annoyed and bored tone now.

"You are my problem. Because of you my son forgot what we have been waiting for, what we have been planning and preparing for," she says annoyed.

"So, I'm responsible he has some kind of amnesia?" I ask aggravating her even more.

"Don't take that tone with me, Beatrice," she scolds.

"And you don't call me Beatrice. I'm Tris and by the way who the fuck do you think you are?"

"I'm a leader of men, unlike you," she says proud of herself.

"Give me a break. What the hell do you want? I've got better things to do than listen to you offending me," I say a little louder.

"Don't take that tone with me," she scolds again like she means something to me.

"What the fuck is wrong with you? You are not my mother. You can't tell me what to do," I yell at her.

"Maybe your mother should have put you in your place, then you wouldn't have interfered in other people's business," she yells back.

"Business? What business?" You crazy bitch.

"You had no right to ask Tobias to stay here," she points toward the compound. "Because of you he threw away his future," she says angry.