Chapter 41-Tobias

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    When sleep is taken from my eyes, I realize Tris is snuggled up against me. Shit. She must have creeper in after I was asleep. I'm going to hurt her, I know I am.
  "Toby." She mumbles as she flips over to face me.
  "Tris, you shouldn't have slept next to me."
  "But I want to."
 Next thing I know, her lips are on mine and I don't protest. God, someone tell me how to say no to this. I'm going to hurt her.
  "Toby." She says, pulling back.
   "Do you know exactly how much I love you? Chances are you don't, because it is unexplainable. You are my life, my world. You think you will hurt me but, really you couldn't do that. Every single day, I am haunted by the fact you will leave me. Yet you choose me. Me, the skinny, pale, chestless girl before you. Who got raped and can't give you anything. You could have any girl here, but its me. This means all to much to me Tobias, and I want to give you something in a month, but I have to come over a fear. Do you trust me?" Next month is December. Christmas.
  "I trust you. And I love you, and I don't need sex from you. If you want to, it will just be like getting over your fear all over again. I love you."
  "I love you too."
  "Forever."
  "And ever."
  "And ever and ever and ever."
"Say You will never hurt me because you aren't like your father." She says, and I obey.
  "I will never hurt you because I am not like my father."
  We spend the rest of the day lounging around and kissing, just like we did before the ranks were announced. We share our thoughts, and be like a normal couple, and be happy.
"Let me be part of the narrative, in the story they will write someday. Let this moment be the first chapter, where you say I love you." She says in a dreamlike tone. I kiss her, and reply.
  "I love you."
  "Toby we don't need a legacy. We don't need money. All I need is you beside me, and happy."
  "Okay." I say, quoting an old book. She is yet to read it but she replies.
"Okay."

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