You And Me Against The World | ✅

Chapter 79

Tobias is still looking at me shocked. His mouth is slightly hanging open as if he can't believe what he is seeing.

"You were right, honey. I wouldn't be able to fight you. But I did kick some serious ass tonight," I say smiling. He is still looking at me, but then turns around to look at the rest of the masked insurgents.

"That was you guys? All along?" he asks surprised.

"Yeah," I simply say.

"Why?" he asks turning around.

"Two reasons. Reason number one, Dauntless need to be prepared for everything and Lauren and I decided to spice things up this year, make it a little more interesting. And as you can see it was very interesting and a little disappointing. You guys really need to be more watchful," I say looking at them.

"What's reason number two?" Tobias asks, his expression hard and unreadable. I swallow hard. I'm in trouble.

"Reason number two was to show our guys that we are some bad-ass Dauntless girls, even though they don't think so," I say and take a tentative step forward. Tobias still looks at me sternly, just like when he was still my instructor. But then he wraps his arms around me and pulls me close to him, kissing me hard on the lips. When we part we both pant heavily.

"That was awesome. All of you were. We never saw it coming. And yeah, I am a little pissed," he says looking directly at me. "I could have hurt you," he says and his eyes reflect both anger and hurt.

"I know. But as you could see I made sure not to let it get that far," I say.

"Still, Tris. You have to promise me not to pull anything like this again," he says softly. "Especially when you could have said something," he adds in his mind while looking down into my eyes.

"I know, baby. But I wanted to show you that I'm ready for anything. Besides we all agreed on taking safety precautions," I tell him.

"Such as?"

"If any of us would have been in danger we would have surrendered immediately revealing ourselves to you guys," I tell him.

"Still. This could have gotten really wrong really fast," he says.

"I know."

"How did you guys even see in this darkness?" Will asks standing up, while Christina helps him.

"Thanks to these," Lauren says and holds her helmet up.

"Helmets? I don't get it," Uriah says.

"That's because you're dumb," Lynn says and some start laughing.

"You are dumb," Uriah counters.

"Really?" she asks raising an eyebrow and shoots him in the knee.

"Agh," Uriah shouts.

"Stop it! Both of you," Tobias yells at them.

"Can someone explain the thing with these helmets?" Zeke asks inspecting Shauna's.

"Here," I say and give Tobias mine, while the girls hand theirs to their respective partners or whoever wanted to try it out. The guys put them on and I instruct them to follow me into the shadows.

"I can't see anything," Dwayne almost whines.

"Don't worry, honey. I'll hold your hand," Tori says and we all laugh.

"Thanks, babe. That's reassuring," he says sarcastically.

"What now? I can't see a thing," Will says.