Alive

Five

Tris's POV

I open my eyes to find myself in Tobias' bed. Alone. I hear voices in the next room, some that I haven't heard in years.

I hear the door open quietly and see Tobias standing there. He smiles slightly when he sees that I am awake, he walks over to me, sitting next to me on the bed.

"Hey, how're you feeling?" He asks sweetly as his thumb glides over my cheek as his hand rests by my ear.

"Tired. Scared. Hungry. Is that Christina I hear?"

"Yeah, after the video was shown, everywhere our friends decided to come and see if I was okay. Then they saw Uriah and your parents and wondered if you were here too, I said yeah but you were sleeping."

"Who's here?"

"Christina, Zeke, Shauna, Caleb, Cara, Hana, Amar, and George. Do you want to go and see them?"

I nod.

He helps me stand and put some shorts on with the t-shirt that I am wearing before leading me into the living room, holding my hand the entire way.

When we get there I see my parents and Caleb crying with my parents as Cara watches, smiling sadly, with a one year old girl in her arms. My niece. Everyone else is surrounding Uriah.

Christina is the first to see me and she squeals before running over to me and wrapping her arms around me tightly. The impacts hurts my already sore stomach and I groan. She pulls away with an apologetic look on her face.

"Sorry. I didn't know you were in pain." She apologises.

"It's fine." I reply, rubbing my stomach gently.

Caleb is the next to hug me, he's crying and it isn't long before the waterworks hit me as well.

"I missed you, sis."

"I missed you, too, Caleb."

"I'm sorry. I shouldn't have let you take my place."

"It's fine. If it wasn't me it would have been you."

"I would have rather gone through whatever he put you through than have you go through it."

I look at Tobias and mouth to him: 'Did you tell them anything?'

He shakes his head and I say thank you before looking at Caleb again.

"What did he do to you, Tris? You're too skinny and covered in scars and bruises."

"Caleb, I'm sure she'll tell you all in her own time, just leave her be." Tobias says as I start sobbing into my brother's shoulder.

"Wait, she told you?" Caleb asks, sounding angry.

"Yeah, and I know you probably don't want to hear about half of the stuff that bastard put her through, so why don't you drop it until she's ready to talk." Tobias is also angry.

Caleb lets go of me and looks at my face, my wet, red, sore face.

Everyone hugs me as I continue to cry and we all sit in various places in the room. I sit on the larger sofa with my parents and Tobias. Caleb and Cara sit on the love seat. Shauna in the single arm chair. Everyone else on the floor. My mum is holding Caleb's and Cara's daughter at the moment. Smiling.

Tobias made me a sandwich just now so I am eating it whilst everyone else talks. I'm really not in the mood to talk right now. I have to admit to feeling a little jealous that my brother has a healthy baby and I've lost three. It really doesn't help that my niece is right next to me, on my mum's lap.