Discoveries ✔ (Divergent Fourtris Fanfiction)

Chapter 54

Okay, I don't think what happens next comes as a surprise... ;-) Enjoy reading!

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Tris

We enter the building and close the door behind us. Tobias turns the lock to keep anyone from following us inside. Then we both stand quietly in the hallway, listening hard for any sound that would mean we're not alone in this place.

But there's nothing to be heard other than the storm raging outside and the heavy raindrops falling on the street.

"Let me check the first floor," Tobias whispers and starts to move on into what once must have been a living room.

I follow him as silently as I can, not wanting him to go on his own while I'm condemned to waiting in the hallway, dripping wet.

The room is empty. There's no furniture apart from the kitchen unit at the right. Tobias walks over and opens a few cupboards. They're empty. Good, that means we didn't accidentally walk into someone's home.

"Let's go upstairs," I say and turn around.

The wooden stairs squeak under our steps as we ascend, and we're both relieved to find the upper rooms as deserted as the ones downstairs.

There are three rooms, and only one isn't entirely empty. Someone must have used it as a bedroom. An old mattress is lying on the floor underneath a slant of the roof, and a dark table and two unstable-looking chairs stand beside the only window on the other side. Tobias goes over and rips the moth-eaten curtains off.

"What are you doing?" I ask, frowning as I watch him put both vermilion drapes down on one of the chairs.

"I thought we could use them as towels. There's nothing else available," he shrugs and removes his wet sweatshirt. He's right, we're both dripping wet, our clothes completely soaked from the downpour outside.

I want to walk over to Tobias, but stay rooted where I am as I watch him struggle to take off his T-shirt. The wet fabric seems to stick to his skin, and I laugh at the fight he has to put up with it. When he finally manages to pull it over his head and lets it fall to the floor where it lands with a splat, he chuckles, too, "What, are you laughing at me now? You should see yourself, you're all drenched from head to toe, too!"

"Hey, don't be unfair, it's not my fault we took that shower," I giggle as I take two steps towards him, bow down and start to shake my head so my hair goes flying around, bathing him in more drops.

"Tris," he laughs out in surprise, carefree and real, the way I love it, "what are you doing? Stop it! You're getting me all wet!"

He reaches out for me, trying to get hold of me to stop me, but I quickly turn around and take a step away from him.

"I can't get you any wetter than you already are," I shriek with laughter when he finally gets hold of my body, covering me from behind, his arms around me, holding my wrists to prevent me from doing any more harm.

"You may be a member now, but I'm still stronger than you, so don't think you can get away with this kind of behavior," he playfully scolds me.

There's a second of silence and standstill, just one, before he starts tickling my stomach and I start wrestling against him, shaking with laughter.

"Stop, please, Tobias, I apologize, I swear I'm sorry, please stop, I'm so sorry," I beg him between giggles.

"Okay, but you have to promise me that you'll behave," he chuckles and his hands move to hold my wrists to prevent me from starting a counterattack and tickle him back. Smart boy, he is.