Next To You

Chapter 3

Chapter 3 everybody! Ok, I know that you all have been waiting patiently for me to update. At least, I hope you were patient. Anyways, I know that this is late but it's better to have a chapter updated late than never, right? 

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*I do not own Divergent

Aria's POV

After we stopped running, and Connor made sure that he, Sienna, and I weren't being chases anymore by the paintball gun salesman, we just started laughing like idiots, relieved that that's all over.

"Connor, you should have seen the look on your face." I tell him after we started to calm down our laughter. Then he suddenly has a weird grin on his face, as if he knows something I don't. But before I even had the chance to ask him why he had that looks, I was being picked up into the air, and I kind of shrieked out in surprise.

Then I hear laughing coming from Connor, Sienna, and the person behind me. But I would recognize that laugh anywhere. I turn my head and come face to face with the brightest green eyes I've ever seen.

"Tristan, what are you doing here? Do you have any idea that you could have given me a heart attack?" I say as I playfully smack his arm. He just laughs it off and kisses me. I would have gotten lost in that kiss, if it wasn't Connor whisper yelling at me.

"Aria, Dad's coming! Break it up!" he tells us, and Tristan and I pull apart faster than we've ever had to. We have secretly been together since we were 15 years old. But the only people that know are Connor, his friends, my friends, and my mom.

I hear loud footsteps, that I know are my dads heavy boots, coming down the hall around the corner from where we are all hiding. A few seconds later, he comes around the corner ad stops short when he sees four kids, two of them his, just standing around in a deserted hallway. He has a confused look on his face.

"What are you all…" he stops when he sees Connor covered in paint still. He sighs, "Let me guess, you either had a paintball war and he lost, big time, or had a paint balloon thrown at him." He says, smirking. We all nod, even Tristan. I have no idea if he was watching the girls and I go on with our prank, or he's just going along with it so he doesn't get in trouble.

Dad looks at Tristan with confusion. "And you are…" he starts but Connor cuts him off. "This is Tristan, Dad. We went to school together, and we started hanging out a few weeks ago." He looks behind him at me and winks. I give him a subtle 'thank you' smile.

"Well, I guess I'll leave you all to do, whatever is was you were doing. Oh," he looks at Sienna. "It was nice seeing you again Sienna. Connor is a lucky man." He winks at Connor, and I see him and Sienna blushing. A lot.

"It was nice to see you again too, Mr. Eaton." She says. "Sienna, you know you can call me Four. It's no problem." He says. She smiles and then Dad walks away. Off to wherever he was going before he found us standing here.

Once he's gone, we all sigh with relief as we lean against the hard, cold, stone wall and slump to the ground. Tristan pulls me onto his lap as Connor takes Sienna somewhere else.

"Aria?" he says into my neck as he trails kisses from my jaw to my shoulder. "Hmm?" I say in response with my eyes closed, enjoying the moment. "When do you think we can stop hiding our relationship from your dad? Not that I don't like all this sneaking around stuff. I actually think it's kind of fun." We both laugh at that, and then it's my turn to speak.

"Honestly? I really don't know. He can be very strict when he wants and has to be. I don't even think he would like the fact that we're together. He doesn't even know we've been together for a year now." I pause and sigh. " I just don't want to lose you if he finds out and tells us that we can't be together and-" he cuts me off with a kiss.

"Arian, even if he gets mad at us, nothing will ever keep me from you, ever. I promise you." That's when I decide to turn around on his lap to face him and bring him into the longest kiss that we have ever had. Soon his hands begin to go down from my shoulders that he was massaging, down my arms, to my waist. I bring my hands from his cheeks into his hair, my arms wrapping around his neck. That must have triggered something, because I soon hear him slightly moan in our kiss and his hands slowly make their way under my shirt, coming to a stop on my ribs. He pulls away from the kiss and we are both out of breath.

"Tristan, I love you. And there is nothing and nobody that's going to make me feel otherwise." I tell him, and he smiles at the me before he gets up and lifts me into his arms.

"Where are we going?" I ask as we make our way down many hallways until we come down my hallway where my parents live. Where my dad, the Dauntless Leader, is. "No, Tristan. What are you doing?!" He looks down at me.

"Aria, I don't want to hide this… us… from your dad anymore. I think it's time her found out why you're always sneaking out almost every other night, hm?" he says with a smile for the last part. I sigh and look at him. "I guess there's no stopping you now, is there?" I say laughing a little. He smiles and shakes his head. Then he puts me down and takes my hand in his.

We continue down the, what feels like never ending, hallway to my, soon to be old, apartment. When we finally reach the door, we look at each other and simultaneously nod with uneasy smiles. He knocks on the door and we wait. After about five seconds of agonizing waiting, the door opens we face the one person that will decide whether or not mine and Tristan's relationship will continue.

The Dauntless Leader. Dauntless prodigy, Four.

My father.

Again, sorry for the long wait. I have been very busy and I never had time to write everything out. The words for this chapter we all in my head but I just couldn't seem to get them onto my paper for me to type out for you all to read. But I hope that you all liked this chapter.

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