Next To You

Chapter 4

 Thanks again all of you for being as patient as you have been.

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Chapter 4

Tobias' POV

Tris and I are getting ready to take our dog, Vita, which means 'Life' in a languages that Tris says is Italian, out for a run to the trains and back here. As we are getting ready to leave, there's a knock on the door. "Tobias can you get that!" Tris yells from the bedroom. "Already on it!" I call back to her.

Since I'm way down the hallway at the other end of our apartment, it takes me a few seconds to get to the door. And when I open it, I am a little surprised at who I see. Aria and… Tristan? Why is he here? With my daughter?

"What are you doing here, and knocking? Aria you live here, and don't need to knock to come into your own home." I tell her with a very confused look on my face.

"Actually Dad, Tristan knocked. And since he doesn't live here, he knocked on the door." She says with a slight smile and I give one in return. But it doesn't last long because I look down and I catch their hands and they are locked tightly together.

"Oh no. This is NOT happening." I think to myself with my eyes wide open as is my mouth. Well, my mouth is slightly open, anyways.

Little did I know, I must have said my thoughts out loud, because as I shake my head to clear it, I see Aria looking at the floor with a somewhat scared and pained expression. I look at the boy, Tristan, and see that he stands tall and strong. Putting up a brave front as not to look afraid in front me, a Dauntless Leader and his, supposedly, girlfriend's father. "Smart boy." I think to myself again.

"Come in and sit on the couch." I tell them. They nod and go to the couch and sit down. As soon as they do, Tris comes out of our bedroom, along with Vita, and make their way into the living room.

"To- Four, who was at-" she stops once she sees Aria and Tristan on the couch. "What is going on here?" She asks in her concerned and serious voice.

"Tris, have you met Tristan?" I ask her, trying hard to hide my slight anger that's bubbling inside of me.

She sighs a little. Like she does when she can't hide anything anymore. "As a matter of fact, Four," she uses my nickname because not everyone knows my real name. Only family and close friends do. She continues. "I have met him before, last year actually." I nod. Then I see Aria look at Tris, and Tris looks back to Aria. They seem to be having a silent conversation.

Eventually, I can't take it anymore. "What is going on here!?" I say, almost exploding, but not all the way yet.

"Dad?" I turn my attention to Aria. Who still holds on tightly to Tristan's hand in her lap, her other hand over both of their locked ones. "Tristan and I are dating. And we have been for a little over a year now." Now things start to click into place. Tris said that she met Tristan last year. Aria has been sneaking out almost every night for the past year and not coming back until early in the morning.

I can't believe this. Tris, my wife, and Aria, my own daughter, hid this from me, for an entire year. Now I'm fuming and there is no way I'm letting this continue.

"No way! Not happening! You all hid this from me for an entire year, and you expect me to let this continue going on? No. Sorry, but that's my answer." I am about to walk out the door to go clear my head, but Tris grabs my arm and stops me.

"Four, don't you think you're being a little over dramatic?" she looks at Aria, and I follow her gaze. Aria is silently crying on Tristan's shoulder and his eyes are closed as he puts his forehead on top of her head. He strokes her long, dirty blonde hair trying to calm her down. Once all that has processed in my head, I only now realize what just happened. "I just made my little girl cry. Some fathering, Tobias." I think to myself. "How come I didn't act like this with Jenna?"

I look at Tris. She nods at me, telling me that I should just take a walk and calm down before I say something else that will make matters worse. I do as she wants go down to our hiding spot in the shadows of the chasm. By the time I get to the chasm, I hear two familiar voices. And they appear to be coming from mine and Tris' chasm hiding spot.

I make my way down the rocky steps, thankful that the roaring chasm water is loud so they don't hear me coming. When I get there, I see what I least expected one of them to do.

Connor, my son, is down on one knee, in front of Sienna, his girlfriend. With a ring in one hand, and Sienna's hand in his other.

I think to myself, "Oh, come on! Things can't get any worse for me today, can they?!"

I know I have been saying this in the chapters before, but I am really sorry that it's so short. I just wanted to get something up because if I didn't, it was going to drive me crazy. I hope you all liked it. Later! :)