Blue Eyed Man

Chapter 20

Tris's POV

It's been several weeks since my argument with Tobias. I'm just not sure what to do. She needs to know. She is going to be a Dauntless member. She can't live a lie her whole life. She doesn't even know she's living one.

Eric says she's excelling in training. She's at the top. But he says Tyler is different. In her fights it's like she fueled by something new. She seems angry... all the time. I don't know what's up with her.

She couldn't have heard what Four and I said. Could she? There was no one there. There couldn't have been. Could there?

Eric's POV

I don't know what's wrong with Tyler. She's not acting like herself at all. Today is the initiates' day off. War games are tonight.

I have been attempting to find Ty for two hours. She is nowhere to be found.

Wait. Nowhere is somewhere.

I find her in my hiding place on the rocks by the chasm.

"Is this why I can't find you anymore?" I ask.

She turns around to face me. Her face is tear stained.

What happened?

"What's wrong?"

"Go away, Eric," she says as she turns her head away.

Whoa. Where is this coming from?

Her voice is shaking. She tries not to show her emotions. She doesn't want me to see.

C'mon kid. We've been through this before. You don't have to hide.

"Please just tell me what's wrong," I say as gently as I can.

She turns her head back towards me. She stares at me for a second, and then turns away and hangs her head. She's not going to talk to me, but I'm not leaving. I sit on the rocks beside her and take her in my arms. I can't do anything else but be here, so that's what I'll do.