A Different Divergent: Everyday Love

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Chapter 11

When Tobias turns our over-full car into the park entrance the kids go wild. They've been cooped up inside the apartment for far too long. This will be really good for them, although I still worry about Tyler overdoing it. He's only been out of the infirmary for three days. Panic bubbles up into my chest as I think about all he's been through this week but I push it down. He's fine now. Besides, Zander will be here if, God forbid, anything were to happen.

I notice lots of familiar faces milling around our favorite picnic area as we pull into our usual parking space, and I smile broadly. Most of our friends were able to make it. Unfortunately, Uriah, Christina, Brody, and Ana are with their initiates so they obviously couldn't come but everyone else is here. I get out of the car once it rolls to a stop and unload three very hyper kids who immediately dash off to the play area where the other kids are already congregating.

"Be careful," I call out after them but they pay me no mind at all and I can't help but roll my eyes. "What can I do to help?" I meet Tobias at the back of the car just as he raises the trunk. He looks around then pulls me up against his hard body and runs his fingers down my cheek and gently cups my chin.

"You can kiss me, beautiful," he murmurs. Who am I to say no to such a request? He tips my head back and slowly lowers his gifted mouth to mine. I wrap my arms around his neck and press my body against his as we move our lips together slowly, tenderly, purposefully until he pulls me even closer and deepens the kiss. Desire hums through my body, and I go weak in the knees. He forces my mouth open with his and thrusts his tongue inside, tenaciously mating it with mine. I fist my fingers in his hair and mold my body to every inch of his. I feel his hand slip under my tee and up to cover my aching breast, hardening my throbbing nipple, and I moan into his mouth. How are we ever going to wait until tonight?

"Oh, dear God!" Zeke excl. aims. "No, no, no!I've already seen this once. I don't ever need to see it again." My cheeks flame at his words, and I tear myself away from my husband. "My eyes!"

He turns on his heels and starts to walk away when Tobias growls, "Get your ass back here, you idiot." Neither of us really like being reminded of the time we lost control in the fear landscape room after Tobias' horrific simulation and that Zeke has seen us making love. I cringe at the memory. "Dramatic much! I was just kissing my wife. You're not a stranger to the concept." Zeke grins like a loon. Early last year, we all thought he and Shauna were over for good after she caught him in a passionate lip lock with some floozy in the Pit after a particularly rowdy game of Candor or Dauntless. Earlier in the evening, on a dare, he kissed the same girl on the cheek. Apparently, she already had a crush on him and set her sights on getting him into bed even though it was common knowledge he was in a committed relationship. He had had entirely too much to drink and obviously wasn't thinking straight. Shauna immediately kicked his ass to the curb but they managed to work things out, and on Valentine's Day this year, they said their I do's in front of all their friends and family at the same spot Will and Christina got married. I'm very happy for them. It was a rough three months for everyone while they were apart. None of us wanted to take sides but it was hard to maintain friendships with both of them. I gravitated toward Shauna and, of course, Tobias was there for Zeke. I'm glad everything is back to normal now. "Here take this," Tobias grumbles as he shoves the volleyball net into his best friend's arms.

"I really was only kidding," he says with a chuckle. "You'd think less of me if I didn't tease."

"No, I wouldn't," Tobias roughly says and I shake my head.

"Hey, Tris," Zeke says as he moves the net out of the way and leans in to kiss me on the cheek. "I can see why your man had his hands all over you. You look good."