Happily Ever After

chapter 6

(Three days later)

Tris's POV

    Uriah is now out of the hospital but in a wheelchair.  "So....  How did it feel to be in a coma?" I ask him because I cannot think of anything else to say to a person who is back from the hospital and awake from a coma.

    He answers,"Well, I was aware of what was going on around me so I knew I would not be waking up.  During the coma, my life replayed in my head.  I thought about all the mistakes I had made...how I would never be able to repay the people I did wrong.  I was so scared, Tris.  And then Chris kissed me so I decided to fight it even though I knew the doctors predicted that I wouldn't live through it.  Then I kissed her back and realized that with her, I can achieve the impossible.  That's how I knew she is right for me.  I never felt that feeling with Marlene."

    "Well, I know what it feels to have your life flash before your eyes.  The city was about to be wiped with memory serum.  The only way to stop it was to go to the room with the keypad that will stop it from resetting the city.  That room was filled with death serum.  Caleb was going to go but," tears welled up in my eyes,"I...I just couldn't let him.  So I went in.  But it wasn't the serum that killed me.  David came in.  He-" I wipe the tears from my eyes.  "He shot me-twice.  Then I...went to heaven and then saw Marlene,  Lynn, my parents, and-and Will."

    Uriah's expression is full of sorrow.  "Wow, Tris.  I had no idea.  Come here."  He reaches out his arms to embrace me and I hug him gratefully.  I cry on his shoulders and tell him how much I thought that Tobias would live the rest of his life alone and miserable.  And to think he was going to propose when he got back!  I do not know how I could have done that to him.  He would have come back ready to pop the question only to find out that I had left him.  We stay there hugging each other for I don't know how long. But I am glad I have someone to talk to who has been through the same situation.