Divergent High (Discontinued)

Chapter Twenty

"I love you," I say, kissing Tobias's cheek.

"I love you too." He smiles and kisses me.

I giggle and grabs my hand. We're suddenly at the park.

"Climb," he says, pointing to a tree. I give him a funny look and I start climbing.

When I reach the top of the tree, or at least close to the top, I move over and sit on a branch, scooting over so Tobias can sit. He sits next to me and looks down at the ground smiling. That's a little weird... Isn't Tobias afraid of heights?

Oh well. I push the thought out of my mind, and look down at the ground also. I smile, but it fades. It seems like we're higher up then we were before... Or did I just imagine it? I probably just imagined it. I look over at Tobias and he smiles at me. He takes my chin in his hand and brings my face close to his. Before I can do anything, he crashes his lips on mine. As we kiss, his hands slide onto my waist. He shifts me, but I keep ending up close to the edge of the branch. I keep trying to move back on the branch, but Tobias keeps shifting me again. I'm just about to pull away and ask what he's doing, but he shoves me.

I gasp when he pushes me off the branch. I fall to the ground, flailing my arms around. I smack hard against the ground. My head makes contact with the hard dirt and I feel warm liquid surround it. My limbs landed in painful positions, and one of my legs is twisted the wrong way. My head falls to the side and I can no longer see out of my eyes. Instead, I'm standing. I see my limp body laying on the ground. My eyes are closed and I'm surrounded by red blood. I look up and see Tobias laughing hysterically at me.

I hear sirens and look behind me at the street. I see cop cars and an ambulance drive towards us. Instead of running, Tobias climbs down and waves happily at the officers.

"Hello, Four!" One of the officers greets him. She smiles as if they've been friends for a while.

"Hello, Commander Jameson!" [ who knows where that name is from ;) ]

Jameson walks to my body and signals the medics over. One of the medics crouches down next to my body, and I sit on my other side.

"She's not going to live." He says frankly.

"Okay." Tobias says. "I don't mind."

"That's good. I don't think we should even bother with bringing her to the hospital." He lifts my head, revealing white clumps that look like cauliflower. Clumps of my brain. "She probably only has a few more minutes until her body fully shuts down. It takes about 15 minutes after a death for the body's organs and everything to completely shut down for good. Or at least that's what I've been told."

"Who did this, Four?" Jameson asks.

"Me." Tobias says carelessly.

"Oh, okay. That's fine." Jameson replies. She signals for everyone to leave. The medic at my side drops my head and brushes the dirt off his scrubs. He gets up and leaves in the veichles along with everyone else. Tobias walks over to my body and lifts me up. He walks over to a ditch and throws my body in. He wipes his hands on his jeans, kicks some dirt over me, then walks away. I get up and try to run over to my body, but my shoes are covered in thick, sticky, mud, trapping my feet. I try to lift my feet out, but fail. I trip and fall on my knees. I decide It would probably be best not to walk, so I just crawl out of the mud, which is actually more effective.

I lean over to look at the bottom of the ditch, and sure enough, I see my body. Lying face down, with my limbs still bent in awkward angles. For some reason I didn' feel the urge to puke like I usually do. Yeah, I didn't want to be there, I wanted to go away, but I didn't feel sick. I would've just left, but I can't, it's my body.

I look around for people, to see if I can get any help, but the park is deserted. I feel completely hopeless until I see a figure swaying around in the distance. I jump up and sprint over to them.

I tap their shoulder and they turn around, revealing yellow eyes and greenish, decaying skin. The person snarls at me. I gasp, there's no zombies! The person starts laughing hysterically as they pull they're hand behind they're head and pull up. The ugly green skin comes off and is replaced by normal skin.

"W-what?" I stutter. The person just laughs and points behind me. I look behind me, but see them walking away, leaving me standing there until I realize that I need help.

"Wait!" I yell after them. They start running, and turn a corner. I follow them, but when I turn the corner, they're gone.

I give up and walk back to my body. But when I get there, it's gone.

"What?" I ask myself. I spin around in a circle to see if I missed looking anywhere. I look up, down, in the bushes, in the lake at the edge of the park, behind the trees, everywhere. It's gone. I suddenly feel heavy and the back of my head feels warm. I uncertantly move my hand behind my head. I feel a gap in my head, and inside of it feels lumpy. I pull my hand back and see red blood covering my hand, dripping down between my fingers, along with bits of my brain again. I feel like I'm going to puke. I run over to the bushes, but trip over a tree root I didn't see. I stumble and fall into the ditch. My body grows heavy and I can't move. Dirt falls around me and I see Tobias.

"Tobias!" I say breathlessly. "Help me up, please!"

As a response, he looks down at me with a disturbing smile. I look in his hand. He holds a shovel.

He shoves the shovel into the ground and yanks it back up. He throws the dirt over me. He starts shoveling the dirt faster and I fight to get it off me. Soon enough, a giant layer of dirt covers my entire body.

Dirt fills my mouth, my eyes. I can't see anything. I try to dig my way up, but more dirt keeps falling ontop of it. Soon I can't breathe and my lungs struggle for air. There's nothing I can do. I take my last breath and-

"TRIS. WAKE. UP."