Between the lines (sequel to Divergent High) ON HOLD

Chapter 11

1 WEEK LATER-WEDNESDAY

TRIS POV

I wake up in the arms of Tobias, as I have been for the past week.

I start to get out of bed to check on the twins.

A muscular arm pulls me back in.

I turn to face him.

He pretends to be sleeping.

"I'm not an idiot." I say.

He "sleeps" on.

He even throws in a fake snore.

I see his eyes open a little.

I lean down towards his face to kiss him.

He sees what's happening and prepares himself.

Then I blow on his face.

His eyes open wide and I burst out laughing.

The girls start screaming.

"That's my cue." I say as I get out of bed.

I manage to succeed at getting out of bed and go into Aspen's room first.

I pick her up and go into Mia's room and do the same.

I walk back into my bedroom only to discover that Tobias isn't in it.

I hear voices downstairs so I go there.

I go into the living room and see that there's food set out for the girls.

I set the girls in their high chairs and walk into the kitchen.

I grab an apple from the counter when a giant bang comes from the living room.

Shit.

I run back I'm there to find that Mia and Aspen are not in their high chairs anymore.

Also, there is now peanut butter flavored puffs all over the floor.

Awesome.

I hear a soft "bah" from the closet.

I quietly sneak over to the closet door.

I put my hand on the handle and fling it open.

And, to my surprise, there's Uriah, Tobias, Zeke, Mia, and Aspen all in the little coat closet.

"God dammit, you guys! You got little peanut butter puffs all over the floor! Go pick it up."

They mumble "sorry" and go to clean up.

Tobias stays behind.

"Why would you do that?"

"Because I thought tha-"

"No. Go pick the mess up with the rest of them. You did it too. Your punishment will be discussed about later."

I realize that I'm acting like a mom towards all of the boys but I don't really care.

When the boys finish cleaning up their mess, they come and sit down by me at the kitchen table.

"Where's Christina?"

"And Marlene?"

"Shauna?"

I think about this for a while.

"Um, I don't exactly know.... gimme a second." I go to run up the stairs.

When I reach the beginning of the stairs, I pause.

"Don't stuff yourself in a closet or I will physically hurt you. Understand?"

The boys nod.

I start to run up the stairs.

I check room after room after room.

No Christina.

No Marlene.

No Shauna.

No Lynn.

Nowhere to be found.

Huh.

I grab my phone from my room and run down the stairs.

I dial Christina as I walk down the stairs.

And then I miss a step on the stairs.

I tumble down the stairs.

I lay at the ground for a good thirty seconds.

"Are you okay?" Will asks.

I stand up quickly.

"What? Yeah I'm fine." I say as I brush myself off.

"Oh-kaaaay..."

I pick up my phone and redial Christina's number.

She picks up on the 3rd ring.

"Tris? Where are you?"

She sounds stressed.

"What? I'm at the house. Where are you?"

"I'm at the recording studio. Where we have to show that man what we've got in 20 minutes."

"What?"

"Tris, it's Wednesday. Get your ass over here."

"Oh my god. I'm sorry. I'll be right there hold on."

"You've got 18 minutes."

I hang up the phone and sigh.

"Well, where are they?" Zeke asks.