CHAPTER 22

TOBIAS POV~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

I run back up the stairs to Caleb's room.

He looks up as I walk in, but that's it.

He just returns to his book.

"Uhhh.... Caleb? Can I talk to you?"

"Sure what is it?"

"Did you know we are ummm... you know."

"Know what?"

"That we're like sibilings." I say.

"WHAT!"

"Yeah. I just found out that my birth parents are Marcus and Evelyn. And they're your birth parents, too, right?"

"I think so. Wait. You're my brother?" Realization strikes.

"Apparently."

Just then, Evelyn walks in.

"Caleb, I need to talk to you."

"Evelyn, why didn't you tell me!" I say angrily.

"Tell you what?" She asks innocently.

"That you're my real mom and I'm related to that." I say pointing at Caleb.

"I'm sorry and you sorta aren't related to him." She says watching my reaction.

"What do you mean?" Caleb asks
cautiously.

"Caleb, this is what I wanted to talk to you about. The thing is we adopted you, too. Right before Tris. We gave you a memory serum to make you forget and think you were actually our son." Evelyn says.

"So I'm not your son!" Caleb yells.

"Yeah you're not. I know this is so confusing for you right now. I'm sorry! Tobias the reason we had gave you up was that Marcus, he had started beating you. I decided it was best if we gave you up. So I told Natalie and Andrew to make you forget. I came home the next day and Marcus had adopted Caleb and he told me that he had managed his anger issues. He was doing a great job and then he wanted a girl, so we adopted Beatrice. One day though, he lost it. He was already in a bad mood because of the bills and he erupted on her. He went back to his old ways and warned Caleb and I that if we interfered we would be very sorry. I'm so sorry!" Evelyn cries into her hand.

"So who are my parents?" Caleb asks slowly.

"Natalie and Andrew."

"I'm siblings with Bea?" He asks.

"Yes. I'm sorry we didn't tell you. You were also in the car accident, but as I told you we gave you the memory serum." Evelyn tells Caleb.

"Marcus beat me?" I ask outraged.

"I'm sorry Tobias. I really am." Evelyn says putting a hand in my shoulder.

I shrug it off and walk downstairs to find Tris watching Modern Family.

She's laughing at something Phil and Claire were yelling about. I sit down next to her and wrap my arm around her shoulder letting her lean her head on me.

"Hey beautiful."

"Hi. What did you talk about upstairs?" She asks.

"One sec. MOM, DAD!" I yell.

She looks at me confused as they come running in.

"What! What is it!" They ask.

"Would you like to tell Tris something about your family?" I ask raising my eyebrows.

They look at me confused and then Dad realizes what I mean and whispers something to mom.

They walk over and sit next to Tris, mom holding her hand.

"Mom. What is it!" Tris asks alarmed.

"We have to tell you something else about our family. Like me, you, dad, Colby."

"Okay."

"Caleb was another brother of yours. He was rushed to the hospital where we were. When Colby came and talked to you about us and Caleb, you didn't seem to remember him, so he just left it alone."

"So Caleb is my real brother!" She yells.

"Yes." Dad says.

"WHEN WERE YOU PLANNING ON TELLING ME THIS!" She yells.

"We were going to tell you when you were better." Dad says.

Just then, Caleb runs downstairs and walks over to us and kneels in the floor above where Tris is sitting.

"So you heard." Caleb says.

Tris nods.

"I just found out, too. Evelyn gave me a memory serum."

"Man, they must have an unlimited supply of those." Tris mutters shaking her head.

TRIS POV~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

I can't believe this. First they tell me that my dead parents are alive, Colby already knew, and now I have another brother who's not my adoptive brother! This is just crazy and annoying if you ask me.

Mom and dad decide to go shopping after making sure I was alright and Caleb went out with a couple of friends.

Now it's just me and Tobias. Well except for Evelyn, but she's upstairs.

"Do you want to talk about everything?" Tobias asks.

I just shake my head, no and keep looking down at my hands.

"Tris." Tobias whispers. "Come on, look at me." I look at him, losing my senses in his eyes.

"How could I not remember him!" I start to cry and put my face in my hands.

"Tris maybe it has something to do with the head injury." Tobias tells me softly tracing my scar that goes down my right side hairline.

I snort and look at him. "Yeah, okay."

"I'm serious. You never know."

"Whatever. Colby said I'm allowed to take a shower. Can I now please!" I ask.

He looks at me and nods. "If you feel too weak just tell me."

I nod and start to make my way
upstairs to the shower. He turns on the water and tells me he'll be right outside the door if I need anything.

I nod and look at myself in the mirror.

The girl in front of me, isn't me. She's a tiny version of a twelve year old who hasn't had a shower in far too long.

She has dirty, stringy hair. It looks as if she just walked through a desert with not a shower in months.

I quickly peel off my clothes and leave the ace bandage around my back and entire front of me (A/N: goes up to her collar bone) there. I am nervous to see what my back will look like.

I quickly make a decision after failing to pull off the bandages. I pull a towel around my waist and make it tight as I walk out of the bathroom.

Tobias, as he said he would be, is standing outside the door.

"Can you help me?" I ask.

"Of course."

He walks into the bathroom and brushes my hair to the side. It sends chills through my body.

He gently takes off the ace bandage to reveal gauze surrounding my back. I quickly grab a towel and hold it over my stomach area as Tobias starts to peel away the gauze.

"You ready?" He asks.

I nod and he pulls the fabric away from my body.

I watch as Tobias looks my back up and down and his face turns to a sort of horror.

I grab onto his wrist.

"What is it."

"Nothing. Just so many stitches." He answers.

I turn and look backwards into the mirror. What I see is truly terrifying.

The stitches all crisscross in places and
some are even raised. My back, underneath the stitches is another story. It has gigantic black bruises everywhere and some are even multicolored. We have black and purple, black and red, black and a dark blue. Every dark color you can imagine.

"Wow, just wow." I say feeling the tears rush to my eyes.

"Tris, it's alright to cry. It's just me here."

I let a tear stream down my cheek and Tobias swiftly wipes it away.

"Soon, this will all be over." He whispers.

"Soon, Marcus will get out of jail and kill all of us!" I say angrily.

"I won't let that happen." Tobias tells me kissing my forehead.

"Now, get in the shower before you lose all of your energy."

I smile and wait until the door is completely closed to get in.

I quickly put a ton of shampoo and conditioner in my hair and wash my body.

I get out feeling refreshed. I walk out of the bathroom and find Tobias in his room laying down gauze and a huge ace bandage.

"Colby says to keep it wrapped up for now." He tells me.

I nod and slowly make my way over to the bed. I lay down and remove part of the towel to expose my back. Tobias gently rubs a nice, soothing cream on my back and the last thing I feel before I fall asleep is a warm, fuzzy like towel being placed on me.

TOBIAS POV~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Tris just fell asleep while I was rubbing the cream on her. She is so beautiful when she asleep. And she's mine. I can't believe that she's mine.

I place a warm piece of gauze on her back and slowly bandage her back and stomach. I decide to let her sleep, so I place one of my blankets on her just as Evelyn walks in.

"What do you want." I sneer.

"I just wanted to see if I could help. Tobias, you have to understand. I helped you out of the mess." She says.

"Yeah and you brought her into it." I say.

"If you want I can put her in clothes." Evelyn tells me.

I nod and hand her my smallest pair of sweatpants and a t-shirt. I walk out and Evelyn closes the door.

Just then I get a text from Uriah and Zeke.

U,Z- hey man were having a little get together at my place and I was wondering if Tris feels up to it, if you guys wanna come over

4- what time

Z- 8

4- who's gonna be there??

U- me, Zekey, Chris, Marlene, Shauna, Lynn, and him

4-Peter?

U-yep

4-I'll have to see how Tris feels.... She just got out of the shower and when I was rubbing the creams on her back, she fell asleep

Z- is she okay? Why?

4- she fell asleep because she needed rest?.... She was awake and walking around for a pretty long time tho sooooo

U- do you ever wonder why the sky is blue? Or why the grass is green? Why can't it be black or red!

Z- ignore him he is in one of his stupid moods.

4- I figured

Z- well we're gonna go set up the party is only 4 hours away!

4- okay bye

I shut off my phone and just shake my head. Uriah is messed up.

Evelyn walks down and comes next to me.

"What." I growl.

"Tobias, you have to forgive me. I helped you in long terms. Would you like to be the one up there?"

"Instead of her, yes."

"But why?" She asks so many stupid questions.

"Because she is too tiny and frail to take that much. Have you noticed how tall she is? She's just 5'1. An what am I? I'm practically 6 feet. Do you see how much muscle she has on her? Close to nothing. Do you see how much muscle I have in me? A lot. I could have handled this better. She's just too innocent and small." I tell her angrily.

"Fine, I know that what Marcus did was bad, but I had nothing to do with this. You're making it sound like it is all my fault!" Evelyn says.

"You know what just leave me and Tris alone. I will forgive you when Tris is completely healed and you still take care of her. Understand. Good." I say.

I walk around and get a bag of cheez-its and walk upstairs to my room. I completely forget that Tris is sleeping so I slam my door shut.

Oops.

Tris moans in her sleep and I gently brush the wet hair out of her face.

Her eyes open, but quickly blink shut. Her breathing again becomes even and I decide to brush out her hair. Since it's wet there shouldn't be much knots right?

That was an understatement.

I slowly push the brush through her hair trying to maneuver around the knots.

Finally, I am done and it is all smooth. I let out a sigh of relief and glance at the clock. It is already 6:30.

I decide to leave the bag of Cheez-its by her and I travel downstairs to go make dinner.

I make a quick spaghetti and meatballs with sauce and a salad. Just as I am setting the forks and napkins mom and dad walk in.

"Oh, Tobias, thank you so much
honey." Mom comes over and gives me a hug.

"Where's Tris?" Dad eventually asks.

"She's upstairs taking a nap. She took a shower and everything." I tell them.

"Oh that's good. Did she see the stitches?"

"Yeah. I did, too."

"You did? How were they?" Mom asks.

"Well she needed help getting the ace bandage and gauze off, so I helped her and well when she saw it she cried. She couldn't believe it. Neither could I, though. It was bad. Really bad. Underneath the stitches there were these black huge bruises and bumps and the stitches were all raised and crisscrossed." I tell them.

"Poor baby. It must hurt so bad. Which reminds me, she should take the pill at dinner." Mom says.

"Hey I was wondering. Umm..... Zeke and Uriah invited me over to their house. With Tris. If she feels up you it. It would just be the gang there." I tell them leaving Peter out of it.

"I don't know if you should go, Tobias. Tris should be resting." Dad says.

"But she's resting right now." I point out.

"But what if--" mom starts.

I cut her off. "Mom, I would be there and I will stay with her the whole night." I plead.

"If Tris wants to yes, but if she doesn't feel good there, you bring her straight back here. Understand?" Mom asks plating the food.

"Yep."

TRIS POV~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

I open my eyes to see that there is a pack of cheezits by my head. I eagerly grab for it, realizing how hungry I am.

All of a sudden, I smell a delicious sauce and know that I need to eat. I quickly scramble out of bed realizing that I am dressed again.

Weird

I slowly make my way down the stairs and walk in the kitchen.

I see that mom and dad are just sitting down to spaghetti and meatballs.

"Beatrice!" Dad says.

I offer a smile and sit down next to Tobias looking down at my plate. I realize that they have given me the same amount of food that everyone else has.

Woah is all I can think.

I hear everyone starting to eat while I remain still not having enough courage to look at them.

"Tris why aren't you eating?" Tobias asks gently.

"Don't I have to wait for you to finish?" I ask confused.

"No, why would you say that?" He asks.

"That's what Marcus did." I whisper still looking down.

Tobias moves my chin, so I am looking at him and says, "we are nothing like Marcus. You can eat with us and look at us. I promise."

I slowly nod and pick up my fork to begin to eat.

The flavors burst in my mouth. It is truly amazing.

"So Tris, how are you feeling?" Tobias asks.

"Good."

"We got invited to Zeke and Uriah's place. I was wondering if you felt up to it. It will only be the gang there." He tells me.

I quickly nod. I want to get out of this house and I want to laugh again. It has been forever since I've had a truly good time with friends.

"Well we should go in about and hour, so if you want to get ready, you can. But I think you look fine the way you are dressed." Tobias tells me.

"Beattice, just make sure you don't wear anything tight, with the stitches. Okay?" Mom asks.

"Yep."

And with that, I slowly travel back upstairs to see if I have anything nice, but loose.

SORRY I HAVEN'T UPDATED IN A WHILE!

IVE BEEN BUSY WITH FRIENDS!! IM TRYING!

As always vote, comment, and be awesome!

I JUST WANT TO SAY THAT IM SORRY! I JUST MADE IT MORE CONFUSING WITH CALEB BEING TRIS'S REAL BROTHER AGAIN! IM LOSING MY MIND!

NAH IM JUST KIDDING (lol get it "I'm all about that bass")

I THOUGHT IT WOD BE COOL IF CALEB WAS HER REAL BROTHER AND THEY MET, BUT DIDNT REALIZE THAT THEY WERE TRUE SIBLINGS.

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