A review from over a year ago inspired me to add this chapter. This will be from the point of view of Tobias.

10 years ago. I can't believe that all of this happened 10 years ago.

The whole story starts 11 years ago, when Caleb was kidnapped. Exactly a year later, he returned. It was then that things took a turn for the worst. Uriah was attacked and blinded. Caleb was taken again. I was arrested. I was found innocent. My father was arrested. He was found innocent. Caleb came back. Zeke was arrested. He played crazy. The rest of us fell apart. We unsuccessfully faked breakups. Then Will died. Marlene got pregnant. Tris moved away. Her mother and uncle were killed.

Tris told us it was her brother.

Tris lied.

She lied about everything. She tore the town apart for what? A little bit of fame? I couldn't wrap my head around it then, and I can't wrap my head around it now. Its hard to believe that I fell in love with the crazy, sociopathic murderer. As much as I want to hate her for all of the pain that she has caused, I can't.

All I can remember is the way she smiled when she saw me. It wasn't the smile of someone who had tortured her brother, or blinded one friend and killed another. It was one of a beautiful, innocent, loving sixteen year old girl who was dealt a sucky set of cards. Her smile lit up my world and made my bad days good. Her smile made me forget, if even for just a second, about my childhood with my sick father, about all of the bad happening in our little town, about all of the pain I had ever felt. Her smile made me feel loved in a way that I couldn't explain.

All I can remember is the way she kissed me. It wasn't a weak, sad, pitiful kiss, that you get when you're with someone who doesn't really love you. It was heated. It made me feel like I needed it more than I needed to breathe. It made me feel special. It was like when you are eating the best cake in the world and savoring every bite. It was like listening to your favorite song on repeat. It was like living in a world where bad things didn't exist. When the kiss was over it always left me praying for more, counting down the seconds until the good Lord would bless me with another one. Her kiss made me feel joy in a way that I couldn't explain.

I watched that video over and over again for days, desperately trying to find a way to prove that it wasn't Tris. When she made her public confession it ripped me to pieces.

"I am Beatrice Prior. I am sixteen years old. I blackmailed Susan Black and Marlene Cavanaugh. On August 29th of last year, I kidnapped my brother with the help of Eric Vaughn. Eric kept my brother in a warehouse about an hour out of town until I gave the queue to bring him back, on the same day of the next year. Not long afterward, I sent Eric into the Pedrad house to make some noise while I used spray paint to blind Uriah Pedrad. I got Eric to take Caleb again, this time I had him be a little more aggressive. Four was accused of doing all of this. That was not on accident. For a year before we took Caleb the first time, I had Eric replicate Four's handwriting, just in case I needed anybody to lose scent of me or create more confusion. I only picked Four because he had an alibi. I had known his father's case was going to be taken to the court on August 29th so I planned to start this all on August 29th. I had Eric drop Caleb off at the Pedrad barn the second time. This lead to Zeke being arrested which, believe it or not, was on accident. Either way it was sort of a bonus. Then I killed Will. That was spontaneous, but necessary. He said he had a feeling he knew who was doing all of this. He most likely didn't suspect me, but Will was very smart. There was no way for sure to know what he was thinking so I stopped him before it was too late. Soon after we moved to my uncle's house. I figured that that was as good a time as any to end everything. I killed my uncle and my mother, and made sure I got caught. Just to clear the air I would like to say that over time I legitimately fell in love with Tobias Eaten, more commonly known as Four. He was the one thing that made me think twice about what I did. He was almost enough to stop me... Almost."

For years I have been replaying the whole confession in my head. She had the whole thing planned for years. She knew she was going to hurt Caleb. She knew she was going to blackmail the girls. She knew she was going to hurt me. She had said that falling in love with me was almost enough to stop her.

I still wonder what I could have done, what I could have said that could have made her think differently. That could have made her drop everything she was doing and leave it before she passed the point of no return and killed Will. It almost seemed like all of it was, in some twisted way, my fault.

The others were, at first, a mix of enraged, sad, and confused. I will never forget the reactions of my friends.

The video finished. There was silence. The air was still, yet at the same time, tense, as if full of electricity. Not knowing how to react, I looked around at everyone in the room. I was trying to figure out the appropriate way to be for this insane messed up situation.

Caleb was looking at the wall. He was pale. He seemed lost, confused. His face was blank. His eyes were unfocused. He was in shock... Complete and utter shock. Susan grabbed a blanket and wrapped it around him, she put a hand on his face, shaking her head in awe.

Tris and Caleb's father had a hand over his mouth. He made his way over to Caleb. He sat next to him and put his arm around him. He seemed to have no idea what to do. Tris always told me once that he always knew what to say... I guess that was another one of the lies she told.

Christina was glaring at her ex-best friend. Her nostrils were flared and she was shaking her head. She was furious. There was a look of hatred in her eyes that I had never seen from her before. Not even Peter, Molly, and Drew got that bad of a look.

Marlene had her head down and her hands over her face. Her shoulders were shaking. She was crying.

Zeke put a hand on Uriah's shoulder, taking deep breathes. I could tell his brain was trying to think of a way to tell Uriah what they had seen. Uriah was confused, "Who... Who was it?"

It was those words that broke everyone, well almost everyone, out of their trance. Christina stood up and ran out of the house, slamming the door behind her. Marlene started to sob, louder than I had heard anyone sob before. Susan started to whisper things into Caleb's ear, and Tris' father stood up and locked eyes with Tris.

I looked to Tris. One of her eyebrow's were cocked and she had a slight smirk on her face. In that second she was not the girl I knew.

The police started to handcuff her, quickly answering Uriah's question, "Beatrice Prior you are under arrest for the kidnapping of Caleb Prior, the assault on Uriah Pedrad, and the murders of Will Henry, Natalie Prior, and Jacob Prior. You have the right to remain silent, everything you say can and will be used against you in the court of law," He continued to spew out the rest of her rights. Even he seemed shocked.

Uriah shook his head, "No... No, not Tris. It can't be, no!" Zeke rubbed his back while Marlene hugged him and cried with him.

If anyone were to ask me what the worst day on my life was I will not say the day my mother left me, I will not say the day my father started hitting me, I will not say the day I met Tris, I won't even say the day I found out it was her. I will say it was the day I last saw her. The day after she confessed to the world what she did.

I was alone with her in an isolated room in the criminal wing of Chicago Mental Institution. Well, as alone as you can be when she is under watch by the police. I was sitting in a chair on one side of the room. She was on the other side, handcuffed. Between us was a glass wall.

"Why did you do it Tris?"

"I was bored," She said simply.

I shook my head, this wasn't right.

"You know I really do love you. I didn't expect myself to fall in love, but I did, and now here we are." She laughed a little bit.

I furrowed my eyebrows, "Tris this is not okay. You can't just laugh at this."

"Tobias, I always knew I was going to get caught. I meant to get caught. I just want you to know that as much as I hurt you, as much as I hurt everyone, I love you, and I wish you didn't have to be hurt. I wish I could have put a bubble around you and kept you safe. I am sorry."

"You can't just apologize and make it all better, this is crazy."

"You know, we can still be together." She smiled, "We can make us work. You can come see me as much as possible and-"

I quickly cut her off, "No, there is no way. I can't be with someone that killed her mother. That killed her friend. That hurt her brother. That blinded my best friend's little brother. That lied to me." I shook my head, "Goodbye Tris."

I stood up to leave, and started to walk out the door, "Wait!" She called out angrily. I rolled my eyes and turned around, "If you walk out that door right now, you can never come back. If you do I will refuse to see you, I will refuse to talk to you. You are dead to me if you walk out of that door."

I closed my eyes for a minute, considering my options. Leave and burn all bridges from the one I loved, or stay and keep the nightmare going forever.

I opened my eyes and left the room. I could hear her screaming at me, I don't know what she was saying. I closed the door behind me, I left the building, got into my car, and cried.


Hello loves, I haven't even looked at this story in over a year, but earlier I was reading reviews and saw that one person was wondering what Tobias was thinking about all of this. Naturally it got me thinking, and thus this second epilogue was born.