I do not own Divergent. This story takes place 20 years after Tris's initiation if the war didn't happen.
I wake up to a ceiling that was yellow and had red flowers painted on it, a ceiling I see every time I wake up. "Maria, lets hurry up and get dressed if you don't want to be late for school." I hear my mom yell. "I'll be down there in a minute!" I yelled back. I go over to my closet and grab out any clothes I see, a red shirt that has flowers on it and blue jeans. I put them on and brushed my dark brown hair quickly, then going downstairs to get breakfast. "Morning" I said. My father looked over from the newspaper and smiled. My parents were used to me getting up a bit late before school, so this was normal to them. "Morning Maria" my dad said. I walk over to the table and grabbed toast, I never really eat the bread here because I hate how they make you go all happy and stuff like that. "You ready for your Aptitude test today?" my mom asked. "I'm nervous" I said. I'm 16 years old so that means I'm taking the test that will tell me which faction I belong in, my parents are used to this routine because my 2 older sisters went through this, my oldest sister, Jenny, who resembled mom the most with her blonde hair, eyes, and lips, but she had my dads nose. My other sister, Anna, who has red hair and is a mixture of both of the my parents, except her eyes, our parents eyes are blue, my mom has blue gray eyes, and my dad had ocean blue eyes, but Anna had green eyes. I have most of my dads looks, I have his eyes, nose, and dark hair, he likes to keep his hair short for some reason, I asked why and he says because he doesn't like to have his hair long. "You'll do fine, Maria. It's rare for someone not to get a faction." my dad said. I couldn't help but think of my sisters, Jenny chose Erudite, which made sense because she was fascinated with them, and how they and Amity had a strong relationship, we need them to survive, they need us, win-win I guess. Anna chose Candor, though I was surprised because she usually lied before transferring to Candor, but then again, the test never lied to anyone. "Which faction do you think you'll get?" my mom asked. 'I hope Dauntless.' I thought to myself. To tell the truth, I hated living here, I mean, I have good friends and stuff, but being someone who keeps peace is boring! I saw a fight happening at school one time between a Erudite and Dauntless, I ran in and threw them apart ,but got in trouble because I didn't use the peaceful way to stop it and was grounded for a week and had a week of detention, it sucked. "I don't know, but I should get going." I said running upstairs to brush my teeth fast and I ran outside waving to my parents bye. I run, feet hitting the ground, feeling the wind rush by me, I felt free, I didn't wanna be stuck in Amity and be peaceful, I wanna be Dauntless and feel free. I turn to see a train full of Dauntless rush by, hearing the Dauntless shouts and laughing, I smiled. It was another 20 minutes until I see the school a head and rush in, walking fast to get to class on time.
I sit in class, waiting until they called for us to take the test. I look around the class, 9 Amity, 8 Erudite, 7 Abnegation, 10 Dauntless, and 6 Candor were in this class. I try to focus in class but the subject was boring. Then the speakers went on "All Amity students please go to the East hall building. Repeat, all Amity students please go to the East hall building." the voice said. I got up along with the other Amity students and we walked out of class, I see more Amity students outside walking to the East building, laughing, talking. "Hey Maria!" I hear a male voice yell out to me. I turn to see one of my best friends running up to me. "Wassup Alec?" I asked. Alec had a red button up shirt with blue jeans, brown eyes, and his chestnut hair looking like someone ruffled it, the way he keeps it. "I'm nervous about taking the test. Are you?" he said. "Kind of, I mean what ever we get is the faction we live in." I said. "I'm worried that I'll get another Faction. I don't want to leave Amity, not since the accident." Alec said. When we were 13, his dad and older brother went to the fields to work, but then out of no where and no one still knows how, a fire happened, killing both of his dad and brother along with 20 other men and women. After that, his mother went into a deep depression, she became ill, and since then Alec and his little sister, Jessie, have taken care of their mother since. "You know, even if you get another faction, you can still stay in Amity." I said. "I know, but then I'll always would have that feeling knowing I could've started a new life, instead I stayed in Amity." he said. We entered the East building and there were chairs, so we all sat and then people came out, getting each student for their test. "Are you Maria Clinton?" I hear someone ask behind. I turn to see a man who had dark skin, black hair, and brown eyes, and he looked like he was in his mid 30's, he was wearing all black, Dauntless. "Yes I am" I said. "My name is Uriah and I'll be the one who will giving you the Aptitude test. Please follow me." he said. I got out of my chair and followed him down one hall into a small room, which had a chair you would see in a dentist office, next to it was a machine. I walk over and sit down in the chair. Uriah grabs a cup and walks over to me and hands me the cup. "What is it?" I asked. "This is a serum that will start your test." Uriah said. I looked at the liquid inside the cup, blue. I drink the entire cup and I see darkness in my sight. I fall asleep, I am nervous and excited for this test.
That's the first chapter, I'll get the second chapter up sometime this week. Leave a review of what you think about it. Until then, be brave!
