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Chapter 1

Jacklyn Pov

"Wakey, wakey, Jackie, it's choosing day!"

I'm interrupted from my very peaceful sleep by none other than my brother, Jack, who is currently sitting on me.

I groan. "Fuck off." Shoving him off me.

I know what you're thinking, an Amity, cursing? What are the odds? Well, let me explain.

My name is Jacklyn Evans, but I prefer to be called Jackie, the arse who woke me up is my brother Jack. I'm pretty sure all of Amity hates us, because we cause lots of messes. We've had so much peace serum that we've developed an immunity to it, but no one needs to know that!

We've known from about the time we could talk that we were going to be Dauntless. Honestly, we started so many fights I can't even count them. Jack and I have always had each other's backs and always will.

Our mother and father were Dauntless, and out of all the places they could've defected, they chose Amity. I still don't know why to this day. Our dad and mom knew that we wouldn't want to stay, so they taught us how to fight, throw knives, and shoot guns.

But, 2 years ago, they couldn't anymore, and I still remember that day vividly, it's engraved in my mind.

2 years ago

"Jackie, JACKIE! Wake up!" I jolt upwards to Dad shaking my shoulders.

I mumble. "What's going on?"

He grabs my hand and pulls me out of bed. "Jackie, c'mon there's been a fire, we have to go."

As he pulls me out, I see mom taking Jack out of the bedroom too.

I notice the blazing flames, starting to engulf the house, and panic fills my veins.

Jack starts to yell. "No, no, mom!"

I turn back and see a piece of the roof fell on mom.

I rush forward but Dad pulls me back. "No, Jackie, take Jack and go outside, we'll be fine, I love you."

What?

"No, no, no, dad I won't leave you, what if you won't make it?"

Dad just smiles at me. "I will honey."

Jack and I begrudgingly run out of the house, and not even one second later, the whole house collapses.

We both scream. "No! Mom, Dad!"

I've never felt more helpless in my life.

I fall off my bed, and land on the floor hard. "Ouch! Why did you have to push me off the bed? I was so comfortable!"

He smirks at me. "Payback. And I was trying to get your attention for five minutes. You okay?"

I nod. "Just thinking about mom and dad. Do you think they'd be proud of us?"

Jack sadly smiles. "I know they would be. You know I love you right?"

I smile. "Of course, I do, and I'll always love you, no matter what happens."

He grins. "Aww, Jackie!"

I scoff. "Ok, let's stop now, I hope you're not getting all amity on me now?"

He puts his hand over his heart and gasps. "Jackie, how dare you? I am Dauntless through and through."

I playfully shove him. "Yeah, I think I've realized that by now."

He widely smiles. "I'll let you get dressed now."

We planned that we'd wear Dauntless clothing under our Amity ones.

We both have tattoos, the one that we share is an arrow, because that's when we were competing to see who could shoot an apple off our parent's heads. Mine is on the inside of my arm and Jack's is on his shoulder blade.

I have the words "Pain is just temporary, if you give up, it becomes eternal," on my back, along with my parent's name. On my ankle, I have "be brave," written.

I also have a bellybutton piercing, but when I get to Dauntless, I'll get more.

I put on a black crop top, skinny ripped jeans, and put on my black feather necklace that my mom gave me.

Over it, I put on a yellow long dress, god, I hate bright colors, they're such an eyesore.

I glance at the mirror and see my mother's green and hazel eyes looking back at me. I only got my dark hair and smile from my dad.

I walk outside and see Jack already waiting for me. "Ready?"

I smirk. "You know it! Race ya to the train?"

Jack smirks now. "It's on, sis."

I take off running, pumping my legs, pushing myself as far as I can, I am determined to beat Jack.

We only get an hour to hold it over the other, because otherwise, we probably would've ripped each other's head off.

There's no way I'm letting him win.

Before I know it, I've reached the train tracks, and Jack is only a couple feet in front of me.

C'mon you can do it.

I push every ounce of energy I can, and I wind up in front of Jack, but not by much.

I see the train rushing towards us, I push myself to go as fast as I can, and I reach the handle and swing myself in.

Seconds later, Jack joins me, with a pout on his face. "Nice, but next time I'll win."

I scoff. "Are you sure about that, because looks like I already beat you, so no reason why I can't do it again."

He glares at me. "Your one hour starts now."

I grin widely. "I can't believe you lost to a girl!"

He groans. "You're going to pull that card, seriously?"

I smile. "Yup! Oh, and because I won, I get to sleep until we reach the choosing ceremony."

He sarcastically smiles. "Great! I just love not sleeping. Thanks!"

I shrug. "It's not my fault you lost."

He rolls his eyes. "Go to sleep, maybe, for once, I'll get a minute of peace and quiet."

I nod. "You wish."

With that, I close my eyes, and listen to the wind, letting it soothe me to sleep.

I feel someone shaking my shoulders, I open my eyes and see its Jack.

I mumble. "That was fast."

He nods. "Yeah, c'mon we got to jump here, we don't want to ruin the surprise, now do we?"

I nod in agreement.

I push myself to the back of the train and jump off, landing perfectly. I turn and see Jack landed with no difficulty as well.

We walk silently and quickly through the Factionless section, averting our eyes from them.

In no time, we make it to the building where the choosing ceremony takes place.

Looks like they've already let everyone in, we briskly walk to our section and take a seat next to each other.

Jack and I make small talk, until the Abnegation leader, Marcus Eaton, clears his throat, basically telling all of us to shut up.

I never liked Marcus, on his visits to Amity, something always felt off about him, it was a gut feeling,

The second Marcus starts talking, Jack and I exchange glances.

I whisper. "This is going to be boring as hell, isn't it?"

Jack nods his head in agreement.

I don't think I can sit here and listen to him drone on and on, so I tune him out.

"Jack Evans."

Hearing Jack's jolts me out of my day dream, that went fast.

I squeeze his hand, and Jack gets up. He takes the knife, and smoothly cuts his hand, and walks to the Dauntless bowl, letting his blood drip into it without a second thought.

The Dauntless start shouting and clapping loudly.

He walks to the Dauntless section and sits down, there aren't any gasps from amity, they all knew this was coming.

"Jacklyn Evans."

This is it.

I walk down the stairs and grab the knife, cutting my hand, and like Jack, I let my blood drip onto the Dauntless bowl and walk away without a second thought.

Once again, there are no gasps, only deafening applause.

I smile at Jack. "I can't wait to start our new life!'

He whispers. "Me too, Jackie, me too."

Very quickly, the choosing ceremony ends, and Jack and I know what's happening next, frankly, we can hardly wait.

We grin at each other once all the other Dauntless take off and start running up the stairs.

I smirk. "Race you there?"

Jack nods. "You know it."

We take off running, there's no way Jack is going to beat me.

Running as fast as I can, I notice that we've already passed the transfers and dauntless-born and are at the front.

We didn't miss the surprised looks we got and the annoyed ones.

I see the train coming up and I glance at Jack and I see pure determination on his face.

I push myself as hard as I can, and I can almost get my fingers around the handle.

C'mon, you've done this hundreds of times.

I put all the strength I have, and I manage to grab the railing and I swing myself in.

I smirk at Jack. "Well, well, well looks like I won again."

He glares at me. "Shut it, bitch."

I laugh. "Love you too, dipshit."

He rolls his eyes. "Next time."

I scoff. "Whatever you say, dear brother."

We hear someone clear their throat.

We turn our heads to them, and see the other Dauntless.

"How'd you guys get in here?" a Dauntless asks.

Jack and I shrug. "We like running."

The Dauntless guy nods. "I'm Uriah, dauntless-born initiate. Next to me is Marlene and Lynn."

They both nod at us, but I can see they appreciate it that we made it first and we are transfers.

I nod. "I'm Jackie and that's Jack."

Uriah grins. "Nice to meet you guys, I have a feeling you'll make it here."

I grin. "I'd be hurt if you didn't think I'll make it."

Jack glares at me. "Hey, you know, your dear brother, is standing right here."

I laugh. "Yeah, I know."

He rolls his eyes. "Bitch."

"Dipshit."

"Dumbass."

"Jackass."

"Shitass."

"Twat."

"Motherfucker."

"Asshat."

Uriah interrupts us. "How do you guys know that many curse words, I thought you came from Amity?"

Jack and I both burst out laughing. "Everyone there hated us, we always got into fights, and got so much peace serum we have an immunity to it."

Uriah raises his eyebrow. "No Shit?"

Jack and I confirm at the same time. "No shit."

Uriah laughs. "I like you guys!"

I scoff and flip my hair. "Why wouldn't you? We're perfect."

Uriah grins. "You're cocky."

I smirk "Mine's bigger than yours."

He looks shocked. "Did you just make a dick joke?"

I shrug. "Damn straight."

Uriah grins. "Time to jump off!"

Jack and I high five each other, we didn't even have to speak to bet who's going to land without stumbling.

We go to the back of the train, run, and push ourselves as far as we can jump.

I land without stumbling and see Jack did the same.

I pout. "Damn it, tie."

He grins. "Well I didn't lose this time."

I glare at him. "This time."

Uriah comes up next to me, and slings his arm over my shoulder. "Damn, you guys are good."

I grin. "Thanks, Uri?

He looks confused. "Uri?"

I shrug. "I felt like giving you a nickname."

He nods, guess he doesn't mind.

I suddenly feel Uriah tense, I'm about to question him, but then I look to the guy in front of me.

Hot damn.

He's muscular with tattoos and multiple piercings, and has his blond hair gelled back.

He smirks. "2 Amity's we'll see how long you last."

Damn. Why do the hot ones always have to be total assholes?

I'm about to open my mouth when Uri steps down on my foot.

I glare at him. "What the actual fuck was that for?"

The guy grins. "Amity's got a mouth."

I glare at him. "I'm not Amity, I'm not a fucking hippie either, who sings around the campfire, because that's total bullshit."

He glares coldly at me. "I'd watch that mouth of yours, it's going to get you into trouble."

With that the asshole leaves.

Uriah looks at me with wide eyes.

"What?" I question.

"Jackie, that's Eric, he's a Dauntless leader, and can make your life living hell, that's why I stomped on your foot."

I shrug. "I'm not afraid of him."

Uri looks surprised. "Trust me when I tell you, you should."

I look around and see that the train has left, the transfers look like they're about to shit themselves and the Dauntless-born look happy.

I turn around and see that Eric and someone else are standing on the ledge of the roof.

The other person introduces himself. "Initiates, my name is Max, and I am the head leader. Next to me is Eric and he is another leader. I would advise you to not get on our bad sides. I do not tolerate cowards, this is Dauntless, and we are warriors! Now, the first step to overcoming that is right behind me."

What does he mean by that?"

"To get into Dauntless initiation, you'll jump off this ledge. Transfers, you have the honors of going first."

"Is there water?"

"What? We'll die!"

"I think I'm going to be sick."

If they think like this they're never going to make it.

Jack and I exchange glances.

"Me." We both say at the same time.

"Oh look, the hippies are going first!" Some Cander smart-ass says.

With that, I pull my dress over my head, revealing the Dauntless clothing, and I see Jack did the same, showing off our figures.

I glare at him. "I'm not a damn hippie, smart-ass, so could you shut up before I shut you up."

He very wisely shuts his mouth.

Max gestures for us to climb onto the ledge.

I do, but turn to face the initiates and I get confused looks.

"Oh, look she's going to chicken out!" the same Candor says, he's going to get a lesson from me.

Jack and I both yell. "Fuck you!" and we jokingly salute Eric and Max.

We flip off the building, doing somersaults and we land onto something hard.

A net, of course.

Some guys reaches his hand out. "Dauntless?"

I shrug. "Nope, we are both Amity."

He looks shocked at that. "Names?"

"Jack and Jackie."

He yells. "First jumpers, Jackie and Jack!"

Then by surprise, all the Dauntless come out of the shadows and shout and clap.

I grin widely and notice Jack doing the same.

I hear a scream, and it sounds like a girl, wait no, I take it back, it's Uri.

After Uri goes I don't really pay much attention to who jumps after him.