I was combing my long blonde hair and put on the dark blue that was worn by my faction, the Erudite, or rather what was my faction. My mother says that I am guaranteed a first place spot in initiation so
I can become a leader. Myfather died long ago, he was a Divergent Rebel. Ugh, Divergent rebels are just so annoying! My mother said that they killed my little sister, her name was Carolyn, mine is Ellen. But when I get to
Dauntless I must go by Ellie, it is a more Dauntless name. Carolyn was ambushed by a factionless man who had raped her and once he finished he shot her, mother hunted him down and used him for her experiments, nothing unusual. She was ten,
I was twelve. I walked down the hall into the large office of Jeanine Matthews, my mother. I said,"Mother."
"Ellen"
"I am ready to leave for Dauntless."
"Good, and there has been a pleasant surprise."
"What is it mother?"
"Your brother is there under the alias of Eric Coulter. A Dauntless leader, He will be assisting you in the hunt."
"Oh-Of cou-course than-thank you Mother."
I left the room in a state of shock, Eric, really! He's ruthless! I can't believe he's my brother! I can't be nice to him! But what mother says, I do. I'll at least give him a chance, he must be shocked too.
I waited in line to choose, as the names were called only two stood out to me, the Priors, former Abnegation, the boy goes to Erudite, while the girl, Beatrice, goes to Dauntless, with me. Edward stays with Erudite, surprisingly, he has been studying
combat so he could be first in Dauntless initiation, Will transfers to Amity, Amity? Will said he was going to go to Dauntless. Oh well. I go up next. Marcus calls,"Ellen Matthews."
I hear him groan when he says Matthews. Everyone does. I cut my hand and thrust it over the Dauntless bowl, I look at mother who smiles. As the last few names get called I look over who transferred, 4 Candor, 1 Stiff, and me. Six
transfers, at least one has to be Divergent. As the crowd starts sprinting down the stairs I follow, I start yelling like the others. Wow, this is amazing! As we get to the train I jump on easily and help the Stiff, she said,"Thanks, oh
you."
I said,"Pleasure to meet you too."
She said,"Oh no, I'm Beatrice."
"Ellen"
"I know"
"We'rejumping"
"Can you help me, I mean like pull me off with you."
"Sure"
I jump and land perfectly while Beatrice fell on her knees. I pull her up and she says,"Oh shit!"
"Shit, a transfer and a Dauntless born."
A Candor and Dauntless Born missed the platformand died. We follow Max, a Dauntless leader, to a giant hole where he says,"This is the member's entrance."
A boy yells,"Wait, you want us to jump!"
Max says,"Yes."
I walk towards the hole and a Candor boy says,"Hey guys look the Nose is going first!"
I pulled off my jacket and tied it around my arm. I said,"Beatrice come on."
She shook her head and I just walked off. The wind was howling in my ears and my hair whipped around my face. I hit the bottom and a net was there tocradleme, to save me. I couldn't help but let out a laugh. It was
the best thing I have ever done! A man says,"What's your name?"
"Ellie"
He calls out,"First jumper, Ellie!"
The order was,
1. Ellie
2. Beatrice, or now Tris
3. Peter
4. Molly
5. Drew
6. Uriah
7. Marlene
9. Tom
10. Jack
11. Mary
12. Ally
13. Mariah
14. Anna
15. Connor
Ten Dauntless borns! I saw Tris staring at our instructor, Four, or Tobias Eaton, Later that night at dinner I get an entire plate of cake and another with two burgers and sit next to Tris and said,"Can I sit here?"
"Of course"
Four sat down and said,"Tris it's a burger if you put this sauce on it, it tastes amazing."
Four looked at me and said,"So your Jeanine Matthews' daughter. Didn't she have two? Was your sister Divergent? Is that why your mother killed her?"
I yelled," Shut up!"
Four said,"Oh did I strike a nerve? Whatever, you are only here to find Divergents. So is Eric,go talk to him about your monster of a mother and maybe your sister, the Divergent rebel."
Tris said,"Four please, she isn't her mother, her sister was killed by the factionless."
Eric came over and said,"Four Max was looking for you, Matthews come with me."
I followed Eric and he said,"Hey sis!"
"Ugh, Eric"
"Mother called"
"What did she say?"
"That you are guaranteed to rank first."
"Good"
"Carolyn would be so happy."
"She would be a perfect Amity."
"I miss her."
"Me too"
"Oh and Four hates mother, so be careful."
"Why?"
"His friend, Amar was a Divergent rebel, so we killed him."
"Was it obvious?"
"No"
"Good"
I gave him a quick hug and sat back down with Tris who said,"Are you okay?"
"I guess, Four and Carolyn, I can't deal with him as my instructor he hates my mother."
"Hey at least you don't have everyone calling you Stiff."
"Let's get some sleep before training tomorrow."
"I agree completely."