A/N: hey so my other story is on hold because I just wasn't feeling it anymore and got this new idea to start this one.

Disclaimer: I don't own divergent.(Im only going to say this every other chapter... Maybe) :)

chapter 1

The bright and gold rays of the sun creep up over the window sill and in between the blinds. I take a glance at the clock on my nightstand and notice that it is 5:30, and that I won't be able to get back to sleep anytime soon. I have always thought that it was kind of odd that I wake up around the same early hour each day, but I just can't seem to break my habit. As I carefully snuck over to the bath room across the cool black and white tile, I heard a soft noise come from my younger brother Kori's bed

" Jade? Why are you up so early?" He asks as he rubs his eyes.

" I just couldn't sleep, knowing about the de-ceremony today," I tried not to tell him about my decision to switch Factions, but its kind of hard to hide the truth when you have been told to just say whats on your mind and be truthful your whole life. Luckily he didn't seem to notice it. " You probably should go back to sleep since you don't need to be up for like another two hours." With that he turned over to go back to sleep, and I walk into the hallway and into one of the two bathrooms that I share with my seven family members. Actually it is only six since my older brother Nikolas transferred to Erudite. The rest of my family members are my father Timothy, my mother Alice, my brother Kori who is 14 years old along with his twin sister Iris, and my youngest sister Mindy who is only 4 months old. My mother has always told us that she was an accident, but my father said that they still love her no matter what she is, but my mother would still beg to differ.

I quickly took a shower, brush my teeth, did my hair in a side four strand braid, and applied a minimal amount of makeup. Next I snuck back into my shared room to grab a knee length black and white striped dress with spaghetti straps, black leggings and some black flats with a white bow on the toe, and I make my way down stairs and grab an apple out of the refrigerator.

As I make my way to the door I debate about if I should leave a note or not, but then I just decide to not leave one because I should be back by the time they have breakfast since its only 6:00am and they should be up by 7:00am so we can be at the ceremony by 8-ish. My parents always say that I'm very punctual, but I just tell them that I don't like too be late, after all early bird get the worm. I quickly jog down the street until I get to the end and take a right so that I can go to the gardens. Once I get to it I take the path deep into the garden, but then I find my usual faded and over grown path that I take until I get to the large opening in the middle of the part of the garden that the Erudite used to do experiments on. They used this part of the garden to test one of their new fertilizers for Amity, and it caused the tiny and even some minuscule plants and shrubs to grow into small trees that are near impossible to kill.

Not many people know about this place since the experiments were done over 15 years ago. I grab onto a low branch in one of the trees and pull myself up to the middle of the tree about 12 feet off of the ground. Once I'm settled on one of the thick limbs I take out my apple from my pocket at take a bite. After I finish my apple I just sit and take in the scenery for what will probably be the last time. I take notice of a little butterfly that is called a Morning Cloak land on a narrow branch next to my head. As it flaps its delegate wings I become mesmerized with the the blue, yellow and red/brown colors on its wings until a robin takes off from its nest on the other side of the tree and the butterfly also flutters away.

I guess I sat there for little too long and fell asleep on the branch, and almost slid off to the side when I work up. Then I take a glance at the shadows and can tell that it's already about 7:20, and I should be back at home already. So I quickly climb/jump out of the tree and I sprint down the paths out of the garden and on to the road, but i slow down a bit so i can catch my breath and I get back to my home just as my father sets down the eggs and toast that he made. Then I go over to the sink to wash my hands, and then I slid into a seat between Mindy and my other sister Iris.

"Where have you been, all this time your father was starting to get worried" I notice how my mother just says your father was getting worried and not I or we were getting worried, we alway did have a difficult relationship.

"Alice, she was just probably out for a walk or some thing, so she could think about today and the ceremony," my father says this in the exact opposite way that my mother spoke. Hopefully it will clam her down a bit, and for that I wish I could thank him, but that would just anger the beast even more. "Besides all that matters now is that she is back home."

My mother sighs then says "Well I don't see why she has any need to think about it, since she is going to stay here anyways." There's my lovely mothers brutal honesty again. This time we just let her go, and think that she is correct so that we don't cause the argument to go further. My father and I are probably the only two people in Candor who don't like to argue, most likely because he came from Amity and because I don't belong here.

A/N: So do you like it? Don't forget to review and let me know what you think also if I didn't say it before Jade (the main character) is a 5 foot 3.5 inches, girl with light blue gray eyes and medium brown hair that has light brown highlights that are natural.

Sorry for any mistakes.

- J :P