The Girl Dressed in Black

by jillian073

Beatrice Prior's life has never been a simple one. After losing her family to an accident, she if sent to live with her godmother and cousins, only to be treated as a slave- not as a family member. With as many hardships and secrets as Beatrice faces, she can't imagine that moving across country to Chicago and attending Faction High would make a difference in her life. Could it?

1. Prologue

A/N: I DO NOT OWN DIVERGENT! ALL CHARACTERS AND SOME PARTS OF THE PLOT BELONG TO VERONICA ROTH! I ONLY OWN SOME OF THE PLOT! Now... on to the story...

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Prologue

Beatrice Prior has never had simple life. She has been through and back again, ever since the accident. Ever since she was sent to live with her aunt. Elyse was Natalie Prior's sister and was granted the responsibilities of not just being Beatrice's aunt, but her godmother as well. When she was ten years old, Beatrice's parents and brother, Caleb's, lives were claimed in a car crash. She was sent to live with her Aunt Elyse and cousins, Macy and Grace. Beatrice was never truly welcome in her relatives' home and was often ignored or treated as a lesser human being. It wasn't until she was 12, when the chores and to-do lists were thrown her way. But Beatrice never complained, well aware of the drawbacks of the defiance she so desperately wanted to express towards Elyse, Macy, and Grace. She knew the mornings she woke up with aching limbs, purplish-blue skin, and scrapes or cuts from the previous day's punishments, would also be the day she was given an even longer and more troublesome list of unwanted duties. Beatrice would get up in the morning, just to look forward to returning to sleep, where her dreams are concentrated with memories of her family. Where she is able to remember the alien feeling of happiness.

When Elyse told her that they would be moving form the great city of Los Angeles, California, to Chicago, Illinois, Beatrice couldn't care less. It is not like the treatment towards her would change, like her life would be any different in the new city. Right? Besides, she did not have anything to stay in Cali for. Beatrice did not have any friends; in fact, it was as if they were forbidden. Elyse did not send her to school, she hired a tutor to come to the house to teach Beatrice the same lessons she would learn if she had gone to school. So no, Beatrice was not unedcucated. Believe it or not, she was actually quite smart. But this move would change her life, for she was to attend Faction High, the local highschool.

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~Jillian