The first day of high school is the toughest for everyone. Today we take the test to see which classes we will be placed in for the rest if high school. There are the Abgenation classes, being the most common, Dauntless classes, Erudite classes, Amity classes, Candor classes, and Divergent classes. Divergent is the rarest you can get in where they teach things from all five other classes that are available. Before high school it's the parents responsibility to teach their kids the basics of each class but then after that, it's up to the kids to know the rest to determine which class they'll be in. After you graduate High school though, the classes are called factions.
I am nervous to take the test. This one test will determine your whole life. Where you will live, where you'll work, even who you'll marry and how many kids you'll have. If you get Abnegation then after high school you are paired up with someone of the opposite gender and you'll be forced to marry them. They say its not about love, since love is self-indulgent. I would know, since I grew up in an Abnegation family, which makes me most likely to get Abnegation. Though I am not half as selfless as the rest of my family. My mom and dad, who say they love each other but I can never be sure, are the most selfless out of all of us. They taught us everything we need to know about Abnegation and how to fit in here. Caleb, my brother, has taken the information in better than I have. I am sure he will get Abnegation on his test. I cannot be that sure of it for me though.
I don't know as much about the other classes as I do about Abnegation, but I have been told plenty about Divergent. My mother seems so fascinated with the Divergent for some reason. My dad, not so much. When my father isn't listening my mom will tell me about the Divergent life and I wonder how she could possibly know so much. If you get Divergent on your test then you have tested positive for more than one class. There is no place for the Divergent like there is for the other factions. The Divergent have more freedom than the other classes, which makes them luckier than the rest. When you graduate you get to choose which faction you live in, it's one of the benifits of being the odd one out. After your put in your faction with your life chosen for you there is no turning back. Unless you want to end up Factionless.
"Have you got all your things together?" My mother asks me.
"Yeah," I say, not looking up from my bag that I had just finished packing with all my school supplies.
"Are you nervous?" She asks.
"Of course not," I lie. "It's just a test... that will determine my whole life."
"It doesn't determine your whole life," she tells mme, but I know it's a lie. "You still have the freedom to be who you want to be."
"No, mom," I sigh. "I can never be my own person. Not with all the rules. They expect you to live your life out one way your entire life. You are ecpected to act a certain way and if you don't then you'll be hated."
"You don't have to live by their rules," she tells me that a lot. Just then my dad walks in. "Well... can't be late for your first day." She says quickly. "Hope you have all your things."
I smile at her before she leaves the room and she smiles back, dragging my dad along behind her.
I sigh as I pick up my bag filled with notebooks and pencils. I leave my bedroom, shutting the door behind me and heading downstairs where I'm met with the smell of burnt eggs and coffee. It's my dads turn to cool and he still isn't that good at it.
"We better get going, Beatrice," Caleb says. "The test isn't going to take itself."
I smile nervously, "Yeah..." I say.
I grab my coffee mug my dad left out for me and head out the door, trailing behind Caleb.
As we walk down the street to the bus stop a factionless man walks up, begging us for food. Caleb goes into his backpack and pulls out his lunchbox, giving the man half a sandwich and a bag of dried apples. The man thanks him and goes on his way, as we head to the bus stop.
"Are you nervous?" I ask Caleb as the bus pulls up and we both get on.
"Of course not, why would I be?" He says.
"I don't know," I say.
"Why? Are you?" He asks.
"No, of course not," I lie. I don't want to have go be the weak one here.
"Dad's been making us study Abnegation our whole lives, I think we're pretty set on our whole lives." He says.
"Don't you think it's a little... cruel... to force a life upon us?" I ask.
"Why would it be cruel?" He asks. "We have our whole futures set. After we graduate we don't have to worry about where we're going to live or who we'll marry. It's all put together for us. It's better this way."
"Yeah... you're right..." I say, taking a moments hesitation.
We arrive at school right on time and follow a sign that leads ud to the gymnasium where an assembly is going to start in a few minutes. Caleb and I take a seat next to each other when Jeanine Matthews comes to the microphone placed in the middle of the gym. She'll be at every high school in each faction, giving the same so each to everyone. My mom told me about it last night.
"Welcome," she says with a smile. "Welcome to the day you take the aptitide test to determine your whole life." And half the people in this gym are determined to be factionless if they aren't able to get perfect grades by the end of high school. "Soon you'll all have your life laid out for you. No one will have to worry about what to do with your life when you'll be able to almost see the future in just a fee minutes. We'll call you up alphabetically by first name to take your test. When your name is called please make your way to the exit on the right side of the gym. You'll be directed from there. Thank you and good luck on your tests."
Jeanine gets out a lost and starts calling out five names at a time, where they all go and take their test for about twenty minutes and then five more names are called. In about an hour my name is finally called and I go in to take my test.
"Hello," a Dauntless woman says. "My name is Tori and I'll be conducting your test today. Are you Beatrice?"
"Yeah," I say.
"Take a seat," she says. I sit down in the big chair that looks like something you'd see at the dentist. "I'm just going to place these wires on your foreheads so I can see what's happening during your simulation."
"Okay," I say as she puts the wires on my head.
"Then I'll just inject you with this serum so you can see the simulation." She says. "And don't worry. It may seem intimidating at first but you'll feel better once it's over."
I nod as she sticks the needle into my neck and I soon fall into a deep sleep.
I wake up in the school cafeteria. I recognize it from when my class got a tour of the high school, but instantly something feels off. I just don't know what it is.
"Choose!" I hear someone say. I look around to find the owner of the voice but there is no one. While my eyes scan the room I see two plates, one with a chunk of cheese and the other with a knife.
"Why?" I ask.
"Choose!" It says again.
"No," I say. "Not until you tell me why."
"Fine then," it says as the two plates disappear. "Don't choose."
And then I see something coming through the cafeteria doors. It couldn't possible be a human, it's on all fours. As it comes closer I see what it is, a dog. It growls at me as it inches closer. I don't look it in the eye, that's a sign of aggression. So, I look it anywhere but the eyes, but I don't take my eyes off it.
The dog charges towards me and I start to panic, trying to remember what to do. There's a sign of aggression so there must be a sign of submission. I decide to get down on my back, with my elbows to the ground as I see some dogs do as I pass them on the street. Instead of attacking me the dog starts to lick my face instead. I laugh a little.
"You're not so much of a beast after all, huh?" I say.
Just as I finish my sentence a little girl comes in screaming "Puppy!" and runs toward us. The dog growls at her and charges her way.
"No!" I say and throw my body on the dog and instead of hitting the ground with the dog, I sink into it.
I am then on a bus where I see no one, not even a driver, except a Candor man, sitting and reading a newspaper.
"You know this guy?" The Candor man asks, pointing to the front cover where there's a picture of a man with a scarred face and above it reads "Murderer on the Loose!" I have a strange feeling, he looks so familiar but I don't know where from. "Well, do you know him?" The Candor man asks aggressively. I don't say anything, just stare at the man. "Well, DO YOU?!?"
"No..." I say. "No, I've never seen him before in my life."
"Are you sure?" He asks me.
"Of course I am," I say. "Why would I lie?"
"Hmm..." he says. "Okay then."
I then fall to the ground and wake up again in the chair, with Tori by my side.
"Well," I say, a little out of breath. "How'd I do? What's my test result?"
"You tested positive for... Abnegation," she says. I sigh in relief. I won't have to leave my parents. "And Erudite and Dauntless."
"What?" I ask. So that means...
"You're final test results are Divergent," she says. Divergent...A/N: Just to clear up this is not a modern day Divergent High story, its still set in the same time but just a little different from how the story really is.So, thanks for reading. Please Review and Favorite this story if you want me to continue.Bye!!!