Divergent fanfic!
Chapter 1
Tris prov
I woke up with a start, Caleb is whacking a pillow over my face. "Tris! Wake up! We start our new school in one hour!"
"WHAT?" I jumped out of bed and ran to the bathroom leaving Caleb in my bedroom. When I got into the bathroom I stripped out of my pyjamas and jumped into the shower, the water hadn't warmed up yet so it was freezing cold but I hardly noticed. When I came out of the shower I ran back to my room -thankfully Caleb had gone - and grabbed some clothes from my messy wardrobe. I quickly brushed and put up my hair, grabbed my school bag that I packed last night, and ran downstairs. When I got downstairs mum and Caleb were already at the door waiting for me, I grabbed a slice of toast mum made earlier from the kitchen, and ran out the house with them. When I got into the car I only just realised what I was wearing, black jeans that were a little worn at the ankles, an old dark red woollen jumper I haven't worn in, like, ages and black Converse trainers. 8:33, 27 minutes until school starts. It takes 10 minutes to drive to school and when we get there, there are so many kids rushing about.
"Good luck on your first day, guys!" mum was waving her hand out the window as she drove off.
"Have fun, Tris." Caleb said as he walked off in the other direction. I walked up to the front doors of the school and made my way to my locker. A few weeks before school started I got a tour of the place and got my locker key and timetable, etc then. As I was walking away from my locker, I was looking down at my timetable to see what class I had first. At the last minute I glanced up to see where I was going, I saw four tall figures dressed in blue coming towards me, suddenly, I was grabbed by the arm and pulled to the side of the corridor.
"You're welcome! I just saved your butt!" A small tanned girl with short dark hair stood in front of me.
"Um…thanks who were they?" I say, confused.
"Just some stuck up, smart ass', I'm Christina by the way, are you new here?"
"I'm Tris and yeah, I-" all of a sudden Christina – who is strong for her size – pulls me right in front of her and hides behind me like I'm some kind of human shield.
"What? What is it?" I half whisper.
"Hot guy alert!" she says, I turn my head to the direction that she is looking, and there, is a very hansom guy strutting down the corridor, he is tall, and his hair is dark almost black I realise that this is the first time I've ever really looked at a guy that way. Once he had passed and walked off Christina said "so what do you have first?" I look down at my timetable again and see that I have English first.
"English with Mr Moore." I said
"Ugh…me too, he is sooo annoying!" Christina said obviously irritated. The bell (which sounds like a dying whale) sound and we head off to class, Christina shows me the way, and I sit next to her when we get there. A couple of minutes after the bell a tall, dark skinned guy rushes into the classroom.
"Uriah! Where have you been?" Mr Moore raises his voice but doesn't shout. Christina leans over to me and whispers "Probably stuffing his face with dauntless cake!" I laugh but I don't really get it.
As Uriah walks towards us he says "Sorry, Mr Moore!" and rolls his eyes. His sits down at the other side of Christina, "This is Uriah." Christina says.
"Yeah, I kinda guessed that." I say mockingly. "I'm Tris by the way, nice to meet you."
"Yeah you too." Uriah says smirking. English was really boring, Christina, Uriah and I basically just talked for most the lesson, or passing notes because Mr Moore kept telling us off, but sooner or later we started talking normally again. After English we had three more class' – which I spend mostly talking to either Uriah or Christina, and looking up at the clock every minute, which went round so slowly - and then lunch. When the bell went for lunch I walked to the canteen with Christina (Uriah wasn't in our last class) and we lined up in the 'hot food' cue. I grabbed a plate of macaroni cheese and Christina grabbed a cheese burger. We made our way towards a table where Uriah and a few other people were already sitting.
"Everyone, this is Tris, she's new here!" Christina says "This is Marlene, Lynn, Al and Will." I couldn't help but notice that Lynn had a shaved head, I wonder why. We sat down and eat our lunch, at the corner of my eye I could see that on the table next to ours was the guy that passed Christina and I earlier, he was sitting with a bunch of other people, they were all laughing and joking and being very loud. I noticed that in the canteen there were separate groups of people.
"Why is everyone in different groups and wearing almost the same colour?" I ask Christina.
"Why is the sky blue?" she answers mocking me, I raise my eyebrows and she says "see it's something we all go along with, we don't organise it, it just happens." She pauses.
"Okay…" I say
"We all have our own names too, everyone dressed in dark colours – us – call themselves Dauntless, those nerds over there, dressed mainly in blue call themselves Erudite, Candor is everyone dressed in black and white, Amity is everyone in orange, red and bright colours, and them -"Christina nodes towards people dressed in grey kinda colours, "they are Abnegation, they do everything for everyone! It's great!"
"Okay so I'm in Dauntless?" I ask her.
"Well, you could be, you just have to take the aptitude test!" she say in a daring voice.
"What's…that?" I ask her.
"You'll soon find out!" she says in a knowing voice. After lunch we have two more classes chemistry and then math. Just as I was about to turn the corner to go into the chemistry lab I suddenly bumped into someone sturdy.
"Oh sorry!" I say bending down to pick up my books, he bends down too and hands me one of my jotters, my hand briefly touches his and he pulls back quickly. I look up at him and I recognise him as "the hot guy" Christina was talking about.
He clears his throat and says "uh…sorry" and stands up. I stand up too.
"Bye, then." I say and I walk in to the chemistry lab. The next two classes are as boring as ever, and time passes slowly. And to make it worse, in chemistry I was stuck sitting next to the most disliked guy in "Dauntless," Peter Hayes. He is so annoying that I almost punched him in the face because while we were doing an experiment he shoved me and I spilt the experiment all over myself and everyone started to laugh. Maths wasn't as bad I was sitting next to Christina so we just talked. When the bell went for home time everyone jumped out their seats and rushed out the classroom. I went to my locker and got my school bag, and then I met Christina in the canteen and walked out of school with her. "By the way I'm having a sort of party Wednesday night, wanna come?" Christina askes me.
"yeah sure." I say. Even though parties are not my thing, I decide to go because it's a chance to get to know Christina and everyone else better, and if I didn't go they would all think I'm boring.
"Cool, I'll see you tomorrow, Tris!" Christina walked through the football pitch and got into a car at the other side. Behind me I could hear people laughing, but I didn't take any note of it. Then suddenly someone walked up to me and said, jokingly "I wanna go out with your friend." I looked up and saw the same guy that I saw outside of chemistry and in the hall when I first met Christina. I notice that his eyes are a very dark blue and very dreamy. And when he speaks his voice is deep and it rumbles.
"Um…okay, I'll ask her for you, she's a bit short for you don't you think?" I said, I didn't mean it, it just kinda slipped out, and I wasn't going to ask her either, I knew he didn't actually want to go out with her.
"What's your name?" he said, he was grinning like this was some huge joke.
"Tris" I said simply
"Cool, nice name." he said still with that simile on his face. He walked quicker and his friends followed.
"And you are?" I raise my voice a little so he can hear me.
"Oh, my names Four" he says turning round to face me again.
"Four? Like the number?" I asked it was a strange name, yet it seemed to suit him. There's a burst of laughter from the group of people he was with.
"Yes" he says smirking. "Problem?"
"Oh, no! What are your siblings called, one, two and three?" I know that he knows I'm only joking because he laughs with his friends, he turns round and they start walking in another direction.
"What took you so long?" my mum asked when I got to the car.
"Nothing." I say with a smile on my face. Caleb was already in the front seat so I jumped into the back.