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I ran through the meadow chocking on my tears and hurled myself up the tree. I began to climb, until I reached the top. I sat there and thought things through before I erupted into sobs again. How could I get more than 1 result in my aptitude test? How? How did I manage to get Amity, Erudite and Dauntless? I was sick with fear, what was I meant to choose? "Natasha?" A familiar voice said. "Yeah." I said wiping my tears. "Do you want to come down?" She asked. "No, I feel safe up here. But I'll have to come down sometime." I sighed. "You don't have to come up Megan." I said. "It's ok I want to. Now what's the matter?" She asked pulling me into a hug. I remember what the lady said when she told me I was divergent. 'You can't trust anyone with this information.' But the thing is I had known Megan all my life, she was my dearest friend. I decided that I would trust her. "I'll tell you but only if you tell me yours in return. But you have to answer honestly, promise?" I asked. I guess she knew where this was going. "Yes, I promise." She replied. "My results were inconclusive. I'm divergent. I'm fit for Amity, Erudite and Dauntless." I whispered just loud enough to hear. "It's ok. Because I learnt that I had inconclusive results too." She smiled. "What did you get?" I asked. She let out a small sigh and pulled a strand of her short brown hair behind her ear. "Amity and Dauntless." She told me.
I looked over the meadow, what if I left? But how could I, I couldn't do it on my own. "I don't know where I'm going to go." I sobbed. "I know. Me too." She said. "I can't stay here in amity; they'd constantly be giving me the damn peace serum, and I have too many bad memories. But I don't want to go to Erudite; I just can't live like that. That leaves me with dauntless; I've heard their initiation is tough. And I'd be scared that my Amity would show. But I guess that's where I have to go." I sobbed. "Shhh… Shhh… It's ok. We'll do this together. " She said pulling me into her shoulder. "Wait. You'd transfer to Dauntless, for me?" I asked. "Yes, anyway I've always envied the way they live; they can be free. That is the kind of life I'd want to live!" Megan laughed. We both sat there staring out at the Amity compound. I was going to miss it here.
When I began climbing to the bottom of the tree, I noticed a shadowy figure making its way across the meadow. I stood behind the tree trunk praying that they hadn't seen me, I was meant to be at school but after the aptitude test I couldn't go back to lessons, so I bunked off. If anyone but Megan found out that I was off school, they'd tell my mom and she'd go mental. I don't think Megan realized that someone was here because she jumped out the tree and landed on them. "Hey! Get off me!" They yelled. "Oh sorry." She said getting off an older looking girl. As the girl walked away from Megan I began to laugh and fell on the floor unable to hide my giggles. I don't think I'd ever laughed that much, when I got up Megan looked at me "Don't ever tell anyone about this!" She threatened. "But why….." I whined. "Because I say so, and you don't have to act like a four year old about it!" She replied.
"Bye!" I shouted reaching for my front door. Hopefully my mom would still be at work. Slowly I opened the door, hoping no one heard me as I silently tiptoed up the stairs. "Where were you?" An annoying voice asked. I turned around to look Anya, my younger sister in the eye. "School." I told her. "School finished an hour ago. Where were you really?" She asked quizzically. "I was thinking about where I belong." I sighed. "You belong here in amity with me and mom. Duhhh!" She laughed. I don't think she understood what kind of a choice I was meant to be making. One wrong choice will ruin my life. My eyes were watery and I hope she wouldn't notice. She did though. "What's wrong?" She said. I pulled her into a big hug. "I love you, never forget that." I Blurted. "How could I forget?" She replied.
Suddenly the door flew open and my mother walked into the living room. "I got a pizza!" She shouted. Anya scrambled down the stairs and fell down the last three steps and face planted the floor before getting up and running for a seat at the table. I laughed whilst making my way downstairs and sat myself at the table. I smiled at the pizza and quickly grabbed two pieces before it was all gone. "Leave some for your brother!" Mom shouted from the kitchen, before either me or Anya could take the last few pieces. After dinner my mom attempted to talk to me about the choosing ceremony but I managed to convince her I was tired, so she let me go upstairs to my room.
I perched myself on my windowsill watching the sun as it set behind the amity garden. That was one of the things I was going to miss the most; how the sun sank behind the garden and then how the stars came into view. After I had watched the sun set I walked over to my wardrobe. I spent a while wondering what to wear, but it didn't really matter as I wouldn't be amity after the choosing ceremony. So I decided that I'd wear a cute red summer dress with a yellow denim jacket and my red converse. Before crawling under my covers I laid out my outfit for tomorrow and grabbed my I-pod plugging in the earplugs and drifting off to my favorite songs.
As I opened my eyes I smiled at the sunlight filling my room. I got up and got dressed as quickly as I could, I wanted to get this over and done with. I ran downstairs and put some bread into the toaster. "You look so pretty!" My mom said. I turned to face her. "Here let me do your hair!" she smiled pulling me down into a chair. "But my toast is going to burn!" I whined. "No, don't eat any toast today. It has small doses of the peace serum in it, and I want all of amity to know just how pure you are without being influenced by the peace serum." She smiled, running off into the kitchen to make me some other breakfast. It was sad that she believed I was going to stay in amity, but hopefully she would understand that I was tired of being put under serums and told how to smile or talk, even walk!
I got up from the chair and admired the beautiful bun on my head; I was surprised to see that I actually looked 16. I was always small and weak compared to the many other people in amity, and people would always pick on me. But after I gave a boy named Jack a black eye for picking on me people learned not to mess with me. My mom handed me a plate full of bacon and a chocolate chip muffin as I sat down at the table tacking a sip of my orange juice. The bacon was nice and I finished the plate within minutes, before telling my mom that I was ready to go. I took my muffin with me into the car and picked at it as we drove in silence to Megan's house. When my mom pulled up at the curb I walked up to Megan's house and knocked lightly on the door. Megan's mom answered the door and said goodbye to Megan. "Aren't you coming?" I asked Megan's mom. She silently shook her head and closed the door on me and Megan. "She found out that I was going to transfer, and then she told me she didn't want to come." Megan sighed. "I'm your family now, we can be sisters!" I smiled before stepping into the car. "Is your mom not coming?" My mom asked. "No, she's really ill." Megan lied.
We drove to the Erudite headquarters in silence. As we arrived me and Megan stood in line with all the other Amity there. It wasn't until the doors finally opened that I realized just how nervous I was. "Soon we'll have transferred to dauntless, and everything will be ok." Megan whispered as I clutched her hand and we both walked in and took our seats. Shortly after each faction had settled in Janine Matthews walked to the center of the stage. "Today is a very important day; it is today that you choose the rest of your life. However one wrong choice now will cost you your future that is if you have one. The future belongs to those who know where they belong." Janine smiled. There was something I really didn't like about her; I think it was just the way she seemed to know everything. The thought sent shivers down my spine.
After a couple of names were called it was finally me. "Natasha Taylor" Janine said. The way she said it made me want to throw up. I slowly approached the 5 bowls. I took a deep breath whilst I slit my hand and let my blood drip in the coals. I had made my choice now there is no going back. Slowly I walked over to the dauntless and perched myself on a seat waiting for Megan to make her choice. After she chose she came and sat next to me holding my hand and waiting for whatever comes next.
"You have all made your decision now, there will be no going back from here. You must all show determination and commitment to your faction otherwise you risk becoming factionless. Faction before blood, don't forget that." She sneered before leaving the stage.
After Janine's speech had finished the dauntless jumped out their seats and began to make their way down the stairs. Before I was caught up in the commotion I glanced at my mother who was staring back at me coldly. I thought of how sure she was that I was going to transfer to amity, it must have broken her heart. I couldn't be caught up in my past now, I had to focus on my future. And at the moment my future was with the dauntless. And I stomped down the stairs with my faction, still tightly gripping Megan's hand. She seemed lost in her thoughts, "This is our family now, focus on your future instead of letting your mind fill with guilt." I shouted to Megan, who instantly returned my smile and thanked me. Me and Megan stood out amongst the dauntless black, as we were in Amity red and yellow. But for once I was proud to be wearing Amity clothing as it showed my act of bravery transferring from such a peaceful faction to Dauntless.
When the Dauntless had came to a stop, I looked around and noticed that we were by the train tracks. Oh! We were going to have to jump onto a moving train! I had completely forgotten about that, if I would have remembered I would have worn something a little more suitable than a dress. Soon the vibrations of the upcoming train shuddered through the floor and this was my signal to run. I ran alongside the train and when I reached a door hauled myself through it. I quickly stood up remembering that other people were going to be jumping in after me and sat with my back against the wall, waiting for Megan. A flash of red and yellow flew through the door and Megan landed on her feet. She spotted me and slumped herself next to me, she looked at me with wide eyes "That was amazing!" She squealed. I laughed and found two erudite girls looking at us from the corner of the train. One of the girls had long blonde hair and the other had jet black hair. "Hi" The blonde one began. "I'm Shannon and this is Alice." Shannon said pointing at Alice. "Hi. I'm Natasha but just call me Tasha." I smiled. "I'm Meg." Megan added. "How come you transferred?" Alice asked us both. "Amity sucked, I was constantly on peace serum and I had too many bad memories there so I transferred to dauntless." I answered. "What do you mean by bad memories?" Shannon asked. "Well when I was 8 my dad died and the years after that were just tough." I half whispered, I felt tears in my eyes but I blinked them away not wanting to draw any more attention to myself. "Your dad died?" A candor girl butted in. "Err, yeah why?" I asked. "It's just, that must have been weird growing up without a dad." She continued. We all just stared at her. "What?" She asked. "Oh… I'm sorry it my candor showing?" She cringed. "Yeah, just a bit." I smiled. "I'm Olivia by the way but call me Liv!" Liv told everyone. "I'm Tasha. This is Meg, Shannon and Alice." I replied.
"The initiates are to jump off here!" A random dauntless yelled. We all stood up and made our way to the door. I took a small run up and leaped out the train onto a rooftop. The impact of the landing made my feet ache, and seconds after I had landed Meg jumped followed by Shannon, Alice and Liv. They all ended up falling onto each other and being the only one laughing at them a few other transfers looked at me a little oddly. Once I had recovered from my laughing fit we all stood together in front of a tall man. "My name is Max, I am a leader here. You will all be expected to jump from this roof into the dauntless compound or consider yourself factionless." He announced. Most people's jaws hit the ground when they were told that they had to jump off of the roof. I stood straight and made my way to the edge of the roof, I could feel everybody's gaze shift from Max to me. Slowly I stepped onto the edge of the roof and took a deep breath before jumping. I jumped before I could think things through, a gush of wind sent my dress in every direction as I fell into oblivion. I hit a net and felt myself relax as I hit it. I grabbed one of the many hands that were reaching out for me and jumped out the net onto the stone floor. "What's your name? Choose wisely you only get to pick once." A blonde haired lady told me. "Tasha" I beamed. The lady took my hand and raised it above my head. "First jumper Tasha!" She yelled. The crowd of dauntless erupted with cheers at the sound of my name.
Soon everybody had jumped, and we stood there in front of two ladies and two men. "Right initiates I am Six and this is Four we will be training the transfers" She explained. "Wait, your names are Six and Four, like numbers?" Liv asked. "Yes, got a problem with that Candor?" Six yelled into Liv's face. "N-n-no" Liv stuttered. "Good, any dauntless born please go with Christina and Uriah to the cafeteria. I'm hoping you don't need a tour of the place" Six laughed. "Right transfers follow us." Four yelled. He led us to a chasm. "This is the chasm, it reminds us that there is a fine line between bravery and idiocy. It has happened before and will happen again, as it does every year." He told us. Six then lead us to the pit which was like a large underground cavern with rock walls that rise several stories high leading to a large glass ceiling. "This is the pit, this is the main area of the dauntless compound and as you can see there are places for food, clothing and leisure activities. All right we will lead you to the cafeteria to have lunch and then we will show you the dorm, after that the time is yours to use." Six said. And we all followed her and four into the cafeteria.
I sat on a table with Megan, Shannon, Alice and Liv around me. Four and Six sat at the end of the table observing us all. I had gotten a muffin to eat as I wasn't really hungry and began picking at it. When I looked up everyone was staring at me, even Four and Six. "What?" I asked nervously. "Six just told us all that we are going to the dorm but you weren't really paying attention." Meg informed me. "Oh ok then."
The dorm was a large room with many bunk beds lined up against the walls, I claimed the top bunk and Meg was on the bottom. Liv took the top bunk on my right and Shannon was under me with Alice under Meg. I decided that I wanted to go get some new clothes and explore the rest of the compound, Meg and Liv agreed to come with me whilst Alice and Shannon said they'd go elsewhere
As we walked through the pit we spotted a clothes shop and headed inside. There was one thing that all the clothes had in common, they were all black. It was a change for me as all my life I had been wearing Amity red or yellow. But the clothes here were so unique but all similar in the same way. After browsing the shop for what felt like hours I finally decided to try on some leather leggings and a Black tank top with a black jacket. Megan and Liv had selected some clothes too that they would try on and when I had changed into our new clothes I fell in love with them and decided that I had to get them.
We all walked back to the dorms tired and found Six and Four at the doors. "Where have you been?" Four shouted. "Ermm… the pit." Liv replied. "You were meant to be back to the dorms for 8:00, this is your last warning! Training starts at 7 don't be late!" He added. We all nodded and walked into the dorm. I decided to go straight to sleep as I didn't want to be late again. I curled up in my covers and found myself slowly drifting into sleep.