I never really knew my mother. From what i've been told, she was nice, caring, loving, sweet. She was also a transfer from Dauntless. People say she never fully fit in to Candor until she met my Dad. They also say that my Dad was the sweetest man they knew, but I wouldn't know about that side of him. He's always blamed me for my mother's death, since it was during childbirth with me. Being a Candor, he was pretty vocal about it too. He never really said he hated me, but he hates being around me; usually can't stand it for more than five minutes in passing. He hired a nanny to raise me. He never remarried, never had any kids, just stayed focused on leading the faction. I was never mistreated, I had the best things, best grades, all the freedom in the world, I was never mistreated. I was just neglected and ignored; fatherless and alone.

Luckily, I was never the shy type (obviously) so I managed to make a lot of friends to keep me company. I guess the way I look attracts a lot of attention. No, I don't have a hunchback or like three arms or anything like that. I'm a normal looking girl, ok I'm actually very pretty. I'm not saying it to be conceited, it's just what i've been told and how I feel about myself. I'm 5'11, I have bright green eyes, long, straight, thick, dark brown (almost black) hair, very full lips, and I am very fit and toned; I'm actually in really good shape. And I forgot about my award winning smile, I've never needed braces, my teeth are pearly white, and people adore my dimples. I probably sound like the snobbiest bitch right now, I promise I'm not! My confidence is just at an all time high right now.

My best friend in the whole world is named Sam. We met when we were five years old. I was in time out for punching stupid Cindy Mason because she took my cookie at lunch. I always hated her, she had this stupid blonde bob hair do thing and made fun of me because I had no Mommy. Anyways, that's a story for another day. While I was in time out, my teacher decided to make it even worse by bringing out the apple juice she had for us. I LOVE APPLE JUICE! The nerve of her! So there I was sitting in time out, listening to everyone slurping their juice. It was the worst time out of my life, and trust me there's been many. Well next thing I know this random blonde haired kid with sky blue eyes is crawling across the floor to sneak me an apple juice box. He was my hero, and I made sure to tell him that at recess. That's when we pinky swore we'd be best friends forever. As we grew up, everyone always speculated that we were more than friends. Funny thing is, we have never dated. We kissed once when we were 12, it was weird and super awkward and we realized we have absolutely not interest in each other except as best friends. For some reason, it is nearly impossible for people to understand that our friendship is one hundred percent platonic. They seem to think that one of us is secretly in love with the other. Trust me, we are not. Once we hit puberty, the opposite sex couldn't stay away from either of us. I guess I can't blame them, I'm no longer that short, thin, stick of a girl. And Sam is no longer that short, scrawny little boy anymore. He's actually filled out a lot, he is a lot more muscular than most of the Candor's. I guess that's what happens when you run five miles every day with your best friend.

We've been running together for the last three years. When we were 13 we decided we would transfer to Dauntless on our initiation day so we began training for it. We were running partners, fighting/wrestling partners, knife throwing partners. All of it was to make sure we became some of the best Dauntless soldiers there ever was. Which brings us back to today, today is our choosing ceremony. The test wasn't really a big deal, I knew what my result would be and so did Sam. So here we were, standing in a room full of nervous/eager sixteen year olds waiting to make the decision that would change our lives forever.

"Sam Gold," the Dauntless leader Max called. I gave Sam's hand a squeeze for good luck and watched as he cut his hand and held it over the Dauntless coals. Candor gasped but that was drowned out by the Dauntless cheers. That means my turn is coming up soon, they decided to do it alphabetically from Z this year. I zoned out for a few minutes daydreaming of my life in Dauntless until I heard my name called. I looked at my father who was, surprise surprise not looking at me at all, and walked to the front. I smiled at Max as I cut my hand and held it over the Dauntless bowls. I was grinning ear to ear as the group of Dauntless pulled me towards a seat, and even more so while I ran down the stairs, climbed up to the train platform, and jumped on the train.

"I've never seen a Candor smile so big." This sentence came from a tiny brunette, she couldn't have been more than 5'2. I laughed, "I'm not the best example of a Candor." Before she could reply a tall muscular Dauntless born cut in, "Maybe that's because you're not a Candor anymore. You're Dauntless." We both laughed in agreement and introduced themselves. "My name is Niki, I transferred from Erudite." I shook her hand while he introduced himself as Matt. "Well my name is Ava, and as you can tell I transferred from Candor. But I belong in Dauntless." We all made small talk for a few minutes, these two were totally gonna get together eventually. I'm really good at guessing these things. "We're here!" announced Matt as he stood up. "Get ready to jump ladies."