(Four's POV)
I stand by the net at the bottom of the member's entrance to the Dauntless compound. Lauren stands next to me; we are training the initiates this year. She'd offered to take the Dauntless-borns whilst I took the transfers. I didn't want to be recognised, but I was the first Abnegation transfer for years, after all, why would anyone want to leave Abnegation, the most loyal faction with the least amount of transfers? Zeke nudges my shoulder. He stands behind me with Shauna.
"I bet you it'll be a Dauntless-born to jump first!" He says, excited. His brother, Uriah I think his name was, is an initiate this year.
"Yeah," I agree. "It always is...Remember your 'moment of glory'?" I added. Shauna, Lauren and I burst out laughing, remembering when he volunteered to jump first but tripped and fell, I felt sorry for him but it was hilarious.
"It was the wind! I got pushed by the wind!" Zeke told us defensively, but that didn't stop us laughing. Lauren smirked before saying sarcastically,
"Aww, poor little Ezeikel is embarrassed at his moment of glory! Or his moment of embarrassment." Zeke glared at us for a few moments before joining in our laughter himself. I could hear Max talking to the new initiates above us about the jump, then a silence. A very long silence, in Dauntless terms. Then we heard jeering and catcalls. I exchanged glances with Zeke.
"What's with the jeering?" He asks me confused. I shrug my shoulders, before looking up and seeing a grey speck hurtling towards us, the net from seven stories up. Hang on, grey? That'd have to be an Abnegation transfer...to Dauntless. We all stare at the speck of grey, in shock. Abnegation transfer, first jumper? That's just strange. The first thing I though was, please don't recognize me.
Then, the Abnegation girl hits the net, and starts laughing. She must be crazy. Really crazy. I put my hand out along with Lauren, Zeke and Shauna, but she grabs my hand, and a tingling feeling runs through me. I help her up, but as soon as she is standing I release her.
"Thank you." She says, her voice steady, yet she sounds pleased. She looks familiar, but in a strange way. Like I'd seen her before bit only caught glimpses. Then again, that would make sense, because Marcus almost always trapped me inside the house, in my room.
"Can't believe it," says Lauren, smirking at Tris from behind me. "A Stiff, the first to jump? Unheard of." For some reason, her statement irritates me.
"That's the reason she left them, Lauren." I say. Then I turn to the transfer."What's your name?"
"Um..." The transfer girl hesitates, which makes me smile, for some absurd reason that I don't know.
"Think about it," I tell her, still smiling."You don't get to pick again." She thinks for a few seconds.
"Tris,"She says firmly. Lauren repeats her name, now grinning, and tells me to make the announcement. I look over my shoulder at the Dauntless crowd and shout,
"First Jumper-Tris!" I suddenly wish I wasn't training this year. I wanted to get to know this girl, but what were the chances she would want to talk to her instructor. I mean, I talked to mine, but that's only because I was so obsessed with becoming dauntless that I trained day and night. This girl, Tris, probably wasn't as weird, and had friends. Another girl lands in the net, and I see Tris smile. She'a probably already made friends with this girl, called Christina. I set my hand on Tris' back to usher her away from the net.
"Welcome to Dauntless." I say.