"Honey! First day of middle school!" My mom shouted. "Breakfast is ready!"

I hopped out of bed. "I love school." I said to myself as I turned on the water for the shower. "My friends will be there. I love my friends." I sang in the shower, and as I got out of the shower, "And I love the Principal, a.k.a my neighbor, a.k.a Ms. Wong." I got dressed ... denim. Denim everything. Denim shirt, jeans, and in the winter, a denim jacket. "I love denim! I love the color blue." I sang. "Blue is the color of my eyes. I love my eyes."

"Your eyes are blue-gray, Beatrice." My twin brother, Caleb, said as he zoomed past me to breakfast. Caleb and I were nothing alike. My older sister, Jeanine, looked like Caleb. They were both nerds. But my other older sister, Hazel, and I were a perfect match. "It's Tris, now!" I shouted after Caleb. "Tris is my new nickname!"

"Not for me." He joked. "To me, you'll always be Beatrice."

By the time I got to the breakfast table, Caleb and Jeanine were already halfway through their Poptarts. I ate mine quickly and grinned at Hazel, who was already done and waiting for me on the porch.

After I finished, I grabbed some lunch money and raced my siblings to the school bus.

"I'm glad you're finally getting into middle school!" Hazel exclaimed. She was two years older than me. "They added some new classes last semester. I can't wait to see your face when you get to one of them! Caleb will fit right into the classes they call Erudite. I'm in the classes they call Candor and Dauntless. (A/N yep. I just did that.) There are the ones they call Divergent, who do multiple classes. The Erudite dislike them for some reason, which is unknown to anyone but them. I bet you'll be in my classes - here comes the bus! I can't wait for you to meet my friends."

I nodded along absently to her chatter. As we climbed on the bus, she waved to her friends and gestured me to sit next to them."Tris, this is George, Kathy, Nicole, Sally, Peter, Molly, and Drew." She rattled off their names and pointed to them.

Right from the start, I didn't really like Peter, Molly, and Drew. We sat in the part of the bus called "Candor". I wondered what the others were.

The other parts of the buses were called Dauntless, Erudite (where Jeanine sat with Caleb) Amity, and Abnegation. Each part wore different clothes; I suddenly felt self-conscious about my purple attire.

When we finally got there, Hazel walked me to the principals office. The principal introduced herself as Tori Wu, and Hazel went off with her friends.

Tori handed me a test. "It's just to see what part of the school you will be sorted into." She reassured me.

"Like Hogwarts." I thought. "Only they have a magical hat."

"This is sort of like a magical hat, only in test form." Tori said mysteriously. "But, no need to be scared. I, myself, was Dauntless, though my parents were Erudite. This school has existed for a while, and the factions... what we call the parts of the school... were invented for safety."

"Safety?" I asked.

"Just take the test." Tori said quickly.

I did take the test. After I turned it back into her, she smiled at me. "Congratulations Miss Prior, age thirteen!" She looked through my answers, and her face got less pleasant. She looked up at me, a bit gravely, grim, and scared.

"What did I get?" I asked, a bit scared.

"Dauntless." She said slowly. "Dauntless." she repeated. "And Erudite. And Abnegation."

I processed the words over and over again. "So... I have multiple classes?"

She smiled bitterly, as if reliving memories. "Yes, Tris. But... be careful. Don't tell Erudite you're Divergent."

I looked her as if I was crazy. "Don't tell them? But I'll be taking multiple classes, they're going to know!"

"Tris." She said sternly. "Erudite is separate, remember? In this case, you have to choose which section... faction... you want to belong to."

I paced back and forth in the principal's office. Jeanine was Erudite, Caleb was obviously Erudite, and Hazel... she said she belonged more in Candor than in Dauntless. In that moment, I made my choice.

"I want to be Dauntless." I said slowly. "What does that mean?"

Tori chuckled. "Dauntless is brave, Erudite is for nerds, Candor tells the truth, Amity is peace, and Abnegation is kind."

"Oh." I said. "Well then, I'm definitely Dauntless then... but I'm not very good at being brave." Suddenly I felt shy again.

Tori smiled. "You will do better there, I'm sure. Have fun. Make some friends. But over all, be safe."

I smiled and walked off to my locker, where I met a girl named Christina. She was wearing red. In all of my classes and at lunch, I met cool Dauntless friends. Some were new to middle school, some were not, but all in all, we had something in common: we were all Dauntless.

As I went to sleep, in the boarding school that was middle school, I smiled to myself. But if I had known what was coming before I started high school boarding, I would have run home that night.