Chapter 1:

I'm terrified; it's the choosing ceremony. I walk in anxious to get it over and done with. I scan the room soaking it in. When I look at the sea of blue, amongst the erudite initiates, is a woman of powerful stance with perfectly straight blonde hair. She starts to walk towards me and my parents and Caleb, that's when it hits me my parents talk about her all the time: Jeanine Mathews, the leader of erudite.

I never expected her to be so beautiful.

As she talks to my parents I can't help but notice her beautiful full lips perfectly framing the rest of her face. Shit she saw me look at her and now she is talking to us. I stand there and say nothing while she speaks

"These are you children, I don't think I knew they were choosing today."

As my brother introduces us both my heart races, what if she asks about why I was staring at her…

"You have a big decision to make today, I'm sure your parents will support the choice you make."

I can't help but reply back

"It's not supposed to be a choice, the test should tell us what to do."

She seems surprised that I spoke. Was she as mesmerized by my voice as I was with hers?

She moves closer slightly smirking.

" Your still free to choose."

"…But you don't really want that."

She moves even closer we are so close I'm surprised she couldn't hear my heart racing.

"I want you to choose who you truly are and where you truly belong, not on a whim, not because you wish you were someone your not but because you honestly know yourself. I want you to choose wisely and I know you will."

As I was waiting my turn to choose my faction her voice and what she said to me kept repeating over and over in my head. I couldn't be in love with her could I?

It was my turn.

I was shaking so much; I walked up towards the five bowls representing the factions. I cut the palm of my hand and watched it start to trickle down my hand. I look to my right before I make my final decision and see Jeanine Mathews standing smiling at me, That it I must choose erudite like my brother so I have the opportunity to sort out my true feelings for her. After a drop of my blood fell into the erudite bowl I looked at her once more she smirked at me and with her slight nod I felt approval that I had made the right decision.

When we were dismissed she signaled to me that she wanted to talk to me before we left. That confused me she hadn't stopped staring at me since I picked so I knew she wanted to talk to me.

"So, Beatrice you choose erudite…"

Shit she is going to ask why

"Why?"

Oh god what do I say?

"Uhhhh.. Yeah.. I don't know it just felt right."

"Well I'm glad you knew your own mind, it's quit rare for children to leave their own faction."

She wouldn't stop staring straight into my eyes.

"I look forward to tutoring you in erudite, the other initiates have already caught the bus to our headquarters so you can ride in my car with me, is that ok with you?"

"Yes, yes that's fine." I say while smirking and looking down. When I look back up Jeanine seems closer to me, she takes a small breathe in and it's so quiet only I can hear it. As she breathes in her chest moves up and down. Wow. The tension suddenly breaks when I step away and we both seem to snap back into reality.