We raced through the fields laughing as we exchanged insults to each other; finally we made it to the tree and stopped.
"See, I told you I was faster than you!" My sister, Tammy, said to me in-between deep breaths, trying to slow down her heart and breathing.
"You must be blind; I clearly made it here first!" I replied "I made it here first: anyone with eyes can see that." My twin must be barking mad to think she won.
To say we had a competitive relationship would be an understatement. Going back as far as I can remember Tammy and I have been competing against each other at everything (we even had a 3 hour argument over who had spoken first, we never finished the argument because Johanna- the Amity leader/representative- decided to give us the peace serum because 'arguing is bad').
Over the years it has only gotten worse, even though we aren't part of Erudite we study a lot to make sure we get a better mark than the other. Everything we do is a competition between us which, to be completely honest, drives everyone in our faction mad: which is of course an exaggeration because everyone in Amity is always happy, cheerful and (of course) annoying as fuck. How we ended up being born in this ridiculous faction to two 100% Amity parents is a mystery neither of us has solved (though if one of us ever does figure it out it will be me).
"I'm afraid my dear sister you are mistaken, as usual. I made it here first and you know it." Tammy says to me, having finally caught her breath.
"I know no such thing. I got here first fair and square. You just don't like losing." I reply.
"I got here fir-" Tammy beings but it caught off mid-sentence.
"What the hell is going on here?" A low, cold voice says from behind us. We turn around and come face to face with a tall man in Dauntless clothing, he has blonde hair that is in a Mohawk style, my eyes are drawn to his ice like blue/grey eyes, his two piercing over his right eyebrow, two plugs in both ears and the tattoos lining his neck and arms. He is almost a head taller than us and uses his height to tower over us, it's intimidating but we are both too caught up in our latest argument to be scared.
"Well this idiot seems to believe that she got to the tree first, which id ridiculous seeing as I got here before her." I reply to the man.
"I was right, you are blind. I got here first and you know it." Tammy shouts back at me. We begin to argue again but the Dauntless man behind us is getting bored/annoyed and is about to intervene again but is beaten to it by Johanna.
"Tammy, Dylan. What have I told you about arguing?" She says to each of us, as usual, never raising her voice.
"That it is not nice and we should carry on being happy and kind towards each other." We reply in unison. We have been told that sentence so many times that it has been burned into our minds.
"Exactly now do I have to give you both the peace serum or are you going to both hug and make up?" We both look at each other and take a step away from each other. Johanna seems to have expected our answer and already has the peace serum in her hands. Before we can do anything to stop her it has been injected into our bodies. After a few seconds we both have massive smiles on our faces and we start to giggle.
"I'm sorry Dylan I don't like arguing with you."
"I'm sorry too Tammy, I don't like arguing with you either."
Johanna seems satisfied with the outcome and walks back, quickly, across the fields. As soon as she is out of sight, the smiles drop from our faces and the fake giggling stops. We look at each other and then back to the Dauntless man who looks confused.
"What are you staring at?" I ask the man who keeps looking between us.
"She just injected you both with the peace serum, why are you not still giggling, and why did you fake it to begin with?"
"Well, firstly we have been given that god-awful serum so often that we have built up some kind of immunity to it. Secondly Johanna doesn't know that it no longer works on us and we plan on keeping it that way. If she found out that it doesn't work she will just make the serum stronger." Tammy and I say to the man.
"How old are you two?" He asks us.
"Well that was a complete change in subject." I say.
"Just answer the fucking question, Amity." He growls back looking annoyed.
"No need to be so rude." Tammy murmurs and he shoot her a glare.
"We're sixteen." I say relieving Tammy of us his cold eyes as he turns to look at me.
"So you will be taking the aptitude test tomorrow?" He asks and we both nod, each of us growing tired of his questioning. "It doesn't take a genius to figure out what you're results are." He says looking at both of us before walking away and back to the black truck he must have arrived in.
We watch him get in the truck and rive away before looking at each other.
"Well, he's an arsehole." Tammy says to me as the truck gets smaller and smaller as it drives away.
"Yeah, but he is pretty hot." I reply. Tammy just groans and slaps the back of my head before walking back towards our home.
"What did you do that for?" I yell at her as I jog to catch up, rubbing the back of my head where she slapped me.
"Why is it whenever a Dauntless guy is a complete arsehole towards us you think he's hot?" She says looking at me.
"I have no idea what you're talking about." I reply. She's right though, I always seem to have a thing for Dauntless guys who are almost always rude or arrogant towards us, I'll never tell her that though.
"Uh I give up." She says as we finally arrive back at our house.
"That means I win… again." I say grinning like I do every time I beat my sister at something.
Tammy just groans again and we both walk upstairs, unfortunately our mother must have heard Tammy groan and stops us both halfway up the stairs.
"That doesn't sound like a happy noise, cherub." Our other say's to Tammy while smiling and tapping Tammy's nose lightly before walking back downstairs. Tammy groans again (this time quieter) before we both walk up the remains steps and into our room.
It's a rather large room as we both have to share it. It has red walls, yellow flooring and all the furniture in the room is wood/brown. It's safe to say that we both hate it, it's far too bright and both Tammy and I prefer dark colours like Black.
We have already eaten dinner so we both get ready for bed and slowly fall asleep.
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We both wake up at sunrise the next morning to the sound of a rooster (Tammy and I have attempted to kill it several times but we always get caught and are given the peace serum). We both get changed into a tight yellow t-shirt, red knee length shorts and brown canvas shoes, we both look identical which is what we aim for as it confuses everyone but our parents and we enjoy that fact.
I head downstairs, Tammy following closely behind, and walk into the kitchen/diner and take a seat at the table. Our father is already sitting eating his breakfast of fresh fruit and toast. Our mother places a plate containing the same as our fathers in front of each of us and we dig in and eat quickly. We finish breakfast and head towards the front door, as we are about to leave we hear our shout to us in kind voices.
"Good luck with the aptitude test, cherubs." We close the door and head to school. We arrive at school just as the bell rings announcing the start of period one.
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The bell for lunch rings and both Tammy and I, along with the rest of 16 year olds head to the lunch hall to wait for our names to be called. We are called in groups of five and Tammy and I are called at the same time. We walk together but separate to enter different rooms, we smile at each other before the doors close behind us. In the room is a dentist like chair with a machine attached to it. There is an abnegation woman in a grey, shapeless dress standing in front of the machine and she turns to look at me when the doors closes with a click.
"Please take a seat." She says to me with a small smile. I do as she says and then she hands me a small glass filled with a blue liquid. "Drink this." I'm hesitant at first but she smile again and I down the liquid in one. It taste disgusting and I close my eyes wishing the taste way. I open my eyes to find that I'm still the in the dentist like chair but the woman in gone, along with the machine. The walls have been replaced with mirrors.
"Choose." A voice says. I turn around looking for the source of the voice but am only met with two tables. One has a knife and the other a block of cheese. Without any more hesitation I grab the knife. The two tables disappear along with the cheese and are replaced with a vicious looking dog. It runs towards me trying to attack me. Before it can sink its teeth into my skin I stab it with the knife. As soon as the dog stops moving the room changed into a bus filled with people. A man turns to me with a newspaper in hand.
"Do you know this man?" He asks, pointing to a man on the front page. I recognise him back I can't remember where from.
"No, I don't." I say to the man feigning confidence in my answer. The man suddenly gets angry.
"Liar, you could save my life. Do you know him?" He says, standing up and grabbing the collar of my shirt. I punch him in the nose making him sit back down, the blood from his nose is dripping down his chin but he makes no effort to clear it.
"I don't know him so shut up." I shout at him. As soon as the words leave my mouth I wake up, back in the room with the woman from abnegation.
"What were my results?" I ask regaining my breath as I spoke. She turns and smiles at me.
"Dauntless." I smile and can't stop myself as she leads me back towards the lunch hall. Less than five minutes later, Tammy joins me at the table I'm sitting at alone. She two is smiling.
As the room begins to fill up and we are surrounded by noise Tammy leans over and whispers in my ear.
"What did you get?" I look back at her before whispering in her ear.
"What did you get?" She me and then whispers in my ear again.
"We will say it at the same time." I nod and she counts to three.
"One, Two, Three."
"Dauntless." We say at the same time. As soon as the word leaves our lips we both smile and for the first time in our lives; we hug.
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