Tris POV
It started two years ago when Tobias left for Dauntless. Him and I had a small relationship. We were best friends, besides his younger sister,Natalia, then we started to grow into more. My name is Beatrice.
He came up to me and Natalia, before his Choosing Ceremony and said to us, using our nicknames, "Tris, Nat, promise me that you'll fallow your hearts and choose the faction you belong in. Don't come to Dauntless just for me. OK?
"I promise," was my reply. But Nat's was a little different.
"I don't promise. You were there when I needed you most. I still want you to be there!"
"I know, but please promise me," he tried again.
"Fine. But you should know that I'm only promising because I love you." Nat gave in.
"That's good enough for me." He look relieved. As he said he would, he chose Dauntless that day.
Preasent Day
I am sitting in front of the only mirror in my house. My faction, Abnegation, is selfless. Mirrors are used in vain so they're selfish. Abnegation allows my mother to cut my hair every third month. The rest of the time the mirror is hidden behind a panel. A ring of blonde locks surround my feet.
When I'm done Nat goes next. She has black hair, and green eyes that suit her. Nat comes here often ever since Tobias left. My family is more than happy to welcome her. After my mother is done with Nat we go downstairs and eat a quick breakfast. We thank my parents and head for school.
On the bus Nat and I sit down, while Caleb, my older brother, gave up his seat to a Candor man. The Candor values honesty. The always wear black and white. We wear gray.
"Are you nervous? I am." Nat asks me and my brother. Today are the aptitude tests. The tell you which faction you belong in.
"Yeah, but they don't tell us what we choose," I respond.I doubt Caleb is nervous. He's been the perfect Abnegation child. Even my earliest memory of him has him scowling at me and saying to give my jump rope to a younger girl.
"I'm not really nervous about what they say. I'm nervous about what happens in the test," Caleb says, surprising me.
"We're here." Nat states. We get of the bus and go in.
Nat and I go to the window to see the Dauntless jump off the train that never stops. We always hope to see Tobias, even though he doesn't go to school anymore. Then we go to our first class.
Nat's POV
When we arrive at lunch I see Tris and Caleb look nervous. Tris is doing her nervous habit, rubbing her hands across her thighs. They start to call names one by one. I look around and see some Candor boys debating. The Erudite, the faction of super smarts (as I like to call them) who wear blue, are all reading some kind of textbook. A group of Amity, the peaceful who wear red and yellow, are playing some kind of hand slapping game and laughing. The Dauntless are laughing, shouting and playing cards.
The next group is called. It's me and Caleb. I fallow the instructor that called my name into a room where mirrors are the walls. There's a chair, like in a dentist office, in the middle of the room.
"My name's Tori. Have a seat." She is a Dauntless, but she doesn't have any piercings or tattoos that I can see. Wait forget that last comment, when she turns around I see a hawk tattooed on the back of her neck. I don't say anything about it, though.
When I'm seated she takes out a few electrodes and places them on our foreheads.
"Drink this," Tori says and hands me a vial with clear liquid. I do as I'm told. Tori says one last thing before I fall into darkness. "Good luck, Natalia."
When I refocus I'm in the cafeteria, but it's snowing outside. On the table in front of me there are two baskets. One with cheese and the other with a long knife.
"Choose!" A lady's voice says behind me. It's not Tori's though. I look at the baskets again.
"Why?" I ask.
"Just choose!" The voice said again. So I did the obvious thing, I picked up both the knife and the cheese..
"Have it your way." The woman'svoice sounds familiar, but I can't put a name on it.
The baskets disappear, but the cheese and knife stay in my hands. A door squeaks behind me. I turn around and a dog starts to growl at me. Now I see how the cheese and knife can come in handy. I put down the knife and hold out the cheese. I don't look it in the eye because that is a challenge. The dog comes over and sniffs the cheese. The dog knocks it out of my hand and licks me. I slowly start to pet it.
"You aren't so vicious are you," I say. Then a little girl appears out of nowhere and starts to run toward us.
"Puppy!" She say. The dog growls and look like it's about to lunge. I grab the knife and jump on the dog.
I hit nothing but a floor. I'm back in the aptitude test 's a new door. I open it and step in. I'm on a bus now. There's a man with a news paper. He look up to me and points to a picture next to an article about something to do with murder. The man in the picture looks familiar but I can't place where I've seen him.
"Do you know this guy?" The man asks me. I'm still trying to place it, but nothing comes to mind.
"No I don't sir." I say. I can't think of anything else to say.
"You're lying! If you know you could help me! Help me!" He says.
"No I'm not! Now if you excuse me I need to go somewhere." I say defiantly. Everything dissolves.
I wake up to Tori leaning over me with a puzzled expression.
"Um. . . Well your results are inconclusive," she says. "You see you took both the knife and the cheese. So that put you in the dog situation. You not running would place you in Dauntless, but so would taking just the knife. The facts with the dog you had would put you in Erudite. And throwing yourself on the dog instead of letting it attack the little girl would put you in Abnegation. But so would the bus simulation. Only Candor and Abnegation can tell the truth on that one. You are not compatible with Amity and Candor, but you are for Abnegation, Erudite and Dauntless. This kind of result is called," she says the next part so quietly I can barely hear her, "it's called. . . Divergent."
"What's that?" I ask.
"Listen don't tell anyone, no matter what."
"Ok" I respond.
"I'm going to send you home early and say you got sick." Tori says.
"That's fine with me. If you have my best friend Beatrice, can you tell where I am?"
"Of course."
And I wait out front for Tris.
Tris POV
I'm Divergent. Now the choice is truly mine Erudite, Abnegation, or Dauntless.
I walk out front, Tori sent me home early. She also said that Nat got sick from the liquid, which is my cover up story for me going home early. I suspect that Nat is Divergent, too. I walk out the front doors and see Nat standing there waiting for me.
"I thought you were sick." I say, with suspicion in my voice.
"Looks like you are too." She says with the same suspicion.
"Let's walk home to together, shall we?" I reply.
We start the walk home. We don't get on the bus because that would get us home really early, and that would raise questions in our parents. When we get to the part of town where no one lives we ask the same question at the same time.
"Are you Divergent?" Awkward.
"I am, did you know?" I ask.
"It looks like they used the same cover story for me as for you." Nat responded
"That's the same thing I thought." I say. "What did you get?"
"I got Erudite, Abnegation, and Dauntless. How about you?" She asks.
"Same. Let's talk more about this tonight." I suggest.
"Yeah, let's meet in our spot, ok?"
"Fine with me."