Lauren and I push our way through the crowd with difficulty.

"You there yet?" Max asks from the ear bud from the headset. I stop in the middle of the mass of people and Lauren looks back at me in shock.

"WHAT ARE YOU DOING FOUR?!" She shouts over the laughter and rumble over four hundred people talking at the same time. I hold up a hand and point to the headset. She nods. I motion to people slowly smothering me and she nods again. She turns towards the sea of people and shouts, "MOVE IT OR LOSE IT PEOPLE! IF YOU WANT TO SEE THE NEW KIDS, MOVE YOUR LAZY BUTTS AND LET FOUR AND I GET THE NET READY SO YOU CAN SEE YOUR PRECIOUS JUMPERS!"

She meets my eyes and I nod thanks. She gives me a rueful smile and grabs the net to set up.

I turn my back to her and press the talk button. "We are a go Max. We're just starting to set up the net."

The response is immediate. "Alright, good job Four. I'll start talking to them. How long do you think it will take you two?"

I bite my lip and look over to Lauren.

How long? I mouth.

"Five minutes!" Lauren shouts. I nod and say, "Five minutes."

"Alright. I'll start talking and tell you when the first jumper is ready."

"Thanks Max." I unhook my ear bud when I hear crackles.

I run over to Lauren and we start to set up the net. I hook the sides up and she tightens the brackets to make sure they'll hold.

"Four, can you jump on it?" Lauren asks. I stare at her and then suddenly we're both laughing, jumping on the net at the same time.

Lauren's watch beeps and we get off the net as quickly as possible. I stick the ear bud back in and fix my hair back to it's waves.

"Four?" Max's voice sounds stressed.

"Yeah Max?" I look up at Lauren and she gives me a thumbs up.

"We're ready, are you?"

"Of course I'm ready!" Max shouts.

Suddenly he takes a deep breath. "She's just jumped."

"What? Max…"

Our connection crackles and I wince, pulling the ear bud out.

"Four!" Lauren shouts, pointing at a flash of gray. I run over to the side of the net and stand parallel from her. We lock eyes, then hear the wind whistle from the incoming jumper.

Lauren and I back away from the net and a flash of gray later, the net bounces from the body. The person wheezes and laughs half hysterically, half relieved and covers their face with their hands, shaking hard.

Lauren and I reach down into the divot, trying to grab the person, reaching our arms out wide. The girl grabs my arms and I haul her out of the net. She stumbles and I catch her on the arms. She looks up at me and I stop, gazing down at the Stiff. She's beautiful for a Stiff, with rosy full lips, blonde eyelashes that tickle her eyebrows and high cheekbones, blue-gray eyes that peek out from behind her long eyelashes.

I grip her arms, then release her the moment after she stands upright for good.

"Thank you." She says.

"Can't believe it." Lauren says in a disbelieving voice. The girl looks up and behind my shoulder. Lauren walks up to my shoulder and looks down at the Stiff, smirking at her. "A Stiff, the first to jump? Unheard of."

"There's a reason why she left them, Lauren." The dim lights glare brightly off of Lauren's eyebrow rings, sending silver streaks into her dark hair. The Stiff look at me closely, looking between the two of us. I turn back to look at her.

"What's your name?"

"Um…" She looks nervous, as if thinking something through.

"Think about it," I say, the corner of my lips curling upward. "You don't get to pick again."

Her eyes darken, and she nods, her blonde hair bouncing.

"Tris." She says firmly, staring straight at me.

"Tris," Lauren repeats, grinning slightly. She looks at me and nods. "Make the announcement, Four."

I look over my shoulder and shout, yanking her hand up, "First jumper-Tris!"

The crowd that Lauren and I had shoved our way through materializes again, cheering and pumping their fists in the air. Tris looks at them, shocked, and I hide a grin. Another girl drops into the net, which Lauren goes to help immediately. Her screams had followed her down and the crowd laughed. But the laughter was soon replaced with more cheering.

I look back down at Tris, who has her jaw set firmly, staring at the crowd.

A faint smile touches my lips as I place a hand on her back and whisper, "Welcome to Dauntless."

A/N: a new story, hope you all like it. Please review, I have about five chapters written already. If I don't get at least five reviews for each chapter, I will not update. So please review!