Chapter 1 - The Test

Hey so this story is about a girl in Erudite who gets dangerous results back from the test and all of a sudden she's in a whole new world where anyone who knew the truth could kill her. The truth must remain silent or she will be silenced. Tell me what you think of it please :)

I toss my books carelessly into my locker and quickly slam it shut. I glance at the wooden clock hanging on the opposite wall. I was going to be late. Again. I was always late to everything. But I didn't mean to be. And worst of all I wasn't supposed to be. I was supposed to be organised and on top of everything, but I wasn't. Luckily though I wasn't a total let down to my faction. I was more or less always top of the class and I guess I tried to push out the Abnegations. But it wasn't always easy. I still don't get why we have to point them out and laugh at them. I mean they don't even fight back. Thinking about it.. they don't really do anything back. But I think that's why I hate doing it. There's no reason why we have to, they've not done anything. And they probably never will.

I don't really understand their faction beliefs either. I don't get why they're barely allowed to look in the mirror or why they always have to wear grey. Being selfless isn't always about not thinking about yourself, its more of thinking of others before yourself. But it's not my faction, so I don't get involved. My faction's Erudite.

When I arrived at the cafeteria I swiftly made my way to my faction keeping my head low and careful not to make any eye contact. And even though I didn't look up once I could feel everyones glare as if it was burning a hole straight through me. My cheeks burned when I realised I was the last one to arrive. But it strangely comforted me that most of my faction were actually just rolling their eyes. They were probably used to me being late by now.

I was about to reach for the pile of books that were carefully placed at the centre of the table when a hand tapped my back. I quickly turned around and saw my best friend, Jacob Mellen. We'd known each other since we were 6 and we've been inseperable since. All the girls at school like him and even though I don't see him in that way it's not hard to see why. He's tall and quite strong with dark curly ashy brown hair that often falls on his eyes. But he's never really given anyone a second look, he's always saying that he thinks that this is a silly age to fall in love and he's got to be focused on his future and not some silly crush.

"Hey Hanna, so after all this stuff done do you wanna come to my house and do some revision or something?"

"Sure, but there's not really much point in it is there?" I say trying to reach for the books that now looked a lot further than before. "I mean, all the tests are done so what have we got to revise for?"

Jacob then reaches for the book that I failed to retrieve and hands it to me.

"I don't know it's just all this crap is all a bit over whelming I thought we could chill for a bit?"
Understanding his reason I smile and say "Ok, I'll be there 1?"

"Sure" he replied sitting next to me.
Then the next group of names were being called out.

"From Dauntless: Miranda Black and Anthony Spaur

From Erudite: Jacob Mellen and Hanna Kerns"

That's me. Shit. I look over at Jake and he simply takes my hand squeezes it. I smile back and reply with another sqeeze. It had always been our way of re-assuring each other everything would be alright.

"From Amity: Candice Carter and Julie Phillips
From Candor: James Briant and Casi Helman
From Abnegation: Gabbi Winther and Caleb Prior"

All ten of us then stand up and some stay back a few seconds, either talking to their friends or hesistating, but eventually we were all lead to a corridor with 10 rooms all separated with mirrors. I linger back at first but then walk into room 8, where an Abnegation waits for me.
She welcomes me with a warm smile and gestures for me to come forward. I slowly walk towards her and sit on the reclined black chair placed next to her.
"Hi I'm Lindi." she says while fiddling with the wires attached to the chair.

"I'm Hanna" I reply trying to be polite.

She looks up at me with a surprised look and stares at me for what seemed like forever.
"What?" I ask, instantly wanting to know the answer.

"Nothing," she replies continuing her work with the chair. "It's just your the first Erudite who has actually said a word to me. All of the others refuse to." Lindi then grabs a vial of clear liquid and instructs me to drink it.

"What is it?" I ask, curiously.

"I don't exactly know, and even if I did I couldn't tell you," she replied shrugging her shoulders.
I swallow the liquid and close my eyes.

When I wake up I'm in my bedroom and in my hand is a gun. In front of me are my family. All of them were bleeding, bruised and hurt. I try to step forward but a hand stops me.

"Shoot one of them." instructs the man now standing next to me.
My legs turn weak as I realise what I'm asked to do. I look at my family. Staring at each one individually. I couldn't kill my sister or my mum or dad. I couldn't. I turn around and say "No."
The mans face first looks pained then angry.

"Do it!" he shouted
I stood my ground as I stared back at him.

"Then I shall."
As I saw him raising his gun at my sister I flung myself in front of her and then the world went black.
When I open my eyes I'm on a bus. Another man sits next to me but his head is buried in the newspaper.

"Do you know this man?" he asks me pointing to the guy at the front page.

"No." I reply trying to shake off the strange feeling that I did.

"You're lying!" he shouts.

"I'm not!" I shout back, its then that I notice the exit at the end of the bus. I could easily get off I thought.

"You are! I can see it in your eyes."

"I don't know the guy!" I reply, getting up and running towards the exit. When I reach it I'm back in the room.