Author's notes;

Hey guys! Or...I don't know if there's any of you so I could just be talking to no one...so erm...hey! Anyways...this is my first EVER fanfic so I thought I'd start off easy. I know there's bazillions of modern day AU's but i love them :)

So enjoy! :)

The screaming in my ears, the pounding in my chest, I don't know if I can take it any longer. But no. I have to keep going. I have to keep trying. For him.

But suddenly everything's different. I can't see anything but a bright light, and I can only hear one, horrible, screeching voice.

"TRRRRIIIIIIISSSSSSSSSS!"

"Em, yes? What is it?" I reply innocently, as if I had no idea I am due to walk out the door to my first day at university in 5 minutes.

"You know what it is! This is our first day at university and I'm not going to be late just because you can't be bothered to get out of your..."

I stop listening, in fear of her 'bad language habit' about to kick in, and try to focus on peeling myself out of my awesomely comfortable bed. If she understood how great this bed is, she wouldn't want to leave it either. I stick my head in the shower and tie my hair back in a loose bun.

This is going to be a long day.

We all try to gather ourselves, wondering what could be waiting behind the door in front of us. Every one of the new initiates is just as clueless as the other...and it sucks. How are they going to decide our factions? Is it a test? What happens if you fail?

Very slowly the door in front of us all opens, and a smartly dressed woman walks out with a clipboard. She looks like she might be in her mid-twenties and certainly has a lot of piercings. She holds up her hand, and as if we were all newly trained puppies, we all fall silent.

"Ladies and gentlemen, welcome. Your first day at Faction Academy is about to begin. But, before it does, each of you is required to be put through what we call an aptitude test. It will test and tease your brain in certain ways, so that we can draw the conclusion to what faction you would be most suited to. This is to help your choice only. Once you have completed the test, it is essential that you do not share your results with anybody. I cannot make that any more clear."

I look to the side at Christina out of the corner of my eye, as so not to draw attention to myself, and I can see her smirking just as I am. This all sounds very official, and I can tell I'm not the only one that is trying to suppress my laugh as she continues.

"You will all spend two days in each faction of the school to give you an idea of how they run. At the end of the two days, you will decide if you think the faction could be for you. However, your choice is not that simple. For you to be accepted into the faction, they in turn have to choose you. Furthermore, at the end of the ten days, you will make a final choice, as will the factions.

We will call students for their aptitude tests in alphabetical order. You will then proceed into the dormitories and wait for further information" she finishes.

Christina and I give each other a look of complete seriousness before bursting out laughing as the woman exits through the same door she came through.

Christina is a B, so she leaves soon but I wait quietly and patiently, as every Abnegation raised child does, for my name to be called. As I do, I observe my surroundings. I can easily see the groups of kids raised by Candors. The loud, sometimes arrogant group that are surprisingly honest with each other, all the time. The group of Amity kids are all too simple to point out. They're the ones that are always happy and positive...like, all the time. Erudite are far from subtle, while they all furiously study and pretend to show interest in the how and why of everything. Abnegation are easy for me to spot, making polite conversation with each other, wishing you luck if they call you name. And last, but never to be least, the Dauntless. I've never really had them figured out. They're just so different from all the other factions. But, exciting different.

"Beatrice Prior, please"