Author's note- I'm Arianna and this is my first fanfiction, if you read the summary you know what it's about, I'll try to update regular but it's summer in Canada and nothing is regular in summer, so please be patient with me. Thanks for reading!
Disclaimer- Obviously I'm not Veronica Roth so I don't own the Divergent trilogy
"Beatrice! Beatrice! Get up! School starts in forty-five minutes!" I groan and lick the top of my mouth, opening one eye.
"What the heck are you doing in my room?!" I scream at my older brother Caleb he looks down at me, his mussed up hair falling in his blue grey eyes, he smirks. "Uh hello?" I fume at him when he doesn't move. So I fling myself upward from my feather pillow to sock him in the jaw but hit my head on my headboard on the way up- hard. Now my head is throbbing and my fingers tingling, as I swing my legs over the side of my bed and lunge at him, he sprints backwards, out the door narrowly missing the wall. Don't get me wrong, I love my brother but nobody messes with Beatrice Prior before ten in the morning.
I sigh and flop back onto my bed; today is going to my first day at faction high boarding school, Chicago. Faction high's students are divided into five categories which is unique from any other school in the United States. The factions consist of Abnegation, the selfless, Amity, the peaceful, Candor, the honest, Dauntless, the brave and Erudite, the intelligent. The factions in Chicago control where we work, where we live, who we can marry and how we dress, for example, Amity, may not enter the police force, can only marry Amity, must wear primarily yellow and live in the country. Every year, a week before school starts in the fall all the students entering grade ten or their sophomore year must take an aptitude quiz to see which faction they suit the most but they are permitted to choose any faction on their first day of school, in the situation that they do choose a different faction, they are less likely pass their tryouts. Forcing them to become factionless, the factionless either leave the city or live in the slums and work at fast-food restaurants. My results came in the mail yesterday. I am Divergent meaning that I received more than one result, I am Abnegation, which makes sense because so are my parents, I am Erudite, which makes sense because my Dad works for the government and I am Dauntless which makes sense because, I have always looked up to them and tries to be like them. According to my results paper Divergents are a danger to the system, the school, when they find them force them to leave the city because Divergents adrenaline level is much higher than other people's meaning that they can physically overpower the teachers and are most likely to start petitions and uprisings. It has to be kept a secret from everybody! Especially my teachers.
I glance at my clock and scream; I just wasted fifteen minutes wondering what my day will be like! Now I only have half an hour to get ready! I am such an idiot. I scramble out of bed and toss on baggy grey sweats and a matching sweat shirt, abnegation attire. With five minutes to spare, I race downstairs to choose my breakfast- cheerios and shovel it into my mouth while my mother brushes my hair assuring me that she will love me no matter what I choose and that she will come to visit. This is reassuring as I'm nearly positive what I will choose- and it's certainly not dreary abnegation, but then again, how could I leave my encouraging mother and father? At least I won't pick Erudite, they are trying to control the government by themselves and my Father hates them for it. I race out the door and make it to the grey bus just in time while Caleb smirks at me; obviously it's not ten yet because it frustrates me.
Arriving at school, my hands start to shake; maybe it's my duty to choose Abnegation. What kind of jerk am I? Leaving my family, that's not dauntless brave, that's cowardice, but I still love abnegation, they're so kind! I shudder, I don't want to go back but I feel obligated to. No, I will pick dauntless because Caleb will stay in Abnegation, he is the most selfless teenager I know, as long as he stays, I can go. The war in my head dies down at that conclusion but I'm still nervous. Caleb is called into the office and he nervously smiles at me, only using his eyes and he disappears behind the intimidating door.
Five minutes tick by and Caleb exits the office wearing a blue vest and glasses and holding a stack of papers a mile thick, he looks at me almost apologizing and the abnegation surrounding me smile at him but I know that the smiles are strained, I don't smile, his face drops and he walks with extraordinary posture towards the Erudite dorms. My name is called and I walk slowly into the room, the abnegation secretary sits at a large desk grinning at me, I nearly faint, I know what I want but will my minimal selflessness overpower?
"Hello Beatrice, how are you today?" She asks, and I know that she really wants to know, she is a true abnegation. I shrug and she continues. "You have a big decision to make today and a short time to make it." She begins slowly. "Which faction would you like to try out for?" My mouth opens and closes, struggling to say the word while a war rages in my head it's like in cartoons how the character has a demon on one shoulder and an angel on the other.
"Dauntless!" I spit out, I am selfish but I am brave. Her eyebrows shoot up at the same time as a fire in a large bowl in the corner that I had not noticed before flickers to life and she gives me the following instructions.
"I am going to leave the room for three minutes, in that time I would like you to change into these clothes," she begins, referring to the dauntless outfit on her desk. "and burn the ones you are currently wearing, you will then grab these papers," she says pointing to a much shorter stack then Caleb was holding of most likely a rules book, locker number and dorm room info etc. "and leave." I nod and grin, I am dauntless.
