After I drop my blood in the bowl for Dauntless, the rest of the Choosing Ceremony goes by in a blur. I have no idea who else switched to Dauntless; I don't really care, it's not like any other Abnegation did. That's why when the Dauntless initiates start to run, I lose myself in them, no one I know can see me now. I am Dauntless. I am free. I keep thinking these words to get the thoughts of my family off my mind, but I can't help thinking I should be screaming, "I AM DIVERGENT!" I know it's dangerous, even deadly, so I don't.
The Dauntless are screaming and yelling and I hear my voice join theirs, we approach the trains and for once in my life I'm glad I spent morning after morning watching the Dauntless jump on and off the trains. I give myself a running start and leap towards the train, I stumble once I land, but I'm safe. I turn towards the opening of the train and see a gray body fly into the train and land on its feet. Wait, gray? I'm so used to seeing it I don't fully understand until a few seconds later, someone else from Abnegation switched. I can't believe it, no one switches between our factions and now TWO people are? I understand myself because I have an aptitude for Abnegation, Dauntless and Erudite, but this boy? He has to be Divergent too.
I see him approach me, he bows in the traditional Abnegation greeting and I want to smack him for being so stupid, we're Dauntless now! He talks to me now and says his name is Tobias. "I'm Bea-" I start over because Beatrice is no Dauntless name; "I'm Tris".
As I say this, it's time to jump off, I leave Tobias standing there and I jump off the train, I fall a little and roll, just a scrape on my elbow, not bad for my first time. I roll up my sleeve to look at the scrape and an annoying Erudite, named Peter according to the whispers around him, says, "Look, a Stiff showing some skin!" I blush and pull my sleeve back down.
A girl approaches me, "Hi, I'm Christina, I wouldn't worry about him, it doesn't matter now. You're Dauntless."
"Thanks, I'm Tris." I take an immediate liking to Christina; she seems like someone you want on your side. I move over to where everyone else is waiting. A Dauntless man with countless tattoos is waiting. By now everyone who was going to jump has.
"My name is Amar and I'll be overseeing part of your training. It starts now, how are you going to get off this roof? Dauntless born, no talking, initiates let's go!" I immediately go to the edge of the roof behind Amar and look down. I smile a little and gesture to Christina to come and have a look. The space below had an opening, I see the Dauntless born and Amar looking stunned that I found the way so quickly. I don't know whether to tell the rest of the group or jump of myself. I feel my warring personalities inside me, the Abnegation would tell everyone, but the Dauntless would have jumped off the roof by now. I decide to draw attention to myself, remembering what Peter said about showing skin. I located him on the roof and start to unbutton my shirt. Underneath, I am wearing a tight tank top, no one has EVER seen me in this before. I finish with the buttons and pull of my over shirt, I ball it up and throw it as hard as I can at Peter. Peter stares at me in complete shock and I can feel the eyes of Tobias as well, I can imagine him thinking, "Well, I guess it wasn't hard for her to leave her family." But it was hard. I feel everyone's eyes on me as I do this. I then turn to the edge of the building and jump. I feel like I'm floating as I go down, the trip lasts a couple seconds at most, but I have fallen in love with the feeling of falling.