"Good morning Samantha," I hear my mom say, as I groggily opened my eyes and rolled over, to see mom standing over me. "Aptitude test is today, get dressed. I've got some oatmeal downstairs." With that, she left, and I got dressed. I picked out a white blouse, with a blue cardigan and some fitted pants, along with some pumps. After putting my long, brown frizzy hair, I also put on my glasses, which are fake, but it's obligatory in Erudite, because it makes you look smarter (apparently) then I headed downstairs, to the joy that is oatmeal.
Quickly, I ate my food, and then said goodbye to my mom and headed out to school. My dad died in this freak explosion when some scientists were working on a new serum, and I don't know what happened after that, but it wasn't good. So my mom had to take care of me and my two sisters, before my younger sister Alice developed this tumour in her brain that killed her when she was just 4, and my older sister Lauren chose Dauntless, it just left me and her. I feel like I'm obligated to choose Erudite to stay with my mom, because she doesn't have anyone left, but I can't bear a life of books and studying. I want more.
Once I finally arrived at school, I headed to my molecular biology class. Because there are only about 200 people choosing this year, they're allowing us to have classes in the morning, then they're administering all the tests after lunch. Any other Erudite would be squealing with joy, but I honestly don't care. It's just a morning of classes. We've had that countless times in our lives.
With Molecular Biology, Serum Manufacturing and Faction History out the way, and also having had lunch, everyone choosing tomorrow sat in the lunch hall, waiting for their names to be called. While I had my head (unwillingly) buried in a faction history book, I noticed what each faction was doing. The abnegation were just sitting there quietly, minding their own business. I never could see myself as one of them. The Amity on their left were chatting and playing some sort of clapping game together. If I was an Amity I think I would drive myself to insanity. The Candor are having an argument about something. I think I could see myself as a Candor. I value telling the truth but I don't think I value it that much. The dauntless, however, are laughing, chatting, playing cards, joking around, and just generally having fun. That's what I want to do. I don't want to have to spend my days with my head in a book. I want to be free! I want to be able to sit and chat without being told to be quiet! I want to have conversations that don't involve the DNA of a frog!
But I don't know if I can leave mom.
Amongst all this, I almost miss my name being called. Quickly, I walk up, leaving my book on the table, to see someone else pick it up, and get in line. As the female Erudite, I walk into room 10, to see a frail abnegation woman standing there. Although many of my faction counterparts call them stiffs, I don't, because I believe in basic human decency. "My name is Alice, and I will be administering your test today. Please sit down here," she says, indicating to the big chair that actually looks comfortable. I lay down, as she began to put wires everywhere. Out of nowhere, she said, "I've never tested an Erudite that's not asked about the serum." Because I don't care! I don't care about this stupid serum! Externally, however, I kept silent, and she then handed me a cup, with the serum inside. "Bottles up!" I thought, as I chugged the serum down in one gulp.
That's when everything went black.
Hello! Welcome to One Year Later. This is my first story, and I wanted to just clear up some things quickly.
A) This will be a no war story.
B) Four, Tris and everyone else will feature in the story, but not prominently.
C) Sam will choose the faction that almost everyone who writes these kind of stories does (Not directly a spoiler alert), and it will not be specifically focused on the events in initiation, but it will be character focused instead. I think I've done a bad job explaining it, but if you read on, hopefully you'll get it.
I've had the flu over the past couple of days, so I've written parts of the first 5 chapters already, so who knows when they'll be up, but they will be up soon.
See you around, peeps!