Chapter 1
In my house, I always need to be a different person than I really am. I have to be fake. Every day I need to wake up and get ready for school. I dress on with a blue buttoned shirt and my white pants, and go down for breakfast. My faction allows me to dress the way I want, but I need to use at least one blue piece of clothing. Down the stairs my breakfast is ready, two bagels with cream cheese and salmon because its healthy and contains a lot of good things for my body that I am supposed to memorize. That is one of the reasons that I want to leave Erudite, my parents faction. My intelligence is not enough to stay here, but I don't know where else to go. My sixteen birthday was two weeks ago, so that means that today is my Aptitude test and tomorrow my choosing ceremony. What will my Aptitude test tell me? Am I honest enough for Candor? Kind enough for Amity? Brave enough for dauntless? Intelligent enough for Erudite? The only thing that I know is that I will not be Abnegation. They are the "selfless" faction, but I don´t believe a word they say. Since little my parents told me that we, Erudite, are the perfect candidates for running the government because Abnegation is doing all wrong. I have been here looking at the mirror for too long, and I don't want my parents to come in and see how untidy is my room. I rush to the kitchen, and see my father reading the newspaper, my mother drinking a glass of orange juice rich in vitamin C, ( maybe I am not that bad for Erudite ), and my brother Marius eating a cookie. As expected, my bagels are waiting for me, and my father plays with my hair while I eat.
- Are you ready for you test Tara?- my father asks without looking at me.
-Yes… I suppose, since I have no idea what to expect.
- I am sure you will do okay, the same as Marius did last year.
I stand up and go to brush my teeth. My father is waiting inside the car for me, and I don't want him to wait. As I say goodbye to my mother, I get in the car as always. From my window I can see the perfect order in which Erudite work. They have the facts about everything, so they think they´ve got all the solutions.
As I look towards school I see the Abnegation sector, and I automatically gesture with disgust. At my side there is the perfect Abnegation family. Two kids and the parents perfectly dressed in grey clothes and not thinking of themselves. I recognize the father because he works at the council and I think his name is Andrew. Well, one of their kids isn´t acting like she should, she is playing with her hair, and her brother scolds her. She is small , and her brother has green eyes, but still he is just not attractive to me. Maybe I´m so influenced by Erudite that my brain automatically rejects Abnegation people.
This is stupid. I should be studying for my Math test instead of looking at them. We get to school and I wave my hand to my father and my brother, who both are going to the labs for work. I start walking to my classroom when I see a blonde, mid-aged woman dressed in a blue Erudite dress and heels. Jeanine Matthews. The only Erudite member in the council. I have seen her many times because my father works in the labs and my home is just two streets away, so I see her when she gets there at the afternoon. Since I was little, my father told me she was someone to admire and respect, but I always thought that she was too perfectionist and too ambitious, and now, looking better at her I can tell that I was not wrong, but neither my father was. She developed the Aptitude Test that I am taking today. She looks at me and I look away from her. Hope I didn´t stare too long.
My Math test wasn´t easy neither difficult. I thought it was about chapter 4 of the book but it was about chapter 5, but I think I did well and my answers were clear so I am not worrying about it. Besides, I have other things to worry about. I am reading a book while waiting for my turn to take the test. They call two names for each faction and they stand up heading to the Aptitude Test rooms that I have never seen before.
-And from Erudite: Tara Magel and Macy Hanends
I notice my hands drowning in sweat and as I walk to the door and I start to feel dizzy. The Abnegation man that called me guides us through a series of white and full of light hallways till we get to some rooms, and he makes us get one by one in each of the doors. An Abnegation woman is waiting for me at the last door, smiling. I enter to a small room full of mirrors and with a chair and a computer in the center.
