Waking up to the sound of my brother's car alarm isn't exactly the best way I wanted to wake up on my first day at a new school. I glance over at my alarm that just so happens to say 7:08. "Shit" I mumble to myself. 'Just my luck" I think. I'm going to be late for my first day. I get up and rush to get dressed. I know that if I even attempt to get a shower there would be no hope for even going to school today. So instead I put on a loose black sweater and a pair of jean shorts along with my combat boots. I throw my hair up into a messy pony tail and run down the stairs and out the door.
For my sixteenth birthday I got a car. It's nothing special but it gets the job done. I grab my keys from my backpack and drive to school. It was so thoughtful of Caleb to wake me up this morning knowing I'm always late for things. I make it to school just in time and make my way to the front office. I should have really gotten here sooner to get my schedule, but my excuse will but be that I'm new and I got lost.
As I wait in the front office to meet with my guidance consular, which is in charge of all my classes I notice this boy sitting across from me with a black eye. I can't help but wonder how this kid got a black eye at 7:30 in the morning on a Monday. Then I realize I'm staring a bit too long when the boy says rudely "What do you think you're looking at?" To which I say "The big bruise that's just chilling on your face." Normally I wouldn't say something like that, but I figure news school new start.
Then I see a girl come out from the room behind the boy with the black eye. "Come on Peter" she says pushing him towards the door. "Get off of me Molly" he says with a hostile tone. "Hey it's not my fault Four beat the shit out of you. Did you think he was playing around?" She says as they walk out of the office.
Suddenly the door in front of me opens and the women inside motions me in. I walk into the room and sit in the chair in front of the desk. "My name is Tori Wu, but you can call me Tori. I'm not old enough to be called by my last name." I smile slightly and say "I like to be called Tris is that is ok?" Tori smiles and looks down at the papers in front of her. "New school, new start." I smile and think to myself what a coincidence that is.
After talking with Tori for a few minutes she gives me my schedule and tells me to go back to the front office and look for a girl named Christina, because she will be my student aid for the day to show me around to all of my classes.
I make my way to the front of the office where I only see one person waiting. It's a pretty girl with flawless dark skin and bold eye makeup. She sees me walking over and says "Are you Beatrice?" I nod "Tris" as I extend my hand to her. She shakes my hand while saying "Tina". We begin walking down the hall to my first class when she finally asks "So where'd you move from?" I laugh a little "Maryland" She then asks "Why'd you move?" I reply "My dad got a job offer here that he could resist. Plus my parents had been looking to move away for a while now. Just for a change of scenery." Tina smiles "Well I'm glad I could be the first to greet you here." She stops in front of a classroom. "I will meet you here right after class to take you to your next one." I nod "Ok thanks Tina." She smiles and walks off.
I take a breath in as I open the door. You would have thought I had a kick me sign on my forehead, because all eyes were on me. I was too nervous to look at anyone but the teacher. I didn't even pay attention to what class this was. It turns out its chorus, and whoevers turn it was to sing didn't look very happy that I just interrupted her solo.
The teachers looks at me and says "oh yes, you must be our new student. Please do share your name with the class."
I look at everyone and say "Tris Prior", then the teacher points me to the seat next to a nice girl named Shauna. She smiles and looks at me to introduce herself, and class continued for what felt like 5 minutes before it was over.
I make my way to some of my other classes with the help of Tina and find myself in the cafeteria getting lunch with her. "I want you to meet some of my friends" She says. I follow her over to her table and see a few faces from some of my classes. One of them being a boy with deep blue eyes and dark hair, soon finding out his name is four. And some others named Uriah, Marlene, Al, Will, Zeke, and Shauna.
As I sit at the table eating my lunch I don't look up at anyone, but I can feel all their eyes on me. Examining me as if I'm some foreign species. As I glance up my eyes are met with Uriah who just turns to his older brother Zeke and whispers something in his ears. I guess Tina saw a questioning look on my face and tells me not to worry because they just think I'm really hot. I'm not really sure how I feel about that. I've never really considered myself attractive, because nobody has ever told me I was.
The awkwardness was broken by Marlene. "Do you do any extracurricular activities?" she asks. "I'm really into theatre." A shimmer forms in her eyes as she says "Perfect we are having musical auditions on Wednesday! You should totally audition with us!" "Us" I ask. "Yeah, Tina, myself, Uriah, Four, Zeke, and Shauna are all theatre geeks!" I look over at all of their faces and I would have never seen these guys as theatre people. "Sounds great" I say with a smile.
The rest of my day goes by pretty normally. I notice that some of the guys are in the rest of my classes. I have a lot with Four, now that I actually know who he is. Once my day is over I pull out my journal and write down everything that happened today. Because there was a lot.
