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- Choosing Day (The Next Day) -
Tris P.O.V.
I look up and see a blur of black and white, seemingly falling from the sky, "AHHHHHHHHHHH!" the blur screams. oh the joys of being an initiate no longer. As I reach my hand out a girl grasps on to it tight, pulling her off the net and standing her on the floor I ask,
"What's your name?" she stares at me blankly, "I won't ask again initiate, what's your name? You can change your name but make sure it's a good one, you don't get to pick again."
"Uh….. Elizabet-I mean, Eliza. Yes Eliza.'' This time she repeats herself more confidently.
"Very well'' I state, "Make the announcement Lauren." Lauren turns around, shouting as she does, "FIRST JUMPER ELIZA!" cheers from the Dauntless begin. Then another harsher scream pierces through the excited shouts of the Dauntless, another initiate has jumped, this time however it's an Erudite boy with blond hair.
After a while all of the initiates are off the net and standing in front of us, visibly divided into transfers and Dauntless-born. In total there are 5 Erudites, 6 Candors, 3 Amitys and 16 Dauntless-borns, with no Abnegation, I'm surprised by the Amity's, they usually transfer to Abnegation not Dauntless.
Amity - Chloe, Willow, Julian
Erudite - Alex (girl), Liz, James, Oscar, Tim
Candor - Eliza, Rose, Stella, Charlie, Finn, Noah
Dauntless - Anna, Dakota, Kat, Luci, Mackenzie, Paige, Piper, Blake, Emmett, Ethan, Harrison, Ivan, Lachlan, Nate, Ryder, Zander
"Ok listen up! My name is Lauren, this is Uriah, Four and Six, we are your instructors" Lauren begins, pointing to each of us in turn. It looks like a couple of Candor smart mouths want to speak up about our names, but decide against it last minute, they aren't as stupid as I first thought.
"Lauren and I will be training the Dauntless-born, Four and Six will train the transfers." Uriah shouts. "Dauntless-born follow us, you shouldn't need a tour, to the dormitories."
Chatter starts up again, as the Dauntless-born's leave with Lauren and Uriah.
"Shut up!" as soon as Tobias speaks the all turn silent. "My name is Four and this is Six. Yes our names are numbers, get over it. The first lesson you will learn from us is how to keep your mouths shut! Follow us." We turn around and begin walking down a wide hallway towards the chasm and the pit. I look at Tobias and refrain myself from smiling, knowing he is trying to keep a smirk from his face too, as we reach the chasm my smile becomes a frown.
"This is the chasm," I state, "It reminds us that there is a fine line between bravery and idiocy. A daredevil jump from here will end your life, it has happened before, and don't make the mistake, it will happen again." All I can think of is Al, Al my friend, Al my attacker, Al the coward, I look at the initiates, most look some-where between sad and confused, but all are silent until an Erudite speaks.
"How many people have jumped? Why?" he asks.
"Most are initiates who have failed initiation; at least one initiate has jumped each year for almost 20 years." Answers Tobias.
"Even last year?" one of the Candors asks. Yes.
"Even last year" Tobias confirms with a slight nod and his instructor-Four face.
We begin to walk again when the Amity boy, Julian I think, speaks,
"What do you mean fail initiation? Doesn't everyone pass unless you break a rule or something?" This time I answer,
"Each stage of your training is ranked; at the end of initiation only the top 16 initiates make it into Dauntless. The rest will become factionless at some time during initiation."
"But there are only like 15 of us, so won't we all make it in?" It's another Erudite, Alex I think.
"16 will get in out of both you and the Dauntless-born, and there's 16 of them and 14 of you, so no you will not all make it in, just under half will fail. You should consider yourselves lucky, only 10 got in last year." Some look scared most are disbelieving, "If knowing, that you weren't guaranteed a spot here before you chose to come, would have changed your mind, then you don't belong here. The prospect of failure and still facing it is Dauntless, being a coward is not. Enough questions. This is the pit, the centre of life here at Dauntless." They all look angry, they all thought that they would pass initiation.
We continue walking, until we get to the Cafeteria, as I turn around I notice multiple boys looking at my butt and a few of the girls looking at Tobias. Anger flares through me.
"This is Dauntless, you are here to pass initiation, not to date your instructors!" I tell them, earning a few sniggers "This is the Cafeteria, you will eat here. In half an hour meet back at the doors, so we can take you to your dormitories. Sit anywhere you want, just not with Four or I, or any of our friends." As we walk away they disperse, we sit down at our usual table with Christina, Will, Zeke, Marlene, Lynn, Shauna and Uriah, who must of beat us here by barely a minute. As Tobias and I sit we are immediately bombarded with questions,
"What are they like? Who do you think is going to fail? Were anyone of them dumb enough to ask your names?" I look at Tobias, he has already started speaking for the both of us,
"They're annoying, too early to say and no, they aren't that stupid." There is a collective sigh, they all wanted someone to ask about our names, or more precisely they all wanted one of them to get yelled at. We begin to eat our food, having random conversations with the others.
After we finish our meal and Dauntless cake we stand by the double doors which we came in through. After 5 minutes all of the initiates have regrouped around us and we head back the way we came, but instead of turning right we turn left.
"These are the eight training rooms, we will be in training room three tomorrow morning." I say pointing out the room as we walk past, after a couple of quiet minutes we arrive at the dormitories. We were expecting a large number of initiates this year so we set up more beds in the room compared to last year.
"This is where you will be living for the next few weeks of your lives." Tobias explains, waiting for someone to ask the inevitable.
"Girls or boys?" This time it's Charlie, a Candor who asks, I smile answering,
"Both. This is where we leave you, be at the training room tomorrow morning, 7 AM sharp. You will train every single day for the next three weeks unless we tell you otherwise. You will train from 7AM to 4 PM with a half an hour break for lunch. Be late and be factionless." Tobias and I walk out together side by side, heading towards our apartment.
When we get back to the apartment Tobias unlocks the door and sweeps me off of my feet bridal style. For a while we lay down on the couch kissing and cuddling, watching old movies that we've each seen multiple times. Soon my breathing evens out as my eyes close, losing focus. I will wake tomorrow with a sore neck from not sleeping on a flat surface, but I don't mind because I'm warm, safe and secure.
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