Chapter 3

When everyone has jumped, we all gather into a giant group. In front of us are two Dauntless. Probably our instructors.

"Hello initiates, my name is Amar and this is Katie," he points to a girl to his left, around his age. She's got platinum blonde hair and piercing icy blue eyes, she's gorgeous.

"We will be your instructors," Knew it. "I will be the trainer for the transfers and Katie will be your trainer for the Dauntless-born."

He has dark brown hair and the tannest skin I've ever seen. He's huge, like really tall.

"So if the Dauntless-born will follow me, you guys don't need a tour of the place." Katie remarks. At that moment, about 12 of us follow her. The resting 9 of us just stand here.

"And you guys will follow me for the tour." Amar tell us, and he starts walking. We all follow him. I am SO excited! I wonder what the inside of this place looks like.

We walk into the compound and it is huge! Like huge - huge! "Welcome to the Pit, it's really fun, you'll fall in love with it soon enough." Amar states. And fall in love with it I will. It's like a giant underground cave! It's amazing! We keep walking until we see some kind of river thing. From bird's view, on the left, it would look like a giant wave river thing, then a huge bridge/road in the middle, and then on the right, it'd look like a nice calming lake. "This is the chasm, it shows the truth from bravery to idiocy. Jump into the chasm and you'll die instantly. A risky Dauntless will jump in and will die, it always happens, and it will happen again. Let's keep moving." Everyone starts following but I don't want to go. I want to stay and watch. It's so... wonderful. After a couple of seconds, I snap out of my daze and run after all of them.

After the tour, Amar leads us to a room with a closed door. "This is where you will sleep, or in other words, your dormitory. This is where you will stay until initiation is over and we have the 10 of you."

"What do you mean the 10 of us?" the Candor girl, who's name is supposedly Susie, comments. "Oh, did no one explain this to you?" Amar asks. Silence fills the air.

"Well then, this is awkward. Out of the 21 of you, only 10 will make it."

"What?" Is all most of us can say.

"But that's not fair! Where will we go?" Susie exclaims.

"Well, Umm..." You could tell he does not like the answer. "You are asked to leave the compound...and live factionless."

"Oh my God!" Eric says, holding his hands to his face.

"I'm so sorry I had to be the one to tell you this. ... So, umm, pick your beds, and because there are only 9 of you, you each get a bed. After that, you got free time." Amar explains, then, he turns around and walks away awkwardly. That was really weird. And scary. What if I don't make it? I can't live factionless. Oh no. No, no, no, no, no. I have to do this! I have to make it in! I turn and look at Tobias who stands on my left, he looks just as startled as I am. His eyes widened and posture, stiff. Stiff is also the nickname the Dauntless use to refer to the Abnegation. I find that silly and rude, but whatever, as long as I don't refer to him as 'Stiff', I'm ok. He is still frozen in space so I tap on his shoulder.

"Last one on top bunk gets bottom bunk!" I yell, and run in. It takes him a few seconds to register what just happened, but then he snaps out of his daze and chases after me. I climb up the ladder and jump onto the top bunk. When Tobias sees me he stops and I laugh. He looks at me weirdly and laughs with me. While everyone stares, we laugh like psychos, I'm not sure why, but I like that. After a minute of silence from the others, one of them laughs with us, then another and another until we are all laughing. People rolling on the floor from laughter. Everyone except Eric is laughing, I wonder why. He looks very angry, but I don't know why he would be, did I do something to make him mad? I'm in too much of a laughing weird mood to figure it out, so I keep on laughing and he walks out.

When we can all calm down, I grab Tobias' arm and run to the cafeteria. We pass the Pit, I want to stay and stare at the chasm but no time, I'm starving and Tobias is my only acquaintance here so he's coming with me. Not in a mean way, in a teasing way. When we get to the cafeteria, he slows me down.

"What was that?" he asks, clearly wondering why I grabbed his arm and ran. I can't tell him that I'm interested in the way he moves and acts, so I think of a lie quick. I turn my head facing the cafeteria. "I heard they have real good desserts here and that they run out quick. And because you're from Abnegation, I guessed you never tried a dessert or something." he looks at me rudely. "No offense." I say quickly, and try to smirk in an apologetic way. He smirks back and grabs my arm and we run into the line. I laugh and he smiles. I wonder why others don't laugh all the time, is that just an Amity thing? To laugh all the time?

"Why do you always laugh at everything?" he asks. It's definitely an Amity thing.

"Why not? It's good for the soul." I smile. We just look in each other's eyes until it's our turn for lunch. I grab a hamburger and a small salad with some apple juice. I also grab some chocolate cake. I love chocolate. Tobias grabs the same things as me into his plate, except instead of a hamburger, he takes a tuna sandwich, and we walk to a table where Zeke is seated next to a girl who's a transfer from Candor, but I don't know her name. "Hey guys! What's up!" Zeke exclaims. He has a big smile on his face which I love about him, he's always smiling. Tobias and I take a seat across from them, me flattening my dress when I sit down.

"I'm good, the cake looks delicious!" I say.

"It is, trust me, I've been here for a long time and it's so good." We start eating and Tobias looks at me. I turn to him. "What?"

"Oh, uh, nothing, it's just, what are you eating?" he asks.

"You don't know what a hamburger is?" the transfer from Candor asks.

"No Lauren, he's a Stiff, remember? Stiffs don't eat that kind of food." Zeke informs.

The girl, Lauren, nods. I look at Tobias, still looking at my burger.

"Here," I say, giving him my burger. "you can have a bite of mine." He looks at the burger and then at me. For a second he considers taking the burger, but quickly snaps out of his small daze and politely declines. Does he always have to be so Abnegation all the time. ... Emma! That was very rude! Of course he does, he was Abnegation just this morning!

"No, really. I don't mind at all." Bringing the burger just a little closer to him.

"Oh no. It's ok. I can just go in line and wait." Tobias remarks as he stand up from his chair.

"No, seriously Tobias. The line is huge and by the time it's your turn, there will be none left, here," I say, turning the burger to the side that I did not yet bite "now you can have a bite... You know you want to." He looks at me in the eyes and gives me a small smirk.

"Oh, alright." He takes the burger and takes a bite. A bit smaller than usual but it's because he's selfless. When he tastes the wonderful deliciousness of the burger, his eyebrows shoot right up and I laugh so hard. He turns to me and says

"Thank you, that was delicious." Tobias hands me the burger but I quickly decline.

"No, you can have it. I don't want it anymore. I wanna finish my salad." I state.

"Really?" he asks, he looks happy, but he won't acknowledge that, is happiness self-indulgent for the Abnegation?

"Yeah, sure."

He takes the burger back and eats, surely enjoying every bite, though you cannot see too much of that happiness in his face, but he smirks, which is a start for him. A start to happiness.