I hear my blood sizzle on the coals. I hear Dauntless clapping for me. And then I see the look of betrayal and sad smiles from my parents. They know that I didn't betray them. I just don't want to be in Abnegation anymore. Their sad smiles quickly fade after I leave to be with Dauntless. And this was the last time I would see them until visiting day which is only 2 days a year. And now the butterflies are back and that feeling that I made a wrong choice came, but I know that I didn't make a wrong choice.

I made a good one. And I don't regret it. But I know that I'm going to miss my parents a lot. I turn and wave back to them and turn away before I get sick from leaving them. It's the end of the choosing ceremony and all the Dauntless run out first, down the long winding stairs. Then once we're out of the building everyone runs out towards the train tracks.

The train tracks. Oh, no. They climb up the yellow metal pillars. It's going to be hard to climb in a dress but I'll try. I let the person above me get up and then I climb on the ladder-like side of the pillar after them. Not as hard as I thought. I finally got up trying to catch my breath and I hear the train coming.

We are very high off the ground and if you take one wrong step you fall off and onto the pavement. It makes me a bit nervous but mostly excited. Everyone starts running and I run close at their heels. I watch how they jump on. They grab the handle on the side of the train and push a button which opens the door.

I try to catch up but I'm running behind. The handle is so close but I can't quite grab it. Then I reach again and grasp it just in time to pull myself in. If I didn't hold on good enough then I would have fallen. I plop down next to a Candor girl. "Hi, I'm Christina." Her skin was light brown and her dark hair was just above her neck. I smile and say "Beatrice." "Is it just me, or are they trying to kill us?!," she says and smiles. I laugh quietly. I think I've made a friend.

"Get ready," a Dauntless woman says after a while. We stand up and look outside. "They're jumping," I say anxiously. "What!? " Christina responds in disbelief. People are jumping onto a roof with a gap in between. One person had just fallen and died. "OK let's jump together." I am hesitant for a moment but I know we needed to do this.

We back up to get a running start, and we both count," One, two, three!" and we jump. I fall onto the gravel on top of the roof and roll. My elbow stings but apart from that and a few scrapes I'm all good. The sleeve is all torn up from hitting the gravel so hard. For a moment we brush ourselves off, and then we start laughing.

We did it. Everyone walks toward the ledge on the other side of the roof, in front of a person I'm guessing one of our instructors. "My name's Eric and I'm one of your instructors," Eric says loud and deep. He has piercings everywhere on his face. His lip, his eyebrows. And his neck is covered in a tattoo. " Your second challenge is to jump off this building, the entrance to the compound."

"We just jumped, and he wants us to jump again?!" Christina mutters so no one else could hear. Eric speaks up, "Well someone needs to jump first. Who's it gonna be?" He sounds irritated.

He steps away from the ledge and looks at everyone. No one seems to want to go first. Even the Dauntless born. For a minute no one says anything, so I gather my courage and say "Me." Christina and everyone looks at me like I'm crazy. Hey, someone had to do it. I step up to the front and look down below. It is a big drop.

I take off my jacket and stand on the edge. This is freaking me out but I can't back down now. Eric looks at me with cold eyes, waiting for me to back down. But I don't. I close my eyes and jump.