Disclaimer: All I own is merylle and the plot. Veronica Roth I wish I was you.
The girl behind the mask-chapter 4 the beginning
As we approach the abnegation seats, we are intercepted by none other than, Janine Matthews. Oh No this is not gonna' end well. "hello Prior Family. Which one of your… children is choosing today?" she says it like she's disgusted. I already like her. "Merylle, our eldest is choosing today." My father sates proudly. "Ah Young Merylle, I'm sure whatever faction you choose we will be great friends." She smiles sincerely. I smile back and shake her hand. "Good luck Merylle." She calls over her shoulder. There is a strange atmosphere now that she has wished me luck. Maybe she is right about us being great friends. We all take our seats and I zone out and wait for my name to be called. We are Prior so it's near the middle, about an hour and a half into the ceremony I hear Janine call out "Merylle Prior." So I shoot my parents a good bye look and turned away before anything could be communicated. I head down the stairs with my head held high. A very un-abnegation trait. Janine smiles with acceptance as I make my way to the stage. She hands me the knife and I make a short and shallow cut that will just let out a drop of blood. The cut doesn't hurt me at all even though some people were crying when they cut their hands. I walk over to the bowls and peer in. The erudite bowl is blood red instead of clear water, amity bowl is like mud, the Candor bowl is clogged up with blood, The abnegation stones have turned a shade of pink and last of all, the dauntless bowl is sizzling away. I turn my hand palm up to see if there is enough blood, and turn my hand thumb upwards. I walk over to the dauntless bowl and clench my hand into a fist. The bowl sizzles with the blood and then Janine speaks again. "Merylle Prior, Dauntless." Then the dauntless roar with happiness as I walk over to them. A Dauntless boy with sandy blond hair and grey eyes comes up to me and says "Welcome to dauntless I'm Bryan." He holds his hand out for me to shake. "Have I seen you before?" He asks.
"Yean I'm Rylle." I state with a charming smile. Realization and shock covers his face.
"You are even more beautiful than people describe you to be. You know you almost have a whole faction that fancies you." He smirks while I blush. We walk back to the dauntless seats. Only to find that there is one seat left.
"You can come sit here if you want?" a dauntless-born says as he points to his lap. The male population of the dauntless crown lets out yells of 'SHE'S MINE! Or I CALLED DIBS! I just smile then Bryan speaks up. "You can have my seat." He shrugs. I give him a kiss on the cheek and his face lights up. I then realize that my parents are only two sections away from me I look over at them. My father is fuming with anger and my mother mouths the words 'she is mine' with a questioning look. I just shrug and make my way to Bryan's seat. The crowd erupts with awwww's and damn it and ugh's.
We just sit and wait while the ceremony ends and the dauntless section whoop with joy as we get out of our seats. We jump down four stairs at a time, the wind hits my face like the breeze you get when you open the door. Soon we are down all the stairs and are running towards a big metal structure about 30ft off the ground. Some dauntless are climbing! What the hell. I can NOT climb in abnegation boots!
"Come on Rylle!" Bryan calls out from on top of the metal structure. I manage to climb up the structure in less than 2 minutes, which I might add, was faster than anyone here. All of a sudden a blast of sound comes from behind me and I spin around. The train is coming. I look at the other transfers and all the colour is drained from their faces. Even the boys' except for 2. A guy from Erudite and A guy from my faction. Bryan looks at me "Have you jumped on and off a train before?"
"Almost everyday day." I state simply. And with that I start running. I am quite a fast runner so I quickly overtake all of the others. I am the first one to jump on the train so I have to press the button. I jump on easily and slide in. everyone looks at me with different expressions (if you know what I mean.) And I just look around for my dauntless friends.
I soon find Christina, Zeke, James, Cleo, Trannie and Shawn. I introduce them all to Bryan and they all seem to like him. "Time to jump! WHOO!" yells the dauntless as we jump off. As I jump off of the train I feel like I'm weightless, as if I'm being lifted by a pair of invisible arms. It's over all too fast and I land on my feet on the roof, whereas most- even the original dauntless- fall onto the cobblestone. "Wow stiff! You jump off trains before?" The leader asks. I turn to look at him, he has dark skin and long hair that is tied into a knot at the back of his head. I just smirk and he smiles. "Alright initiates!" all the initiates pile to where the leader is standing near the edge. "my name is Amar and if you wanna' get into dauntless, this is the way in." He points to the edge.
"Wait, you mean off the roof?" A smartarse erudite says. Yeah I think I will grow to hate him.
"well I kinda' implied that you would be jumping off the roof." He turned back to face all of us "well someone's gotta' jump first who's it gonna' be?" He looks at us expectantly, and no one does anything. "I'm up for it." I state proudly. Oh shit. What have I done?
"Wow a stiff. Alright then." He says as I make my way to the edge.
"Oh and don't make me push you." He says with fake tiredness. I step on the edge ready to jump, when I decide to make a little smartarse comment. "Wouldn't dream of it." And with that I jump of the edge.
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