Chapter 4
I wake up earlier than usual and go to get a bath. When I get into the shower, I notice how my body has changes these days. My hip bone and my waist are now at the correct size due to my age, and my body has now a lot more curves than last month. I wash my hair and when I get out of the shower, I find a navy blue dress with a blazer, and a pair of blue heels. I smile as I put it on and I head to the kitchen for oatmeal. I am not hungry but I force myself to eat.
We leave my house all together in the car, and no one says anything. I see the Hub in front of me and I start sweating. "Come down Tara, everything is going to be fine" I tell myself as we park and I get down. We walk towards the elevator, but we are not the first ones to arrive. There are a lot of people shouting and talking here. As we head to the elevator, I notice the Stiff I saw yesterday and her family getting out of the elevator and heading to the stairs. A selfless act, but I doubt that all the other Abnegation people are like them. I was wrong. Suddenly a mass of gray starts walking over the stairs, which leaves a lot more space I the elevator.
I see Dianne and Will coming to meet us, just after the door closed they get in and I blush because of him. Dianne is a very good friend of my mother, so Will and I played when we were little and I used to like him. I don´t know if I still like him, because it is not normal to blush when a boy you don´t like anymore smiles at you.
-Good morning Tara. – he says as he gets at my side and I hope he doesn´t notice I´m still blushed.
-´Morning Will
- Are you going on Erudite? – he whispers so that I am the only one who hears him
-Are you? –I ask laughing. I know him and he knows me good enough to see that none of us are going to stay Erudite.
As we get to the place I am supposed to seat, I smile at my mother as she smiles back and pointing at her watch. In Erudite, that is a "see you soon", but I am not sure that will ever happen. I get into a Candor girl and thanks god, at my side is Will. His last name is Marteens, so he gets to choose before me. For the look in his eyes, it seems that he already knows his decision, and I hope my decision has been made to.
The speech has been made and a lot of names are called till I hear Marcus Eaton, an Abnegation leader that is in charge of the Ceremony this year, start with the M last names.
-Marteens, William- he says as he hands the knife to Will.
Will hesitates a little, but then the same look that he had minutes ago comes back and he moves his hand towards the bowl that is at the left.
-Dauntless – says Marcus as Will walks towards his new faction.
I know what will come next and I am not sure that my decision has been made.
-Magel, Tara- Marcus´s voice hits my head deeply like a headache.
I walk towards him with all the strength I have for not running away from here. As I walk I see Lana smiling at mi left and top side, and I smile back at her.
I take the knife and cut my pal. If it hurt I didn´t noticed. My blood starts to come out and I have to decide fast or my blood will start spilling on the carpet. I move my hand hesitantly into the same bowl as Will did, and before I think what I was doing, I hear my blood sizzling on the lit coals.
-Dauntless- says Marcus as I hear murmurs from Erudite, cheers from Dauntless and I walk towards Will, who seems really impressed by my choice.
