Hello! I'm back! And this is a special chapter! Because... um... it's chapter FOUR! And you meet Ten and Sin. :D
Okay few notes: One... bolded text is stuff my friend came up with. I'm all for giving credit where credit is due.
Special Shout-out to reviewer DAUNTLESS. You um kinda scared me into typing out this chapter. Oh, and DAUNTLESS I wouldn't stop writing, because I have a whole bunch pre-written. So, don't worry. You will get your dose of insanity.
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Julia
Chapter Four: The Roof (Julia P.O.V.)
The train picks up speed as we follow the tracks leading out of the city. Soon, we near a part of the track that comes almost perilously close to a roof. The train slows infinitesimally, and I know by instinct that this is where we jump off of the train. I grab Eve's hand, pulling her to the front of the line of Dauntless-born. They all sneer at me. All eight or so of them. I smile, and pull Eve to the edge. I am afraid of heights, but I know that I must do this. I have to drag her with me off the train as I jump, because I know that she won't do it herself. She's afraid of heights.
"I hate you!" I hear her yell.
"I don't really care!" I yell back. My feet slam into the rooftop. I walk a few steps to dispel the impact. Eve doesn't look particularly thrilled to be so high up, but a little self-satisfied that she made it onto the roof. I am not happy that I am ten stories up with nowhere to get down. My legs are shaking as I look down. The initiates join us on the roof, all gathering around for no apparent reason. Then I see the man standing in front of me. He is about six feet tall with blue-streaked black hair and piercing brown eyes.
"I'm Stephen," he says shortly. "I'm one of the leaders of your new faction. Ten floors below us is the entrance to the Dauntless compound. You must jump to prove that you belong with us."
A thrill of fear runs through me, then fierce determination. I will be first. Show I belong. Because I do. Then I look at Eve, face twisted in pain.
"I'm getting another migraine," she says.
"Who's winning?" I ask, as if her slight madness is normal. Which it is, I guess, to me.
"Negative," she states. That isn't good. She won't do it if she has no one to pull her. I can sacrifice this for her. I don't want her to become factionless. I step forward to the roof before a Candor boy can jump.
"We're going first!" I shout. The Candor boy steps back, face twisted in an ugly smile. He thinks we won't do it. "Newsflash, smart-mouth," I say as I pass him. "I'm not as much of a Stiff as I seem." He's taken aback by this.
I pull Eve with me as I jump, again.
I hear her scream, "When I said friends forever, this wasn't what I meant!"
"Relax!" I yell back. "It's just a scare tactic!"
"Well, it's working pretty damn well!" she screams. As she finishes, we slam hard into… a net. A net! I bounce up and down a bit.
"Eve! It's bouncy! It's a net!" my voice comes out in a hysterical bubble. I was so afraid I was going to die without knowing it.
Eve is in the arms of a black-haired, black-eyed boy, eyes a bit patronizing. Then another boy, green-eyed, black-haired, and insanely good-looking reaches for my hand.
"Ready to get off?" he asks. You're sixteen, you're sixteen. My limbs are still shaking in relief when the boy pulls me off the net. Eve is out of the other boy's arms.
"Names?" asks the green-eyed boy.
"Julia," I say with no hesitation. I like my name. It's a part of me. Every inch of me.
"Eve," Eve says.
"Make the announcement, Ten!" says the black-eyed boy.
"First jumpers- Julia and Eve!" yells Ten.
The crowd of Dauntless that are observing the net cheer. I'd not noticed them until now. They are all dressed in black, with accents of red and dark purple.
"I'm still going to kill you, Sin," I hear Ten whisper.
Then a bundle of yellow falls into the net. An Amity. She announces herself as Sienna. One more girl from Candor- Andrea. The rest are boys.
From Candor: David, a brown-haired, blue-eyed, short-ish boy; Andrew a dark-skinned, dark-eyed, monster of a boy; Evan, an annoying, Erudite-looking boy with glasses and shrewd, calculating eyes.
From Erudite: Leon, a green-eyed know-it-all with blonde hair; Samuel, a blue-green eyed, almost-as-handsome-as-Ten boy who crushes his glasses underneath his feet as soon as he bounces off the net; and, finally, Theran, dark-haired, brown-eyes and pale.
Then we started moving.
