I stand in horror as I watch the blood of my gentle push over of a best friend fall into the lit coals of the dauntless bowl. I feel angry at him for following me and more guilty for leaving him in the first place. What was I thinking! Somewhere in the back of my mind I knew he wouldn't leave me. He's too loyal for that but this is much more than I anticipated. I have no thoughts that I will survive dauntless initiation myself and Ryan is one of the last people I would ever expect to see in dauntless. Ever. With his lanky build I would never have come to the conclusion he would choose dauntless. I look up and his eyes meet mine. They read something along the line of 'you jump I jump too'. This is ship fast sinking. With the last girl from abnegation choosing amity Johanna wraps the ceremony in a sickly cheery way and the factions all go on their way. I'm practically dragged along by the crowd of rowdy dauntless. I soon snap back into character. What Ryan did was his choice who am I to decide for him? 'His best friend with his best interests in mind' says one side of my head. The other side tells it firmly to shut up. I run after everyone else not wanting to fall behind. Outside the building and I see what we are running towards. I hear the train starting to rumble down the tracks. I run even faster not wanting to miss it and become factionless already. I won't leave without a fight. The train comes by and I run after it watching as other more experienced dauntless flood on like a flock of black crows. I feel my legs tense up to jump. I lunge for a hand rail and over estimate how far up it was. Fortunately a strong hand snags my wrist and helps me pull myself up. I return a gracious half smile to the person who just happens to be a candor transfer. Great I look weak in the eyes of my competition already. I look at the guy a little closer and notice his tall figure and strong hands. I look up to find a neat cut of brown hair and chocolate eyes that would be so easy to get lost in. I recognise this face as the person I nearly bowled over on my hasty exit off the bus yesterday. "It's fine, especially since it is the girl who nearly knocked me over" I force a half hearted smile too embarrassed to meet his eyes. I nearly knocked him over and now he possibly saved my life either from being factionless or dead. The first option was not the preferable one. I shove myself towards the middle of the crowd so I don't have to look at him anymore. I Stand at the edge of train in between another amity boy and two erudite girls. I start to see dauntless members that were in the cars in front of us leap off. This doesn't terrify me. And then I notice that we are leaping onto a 7 story high building and there is a gap that I could easily fall down. I hear one of the erudite girls saying "don't worry Kat, we will be fine" The Amity boy, Travis who was seemingly fixated on the erudite girls, standing next to me says "so we have to jump off onto a building" "yeah. I mean how hard could that be we're only 7 stories up and death is imminent if we fall. Piece of cake" "on the count of three" "okay. One. Two" and I leap off the train the building hurtling towards me. I brace myself for impact but hit my feet and have to do a tumble roll to stand up. Multiple Initiates both transfers and dauntless borns come screaming after me. "I can see why you didn't choose erudite. You can't even count to three" "sorry I just knew that if I didn't jump then I never would" "interesting theory. But for now I'll just pretend you can't count until you prove me wrong" I roll my eyes at him and walk away. When the rest of the initiates land on the roof I take a look around. There are more dauntless borns than transfer initiates. 18 initiates all up. 10 dauntless born and 3 amity including myself 3 candor and 2 erudite. A dark man with slightly greying receding hair stands on the ledge. I'm sure I remember there being about 10 transfers. I guess they didn't make it off the train from refusal to jump. I refuse to think that they may have fallen to their death. "I am Max one of the dauntless leaders. Several stories below where I am is the entrance to your new factions compound. If you can't find the strength to jump off here then you don't belong with us. And the lucky transfers get the privilege of going first." "but there is something beneath to soften our fall isn't there?" Says a Candor boy who seems to be about twice my size. "Of course there is something down there they're not going to make us jump onto cement. You wouldn't do that would you?" says Travis. "You'll find out if you reach the bottom then won't you" "of course there is something at the bottom Otherwise they'd have no initiates. How stupid can you be?" Ask the candor girl that was on the bus yesterday. "Shut up and leave him alone" I say crossing the roof to where she is standing near the edge. "Oh look who it is, the girl who can't satisfy her boyfriend" "shut up" I yell in her face .I feel the blood rush to my face with pure anger. I feel tempted to pull the ribbons from my hair and pull them tightly around her neck right now. "Make me" and she shoves my shoulders with all the force she's got. I hadn't realized how close I had walked to the edge of the building until now, but it's too late to do anything. The force of the shove was just enough to set me off balance and send me toppling over the edge of the 7 story building.
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