Chapter 14
Tris POV
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My alarm beeps, even though I don't remember turning it on. I groan, and roll out of bed. I stretch out a little, and then freeze. The initiates come today.
I grab a black shoulder shirt (Tobias loves when I show off my ravens), a pair of my favorite dark wash jeans, boots, and a black leather jacket.
I quickly change, and step into the bathroom. I hear the door open, and pause. Then I realize Tobias, and Christina are the only people with spare keys, and continue brushing my teeth. I rinse off my face, and wipe it off with a washcloth.
Tobias comes in, and kisses me. He leans in again wanting more, but I push him away. He pouts. "We have to put on our poker faces for the initiates." I explain. We agreed to hide our relationship from the initiates, and see how long it took them to figure it out.
I put on a line of black eyeliner, and some mascara. I put everything away, and grab Tobias as we walk to the dining hall.
As usual he grabs the food I sit down, and we eat in an uncomfortable silence. No one's really talking we're all just really anxious for the initiates. Four, and I get up to head to the train tracks. Uriah, and Shauna are also training the intiates this year, but since Four, and I are leaders we have to go to the actual ceremony.
I decided to go by Six this year, I didn't really want anyone connecting the dots to my past. We walk to the train tracks, meeting Max there. He hops on the first train that will take him to the roof, and we hop on the second which will take us to the Abnegation sector.
Tobias, and I sit next to each other on the train, occasionally chiming in to other conversations in the car. There are a lot of Dauntless going to the ceremony this year, we're going to look pretty intimidating.
As the train nears the Abnegation sector we stand up, preparing to jump off. When the train slows I hit the ground running, all of us quickly make it to the building, and hop inside elevators.
When the doors open up, I see the same room I saw just one year ago. I can see why they divided initiation in two, there are twice as many people as there were at mine, and only half of them are here.
I see everyone staring at us as we walk in. Most of their jaws drop, i do have to admit, we look really good. I lean against a wall next to Tobias as the ceremony starts. I tune out of the speech, and daydream about what possible initiates I'll get this year.
As his speech wraps up I tune back in. We end up with 20 transfers, and 20 Dauntless born. All of the Dauntless stayed Dauntless this year. I smile this year's going to be fun.
I run back to the train, and hop on. All of the transfers make it, with only a few struggling. We get back to the Dauntless compound quicker than I thought. I hear a lot of gasps, and all of them stared in awe.
Tobias, and I quickly jump off the train, and calmly walk to the side of the roof where Zeke is standing. We smile at him, he knows what we're about to do. We wait for all the initiates to get on the roof, two end up factionless.
Both Four, and I step onto the ledge of the roof walking across as if it were a tight rope. Then just as we practice we both pretend to lose our balance, and fall off.
I hear the screams, and laugh as I hear their reaction when Zeke tells them they have to jump off too. I hop off the net, and Four, and I wait for the first jumper. A giant ball red, and yellow falls into the net.
"What's your name?" I ask, "You only get to pick once, so choose wisely."
She hesitates, "Natalie."
"Four, make the announcement." I shout.
"FIRST JUMPER, NATALIE!" He yells. All of the Dauntless cheer, and I help her out of the net.
We end up with 12 people.
Natalie- Amity
Sam-Abnegation
Alyssa- Candor
Taylor- Erudite
Jake- Candor
Andrew- Erudite
Anna- Abnegation
Josh-Candor
Drew-Abnegation
Sarah-Erudite
Mike-Amity
Sydney- Abnegation
We have four abnegation transfers this year, and I don't think that's good.
We get everyone to quiet down, and then we introduce ourselves. "I'm Shauna, he's Uriah, she's Six, and he's Four." She shouts. "Uriah, and I will be training the Dauntless born, and Four, and Six will be training the transfers. Dauntless borns, I don't think you need a tour, so we're going to take you to the dorms. Four and Six will give the transfers a tour." She and Uriah walk away with the Dauntless born.
"We're going to give you a tour. Don't fall behind. This is the pit-" Four says.
"Why are your names numbers?" A girl asks. Four walks over to her, and gives her a death glare.
"Do you have a problem with that?" He asks her. She shakes her head, and he walks back to me.
"As I was saying before I was rudely interrupted. This is the pit, you'll learn to love it." He shouts. I tune out as he continues the tour occasionally chiming in.
Eventually we wind up in the dining hall, going our separate ways. But times like this can never last.