Chapter 19: Little by little, one goes far

A week later, the alarm clock rings and I hear a loud, dull sound, indicating Chloe just fell out of the bed.

"You didn't break yourself anything did you ?"

"Mhhhh...No, I think not.", she answers. This definitely hurt. My gaze meets the alarm and I see it's already 6am.

"Oh fuck, Chloe get up, we're late. We're too late."

I jump out of bed and run into the bathroom,

stubbing my toe at the doorframe.

Nice way to start a day.

Running to the sink I start brushing my teeth and drying my face, Chloe has suddenly noticed she should hurry and runs to me into the bath. I'm finished there so I continue choosing my clothes for today; a light blue jumpsuit with my ballerinas. Chloe has finished in bath now, so I proceed to get dressed in the bathroom. Ten minutes later, we took ourselves a piece of bread, eating it while running down the hallway to the science labs.

Even though we were already worked in, Mr. Johnson told us to wait for him today in the hallway instead of in the laboratory itself. I don't really know why, but most probably because we get to work with older scientists today.

White halls rush alongside us, as we run, or better jogg, through Erudite's hallways. I'm surprised Chloe is able to hold up to me, a ex-Dauntless who was trained to be able to run for hours. Maybe I was not supposed to, but I kept my daily habit of working out, which is why I'm still rather muscular.

We finally reach our group, standing next to a door and luckily,Mr Johansson hasn't arrived yet. I lean against the walls. Some of the others start chatting but I don't know them. I just regained by breath as I see Mr Johansson walking up to us.

We enter the room in silence and sit down at our places.

Now my new life is officially starting with a new job and a new apartment.

He begins explaining to us what we will have to do while working with these scientists and suddenly, Mr. Johansson checks his watch. At the exact same Moment, someone knocks on the door and as the door opens, I don't dare to believe my eyes as I see Jeanine Matthews walking inside of our classroom.

She walks up to Mr Johansson and he finally goes on talking:" That's all you'll need to know. Ms. Matthews is now going to explain the rest.", with that he steps back behind his table and sits down, not missing one single word of our leader:

"Yes, thank you, Mr. Johansson. You indeed have a very important day in front of you. It represents the start of your new life. Not anymore as initiants, but as scientists. You will assist Erudite scientists, but you will have the opportunity to get famous for yourself."

The crowd starts whispering within her Pause of talking, but as she starts to speak again, everyone turns silent.

„Im now going to assign you to your jobs."

She went on with the names of about five initiants. Then Chloe got mentioned and I listened closer. "Chloe Bennett will be working at DNA-Research with Mr. Connor." Some other initiates were mentioned after, but I really started to listen again as my name was called out.

" And Sephora North is going to work at Aptitude Research with me."

Stop.

I did not expect this.

I get to work with our Leader ? To be honest, I thought no one gets to work with her, until they did something remarkable and I did the very opposite. I told her I assumed she was ill but Jeanine Matthews is never ill. Although it like to know how she does this, I can't believe what just happened.

Chances for this to happen are like 1/1000000.

" That would be all for today.Please wait here for your instructor at 5:50am tomorrow. You are dismissed."

Still shocked as hell, Chloe and I proceed to the library, to catch up on our new jobs. I am very grateful for the distraction as I can't believe Jeanine chose me out of everyone to work with her.

On the way, Chloe asks me:" Are you okay ? You got silent after the assignment earlier. Is something wrong?"

Shrugging my shoulders, I answer:" No, of course not. I just can't believe she wants me to work with her."

Chloe shakes her head in disbelief and smiles at me.

" You've got the highest score in initiation. Who else should she choose ? Now come on, we got to be prepared for tomorrow."

"Maybe you're right."

After some very interesting books of faction aptitude and DNA- encryption, we get dinner and go to bed early, as obviously no one of us wants to be late for tomorrow.