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ERIC AND TRIS (18 YEARS OLD)
Chapter 1 The Choosing Day
Eric walks down the hallway leading to the cafeteria. This is it. His last day in Erudite and hopefully the start of a new and better life. Where he wouldn't have to wear glasses to look smart or get a perfect score to avoid his parents' blazing hatred. Eric will be free. Best of all Jeanine promised him that he will become a Dauntless leader too. He sits down at his usual table and stares right ahead at her table. The blond beauty doesn't disappoint him when she opens her book and starts reading while sipping coffee. She is a perfect poster girl of Erudite. Her long golden blond hair tied in a perfect braid, her eyes never leaving her book as they trace and analyze each word, each letter in a perfectly synchronized manner. Like all those years, she doesn't look at anyone or tries talking. Just sits quietly minding her own business. Being the introverted beauty that she is.
Sighing Eric sits down. He has been trying to get her attention for the last 10 years but to no avail. They hardly exchanged 100 words in all these years. Looking at her Eric realizes that she is doing herself a huge favour. By not getting attached or friendly with people, she is saving herself from the hurt, pain, betrayal and meaningless feelings. It also solidifies the fact that no matter how hard he tries, he can never be loved. Why would a girl, a total stranger at that love him when the so called parents that made him dont have an ounce of affection for Eric. Whatever, he was leaving this place once and for all. He will become a new person with a new life. Dauntless here I come. Eric thinks to himself and smiles.
The choosing ceremony ends and Eric runs with his new faction to the train tracks. He zoned out until he saw her face. Beatrice Prior is her name. She wore Abnegation grey robes and chose Erudite. He already saw that coming but he finally found out who she is and where she was from after all those years. Andrew and Natalie Prior's daughter from Abnegation. They were murdered by unknown people when she was 3 and some Erudite relative adopted her. So here she is. At least he knows his long lusted crush's name and history now but too late. The dauntless jump on the roof of dauntless headquarters and a stiff beside him looks like he might pass out. Eric smirks. At least he is not gonna be bullied now. Deciding to tease him he says "You feeling alright there stiff?" and Eric gets a spontaneous but very un-stiff answer "SHUT UP!" which he does.
Eric was the first person to go into the fear landscape thanks to his Erudite instilled curiosity. He knows now fully well the meaning of the phrase CURIOSITY KILLED THE CAT! 12 fears. TWELVE FUCKING FEARS. Great! he thought, not my finest moment of dauntless bravado. And the damn stiff only has four fears. Eric thinks that he doesn't like him so he will get under his skin. Smirking to himself, he follows Amar and the other initiates towards the cafeteria.
Beatrice looks at her usual table in the cafeteria. Sighing she sits and takes out her hand to hand combat book. The guy, Eric Coulter was his name, left for dauntless. She wanted to be dauntless but Jeanine had a better use of her miraculous intellect. She was very intelligent, had an IQ of 196 and was perfect for Erudite. But she wanted to be Dauntless. She wanted to be able to choose her own life. She wanted to be free. Just like Eric. He used to stare at her, analyzing her with his calculating gaze. Trying to figure out the mystery that she was. He tried to talk to her but she ignored him. And now he was this extremely handsome man so why would he waste his time on a broken girl like her.
"Ms. Prior" a man says trying to get her attention, "Ms. Matthews is calling you in her personal lab for an important task." he says. Sighing, Beatrice gets up and follows him to her adopted mother's lab.