Chapter One

It was finally choosing day and I an erudite was destined to be dauntless. At least that's what I thought.

I went through the test that told me what faction I belonged to and I wanted it so badly to be dauntless, even though we get to choose what faction we go into, our aptitude test tells us where Jeanine wants us to be.

In the sea of blue at the choosing ceremony I see Jeanine and I feel a knot in my stomach, I feel nauseous as she heads towards me. "Rivers, Michaela? Right?" I simply nod and firmly shake her hand, "yes." I say with no hint of nervousness. "are you ready to choose?" she asks like I should say 'yes, I am definitely going to stay in erudite because that's what you want.' , but simply I just nod and go to find my seat by my siblings.

Meet my siblings we are quadruplets, Reese is the oldest and the smartest and I feel he will stay in erudite, then there's Taylor, she is the second oldest and she is so selfless so I assume abnegation is her best bet, then myself who is none other than dauntless and then my youngest sibling is Ryan he is my dads golden boy even though my dad knows he is amity, he might just stay in erudite to keep my dad happy.

"Attention!" booms Jeanine, I roll my eyes and sit up straight, all the other erudite women wear dresses and skirts but not me I wear pants all the time, I feel dresses and skirts are too restricting. "Today, we welcome the dependents into the world as a part of our city as they choose the faction they believe they belong to, no doubt the aptitude test makes you believe that is where you are meant to be I feel it is best for you to choose the faction you want to be apart of." She ends and Marcus begins.

"Reese Rivers." He booms and my brother goes down and what do ya know he chooses erudite… shocker. "Taylor Rivers" she goes and to no shock to me chooses abnegation "Michaela Rivers" he booms and I feel like as I walk down all eyes are on me as I lift the knife and hold my hand over the coals of dauntless and I feel free when I hear the blood sizzle on the coals. Then Marcus calls the last of my siblings "Ryan Rivers." And then I hear a sizzle I couldn't bear to look up I was wrong my brother is coming with me to dauntless.

"what I thought you were staying in erudite or going to amity." I whisper, "guess you don't know me as well as you thought you did." He retorts and elbows me in the side. I just laugh.

After the ceremony I watch my parents hug and praise Reese for staying in erudite, why wouldn't they? they love him more than the rest of us. We start to run to the tracks and we watch as the dauntless born climb the sides of the pillars holding up the train track and we start to follow them and then as I hear the train they start running and jumping on the train, Ryan is not very far behind me and I get on the train and pull him in with me.

"thanks, but I could have done that myself" he says to me and I just give him a side glance, "What ever you are skin and bone Ryan." I say with a jab to him side.

Soon the dauntless born are jumping off the train and on to a gravel roof and with one look at Ryan we hold hands and jump at the same time, both of us rolling and hitting our heads with a laugh. "So glad I did this instead of Amity." He said and we just stand up and brush the gravel off of our clothes.

"Initiates!" came a loud voice and as soon as I looked up my eyes locked with the huge man that was standing on the side of the roof. "I'm Eric, the head leader here at dauntless. Usually I don't head initiation but Zeke is busy with other tasks." He spews I don't know why but he doesn't break eye contact with me and I could sense Ryan was getting uncomfortable. "If you want in, this is the way to go." He says and still not breaking eye contact he points behind him. "what's at the bottom?" my idiot brother says, finally Eric breaks eye contact to look at my brother "well I guess you have to jump to find out?" he says and jumps off the ledge.

"Well someone has to go first? Who's it gonna be?" he says and I just walk forward, removing my blazer and hopping up on the ledge with my blazer in my hand I just fall and hit a net at the bottom and laugh. The net tugs to one side and I roll with it. "What's your name?" says the blonde helping me out of the net. "Kayla." I say. I didn't want to be called Michaela anymore I needed something new that suited me more. "First jumper Kayla."

After all the other transfers and dauntless born enter the compound, we see Eric fall as well and the lady that helped me out helped Eric out as well. "thanks, Tris" he said with a smile. She just nodded and turned her attention to us. "transfers stay with me. Dauntless born go with Uriah." She says and the dauntless born do just that.

As we are headed to the dorm, we would be staying in for the next 10 weeks we are introduced to the pit, and the shops. As soon as we get to the dorm, we are in shock they are bunkbeds. "this is where you will be staying for the next ten weeks." She says and once again my idiot brother says, "boys or girls?" I punch him to shut him up. "Both" she says and I hear a few hoots. "get changed and get to the pit." She orders.

We start to undress from the clothes we came in and I changed into tight black pants and a black tank top, with lace up combat boots that I found in the trunk and grab the smallest jacket I could find. After we were all dressed a candor kid comes up to me and asks me where I was hiding my body. "Well I could get you a map? But I doubt your candor brain would be able to read it?" I say tossing my old clothes into the furnace and heading to the pit for dinner.

I end up sitting next to Tris and I am assuming Uriah and another man that has tattoos peaking from his shirt. I start to help myself to the fixing for a hamburger and pour myself some water, after I feel someone smash into me and I stood up and yelled "watch where your going!" and immediately regretted it, as I came face to face with Eric. "Sorry sir I didn't know it was you." I say and sit back in my seat. And I feel all eyes on me because no one has done that to Eric except for Tris.

"You gotta death with kid." Says the stoic man. "No I just didn't know who it was." I said, "What's your name initiate?" he says "Kayla" I say, "Well Kayla he always has been a jerk, don't be surprised if he shows no compassion towards anyone." He explains "thanks for that…." I start "sorry I forgot, the names four". I nod and was about to ask like the number but I just learned to keep my mouth shut if I want to survive here.