Chapter 5:
Today's visiting day. I hope my mom will show up with Caleb but they never emailed me back so I'm not sure. She married the monster who tormented me for the last year. The gang will be here though and I'm not ready to face them. They will ask why I left them and why I disappeared.
Me and the girls solemnly walk to the pit to greet our family and friends. As we entered the pit we were surrounded by the gang. They all started to talk at once asking why I was there. The only one who was quiet was the Abnegation boy Veronica brought into the group. I looked in his direction then he left just as quickly as he came.
I drew the group aside and explained as much as I could, leaving out the last time. I asked them not to say anything and to watch out for my family before I threw up. The girls stayed by my side as the boys went and caught up. Eve just had to ask the dreaded question.
"When did this start and could this be because of that last day"?
And then all of the pieces came together. I was pregnant because of him. The other girls who hadn't heard the last part started to question her statement and so I showed them my back and explained that fateful day.
Suddenly a girl ran over to Ophelia followed by two Erudite men. Ophelia greeted the girl and that is how I learned her name was Edith. The men informed Ophelia that they were removing children from the factionless and placing them with their oldest and closest living relative. They also told Ophelia that Edith was her sister before they left.
As Ophelia sat there dazed and unbelieving as she tried to comprehend what she had just been told I started talking to her sister.
When she saw Toby coming over to ask me what was going on she handed me a note and said " a lady told me to give this to him. He's scary though so can you please" before running and hiding behind Ophelia.
I walked over to him and said "Four can we talk in private please. I'll explain what just happened". We walked to the dorms before I sat down and told him what the men said.
When I finished explaining I handed him the note and said "she said some lady told her to give you this, but she was scared so I told her I would."
As he opened the note and read it he started to silently cry. After he finished, he dropped the note speechless. To understand I read it and couldn't help but comfort him.
"Is it possible that this is true. That your mom is alive and has been living with the factionless all this time" I asked.
" Possibly I never saw her body but why would she mail me after nine years. And why did she leave me with him" he questioned weakly.
I looked at his disbelieving face and we agreed he had to go see her to get answers. I walked away to see if my family had shown up, but not before promising to go with him tomorrow to meet her.
As I reentered the pit I looked around sadly not finding my family anywhere; however, I noticed many more factionless children and erudite people. After rejoining the gang we went with all the new additions to the dorms. We had nine children join us, none of which anyone knew existed.
Ophelia told us their names were Saralee and Linda who were Veronica's cousins. They were from Abnegation and their parents had died. Nelson and Steve , Eve's brother's, who became factionless because of candies stupid one child per couple law. Luke and Michelle who were half siblings of Shauna and Lynn who had lived with their mom until she died. Norma and Micheal who were erudite born and cast out due to the 2 children per family law were Marlene's cousins and little Edith there as well.
They all said the same thing that one person was missing and it was a little girl named Cassie. We all agreed it was weird that Erudite was removing children from the factionless sector, but Michelle explained that with them gone only adults would remain and they would be receiving less from abnegation due to the loss.
"Wait" I said."why did they all come to Dauntless and to us"?
"Norma, will you explain to them like you did to us please"? Linda asked.
So Norma siad "Ophelia's parents are dead so edith had to come here. Linda and Saralee are related to people from Abnegation or Veronica so they went with her. Micheal, Luke, Michelle, and I came here because our oldest family members are Dauntless, but they found the gang first. And Nelson and Steve had to come to Eve or be split up because of Candor's one child per family law."
That happened to make sense to my Erudite brain so I decided to ask about Cassie.
Norma said "Cassie's mom said she had a brother here, and a sister in Candor and we never saw a dad so we figured she would have come to her brother because he is the older of the two".
Overwhelmed I left with Toby to try and understand
