I make my way down the stairs to the kitchen, my mother is already in the kitchen making breakfast for my youngest brother, "hello dear" she says when she spots me, "can you go wake your brother up for me" I nod and turn around and go back up the stairs. I wake down the hall slightly to my brother's room and knock on the door. Silence. I knock on the door again, but still no answer, "Hector wake up!" I shout, getting angry. I so did not want to be late for the choosing ceremony, I was nervous enough. I shout again, but he still doesn't make any noise. I kick the door several times, but still no sound. Finally, he opens the door, "what the hell do you want" he asks me really annoyed. "Mother is making breakfast" I tell him, angry he had no reason to be angry at me.
"For once could you stop fighting with everyone, Spencer, no hurry up or you're going to be late." My father shouts for across the hall, making me jump. I look over to my mother, who had now made her way up the stairs, exasperated. How was that my fault? But it came as no surprise to me, my father always blamed fights and arguments and fights on me, when it was nearly always Elliott's or Hector's fault. No matter what I did, my father always seemed disappointed in me, he was always pitting my brothers against me. It was if he hated me for being a girl. He I one of the main reasons I do not want to stay. But part of me doesn't want to leave my mother, I've always looked to her for support, but even in the last few months our relationship was straining, maybe she was just fed up of the fights between my father and I, or maybe it's because she thought I was going to Erudite, and wanted to make the separation easier. My mother doesn't say anything, and I storm off to my room slamming the door shut. I can hear my father shouting on the other side but I ignore him.
After a few minutes, I make my way down to the kitchen again. By now, my father has left to go help set up the choosing ceremony, it is abnegation's turn to host this year, so per Abnegation traits many have gone early to help set up. I grab a small bowl of cereal, I'm not really hungry, but I eat just to appease my mother. I help her to get Jake ready to leave, whilst she goes and hurries Hector up. We make our way with the remaining Abnegation to the school, where the ceremony takes place. As we walk, I watch the other 16 year old's from abnegation. I know for sure that most will remain, with the odd few transferring. The main reason very few transferred from Abnegation was because they had been raised to be selfless, to put others needs in front of their own, and transferring out of abnegation was viewed as a very selfish thing to do, which meant of the few that did transfer, most would have parents who were born in different factions, like myself, as it gave them a slight disposition to have an aptitude for a different faction. But it was still a low number, given it was even more unlikely to transfer to Abnegation form another abnegation.
We arrive at the ceremony and take our seats, it would be quite a while before my name would be called, because Abnegation would go last. As I listen to the other names being called out, I think over my options, still having no idea where to go. I knew for certain I didn't want to go to Amity, they were all vegetarian, and I didn't want to go to Candor, having to tell the truth all the time would just be too much pressure. I could stay in Abnegation, but I didn't want to stay with my father, if the rest of my brothers transferred he would be even more disappointed in me. It wasn't like he was the worse father in the world, he didn't lay a hand on me, or anything like that, but he always shouted a lot and has a very short temper. Which he has seemingly passed on to me and my siblings. Plus I didn't want to keep being blamed for everything. Another option would be Erudite, it made sense, my parents expect me to transfer to Erudite, and I got Erudite on my aptitude test, but I didn't want to be overshadowed by Elliott. As shy as I am, I didn't want to be just known as Elliott's sister, which would be difficult not to, given Elliott has made such a presence in Erudite. Which only left me with one other faction.
Thank-you to reviewer 'claramijn' for alerting me to the layout error of a previous version of this chapter. hope you enjoyed the chapter, and i hope to update soon
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