COURTNEYs POV
Four led us around the compound, explaining things to us. He showed us the Pit, and the Chasm. He said that someone would probably die during initiation, by throwing themselves over the deep drop into the crashing water below. A shudder ran through me. If I was to kill myself, I wouldn't choose that. I mean, I didn't before.
I walked in a group of people wearing different colored clothes. 6 of them wore clothes that were a mix of black and white. I think that their old faction was Candor. There were 3 people in blue, so that must be Erudite, and the last two boys were in red, so they must have originated from Amity. The all were talking among themselves quietly, but none of them even looked at me. Though, I heard some muttered comments with the word "Stiff". They must mean me.
"Now, this is where you will be sleeping for the duration of your initiation. When you pass the final stage, and are given your rankings, you will be assigned quarters based on the job you choose. Choose your bunks. There are a few more of you than we thought, so there are two single rooms that you can fight over. One of you will have to sleep on the floor, till another gets cut. Get changed, and meet me in the canteen in 10 minutes. Hurry!" Four yelled the last part.
Immediately, everyone started yelling about who should get the single rooms. I didn't feel like yelling, and they were all distracted. I walked down a short corridor, to one of the rooms, opened the door, walked in and locked it, just before anyone noticed what I was doing. The room was pretty basic. There was a bed, and a bedside table. There was another connection door, which opened up to a small bathroom. Nice.
Suddenly there was a bang on the door.
"Hey, Stiff, get out of my room!" Yelled a high pitched voice.
"Fuck off!" I yelled back. It was my room, I had got to it first.
I looked through the little table beside the bed and discovered that there was a pile of clothes. I took one of the T-Shirts and put it on. It was a little tight, but it would do. Then i reached in, and lifted out a pair of sweats and put them on. Perfect. My shoes were okay, because they were a pair of black converse. I looked okay. But the only problem was, that my arms were bare, so all my scars were exposed. There was nothing I could do about it now, though. Because we had to go and meet Four in the canteen.
I lifted the key to my door off the table and slid it into my pocket. I hurried out the door, and locked the door quickly. I was lucky that there was only one person left in the room. One of the Amity boys. He was tall and muscular, with light blonde hair and pale blue eyes.
"Hey," he said, in a soft voice. "I'm James."
"Hi, I'm Courtney." I whispered, not wanting to draw attention to my accent.
He looked at me strangely. "Come on then. Lets go."
I nodded and smiled, grateful that he didn't say anything. We walked silently, navigating through two short corridors, untill the end opened up into a wide space space. That space was filled with rows of tables. Filled with people laughing and eating. James wandered off, to probably try and find his transfer buddy. I walked around, trying to find a spare seat, when someone called me over. It was Tris. I mean, Six.
I walked over to her, and she invited me to sit with her, and presumably her friends.
"Hey Courtney!" Tris said. She introduced me to her friends at the table. Well, there was Four, Christina, Will, Uriah, Zeke, Marlene, Shauna, Lauren. And at the far end of the table was Eric.
"Hi," I said. I was nervous. I'm not good around new people. I was thankful I decided to wear my hair down, so i covered most of the scars on my arms.
"So, how are you liking initiaton so far?" Christina asked me. She had a dark complexion and dark hair. She was really pretty.
"Its okay. I got one of the single rooms," I explained. I was conscience of my accent. But none of them seemed to comment on it. Tris must have told them not to.
Tris started to chuckle. "How did you manage that? I would have thought that the Candor and Erudite's would have been fighting over it."
I laughed all little too. "They were all to busy fighting over the rooms, so I just walked past them and locked the door."
Everyone stared at me in shock.
"Girl, you sound like you should have chosen Erudite instead," said the boy, Zeke. Zeke had dark skin, and dark eyes. Uriah looked like him. Maybe they were brothers?
We all ate dinner, then all the initiates were instructed to go to rest. We had a big day tomorrow.
I walked back to the dorms. When I entered, all the other initiates were in the room already.
The all looked at me when I walked in.
"Your not from here, are you stiff?" said a blonde Erudite girl. All of them looked at me accusingly. Apart from the Amity boys. They just looked at me with pity.
"You know what? Its none of your business where I'm from," I screamed in her face, before I stormed to my room and slammed the door.
I really didn't want to talk about what happened. About my past. I just wanted to sleep for a very long time. I stripped down to my underwear, after locking my door, and crawled into bed. I fell asleep as soon as my head hit the pillow.