I arrived in the top floor hall of The Hub, it looked so different, especially since it was Amity's turn to host, so instead of the decoration being dull and low-key, it was so bright it stung my eyes. Scarves of red, yellow and green hung everyway and garlands of forget-me-nots ans daisy adorned every bare corner. I sighed as I thought about the last time I was here. The day I left my family. A sudden jolt of pain stabbed my stomach. Would my parents be here to support their friends and their childeren? Would my brother come with the Erudite? Would he be stood around comparing statistics about intiation faliure and how many transfers there would be? Would any of them look my way? Would they recoginse me? Would they nod at me and smile? Or would they ignore me? Following the motto that seemed imprinted into everyone's mind. Faction before blood. I sighed and took a seat beside Christina, Will and the others had decided to stay back at headquaters, to keep Tobias company. So it was just Christina and I, here to size up to the new Dauntless hopefuls.
After the speach was made the names were called and the choosing began. This year, however, they did the calling of names diffrently. They went one faction at a time. Seeing as they were hosting, Amity went first.
"Ruben Ackles" was called first. He choose Dauntless.
"Cherry Alan" Erudite
"Jem Branson" Dauntless
"Elodie Delevigne" Also Dauntless, hm we might have a big turnout this year.
"Josh Rosen" This one looked nervous as he took the knife, he looked conflicted. He stared at the Amity and the Dauntless bowls, he looked up towards his Amity pals that had stood behind us. They nodded to him and beckoned him over. He took a step to the Dauntless bowl and stuck out his hand, but at the last moment he looked towards his friends again and slowly shook his head. He took a step back and leaked his blood into the earth filled bowl and shuffled off to his family, who welcomed him with open arms. He looked a little crestfallen as he did so. I looked back. So did his friends.
The Erudite went next, the I only paid real attention to the last four, because all the others stayed Erudites. The first of the the four, John, transfered to Candor, getting a disproving look from the girl who followed him, Nora, who stayed home. The last two, Alex and Sophie, choose Dauntless.
The Candors lined up next. I paid attentition to the ones I thought were potential Dauntlesses, so I had to shake my self to attention a few times. I betted on six them coming to us. The first, Corey, I was right about. He was tall and had very muscular arms. Perfect build for Dauntless. The next boy, Zach, had pretty much the same build as Corey only, he was slightly shorter, however he stayed a Candor. The next one up was a girl. I kept my eye on her because she looked sad, almost heartbroken. I assed her as she took the knife from the Amity leader. She was tall. a lot taller than all of the girls here, and some boys. She green eyes that reminded me of Will's. She took one last look at the Candors and walked to the Abnegation bowl, I relaxed. So, not a Dauntless after all. I suppose it wasn't a big loss, I'd forgotten her name already. But just as I had settled down into my seat, she perked up, as if she had remebered something and ran to our bowl and cut her hand and dripped her hand on to the flames. She skipped over to us and stood with the rest. The only other Candor we got was a girl named Johanna, she like the girl before her some dificulty choosing. Divergents. I thought. I resolved to keep my eyes on them throughout intiation. They stood together with the Amity transfers. I hoped the could become friends.
The Dauntless came up next, I was right about who was staying and who was going. Most of the girls stayed and and only a few boys. I knew all of them personally, that's my favourite part of working with Tori and Bud inbetween intiation periods. You make a lot of friends. Once the last Dauntless chose, a girl named Althea, I silently rose frm my seat, which, thankfully was one row from where the intiatiates stood and snuck out. I ran down down the stairs toward the train that would take me back to the compound. As I hauled myself into a car and caught myself thinking about the two Candor girls, if I was right, if they were Divergents, I think I'll be seeing a lot more of them both.
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