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Kellen POV
After everyone selects their future, I follow the Candor down the stairs and outside. After we load onto a bus, I stare out the window. Lacey is smiling at Jake and he's smiling back. She then looks in my direction still smiling. I smile back. Someone plops down beside me just as the bus starts to move. Looking over I see a girl with dark skin and black hair like me. She glances in my direction, I look away quickly a blush creeping onto my cheeks because I was caught staring.
"I'm Izzie," she says and I look back her way.
"Kellen," I state and she sticks out her hand. I grip her hand in a handshake and let go before I can embarrass myself more.
"Why'd you transfer?" she asks bluntly.
I'm about to ask where her manners are when I remember Candor don't have manners. "I didn't really fit in Amity, I would always say something true and then they'd put me on peace serum because what I said was rude," I say putting air quotes around rude. She laughs.
"Nobody gets us. They think we're rude but we're just saying truth," she says.
"Sometimes Candor are rude, just because it's in your mind it doesn't mean you have to say it. If they ask you if they look okay and they don't? Well that's different than just going up to them and saying 'you look bad'," I say using my hands for emphasis. She gapes at me. I snap in front of her face.
She breaks out of her trance, "Well. . . I umm . . . don't have an argument for . . . that."
"Maybe I should make new rules for Candor," I just about clap my hands over my mouth when I remember. She doesn't even seem affected by that though.
"Maybe you should," she says.
Now it's my turn to gape. She looks at me, "What, it's true. I don't like being called rude. And maybe if the rules change I wouldn't be dishonoring my faction every time I hold something in."
I nod. She turns away and I go back to looking out the window watching the city pass by. A black and white building comes into view. When we get closer I recognize the Candor scales.
I get out of the bus with everyone else. Jack Kang is there to greet us. He welcomes us and ushers us inside. He introduces us to Julia and her young assistant, Rose. Unsurprisingly, someone asks why Rose is here. Julia explains that Rose is her niece and she's watching her for the week. "Of course it had to be the week I'm training you all," she adds exasperated.
Julia leads us down a long hallway. Someone tugs on my arm and I look over, but nobody is there. Then I look down slightly and there's Rose.
"My mommy says that there's not many people left with skin like mine," she says, "but you are dark like me and so is that other girl. What's your name?"
I laugh at her rambling, "Kellen."
"Do you know that girls name?"
"Yes, her name is Izzie."
"You like her!" she practically shouts.
"No I don't!" I protest.
"My sister taught me how to tell if a guy likes a girl before she left and the way you said her name was one of the ways to tell."
"Well, I don't," I say, "And Candor tell the truth."
"That's one of the other ways, denying it. And technically you're not Candor yet," she looks up at me and smirks.
I groan. Thankfully, we arrive at the dorm room and Julia calls Rose over. She mouths a sorry at me. I just smile and shake my head. I walk into the dorm room behind Izzie. All of my friends won't look like my friends after today. We're all changing into our new factions clothes. I change into a white collared shirt and a pair of black dress pants.
We follow Julia and Rose to the cafeteria. I fill my plate deciding to save the ice cream bar for later. I sit at a table with Izzie and a few other people. The table is silent except for the clang of forks against plates.
"Well…" a girl with dark brown straight hair and light skin says dragging it out.
"Well what?" a guy with blonde hair and blue eyes (Leslie, Lacey and Becca would call him 'hot') asks.
"Well it's silent and you guys are being boring."
"You are too," someone counters.
"Okay . . . what are your names?" the girl with dark brown hair says.
"Jess," a girl with light brown wavy hair and green eyes says.
"I'm Alex," the 'hot' guy says.
"Sabrina," dark brown haired girl says.
"Kellen," I add.
"And I'm Izzie."
"I'm gonna go get desert," I tell them, standing up.
"I'll come too," Izzie and Sabrina say in unison. They look at each other and laugh. Then they stand up and the three of us walk over to the ice cream bar. I get strawberry ice cream and put chocolate chips and caramel sauce on top. Adding a cherry, I go to stand and wait for the girls. When they're done we head back to the table.
When we finish eating, all the initiates head back to the dorms. I change into less nice versions of my day outfit for bed. I lay in bed ready to sleep. I am going to miss them so bad. We were a really good team. Becca was always the leader. Leslie looked for the positive in every idea anyone had. Jake offered random facts that kind of related to what we were talking, and looked for the 'logical' way. Lacey took the notes and kept us on track with her sweet encouragement. And I offered the blunt comments on all ideas. We got a lot done together.
I don't know if we can do it apart… We'll probably start over and forget each other. Actually probably not, even if we do move on we'll still think about our first sixteen years of life. Until maybe sixteen years from now, when we'll have been in our new faction as long as we were in Amity, together. I fall asleep with these thoughts on my mind.
Lacey POV (she's back)
After choosing Amity, I sit back down with my mom. The Dauntless get up and walk out. I try to catch Becca's eye but she doesn't look my way. The Amity get up and when I pass Leslie I throw her a smile. We walk outside and begin to walk to the farming trucks to take us home. I feel someone staring at me so I look in that direction. Jake. I give him sad smile and he smiles back, but gets shoved into a car. Still smiling, I look towards the Candor buses. I see Kellen and he smiles back.
I load into a truck next to a girl from my school, Shaylee. I sit on a box of apples. An Abnegation transfer with brown hair with natural blonde highlights and brown eyes sits next to me. When the truck starts moving, I turn to her.
"What's your name?" I ask.
She looks confused, "Me?"
"Yes, you," I laugh, "You're gonna have to get used to people talking to you."
"I know," she says, "I'm sorry."
"No need to apologize, I'm Lacey," I extend my arms to hug her.
"I'm Kaylee," she just looks at my arms.
"Right," I laugh, "in Amity we hug to greet each other by hugging."
She laughs lightly, and I put my arms down and decide a handshake will work. I extend my hand, but she puts her arms around me. I hug her back.
"Maybe you will fit," I say and smile at her, "This is Shaylee," I motion at Shaylee.
Shaylee waves at Kaylee. "Hey, Shaylee and Kaylee!" I exclaim and start laughing, "They rhyme!" Shaylee starts laughing with me. Kaylee just watches us.
"You can draw attention to yourself now," I say. She laugh lightly again.
"Looks like we're the only initiates," Shaylee laughs.
"Just us?" I ask confused.
"In this car, it's just us. I don't know about the other cars. There weren't many Amity our age though. Just Michael, Tabitha, and Eli, then all your friends were the only ones turning sixteen this year."
"Oh," I giggle, "Did Michael, Tabitha or Eli transfer?"
"I know Michael did, I don't know about Tabitha or Eli."
"So, no transfers other than me?" Kaylee asks.
"I don't know," I say, "Honestly, I wasn't really paying attention to anything except my friends."
"Where are they?" Kaylee asks, "Your friends I mean."
Tears pool up in my eyes, "Transferred . . . all of them did."
"Oh, I'm sorry I brought it up."
"You didn't know," I blink back the tears before they stain my face even more.
"There was another transfer," Shaylee adds.
"Which faction were they from?" Kaylee asks.
"I think Erudite," Shaylee answers.
"So there's like five initiates," I say giggling.
"Guess so," Shaylee laughs.
By then the truck has arrived at Amity. My dad offers his hand to me to help me down. I take it and hop down. He helps Shaylee and Kaylee down and shoots me a smile. I grin. My dad always helps everybody; well he did come from Abnegation.
Johanna shows the five of us the dorm and we wait for Kaylee and the Erudite guy to change. Johanna then takes us to the cafeteria. Turns out Tabitha did transfer so the initiates are me, Shaylee, Kaylee, Eli, and the Erudite.
I sit at my usual table, in my usual spot. Jake would be sitting on my right, Becca would be sitting on his right, Kellen would be on her right, and Leslie would be on my left if it weren't for the choosing ceremony. Someone plops their plate on my left side. I look over and Shaylee sits next to me. Eli sits on her left. Kaylee plops next to me on the right. And the Erudite transfer sits in the last spot. I smile. At least I have some friends who care.
"I'll be right back," I tell them heading to get food. After I fill my plate, I head back to the table where they're all laughing.
"What happened?" I sit down picking up my fork.
"Eli thought Luke said his name was Puke!" Kaylee laughs. I look at Shaylee as if to say 'who's Luke?' She motions her head at the Erudite, still laughing. I start laughing too. I can barely eat I'm laughing so hard, even if it wasn't that funny. I manage to finish eating.
Johanna tells the three of us to lead the others back to the dorms. I link my arms with Shaylee and Kaylee and we lead them to the dorms. I change into a pair of yellow pajama shorts and a washed red cotton t-shirt. Kaylee and Shaylee are sitting on Kaylee's bed talking. I go over to join them.
"Hey," I say.
"Oh hey," Shaylee responds.
"Okay, we were just talking about Eli and Luke," Kaylee giggles.
"What about them?" I ask.
"They're so cute," Shaylee gushes.
"Eh, I guess," I say.
They are, but not a cute as Jake. Eli has green eyes, light brown hair, and a strong jawline. He's built strong while Luke is thinner but you can still tell he's strong. He has dark brown eyes, and dark brown almost black hair, and fair skin. While Jake on the other hand, he has perfect medium brown hair, and perfectly ocean blue eyes. He's built like Eli and no offence to Eli but Jake rocks it better than he does. I wish he didn't leave. I bet he'll find a girlfriend. And I'll be left here a loner for life.
"They so are," Kaylee adds.
"Knock yourselves out," I tell them, raising my eyebrows and laughing.
"Thanks," they say and get up and run towards Eli and Luke slowing down and trying to look natural when they get over there. I start laughing. They look over a give a half-hearted glare. I give them thumbs up. And they just turn around towards the boys and start up a conversation.
I decide to go on a walk in the orchards. Walking through the rows of trees, I let my mind wander. Why is all I can think. Why did we have to be so different? Why did we have to get so close? Why does it hurt me so much? Why do I have to have new friends that care enough to be just like them? Why did any of this have to happen? Why? Why? Why?
Nearing the last row of trees lost in thoughts, I bump into someone and fall flat on my back. Hitting my head on the ground, I black out.
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