Author's Note: Sorry for the messed up words last time (I tried to fix the mistakes as I saw them)! I'll try to triple check my words this time and for all future chapters!

Chapter 2: The Aptitude Test

I opened my eyes to see a woman behind a table.

"Choose one," she said, gesturing to a piece of cheese and a knife. When she said that I knew immediately something was wrong.

"Wait, why do you sound like my mother?" I asked.

"Choose one," she repeated.

"Why should I?"

The woman who sounds like Jeanine grinned and said, "See for yourself."

"Wait what do you mean-" I started to say when the woman and the table vanished into thin air, leaving me in the bright white room.

Then the setting started to change. Now there was a cage in the room. A dog with black fur came out, snarling. It started to come towards me and I knew immediately not to look at it in the eyes from experience.

"Hey there little guy," I said nervously, putting out my hand. "It's okay I won't hurt you."

It came closer and sniffed my hand. Then what seemed like forever, it started to lick my hand. I started to pet it while it licked me. Its head jolted the other way, ears perked up, and let out a deep growl. Then, out of nowhere, a skipping little girl came up. The dog started to charge the little girl.

"No!" I screamed and chased after the dog. The little girl screamed and tries to run, but the dog was closing in. I didn't have enough time to grab the little girl so i lunged a tackled the dog. The last thing I saw was its teeth sinking into my shoulder.

Then the scene changed again. This time I was on an almost empty bus. There was a man sitting in one of the chairs with a newspaper with a mans face on the front.

"Hey miss, come over here please," he said waving his hand for me to come. I reluctantly got closer as he said, gesturing to the paper, "Do you know who this man is?"

I looked more closely at the paper and saw a man who I've never met before. I don't know but I just had this weird thing in my stomach to lie to the man.

"I don't believe I do sir," I said nervously.

"I think you're lying to me miss. You know there's a huge reward for his arrest and I want that reward. So I'm going to ask you one more time, do you know who this man is?"

"I said I didn't know, sir. Please stop asking me."

"TELL ME WHO THIS MAN IS OR ELSE, MISSY!"

"I SAID I DIDN'T KNOW WHO HE IS! WHAT PARTS OF THESE ARE YOU GETTING IN YOUR TINY HEAD?!"

He then got up, his face red with rage. He hissed, "Tell me who he is."

"I don't know," I hissed back.

Then the world blacked out again. When my eyes opened, I was back in the testing room with Tory next to my bed.

"I'll be right back," she said. "I need to go get your results."

I nodded as she left the room. I lifted my arms so that I could see them and saw they were shaking. Everything that I just experienced seen so real that I was shaking. But in my head for some reason I knew none of it was real. Thing thing that really made me think that is when that lady behind the table had my mother's voice. Minutes later, Tori came in, paler than before.

"Oh, no. This is the second time today," she said worriedly.

"What are you talking about? What are my results?" I asked.

She swallowed nervously and said, "Your results were inconclusive."

"Wait wha-"

"They call it Divergent. It means at least two factions are best fit for. You have to be careful. Never tell anyone, do you understand. Especially your mother. Never tell your mother."

"Then what factions are best for me?

"Two factions are good for you, Erudite because you questioned the lady at the table, and Dauntless because you tackled the dog. I changed your results to Erudite but I don't know who might see that I changed the results twice today…"

"Wait there is another person who got results like me?"

The dark-haired woman sighed, rubbing her temples and said, "Yes, but that's not going to help you survival. Since your Divergent, that means that most, if not all serums don't work on you. You are a high risk to the government because of this."

"What should I do?"

"I think you should act like you got sick from the serum and go home. You have a lot of thinking to do. Oh, and do not ever tell anybody your results."

I gave her a nervous look and nodded in disbelief of the things I just heard. I got up and tried to navigate myself back to the waiting room but I ended getting even more lost. I eventually ended running into the lady in the grey dress that took me to my testing room.

"Hello," she said. "Are you lost?"

"Uh. Yea I am. Can you help me get to the testing room area?"

"Yes, follow me please."

We started to walk the way I came. Being Abnegation And all, she made sure that I went first every time we went through a doorway.

"Don't worry. I get lost back here every year. It's as if they add something new every time I come to help with the Aptitude Tests." She sighed deeply and said, "So…"

We finally walked into the testing lobby.

"Thanks for helping me," I said.

She chuckled, "Anytime."

I waved her goodbye and made my way to the school hallways. When I finally got out of the school, the transportation bus was just stopping for it's routley stop. I ran across the street and got on the bus. The man driving the transportation bus nodded to me as I got on. I looked around the almost crowded bus. The interior design was exactly like the Aptitude Test, with the same plain walls except for the bus route papers. There are side seats on either side of the bus. In the middle of the bus, there are rods that hangs from the top of the bus for people to hang on to.

I sat in the back of the bus as it got moving. I looked at the bus route map to see how long it'll take to get to the Erudite compound and saw that it was the next stop for the bus route. I don't' typically ride the bus home because Jeanine usually pays people to pick me up every day from school. But I'm like 95% sure people do it because of fear. That is why people from Erudite usually avoid me, Jeanine's punishments are really tough and hard. That's why I don't want to become the next Erudite leader for my mom.

When the bus reached the Erudite compound, I quickly got off and walked home as fast as I could. The compound has multiple cracked roads and cracked sidewalks. I turned into an alley for a shortcut to the street my house is on. I then went onto the other side of the street, stuck in deep thought. What should I tell my mother, I thought. Maybe I can be like, "Oh hey mom! Guess what? I'm got a thing called Divergent for my Aptitude test results. Oh, and guess what else? Apparently I'm really dangerous to the government and most serums don't work on me too! Isn't that the best thing you've heard all day?" or maybe just do what that Tori lady told me to do, act sick and don't tell her anything at all.

Just then I walked past my house. Quickly losing my train of thought, I turned around and opened the front door. Jeanine should still be at work for a couple more hours so I went upstairs into my room so that I could sleep on what to do next. But my brain come up with nothing to help me face my mother.I stared at the ceiling and thought, I guess Jeanine was right, I'll just have to choose the right choice when the time comes. I'll just have to wait till tomorrow at the Choosing Ceremony and hope to not mess anything up.

Then I turned over and closed my eyes.

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