I arrive at the building fifteen minutes before the ceremony starts, my parents right behind me. I wait for them to catch up and once they walk past me I follow them into the building, the lobby itself is huge! We walk to an elevator and click the top most floor, the doors close and we head up. As we go higher up into the sky my nerves rise too, I start to dream what it would be like outside of Amity… I know it won't be all sunshine and smiles everywhere I go, especially if I choose Dauntless. My mind then wanders to my aptitude test
The middle aged Dauntless women hooks me up to a weird looking machine with a lot of different wires coming out of it, I sit in what looks like an old, discarded dentist chair. " Drink this," She says handing me a cup with a thick, clear liquid in it. The cup has some weight to it from the liquid inside of it," What is it?" I say with a disgusted look on my pale white face, " Just drink it, ok?" The women says. " Grumpy," I think to myself and down the cup.
I sit in the chair for a minute then I notice I shut my eyes, I open them and see I'm in a room of mirrors," I would love to see an Ablegation in this room," I say to myself. " Choose," Says a loud, booming voice making me scream," Wait, what?" I say to the voice. " Choose!" It says louder and I see a table appear with a slice of cheese and a knife on it. My mind tries to wrap itself around what is in front of my," Why? I mean there is nothing around me that can hurt me, and I'm not hungry. Thanks for the offer though," I say to the voice and start to walk away," Fine!" Yells the voice sounding offended. I scoff and roll my eyes, then a snarl appears behind me knocking me out of my annoyed mood, " I wish I had that knife," I whisper under my breath. The dog starts to circle me and I remember that in one of my classes it said that if you move fast towards an upset animal it might attack. I stay in one spot and look the dog in the eyes, my hand slowly starts to move itself towards the snarling dog eventually landing on its head and it turns into a small puppy. " What the f-" I start to say until a small girl around the age of 5 yells " Puppy!" And starts running towards it. The dog immediately starts snarling again and runs full speed towards the small girl. I let instincts kick in and I run after the dog, I am close enough to it that I take a huge leap and tackle the dog to the ground, I expect a piercing pain to come from somewhere on my body from the dog but nothing comes.
I open my eyes to see that I'm now on a bus, one of the city buses I'm guessing, and I look to see a Candor man is the only other one on the bus. He then stands up frantically and comes up to me," Do you know this man?" He says in a panic. I take a good look at the man but no name comes to mind even though he looks familiar," I'm sorry sir, I mean he looks familiar but I don't know his name," I say still looking at the picture. " You must know his name! You're lying! This information could save my life!" He says yanking at my wrist. WIthout thinking, my wrist comes up and slaps him," I don't care if it will save your life or not! That doesn't mean you can lay your hands on me!"
After that I woke back up in the testing room, the older women scrambling around like a kid would if there was an actual fire in school," What happened? Did I fail?" I ask the panicking women. She stops and looks at me with a frightened look," You must leave… Now," She says with a very serious face," But what were my results?" I ask. She stops and looks at the wall in front of her as if she has to think about telling me my results. SHe sighs," Your results were inconclusive," She says, I freak out and run to face her," Does that mean I don't fit anywhere? Am I going to turn factionless? Or do I have to stay in the same fa-" " No, the problem is that you fit into more than one faction," She says grabbing my shoulders to make me calm down. " What? How is that possible?" I ask still panicking," It is very rare but it is possible, you were chosen for Erudite, Dauntless, and Abnegation," She says. " Is that bad?" She gives me a look that I can't put a name on," Not necessarily, your just like everyone else but you are in danger," She says and starts to run around doing whatever she was doing when I woke up.
I'm awoken from my daydream by the elevator stopping on the top floor and the doors opening to a room flooded with colors, every 16 year old from every faction with their parents are in this room. Anxiety takes place on my nerves and I follow my parents to the Amity section of the seats, they decide to take seats in the front row. My mind is trying to process how many people are here, plus I'm also not decided on my choice all I know is that I'm leaving my family behind. The ceremony starts shortly after we sit and it is Dauntless's turn to host the ceremony. A old man dressed all in black stands before the crowd and gives the that is said every year, after he finishes the ceremony starts and he called the first name. It is a boy from Candor and he transfers to Amity, oh bboy you don't know what you just got into. The next name is me "Alana Boldheart," I stand on shaky legs and walk to the middle of the room. The Dauntless man hands my the knife that decides my future, my head is swimming in thoughts, Erudite, Abnegation, or Dauntless. I make my choice and and lay the knife blade to the palm of my very sweaty hand, I put slight pressure to the knife and blood comes trickling out. I let the blood pool in my hand before I hold it out over the Dauntless bowl and hear my blood sizzle into the hot coals.