I know that I said in my A/N yesterday that today is my birthday, and I may not update. But I have nothing to do, for now I guess, so I finally got chapter 16 up with the moment you've all been waiting for. I warn you, it will be kind of long, so don't freak out, lol.

Ok, on with the story. By the way, I fixed how the characters talk, so the dialog of two or more characters won't be bunched into the same paragraph :)

Enjoy! :)

*I do not own Divergent, Insurgent, or the third book, because I am not Veronica Roth.

Chapter 16

Tristan's POV (still night before the Choosing Ceremony, after Aria left Tristan's apartment)

Aria's Divergent. My girlfriend's Divergent. My family doesn't like the Divergent, and I was brought up to believe the same. But I love Aria, a lot. And I want to be with her, but my family will freak out like there's no tomorrow. What Am I going to do?

I need time to think about this. I look at the clock on my desk and it is a 11:30 p.m. I guess Aria is sleeping right now, but I have to talk to her. Tell her I think about all this. I call her cell phone, which should be in her room and not somewhere in her apartment where is can wake everyone up with her loud ring-tone. She picks up on the fourth ring.

Aria: "Hello?" she says in a sleepy voice.

Me: "Aria, it's Tristan. Can we talk about earlier?"

Aria: "Tristan? It's almost midnight. Shouldn't you be sleeping for tomorrow?"

Me: "Yes, but I really think that what happened earlier is more important right now."

Aria: "Ok, what is it?"

Me: "I think that we should take a break."

Aria: "What?"

Me: "I think we should take a break from each other for a little while. I'm not breaking up with you, it's just- Aria, please understand what I'm trying to tell you."

Aria: "I understand perfectly." she sounds really mad at me. "Why not just tell me that you want to see other people who aren't Divergent, or transfer to get as far away from me as possible.?!"

Me: "Aria I-"

Aria: "No, just stop. I'll see you at our "special place" tomorrow morning at 10:30 a.m. before the train comes to take us to the choosing ceremony. Good night, Tristan." *hangs up*

I sigh. "Good night, Aria." I say to the tone that means she hung up. I press the "end call" button and lay down on my back with my hands behind my head. "What am I going to do and how am I going to make this work without upsetting both my parents, and Aria?" I fall asleep with that thought floating around in my head.

(Morning of the Choosing Ceremony)

Aria's POV

I wake up, and it's 9:00 a.m. I head to the bathroom in Connor and I share in the hallway. No one seems to be awake, so I guess I can take as long as I want in the shower. It looks like I'm wrong when I get to the bathroom. I hear Connor talking, and it sounds like he's on speakerphone with the person on the other end of the call. I listen closely.

Unknown person: "Connor, you are going to be a great dad. Stop putting yourself down."

"What?! Connor's gonna be a father! He got someone pregnant?! How come I didn't know about this? Better yet, do Mom and Dad know?" I think to myself and go back to listening.

Connor: "Sienna," So he's talking to Sienna, and got her pregnant... "I don't believe that I can be. What if I can't protect you during initiation during the fights? What if you get his in the stomach or something?"

Sienna: "Connor, I'll be fine. Don't worry. Why are so paranoid about this? The there are like, what, 3 -4 fights, that I will have to do, and then I'm done. I don't have to do any dangerous physical activity after that, I think."

As I'm listening to what they are talking about, Vita, my dog, decides to jump on my lap. She may be a puppy, but she sure is heavy. I try to contain a squeak from leaving my mouth from her surprise jump so Connor doesn't know I was listening, but it didn't work.

Connor: "Sienna, I have to go. I think Aria is listening. I'll see you at the Choosing Ceremony. Don't tell your father you're going to be waiting outside for me."

I don't hear what Sienna has to say because he must have taken her off speaker phone when he heard me. He unlocks the door, and looks at me. "How much did you hear, Aria?"

"Enough to know that you got Sienna pregnant and that you don't think that you can be a good enough dad to protect her during initiation." with that, he tilts his head back and puts his hand over his eyes and sighs. Something he does when he's frustrated. I should know, because I do it too since we are twins. "Do mom and dad know about this?"

"Yes, they do. So don't bother to go and tell them what you heard." he starts to walk back to his room down the hall.

I just follow him to his room, trying to get him to talk to me about this. "Connor, can we talk about-" he cuts me off.

"No, Aria, just drop it already!" he yells at me, and them slams his door, loudly, in my face. He has never yelled at me before, let alone slam a door in my face.

I sigh, and walk back to the bathroom and take a well needed shower and think about Tristan's phone call last night. After my shower, I go to the kitchen. It's 9:30 a.m. I still have a whole hour until I meet him at our special place, the Net. As I reach into the cabinets for some cereal, I am startled by someone placing their hands on my shoulders.

"What was all that about?" I'd recognize that voice anywhere. I can only turn my head, because their hands on my shoulder are keeping me from turning my body around. I see that the someone is my dad. He looks tired, as if he just woke up. Probably caused by Connor's yelling and door slamming. I sigh, and he just rubs my back when I can turn around and hug him.

"I learned that Connor got Sienna pregnant. And I heard Connor on the phone with her, who was on speakerphone, and they were talking about how he doesn't think that he can be a good enough dad and protect her during initiation for Dauntless." he nods, he chin rubbing against my head.

"He just needs time to think about thinks. Just leave him to himself for a while, and we'll see how things turn out. There is really nothing I can do to make things easy for just them. That wouldn't seem fair to treat someone's problem differently than anyone else's." I nod and he goes back to do what ever he was going to do. I just eat my breakfast alone at the table with just my iPod's music to keep me company.

At 10:30 a.m., I head down to the Net, and see Tristan laying on his back on the net looking up at the hole in the ceiling. I go lay down next to him, but don't touch him. Not after last nights phone call. And I can see, just from the corner of my eye without directly looking at him, that me not touching him at all hurts him.

After a few minutes of neither of us saying anything, he speaks up. "Aria, I'm sorry." He thinks that will make me feel any better about the situation. I ignore what he said, but he continue. "Please stop ignoring me and look at me." I still don't listen. That's when he rolls over on his side and gently take my chin in his hand to turn my head to face him, so I'm forced to look at him.

"Aria, I told you last night. I think we just need to take a little break so we can think about things." that crossed a line.

"No, you mean so you can think about things?" I take his hand and take it off my face. "Tristan, if you don't feel comfortable around Divergent people, then just tell me and then we can just go our separate ways. Whether it's one of use transferring, or staying here and just leaving each other alone."

I get up off the net and head for the door. I'm not even 3 feet away from the net, when he grabs my arm and pulls me back to him. He is standing in front of me as he lays my back against the net and kisses me. But this kiss is nothing like the ones we've shared before. It's hungry and passionate. Instinctively, my arms go around his neck and my hands get tangled in his shaggy hair. All the while his hands go to my waist and slowly start to slide up my shirt. His hands stop their travel as his finger tips reach the band of my bra.

I pull back in need of air and we take a deep breath at the same time. But we don't let go of each other. He smirks, and it's the one that I can't resist. "Aria, now do you believe me that I don't want to this just for me? I need time to think of a way to get my parents to understand that I want to be around you. Whether you're Divergent our not, they will learn to accept you." He kisses me again, and I kiss him back. But we are interrupted by my watch beeping. Letting me know that we have to go and catch the train.

"We have to go, but not before you answer me this." he nods. "During our little break, can you promise me that you won't fall for any other girls that throw themselves at you?" I smile at him. He smiles back.

"Of course, Aria. Anything for you, my Divergent girlfriend." with one lest kiss we head to the tracks, and run to to catch the train just as it's passing. As I run to the cart's open door, I see Connor helping Sienna into their cart, then they disappear inside. I jump in and just sit next to Tristan, just holding his hand the entire ride.

It's probably been about 15 minutes since we jumped on the train, now we have to jump off. Where we jump off to, is at the Hub, the place where every choosing ceremony is help. And it's been that way for as long as I can remember, even my mom said that choosing ceremonies were always held here, even before she was born.

Tristan gives me one last kiss before going to meet his parents at the front doors, while I wait for Connor and my parents to get off the train. But before they, get off, I see Jake, mine and Connor's older brother, jump off the train. He see's me too and runs towards me. When he gets to me, He wraps his arms around me as I hug hum, and lifts me up and swings me around.

When he sets me down and I regain my balance, I see Tristan telling his parents to wait at the doors, and he comes running up to me and puts one arm around my shoulders. "Hey, I'm Tristan, Aria's boyfriend." he says in a protective voice that I don't know if Jake noticed. Jake just laughs.

"I know who you are. My mom told me and our sister, Jenna, all about you two secretly dating because our dad didn't know. And I must say Aria, Jenna was surprised that you would be sneaking around with a boy behind dad's back." we both laugh. Speaking of Jenna...

"Jake, do you know if Jenna is close to having her baby yet? I forgot how much longer I have to wait until I get to hold my nephew." I laugh and Tristan looks really confused. I explain to him what's going on, and he looks like he understands now.

"She still has another 3 months. And believe me, I'm excited to see him too." he chuckles. Then looks behind me. I turn around too, and see my dad tapping his watch, telling me that that ceremony will be starting in just a few minutes. Tristan kisses me once, and then goes back to his family, and Jake and I go to our parents and Connor.

Once we get into the large room where things will be taking place, Connor and I get in line with the other 16 year olds. I zone out the entire time a Candor representative gives the speech that is given every. Single. Year. It get's old after a while, but it needs to be done. It goes by quicker if you zone out, like me, and just listen for you name to be called. As he begins to call names alphabetically, five kids from different factions get called first. 3 Erudite, 1 Amity, and 1 Dauntless Born. Two of the three Erudite kids stay in Erudite, while the other transfers to Dauntless. The Amity kid stays with Amity, and the Dauntless born kid stays Dauntless. Next is me, Connor, than Tristan, then Sienna, then Talia.

"Aria Eaton."

I go up to him, and he hands me the knife to cut my hand. I do so, but I don't let my blood drip into the bowl of soil for Amity or the bowl with lit coals just yet. I look at my parents, Jake, Connor, and Tristan. They are all looks at my hopefully. Hoping that I will stay in Dauntless. I take a deep breath and look between the two bowls that represent the two factions that I can fit into. With one more deep breath, I put my hand over one of the bowls and let my blood drop.

My blood sizzles on the hot coal.

Dauntless.

That is where I was born, where my home is, where my family is, where all my memories take place.

I look up at my parents, and my brothers and my boyfriend and see that they are all relieved that I decided to stay in Dauntless. I go wait in line with the other Dauntless born initiate and the Erudite transfer, and watch Connor, choose Dauntless. I knew that he was always meant for Dauntless, the way his attitude is and the way his always shows bravery when needed.

Next is Tristan. He cuts his hand, but doesn't choose with bowl to let his blood drop into yet. He looks back at me and smiles with a nod that follows. I do the same back, and the he lets his blood fall into the Dauntless bowl. He gets in line with me and squeezes my hand as he passes me to go behind the other Dauntless born initiate.

Sienna is called up next, and looks scared. She looks at Connor and then her parents. Her dad looks at her confused then looks at Connor. He looks really mad. Like if she chooses Dauntless, he will have no control of what she does when initiation starts and ends and then she will, hopefully, become an official member of Dauntless. She takes a deep breath and lets her blood drip and sizzle on the hot coals. She is staying in Dauntless. Her mom looks happy, and her dad looks happy and mad at the same time. Don't ask me how that's possible, but that's what he looks like right now.

Talia goes right up after Sienna, and she picks Dauntless. Just like she said she was. I wasn't expecting her to transfer to any other faction.

After the five of us chose where we want to go, I zone out the rest of the time, until I hear Tristan calling my name and pulling my hand, letting me know that it's time to catch the train.

Wow, I was on a roll with this chapter. I was literally typing this chapter out for an hour straight. I know that I ended it kind of weirdly, but I hope you enjoyed the rest of it. Read, Review, PM me ideas, comments, etc. Later! :D