I quickly stop. We stand there in awkward silence until we see faint lights on the tracks in the distance. I get ready run. I know that when the train gets close I will have to keep up with it and position myself by the doors of the train. I start to count backwards in my head. At one I will start to run as fast as my short legs will take me.
Three
Two
One.
My legs begin to pound on the metal ramp. Most of the other transfers are watching me and the dauntless born running. They start to get the idea and run along with us. In the corner of my eye I see a opening in the train. A door. I slow my pace a little and get ready to jump. The door is directly on my left. I grab the handle and for a split second my body is being dragged by the train. I force my legs into a jump and swing my body into the train car. I get onto my knees and sit on my heels. My heart is pounding from the adrenaline coursing through my veins. I watch as more and more people jump into the train. Christian catches up with the car that I am in. I extend my hand. He grabs it and jumps in. He looks at me and smiles. Not because I am amity, but because he is pumped up with adrenaline, just like me. He sits next to me and we watch the city pass by. One of the other people in our car walks up and also sits by us.
"Dauntless are crazy" she said. "And you just joined them!" I say with a smile. She smiles back. She wears a blue shirt and jeans. She also is wearing a pair of glasses. She definitely came from erudite. She looks directly at Christian and says "if you're going to be dauntless, you are going to need to act like one. Stop being so quiet." If I had heard anyone else say this I would have thought she was rude, but the way she said it sounded like an encouragement. "it sounds like you should belong in candor with that tongue." He said smiling. "Well according to my aptitude test I should be in erudite, but I decided against it. I'm Lex by the way" "I'm Christian." "I'm…" I pause. Nellody sounds way to amity, way to happy. "what? Cat got your tongue?" Lex jokes. "I'm Nell" I say.
We watch the distance in silence for a long time. Im assuming it was around 40 minutes. Someone on the other side of the train wall bangs on the metal. "We're jumping!" he shouts. I stand up and stretch my legs. I look out of the window see a building just a little lower than the train tracks. In the corner of my eye I see people jumping out of the cars in front of ours and landing on the roof of the building. I walk back to the backside of the car and get ready to jump. Christian and Lex join me. Out of nowhere Christian grabs my hand. "You're shaking" he says. I realize that my hands are shaking. Im terrified. "We'll jump together." He says. I nod. Without a word we begin to run at the same time. Before the last step I bend my knees and jump out of the car. For a moment I am suspended in air before falling. I do my best to keep the momentum going so when I hit the cement I land on my feet. Christian and I both land properly but Lex falls to her knees. We all begin laughing. Laughing with relief or laughing with hysteria, I don't know. We are ordered to stand up and form a line. For what, we don't know.