OH MY DAUNTLESS. THANK U ALL SO MUCH FOR THE SUPPORT!
You get Dauntless cake now.
Chapter III. Bitch
BEATRICE
I shoot up immediately in my bed.
Today's the day.
Today I get to leave Abnegation.
Today's the day I become free.
Dauntless.
But another thought blocks my happy ones. My smile turns into a frown.
Leaving my family? My mother, father, Caleb. They will think of me a traitor, I can see it now, Beatrice Prior, the second transfer from Abnegation to Dauntless, a traitor.
My mother and father appear at the door.
"Beatrice, I just want to let you know, that whatever you choose, we will always love you." My mother says, smiling a warm, caring smile. My father smiles, but a bit faltered. I can tell he doesn't want us to transfer.
"Thanks mother and father." We hug, which is strange as us Abnegation barely show any contact, I mean, holding hands is instantly intimate. I however, had always had fear of intimacy, especially after last month.
Caleb and I walk to the bus stop. I wear my Dauntless clothes underneath my Abnegation ones, which I thank for being so baggy. After one long, quiet bus ride, Caleb and I walk out into our Faction's line. All factions are in Abnegation, where this year's choosing place is being held. I hear commotion coming from up ahead. Several boys come up to me from different factions and try to talk to me, but I dismiss them and walk towards the noise, earning the boys a glare from Caleb, as he had always had to be the over-protective brother, and myself one too. I see some Abnegation boys quarrelling with some Candor smart-mouths. I hear snippets of their conversation.
"And I guess you Stiffs just eat the food supposedly for the Factionless? I bet you Stiffs just smuggle them for your own good!"
That's it. I march up to the Candor smart-mouth and say, "Hey! Why don't you stop picking on them and go back to your line bitch?!" The other Abnegation cringe at the use of my bad word. Please, I learned worse from the Dauntless.
I glare at the Candor and realize it's Peter, and his henchmen and women, Drew and Molly, however Molly is so ugly, you'd mistake her for either a boy or a rat. "Whoa, Feisty now Beatrice?" I glare at him.
"Okay, okay, just don't use your oh so powerful Stiff powers on me! Please!" Peter says in a mockingly tone. His trio starts to laugh and leave. I turn back around to notice that I had made a scene.
The other factions in line next to us, Dauntless on our left and Candor on our right, are yelling, "HAHA!" or, "In your face Peter!"
I ignore the catcalls and turn back to the poor boy that Peter was getting into, that I just realize was Robert.
"Um… Thanks…Beatrice." I can tell he's still nervous from my choice of words.
"No problem Robert." We exchange smiles and I head back to Caleb. He looks furious, and tries not to show it, but doesn't succeed. The Dauntless line is still watching me, and are snickering and laughing at Caleb's face. I try to hide a smile, but end up snickering.
"What was that Beatrice?!" Caleb yells. NOW we are making a scene.
"What was what?" I make a mocking innocent face. By now The Erudite, Dauntless, and Candor are watching us. The Amity are too busy playing hand games to notice. And THEY'RE the ones supposed to keep peace.
"That?! And you cussed Beatrice! Why did you make a scene?!"
"Well I WAS being selfless by helping out Robert, but I guess you were too busy flirting with Susan to care!"
"OHHH BURN!" and "Shit's 'bout to go DOWN!" are being hollered from the Dauntless.
Caleb looks hurt, and I just realize what I had done. I go up to him and apologize. He accepts it, being selfless. I can't say I feel bad embarrassing him, that'd be too selfless.
I am Dauntless. The bells ring, indicating that all the factions enter the building. We walk in an orderly line, being assigned to our seats in alphabetical order.
Caleb in on my right, my mother and father behind me.
Jeanine, the Erudite leader who I hate, comes and explains about the Factions, and announces each Faction Manifesto. My heart beats at my favorite line in the Dauntless Manifesto,
"We believe in ordinary acts of bravery, the courage that drives one person to stand up for another." She continues.
When she finishes, each faction is hollering, except us Abnegation.
Marcus comes up and tells everyone to be quiet. He calls names, one by one, and they cut their hands to choose their new factions. Their new faction is yelled out by Max, an older Dauntless leader. Marcus is the Abnegation leader who had a son that transferred to Dauntless, Tobias Eaton was dubbed a traitor by our faction, but he's inspiring to me. He showed that Abnegations could be warriors.
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