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That night, I dream about my family.

It's nighttime, and I float in a dark river. The water is so cold that I feel it in my bones, and there is a strong current pulling me down.

I look up and my family stands on a rock near edge of the river. There is no one else around except for them.

"If you want to live you have to trust us," my mother says. Her tone is hard and unloving, nothing like I remember.

"Unless you want to swim the whole way back to the Candor compound," my sister teases, "But you would never make it. Only people who stayed loyal to their faction can swim in the river." She crosses her arms in superiority.

The water tugs at my legs and I struggle to keep my head up. I look at my father, helplessly. Maybe he can give me useful advice.

His brown eyes stare down at me like endless pits. "And you left us so you can't swim." I am wrong. He is cruel, just like them.

This is not what they are like. This is not my family.

I feel my body getting dragged under. If I don't grab their hands I will sink completely.

My mother speaks again. "Maybe we would help you if you hadn't left us."

My thoughts spin. This is ridiculous, they want to make me feel bad for leaving them. I don't.

"There's no river that connects Erudite and Candor. This is stupid." I say.

"We are from Erudite," my father raises his voice, "We are not stupid." The others nod in agreement.

I am so angry. They are just sitting here arguing as I drown in a dark river.

"Yes you are. And I hate you." I yell at them. I feel my face drip with warm water. I am crying.

They look taken aback. But a moment passes and then they laugh a cruel laugh of madness and hysteria.

The sound echoes as I am pulled into the raging depths of the water, trying to hold my breath in. My lungs sting and I struggle to swim up again to the surface, but the more I try the more it pulls me down.

I am drowning, and I have no control.


I wake from the dream gasping for air.

I get out of my bed and walk to the bathrooms. I'm sweating and shaky, so a shower would probably be a good idea.

The dorms are dark and I can't really see where I'm going. Harvey must really hate it here at night, I think, and laugh to myself.

Once I get out into the hallways I can actually see. The lights on the wall are dim, but they provide enough brightness to be able to navigate. The bathroom isn't too far away now, I can make out where the door is.

The bathrooms are white-tiled and flawlessly clean. I pull back a black shower curtain and step into the stall, shedding my clothes onto the bench outside the shower. When I turn the handle of the faucet, a spray of warm water is released, and I sigh at the comforting feel.

Minutes pass and my skin turns a slight pink from the heat. Steam swirls around me, wrapping me in its delicate arms. My muscles relax and my mind drifts off to happier thoughts.

The shower feels so nice.

But nothing can ever go right for me.

A noise interrupts my serenity, and my heart thumps hard. It's the sound of careful footsteps, trying not to be heard. My ears are attentive as I search for the source of the noise.

Then I hear it.

Voices, hushed whispers. Laughing.
One of the voices makes me shudder.
I know who it belongs to.

The curtain pulls back, and I feel exposed. Exposed to the three people standing before me.

"Good evening," Harvey murmurs, and his posse snickers; each holding an item of my clothing. "Mind if we join you?"

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