Erudite, rooms 1-25, Abnegation, rooms 26-50, Dauntless, rooms 51-75, Amity, rooms 76-100, Candor, rooms 101-125." says a tall Candor woman with long black hair to the whole cafeteria. We all scramble to the door for our faction and enter. One by one kids get called up and enter another small door at the end of the room.

"May Jone" the voice calls. I get up and walk through the door. Inside is a amity woman next to what looks to be a dentist chair.

"Hi, sit in the chair please." she says "I will be administering your aptitude test today my name is Anne." "The aptitude test will determine which faction you should chose tomorrow at the choosing ceremony."

I sit in the chair while Anne places electrodes on my temples, She also puts them on her temple and looks back at a screen that I can't see very well.

"Here, drink this" Anne says and passes me a vial of clear liquid. I'm pretty sure this starts the simulation but I think it might be something else. I breath in and tell myself I have nothing to worry about I already know which faction I'm going to choose. It's cold and smooth almost like drinking a cloud. My eyes close and suddenly I'm the cafeteria at school I look out the glass windows and see that It's snowing, that's odd It wasn't snowing earlier today.

"Choose." a woman's voice says, I don't know what It's about but the sound of her voice sends shivers down my spine.

"Choose." she says again and now I see what she's talking about on a table are two baskets, in one is a knife about a foot long and in the other is a big chunk of cheese.

"Choose."

"Why, what will I do."

"Choose" she says and this time a little louder.

"Just tell me why I have to choose"

"Choose!" and this time the voice is yelling at me. I don't like this person and I'm not going to play there game so I just stand there.

"Have it your way." she says and suddenly the baskets disappear and in their place a dog appears. I like dog's this should not be a problem, I slowly walk towards the dog and stretch my hand out to pet it. Suddenly it growls and bares it teeth. Now I see why that woman before wanted me to choose. I back away hoping that It won't try to bite me, but the dog advances on me growling and I see drool dripping out of it's mouth. I remember something about dogs in school once. I think looking into its eyes is a sign of aggression or a challenge, so what's a sign that I'm friendly. I try and think all the while slowly backing up. It's the last thing I want to do right now but hopefully It works. I sink to the floor and kneel with my head bowed. I head the dog addvance on me but before I can look up I feel a wet tongue lick my cheek. I laugh the dog's not evil just needs a little time to get used to someone. I start to pet the dog and once my hand rests on it's back a little girl appears out of nowhere.

"Doggy!" she screams, and as I look closer I see that the girl is small and obviously doesn't know that this dog a couple of minutes ago tried to kill me.

"Doggy!" She screams again and runs towards the dog. I immediately feel it tense up next to me and it starts to run towards the little girl. I chase after the dog knowing that It would tear apart the girl at its first chance. As I catch up to the dog, I jump and wrap my arms around its neck. Suddenly the dog is gone and so is the girl. I stand up and look around, I'm in the testing room but nobody's here. I open the door and instead of the hallway outside of the testing rooms it's a bus. All the seats are taken so I go and stand, holding onto a pole. Next to me there is a man reading the newspaper. His hands are scared and clenched onto to the paper like it's his life line.

"Do you know this man." he asks in a gruff voice that sends a shiver down my spine. Suddenly he shove the newspaper in my face and of the cover the headline reads "Brutal Murderer Finally Apprehended!" Below there is a picture of a man with a beard and a plain face. Something in the back of my brain tells me that I do know this man, but a part of my brain closer to the front tells me that If I tell him something bad will happens to me.

"So do you know him!" now I hear anger in his voice and I don't like it one bit.

"No I don't know him" I tell the man In what I hope is a stubborn and convincing voice.

"You are lying!" he yells at me and spits in my face. Now I'm mad, why won't he just leave me alone.

"If you knew him you could save me. You could save me!"

"Well I don't." I say folding my arms and leaning against the pole for support, this guy was really getting on my nerves.

I'm in the testing room again and Anne is looking at me wide eyed and scared.

"What's your name?" she says

"May"

"May, I'm going to let you out back before anybody comes to inspect."

"Wait, what was my result?" I ask. Anne looks at me with a mix of sorrow and fear.

"They were inconclusive"

"So what did I get?"

"You got Erudite…,and Dauntless and Amity, and Abnegation."

"Four! That's impossible."

"No It's just very rare. They call it Divergent. Now you can't tell anyone, not your family not your friends, nobody. Now go before a supervisor comes."

My heading is spinning by the time I manage to get back to my room. I'm Divergent, and I don't even know what that means. The aptitude test said I have a aptitude for four of the factions. I hear a knock on my door and get up to answer it. It's James.

"May what happened today."

"Nothing."

"No, You left early and I can tell you're lying, tell me what happened."

"Ok. But you need to promise not to tell anyone , not even mom and dad."

"I promise."

"My results were inconclusive. The person that administered my aptitude test said that I have a aptitude for four of the factions, Abnegation, Erudite, Dauntless and Amity. Apparently it's called Divergent but I don't even know what that means."

"That's very rare. I've heard about divergents once and getting two results on the aptitude test is rare but four, that's completely unheard of."

"Yeah.."

"So are you still going to pick Dauntless?"

"Of course, with all the work I put in I'd be stupid not to."

"Good. Now Mom is calling us for dinner."

As I enter the kitchen I see my mom and dad sitting at the kitchen table with a paper in front of them.

"What's this" I say and point at the paper.

"It's a contract or promise of sorts." says my dad.

"It basically says that even though our city's motto is "faction before blood" we will still care about out family just as much as our new family or faction."

"That's a great idea" says James and signs the paper. I agree and sign the paper also so now it has all four of our signatures. My mom puts it away and then we sit down for dinner. After dinner my parents tell me and James to go to bed early and rest up for tomorrow but I don't think I can sleep at all. My mind keeps replaying Anne's worried face when she tells me I'm divergent. I tell myself I know what I'm going to choose and the aptitude test wasn't going to change my decision. As I fall asleep visions of dauntless fly across my mind and smile creeps across my face.

When I wake up my mom is putting out clothes for me, a dark blue shirt and jacket with dark blue pants. After I get dresses I find myself in front of my mirror contemplating what I should do with my hair. Abnegation, Erudite or Dauntless those are the three styles I could pick from. A low bun for abnegation, my hair clipped back for erudite and doing nothing for dauntless. Eventually I pick the bun because it just feels right, it feels like home, like me.

We walk to the hub were the choosing ceremony is and take our seats. Me and James are in the front with all the other sixteen year olds and our parents are somewhere in the mass of erudite behind us. Jeanine Matthews, the leader of erudite speaks for a little bit about the factions system then Marcus Eaton stands up and starts calling off names. My last name is Jone so it's a little while before I hear,

"James Jone." James stands up and walks towards the bowls. They each have something in them representing the factions. Lit coals for dauntless, stones for abnegation, water for erudite, glass for candor and dirt for amity. James stands in front of the bowls, picks up the knife and drops his blood into the water.

"Erudite" I hear and the erudite clap.

"May Jone." I hear. I stand up and walk towards the bowls up close I see how big they really are. I take the knife and slice it across my palm. It stings a little but not that much, as I extend my hand over the coals I take a breath, a breath of confidence, a breath that says I am brave, I can do this and shake my fist. A drop of blood sizzles on the coals.

"Dauntless." I walk over to the dauntless and smile the are whooping and yelling not the polite clap that the other factions do. Ther rest of the ceremony is a blur, I hear a couple of transfers but most stay in their faction of origin. Dauntless all around me get up and in couple of seconds I find myself running down the stairs and out onto the street. I know what's coming now and I'm prepared for it. When we get to the train tracks and wait for the train I walk along the tracks so I'm not behind. As the train comes into view we all start running and then just like there walking through the front door older dauntless jump on the train. I get in easy enough and look out the door as the ground goes flying by. After a little bit I feel the train start to slow down which means soon we have to jump. In front of us dauntless start jumping out onto the roof, I take a running start a leap. The feeling is amazing, I feel weightless and free. My knees hit the ground and I roll over across the roof top. On the south edge of the building just like the book said was a group of people waiting for everyone to get over.

"My name is Max and I'm a dauntless leader. This is the entrance to dauntless. If you don't jump you become factionless. Who wants to go first?" I raised my hand in the mockingjay salute and wiseled the salute before walking to the front of the group. I put on foot on the ledge and suddenly had an idea. It was a idea that was sure to get me noticed it was possibly extremely stupid but my pride took over and I turned around as I put my second foot on the ledge. As I closed my eyes and spread out my arms like a bird I heard a faint gasp from one of the initiates. I took a breath and jumped..backwards my body arching gracefully into the air and falling down, I kept my arms out and one leg bent one pointed down as I fell. Once I felt the net underneath my foot I sprung backwards did a flip then came crashing down. As I opened my eyes I saw dozens of people's hands outstretched. I grabbed the nearest one and found out I belonged to a teenager that didn't look much older that me. I rolled out of the net and found solid ground just as another person fell into the net. The person that helped my down stood in front of me looking quite stunned. It was a second before he shook it off.

"What's your name?" he asked, I was prepared for this and opened a pocket in my jacket and took out a card that read "May."

"First jumper May!" he called out and I saw a crowd appear out of the darkness, screaming and clapping.