"So your telling me you just got sick?" My mom asks as we pick through our salads. I look up at her, trying to be emotionless. I nod, and quickly looks back down at my salad. I can tell she's frowning, but I slowly eat my salad. The first time I've ever eaten slowly.

"So, what was your result?" She asked me. I stiffened, dropping my fork onto the plate. I wiped my face with my sleeve, and looked her right in the eye.

"I got Abnegation, mom," I said. She sighed.

"I knew this would happen," she said, but I saw a spark of joy and relief in her eyes. Why?

"I'm, I'm tired mom. I need to think about tomorrow so I'm going to bed now, okay?" I say. I start to stand up, and grab my plate and put it into the sink. I scrape the remains off and dump it into the sink.

"But honey," my mom says as I'm finishing cleaning. "Ever since you got back from the test, you have been in your room thinking. You should take a break."

"Your right, I will take a break," I say. She smiles a little. "I'll take a break in my room."

"Ugh," my mom sighs, clearly not understanding that I am the sassy master, sasser of all sassiness. I climb up the spiral stairs and flop onto my bed, hugging my white pillow. I look around my white room, and realize that tomorrow, it will be another color.

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I look around the giant hall. The factions are divided up into their five groups, and sitting in bleachers, looking down at the choosing table, with the five bowls. Nervousness is stirring inside me. I am sitting among the Candor, knowing that I just don't belong.

Suddenly, the nervousness gets to my head, and I have to go to the bathroom, to get all away from this. I stand up and run down the hall of the big windowed building. I find the men's room, and burst inside, shutting the door behind me and sliding down against the door with a sigh. Then I hear a scream.

"What are you doing in the girls bathroom!?" A girl with honey blond curls who is just below my height and perfect curves wearing an Erudite blue dress has a brush of mascara in her hand, and is looking at me in anger.

She was H O T hot. I stood there staring at her. She was amazing, and looked built for athletic things, something an Erudite never really has. She had amazing gray eyes that were round like an owls, and you got lost in them. I wonder what she thinks about me?

Suddenly, I feel something hot across my cheek, and I gasp and put my hand to my cheek.

She just slapped me. The pretty girl slapped me. 

"Get out this is the girls bathroom! What are you doing?" She yells, and opens the door shoving me out. I scramble and run out the door. I stop in the middle of the hallway and smile. Who was she?

I gather myself together, and sit down on a bench, waiting for her. Suddenly, after ten minutes, I see her. She comes out, as beautiful as before. I stand up.

"What are you doing here, loud mouth?" She asks stiffly. I smirk.

"I was looking for you," I start nervously. "Anyway, sorry about running in on you it's just...I'm really nervous in all, I don't know what to choose because..." I trail off, remembering what Reyna said. Don't tell anyone!

"Yeah, I get what you mean," she says, her tone softening. "It's hard considering..." she trails off too. Is it possible she's divergent too? We stand there awkwardly. I put my handover my stain on my sleeve. I'm still wearing the same shirt. I got home this morning so nervous and I had slept in my clothes and kept them on. I read a small tag on the front of her dress, and it reads "Annabeth".

"Anyway, good luck, I'm not sure what I'm choosing," I say, "See ya later."

"Yes, I'll see you later," she replies, waving as I walk back to the ceremony and I watch as she waits, and I think I see her blush, and she starts slowly after me. I find my seat back next to my mom in the Candor crowd.

"Everyone silence! Factions silence!" Someone yells. It gets quiet, I can hear everyone breathing.

"First up, Nico Di Angelo," says the man yelling. I see the boy from my aptitude test hallway stand up from dauntless, and take a deep breath as he steps up behind the table. He cuts his wrist and lets blood drip into the bowl of coals.

"Dauntless!" The man yells. Nico smiles small and the dauntless roar with approval.

"Piper McLean!" The man yells. A girl with choppy short brown hair and a feather in her hair and darker skin wearing a yellow Amity dress walks up, looking grave and determined. She places her feet hard on the ground and grits her teeth as she cuts her wrist, and let's blood drip into the dauntless coals, yet again.

"Dauntless!" The man yells again. Piper runs over to join the roaring crowd. She takes a seat among them, a determined yet happy expression on her face.

"Will Solace!" Yells the man. A boy in red Amity clothes steps behind the bowls, glancing around at them nervously. He cuts his wrist, and drips blood into the bowl of soil, Amity. Amity claps and some cheer quietly.

"Amity!" The man yells.

"Perseus Jackson!" Yells the man. All eyes are on me. I walked up to the five bowls, symbolizing each faction. Candor, Erudite, Dauntless, Abnegation, and Amity. I look back at the girl with honey blond curls and a blue dress, and she frowns, somehow knowing what I am going to choose. Annabeth knows. I dig the blade into my wrist, and grit my teeth. I put my hand slowly forwards over the bowl of Abnegation rocks.

I see the blood starting to fall, and thrust my hand forwards so it hits and sizzles in the dauntless coals.

"Dauntless!" Yells the man. I walk over to the dauntless who are cheering and whooping like crazy. The rest of the ceremony is a blur, until the last name is called, and I stop thinking about my poor lonely mom.

"Annabeth Chase!" Says the man. Annabeth walks up to the bowls, and cuts her wrist, not even flinching. She puts it over the Erudite bowl of water, and let's her blood drip down. I frown. Suddenly, she thrusts her arm forwards and the drop lands on the edge of the dauntless bowl, and slides down, sizzling on the coals. Dauntless cheer and she sits next to me.

"Whoop whoop! Let's go Dauntless!" Screams someone, and suddenly we are running-no sprinting- out the building and to the train tracks, where the train is approaching. I feel the air in my lungs and adrenaline pushes me through. I whoop and yell too, loving to thrill. I see Annabeth not far behind me, struggling to keep up a little, but not the last.

I see the train approaching, and as the first car passes me, they all start to jump in. I gasp and sprint harder. I jump up trying to copy the movements of the other dauntless. I grab onto the handle and hoist myself up into the car.

"Your a natural, what's your name?" Asks a large Chinese boy, dauntless born obviously.

"I'm Perseus, what's yours?" I ask.

"Frank, Frank Zhang," says the boy. I nod and stand, and look over. Annabeth is almost disappearing. She hasn't gotten in the car.

"Help!" She yells. I see a man covered in piercings who is ugly looks over at her and spit out the car at her. I yell and grab her hand, hoisting her up. She collapses on the floor, breathing hard, then stands up, grinning.

"That was fun!" She says. Frank and I gape at her. For the rest of the ride, I gaze out the window.

"They're jumping," says Annabeth in disbelief.

"Where? There's no where to jump!" I say worriedly.

"There," she says, pointing to a roof. I gasp. They are jumping onto the roof. That must be at least a ten foot jump down and five across. I prepare my self.

"Well jump at the same time," I say to her. I notice Frank must of jumped already. Well thanks for the warning, Frank.

"1,"

"2,"

"3!" I yell.

CLIFFHANGER!

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