Through Good and Bad

Chapter 3- The Ceremony

~Keep calm and live Divergent. Hey again here is my new chapter hope you like it.

We were finally at the choosing ceremony. I was so excited, I knew what I was going to choose. I felt so happy with my decision, I was finally getting out of that dreaded house for good. I wouldn't have to put up my father anymore. All though I wish I could see my brother. Father told me he picked erudite, but erudite didn't excite me as much as my decision does now. I was born for this. I knew that this was going to be my new faction. I was finally going where I'm meant to be.

I listened to them call people down. It seemed to take forever when, finally, they called me down. As I walked down, I looked one last time at my father and gave him a smirk, he finally got it. He finally realized that I had been lying to him. He looked at me as if to say he was going to come after me, then stopped because he was in public. I got to the bowls with what represented the factions. I took the knife and without hesitation cut my palm and held it over the bowl.

I heard the Dauntless cheer as my blood hissed on the hot coals. I turned and went to my new faction with a smile on my face. Finally, I was home. A Dauntless man got up to give me his seat and I thanked him. I was sat between a dauntless born who ha blonde hair and blue eyes, corded muscles and a chiseled face and an Amity transfer who had all natural blonde hair and brown eyes, and straight teeth. The Amity girl looked at me and smiled. "My name is Jax."

"Hi Jax, my name is Rose." We shook hands and the Dauntless boy looked at me. "Hi, I'm Tanner. Nice to meet you Rose."

"It's nice to meet you to Tanner." After the ceremony, we ran and climbed up to where the train came. I already know what to do, because I watched them do it everyday since I could remember.

I didn't hesitate to start running and I jumped on just like the rest. It gave me such an adrenaline rush that I was still excited from the jump. I heard a little yelp and looked out the door. Jax was hanging onto the edge of the door and I helped her in. "Ya know Rose, you look like you've been doing this for your whole life." Tanner said with a smirk.

"Well I do watch you guys everyday. I got such an adrenaline rush that I guess it came naturally."

"We'll see if you still think it comes naturally after this. Because they're jumping lets go." He said with a stupid grin on his face then jumped.

"Come on Jax we'll do this together. Remember go big or go home. That's what I say. And so we jumped. It felt like we were suspended in air forever and I loved it. I landed on my feet and ran a little to stay upright. Jax had landed but was lying on the ground laughing.

"Alright you got me, it does come naturally to you." I turned to see Tanner behind me with a big smile. I shrugged and smiled back.

"How did you land like that when I landed like this?" I shrugged yet again.

"Come on they're gathering at the ledge." I helped Jax to her feet and we walked over there. There was a dark skinned man standing on the ledge talking, and blue eyes was also there looking at me smirking. I looked back, I wasn't looking away and notice he wasn't either. Ok, so its a staring contest, well I won't lose. "Alright listen up." I looked to the guy on the ledge only to notice that I looked away from blue eyes. I looked back at him to see a grin on his face to say he won.

"My name is Max, I'm one of the five Dauntless leaders here. So is he." He said pointing to blue eyes, who was only about a year older than me. "Here is the initiates entrance to Dauntless. Who's going to jump first?" He asked and everybody looked around.

"Me." I said after no one else seemed to want to go first.

"Alright initiate, lets go then." He said as I was walking towards the ledge. I hopped up there and turned around and looked at Jax and Tanner, also at blue eyes who contiuously seems to be smirking at me. I was going to beat him one day. I smirked back at him, closed my eyes and as I fell backwards, I twisted so my body was parallel to the building. I came into contact with something hard and noticed it was a net.

Someone pulled the net to help me down when I heard his voice, "What did you get pushed?" I shook my head no because my mind couldn't find the words. "Well, what's your name, you can pick again but make it good because you can't pick again."

"Rose." I said, wanting to keep my name.

"First jumper, Rose." He said and I walked over to someone waving me to them. "Hi Rose I'm Sarah. Welcome to Dauntless." I nodded in appreciation. Jax and Tanner finally made it down and we started talking to each other. Max and blue eyes made it down in the end. Blue eyes smirked at me. Why does he keep doing that I asked myself.

"Dauntless-born go with Four. Initiates my name is Eric, you will be following me since you've never been here before, so let's go." He ordered. So his name is Eric, I'm going to have to remember that. I think I'll just call him smirk when he's not around. When the tour was finally over we were shown to the accomidations to stay there until dinner. Tanner was already there and had a bed closer to the door. "Maybe I wanted that bed." I told him with a smirk.

"Well then, you'll have to come and get it won't you. Fight me for it." He said grinning. So I went over there and we started wrestling. All the while Jax was laughing.