Eric's Girl

chapter 1

I open my eyes to the warm sun. Quickly get out of bed and put on a blue blouse and blue pants before my mother is up. I grab a piece of toast and run out the door. Today is a big day, the choosing ceremony. I set in the park on the warm green grass and pull out a book. I love soaking up the sun but yet in am still as pail as a ghost. Someone blocks my sun.

"Move." I say to Claire, my best friend.

"Whatever." She says and sets next to me. "What ya readin'?"

"A book." I say. She punches my arm. "That hurt you should be in dauntless."

"I know." She says. "But my mother would throw a fit."

"Your mother, think about my mother she would kill everyone."

"Yeah she would."

~****~

"Claire Johnson." She walks up and takes the knife. She takes a deep breath, she has never liked needles or cutting herself with sharp objects. She slices her palm, I have been her best friend since seventh grade I know what faction she will pick even though she has not told me. She holds her hand over the coals as the blood dips. I smile, I know my best friend so well.

After a while my name is called. I slowly walk to the knife. Do I go to my true calling or do I stay will my family? I cut myself. I hold out my hand and listen to the sizzle. No turning back now. My hand is wrapped and I walk to my new faction. The dauntless scream and yell. Claire squeals and hugs me as she jumps up and down. I don't look back at my mother. I know she hates the faction I picked.

We run for the train. I jump on and pull her in. People start to jump off.

"They are jumping?" Claire looks scared.

"Together?" I ask.

"Together." She says. We hold hands and jump. When I land I roll and hurt my arm, but I shake it off.

"I'm Max, one of the leaders of your new faction." a man says, "several stories below us is members' entrance to our compound. If you can't muster the will to jump off, you don't belong here." He then takes a step towards us. "Who wants to go first?" no one says anything. "What about you?" he points to me. I gulp. "Are you scared?" he asks.

"No." I say quietly.

"Then you jump first." He says.

"O-okay." I say and walk to the front. As I stand on the ledge I look back to see Claire. She is scared to death.

I can only wonder what is down there. I doubt that they would want to kill us so there might be water at the bottom. But there might be some twisted people who want us to be dead. They want to see our bodies twisted at odd angles because of our fall.

"Any day now." Max says. I climb onto the ledge. I hold out my hands to steady myself. I look down it is too dark to see the bottom. I close my eyes and breathe in and out.

Then I jump. Everything fells perfect. Well, until I fall onto something hard. Thanks gravity, I think scarcity. I look around to see that I was caught by a net. I quietly chuckle to myself. One, because I honestly thought they might let us die, and two, because I did it. A man with dark hair and a girl with blonde hair help me out.

"Name?" the man asks. My name is Katherine but I want to start over.

"Katy." I say after a second of thought.

"First jumper Katy." He announces. The dauntless go crazy. Then I hear a scream that can only belong to Claire. The man helps her out and she runs to me.

"Omg!" she squeals. "That guy is so hot!" I roll my eyes.

"You should have picked candor." I say.

"Shut up." She says.

After everyone jumps the man and the girl walk to us.

"I'm Four." He says.

"And I'm Six." She says. "We are you instructors."

"Wait," Claire says. "Like the numbers?" I mentally face palm. Only Claire would ask that.

"Yes like the numbers." Six says. Then we walk to a huge room.

"This is the pit." Four says. Then he points to water. "And that is the chasm. One dumb ass jump will kill you." The people behind us gasp. "It has happened for and it will happen again." Claire looks to me.

~****~

Claire and I set at an empty table. People start to stair.

"What's their problem?" Claire asks taking a bit of her fries.

"I don't know." I say. Then there is a shadow over me.

"Why are you setting at my table?" he asks. I look up to see a man towering over me.

"I... we... um..." I say. Then Four and Six walk up.

"Come on Eric they didn't know." Four says.

"They still haven't moved." He says. Claire jumps up but I am mesmerized by the man. He is the definition of dauntless, and I kind of like it. The dangerous bad boy. Claire pulls me away but the man and I continue to look into each other's eyes. Six grabs me by the shoulders but I don't look at her.

"Hello!" she says. I don't look. She follows my gaze. "His name is Eric." then Claire stands in my way so I can't see him anymore. "Don't mess with him." Six says. "He is a dauntless leader. And a bad person."

~****~

Claire lays in the bed that is next to mine. For some reason I feel like I should go outside the dormitory. I shouldn't but I am dauntless now. The pit is empty but there are a few shops open. I walk in one and pick out a black shirt, black jeans, and black flats.

After changing I hold my erudite cloths in my hands. I walk to the chasm and look at the water. I throw my old blue clothes. And a smile appears on my face. Then I take off my glasses but I can't see so I put them back on. I lean against the rail and hold out my arms. A gust of wind sends my hair flying in the breeze. Then I slip. I fall toward the chasm opening.