Kindness isn't always very kind

Chapter 2: Stella

My family and I find seats in the Amity section at the choosing ceremony. An Eurodite leader, Jeanine Matthews, is the host of the choosing ceremony this year. She stands in-front of the half circle of bowls. Each standing for a faction. The dirt for Amity. The burning coals for Dauntless. The glass for Candor. The Water for Eurodite. And The stones for Abnegation. "This year we will have a new group of now-becoming citizens of our city. They will be part of our next generation. This is the day that they will choose what they will do for the rest of their life, and how they will live. Some will stay in their faction and some will transfer. They will trust the test or they will go by their instinct of their own heart, depending on the way they think, and the way they act." She jesters to the crowd. "Welcome our new generation. Now lets start the choosing." She finishes her speech and the crowd cheers. I sit there numb. Still not knowing what I am to choose. "Lets start."

"Alexander Attner, Dauntless born" The crowd is silent as the dauntless born stands up smiling. He casually walks up to the stage, cuts his palm with a knife and drips his blood onto the burning coals. The crowd in black cheers and the rest of the people clap. Fifteen names later my name is called pulling me out of my trance.

"Stellarum Blade, Amity born" I stand and walk up toward the stage. Jeanine hands me the knife that I am to use to cut my palm. I cut my palm and hold my hand over the dirt of Amity. I glance at my family. My mother, my father and my my brother. He will chose right after me. I really wonder what he will chose. While living at my house he was the only other person in my faction that understood what I was going through. Because he was going through it too. I meet my mother's harsh gaze, she looks at me with the harshest glare. My father has a sympathetic smile. The blood doesn't drip from my hand. It just pools in the center. Slowly my hand moves to the left and hovers over the bowl there. I turn my hand upside down. My blood pours from my hand... and sizzles on the coals. The crowd in black cheers. And the rest of the people just clap. Jeanine mutters, "Faction before blood." and the rest of the crowd does the same. They do it every time someone transfer to a different faction. I wont look up because I'm scarred to see my mother's glare that I know she has. I walk and stand behind all the other dauntless. I listen just long enough to hear what faction my brother chooses: Amity. After a while of me looking at my feet. I notice that there are another pair of feet are standing beside mine. Gray shoes. Gray baggy pants. Abnegation.  No one ever transfers away from Abnegation. Ever. After a while,everyone has chose and we are ready to leave. The dauntless start running. After we are out side, I notice that the Abnegation boy is behind. He can't run very fast because, in Abnegation the don't let their members run or play games. They say that it is self-indulgent. I slow my pace and run alongside him. He gives me a confused look.
"I don't leave people behind"
"Thanks" is all he says.
 Finally we stop only to start climbing onto the train platform. Soon after the train comes and the abnegation boy runs beside the first car and throws himself in. I begin to run along side the train but I am running out of platform and can't reach the handle. A hand reaches out and grabs my arm pulling me into the car just before the platform ends. I nod my thanks to him. After about half an hour we are told that we have to jump from the train to a seven-story building. We all make it, surprisingly. A man stands on a ledge. "This is the entrance to the Dauntless compound. If you have the guts to jump, then you are one step closer to becoming a member of Dauntless. My name is Max and I am a Dauntless leader. You will listen to me. If you defy me then you will not make it in Dauntless. so." He glances around. "Whose first?" People just look around at each other. Finally, a Dauntless born walks to the ledge, looks down, and falls. After everyone but me and the Stiff go, he looks at me. 
"Go at the same time?" He asks. I shrug as a response. We both stand on the ledge side by side and look at the hole several stories below us. "On three." He takes a deep breath. "One... Two... Three." We jump.