TRIS PEDRAD: DAUNTLESS BORN

Peters a Jerk

VI P.OV.

"Listen up, INITIATES!" Eric shouts with his voice booming over the roof.
"I'm pretty sure he woke up Amity." Christian whispers to me and I laugh.

"You have made it 1/2 of the way into the Dauntless compound. There's only one entrance. You either jump here, or be factionless. You may survive the fall. Or you may not." Eric tells the whole group.

I look around and I see everyone just with worried looks. I know what's down there and so does every dauntless born on the roof.
"We just jumped, and they want us to jump again?" Christian says.
"Yup that's pretty much how it is... Welcome to Dauntless." I say.

"Who's going to go first??" Eric asks.

After like 3 minutes of silence, I speak up.

"Me"

"Ok, I know she's a dauntless born and everything. But boys really??" Eric says.

At that time, I'm thinking, where's Uriah. We usually compete for going first because we trained with the other 16 year olds when we were younger. I look all over the roof. He's not there...

Before I go up I shout.

"Uriah! Where are you!!" Once I say this Eric has a worried look on his face. Because his boss and the head of dauntless Max, is our dad. And one of the first rules my dad has, was to make sure, Uriah and I are safe. So if we can't find Uriah and it was under Eric's job. He's going to be wearing all sorts of colours.

Just then, I see 2 hands on the edge of the roof. I scream, and run towards them. And I see Uriah hanging on the side of the roof.

"Uriah what happened!" I shout as I pull him up.

"A transfer named Peter from candor, pushed me when I wasn't paying attention and I just got ahold of the edge of the roof." Uriah says

"Peters a jerk." I say angrily.

If I ever fight him, and I hope I will, I wanna beat the crap out of him.
I walk to the front of the roof, to angry to do anything else, look down to position myself over the hole, and I walk back a couple feet, break into a sprint, jump over the ledge and into the net.

Four sticks out his hand to help me off. But I just ignore it and jump off myself. I just mumble 'Peters a Jerk' I think Four gets the idea to keep his mouth shut. Four says "First jumper Tris!" There are cheers but I don't care. I just go sit down and wait for everyone else to jump down.

Once everyone is down, I stand next to Christina, and a guy named Will from Erudite. Four then speaks,

"My name is Four. I will be training the transfers."

"Four? Like the number? What happened? 1 through 3 were taken?" Christina says.

Four then walks up to her and says,

"What's your name?"

"Christina"

"Well Christina, the first lesson you will learn from me is to keep your mouth shut. You hear?"

"Yes"

"Dauntless born go with Lauren, transfers with me." Four says.

When I walk over to Lauren, Four grabs my elbow and tells me 'good luck' I nod and continue walking to Lauren.

Let the training begin.