Trivergent (A Divergent Story)

Chapter 2---Samantha Acosta's P.O.V.

My alarm goes off, it's 7:00. Today are the aptitude tests today. I'm pretty excited because I can break away from Erudite. I felt like I never really fit in with my faction and I've have concealed myself for the longest time.

"Erudite is for smart people, which is definitely not me." I think to myself.
I got up played on my phone until my older sister, Grace, yells from the kitchen.
She says, "Samantha! It's time get ready."

I think about that name, Samantha. I think it's too long and I think we should have nicknames because I heard that name for sixteen years. Sometimes I'm too lazy to write my name in school so I just write Sam. I get in trouble, who cares? School ain't my thing.

I lazily flopped out of bed and everything was a blur. I groped around to find my glasses on the nightstand without knocking it over. It probably was the first time I didn't knock it over. I walked down the hallway to the stairs for breakfast.

At breakfast, my parents and my sister told me to trust the test.

They said, "Just trust the test, for it will be your destiny."

I took a while to get ready, putting by blonde hair in a bun, and put on a blue dress with blue flats. I was thinking about what my parents had said. How should I trust the test? What if my results are Erudite? I don't think I'm ready for this test at all.

When I got to school, they divided us into our factions. There was Abnegation, the selfless, who help out the factionless. Then there's Amity, the kind, who are our farmers. Candor, the honest, who are the judges of the court. Then there's Dauntless, the brave.They are our police, soldiers, and protect us from anything. I have always dreamed of being in Dauntless. It just seemed fun and it seemed like I would actually fit in.

Then there is the faction that I belong to, Erudite. The Erudite people are very smart, work in labs, and they know everything. I am the exact opposite of that. I have lots of trouble in school, but when Grace is around I'm okay. I'd do fine in any other school, just not Erudite.

I see the Dauntless jump off a train and some start climbing the statue outside the while the people of my faction are walking in to take the test. Then something caught my attention. I saw a cute Candor guy waiting in line to take the test. I was looking at him for a while, trying to see if he'd look. He smirked at me and nodded his head up. I smirked back too. I couldn't stop looking at him until I found out I missed the door and walked straight into a wall. It tooks couple tries to actually figure out it was a wall. He snickered and whispered to his friend behind him. I turned around and stuck my tongue out at them. That was probably the worst first impression I did to anyone. I was mad, but I shook it off.

I keep on walking until I see a Dauntless man, who leads me into this room with mirrors as walls, and a chair in the middle.

The man says, "Please sit down. My name is Jake, and I will be administering your test."

I sit down in the chair, and he shows me the needle. I stare at the needle for a while. He then takes the needle and injects it into my neck. My eyes flicker, and then everything becomes dark.

The room loses the mirrors and two tables appear. One with cheese and one with a knife. I chose the knife because it seemed to be more helpful.

The tables disappeared and a dog appeared. I held the knife at its neck, but it snuck out. Then a girl appeared and the dog became angry and started to chase the girl. I thought: Could the dog have reason for chasing the girl? Should I help the girl or the dog? Decisions were the one thing I was awful at. At the last possible moment, I decided the girl was innocent and threw the knife at the dog killing it.

Then there was an abrupt change from the room to back to the mirrors. Jake stared at me for a moment, almost like a confused look.

"So, what was my result?" I asked.

His deep green eyes stared into my eyes and said, "You're divergent. You're results were Dauntless and Erudite. I don't want you to tell anyone about what you've got and tell your parents that the serum made you feel sick."

"Okay." I said in disbelief.

I'm fine with lying and everything but I was confused how I got Erudite. I constantly lie to myself to make me fit in. It just makes me feel better. I feel like nobody understands me other than Grace. I also look nothing like my family either. I thought I was adopted. Family was something I didn't need to be happy, except for Grace. But I guess I could live without her. After all, faction before blood.