A Crazy Little Thing Called Love

Ch 1: New

Hi! So this will be Tris going to high school, in modern day. Tris is a sophomore(16) and for the purpose of the story, Tobias is too. Enjoy!

CH 1:

I wake up with a groan, the tinkling sound that means I've gotten a text sounds through my room, jarring me awake. I grab my phone, and look at the screen, whoever texted me will get hell from me; everyone who knows me knows that I don't do night time texting. The screen reads Susan. Of course, she wakes early to make breakfast for her family, and she would expect me to be awake as well. I look to the clock: 5:48. Susan likes her breakfasts to be special, which means a long and arduous task of a 2 hour breakfast process.

Susan's' text reads, 'I'm going to miss you at school today :..('

I pick up my phone and respond, ' I will miss you 2!'

Before I moved several days ago, and Susan and I were neighbors, and best friends. Well as close as I could get to a friend. In the town I used to live, every family valued selflessness, and talking about yourself was a rare and most of the time rude thing to do. So how you were supposed to ever have any real friends I will never know.

Susan's brother, Robert, had had a crush on me ever since I can remember and a week before it was announced that our family would move, Robert made a move on me. Out of the blue, he just kissed me. Later I told him we were moving and he was furious, he was really in to me, unfortunately for him. I'll only miss Susan.

I try falling back to sleep, I have my first day of my sophomore year at the new school here today. I'm pretty exited, from what my parents have told me, this school is really unique and interesting; I'm looking froward to seeing the school. From what my parents have told me I've established that the school is based on certain virtues that are viewed as the defining characteristics of human nature. Or at least that's how my father described it. When you first come to the school, which is generally your sophomore year because that is the year the school starts, (okay I know that's weird but that's how it goes: the school goes from 10-12th grades. and p.s this is a middle of the story authors note, this won't happen often.) you choose which virtue you want to be in. My mother told me to think of it like Harry Potter, like the houses that are at Hogwarts. These virtues, or factions, are each very different. Before you can be an official member of the school you take what is called the aptitude test to determine what faction you will best fit in. Each faction have a slightly different form of education. For example one faction, Erudite, focus completely on education and getting the highest IQ possible and getting as much college credit as possible. Another faction, Dauntless, focus on the more athletic side of school. It includes classes that you go to but puts more focus on physical fitness and sports. People from Dauntless generally get college scholarships for sports. Each faction has it's own dress code and each act differently than each other. As well as the factions, the school is an almost boarding school, meaning you go home on the weekends but stay over night on weekdays. You stay in dorms separated by gender. Its is all so new and different and exiting. I can't wait to see where I belong.

I look to the clock which now reads 6:34. Might as well get up now. I stand up and switch off my alarm clock so it won't go off when I get ready. I generally don't take showers in the morning but I have a ton of time.

I grab my towel and head into the shower. I set the water to cold to wake me up. Because my family doesn't believe in extravagance, I don't have any of those special 'lavender infused cherry blossom silk' shaving creams and herbal essence shampoos like most teenage girls have. I have my white bar of soap, original shampoo and conditioner, and my disposable razor. Most girls would find it ridiculous but I find it neat and organized.