To Escape Reality (Divergent story) Complete*

Chapter 14

                  

"Alright listen up everybody this is phase two of your Dauntless initiation, the mental phase. As most of you have noticed you will be ranked among the dauntless-born because none of you will have any advantage, none of you have done this before and we keep this part of the initiation very secretive. In this phase you will all go through simulations of your fears in what we like to call Fear Simulation."

I was totally taken back by this but then again this is dauntless we're talking about. They would use fear against you to find out who is bravest. My thoughts were interrupted again.

"Most people have about 10 to 15 fears. But only one has had less than that."

"What is the lowest number of fears somebody has had?" Will asked.

Rachel glanced around the room and grinned before answering Will's question, "Four."

I wasn't sure if anybody else had caught on but I looked straight at Four so that's where he got his name. Four fears.

"Your goal in this simulation is to stop it but it won't feel like a simulation it will feel real in order to stop it you must slow your heart rate and calm down. I wish all of you good luck and we will start bringing people in one by one. Molly you will go first."

I watched as Molly stood up from her chair and sauntered into the room. It was silent outside while everyone waited until a scream cut into the air coming from the room Molly had just walked into. What laid behind that door scared me more than anything. I just wanted to be with Eric I wondered if he was going to administer any of the tests. A couple minutes later Molly walks out of the room shaking. I was worried now not only were they going to witness my fears but what if Eric had to watch them too. Kyra then Nina were called in next. I was one of the last initiates to go in. I fiddled with my hands and waited for him to call my name.

"ARA!"                                                          

My head perked up at the sound of my name. Here we go my first day of fear simulations. I followed Four into the room as the door shut behind us. I noticed in the center of the room was a chair just like from our aptitude test. I went and sat down in the chair and looked around to face Four. He was holding a syringe in his hand no way was I going to let him anywhere near me. I fidgeted in my seat and stared at him wide eyed.

"Ara...this will only hurt for a second, please." I frowned and sat back in the seat as I felt him approach me. "This is just like your aptitude test but the solution is different it will cause your fears to surface. You must control your heart rate and slow it down in order to get out. Understand?"

I nodded and felt a short pinch from the needle then black spots began to fill my eyes and I was out.

I opened my eyes I was back in Erudite in my room. I walked around and felt happy. I did love Erudite but I also felt pulled to Dauntless so I didn't really truly belong there. My room was pretty blank with different shades of blue here and there. But then it hit me if I was back in Erudite then that mean't...suddenly the door slammed open and standing in the doorway was the one person I feared the most.

Vincent.

I gasped and jumped back tripping over a chair. He sneered and inched closer not a word had been spoken until. "Sister sister sister what did I tell you." He crouched down next to me. I couldn't look away as if I was caught in a trance. "I told you that if you told anybody that I visited you someone close to you would die. Yet you didn't listen. Now Christina is dead and it's all your fault."

I screamed at him, "No I didn't mean for it to happen!" He shook his head. "It doesn't matter now. But you know what I'm going to finish what I started." My eyes widened as he lounged toward me his hands wrapping around my neck cutting off my breathing. I clawed at his wrists but he didn't budge. Black spots started to block my vision. I started to hear a voice and then a figure.

"Don't you give up, Ara. Fight back! Fight back Ara! Wake up!"

It was like it was me but not me. A stronger me.

A fighter.

But I was too weak at this point. My vision faded and the scene changed. I was no longer struggling to breath and I was back at Dauntless. I took some deep breaths it was all over.

That's where I was wrong.

I got up off the floor and started making my way through the hallways. I heard footsteps behind me I stopped and so did them. I turned around slowly and screamed.

Christina.

I teared up and started to walk towards her.

"You did this to me Ara. I had so much to live for but you killed me."

I started crying harder and took a step back. "No I didn't mean for any of this to happen." More and more people started appearing around me.

Will. Kyra. Nina. Four. Eric. Peter.

They all screamed at once at me.

"If you would have kept your mouth shut she would still be alive."

"Maybe you should have stayed in Erudite."

But the one that hit the hardest was Eric.

"I knew what your brother was doing to you the whole time and I abandoned you. But you had to just come and find me now I'm stuck babysitting you. I don't love you, Ara and we are not friends."

That hit me like a ton of bricks.

I curled up on the ground and drowned out all the yelling with my crying. I kept yelling "Stop! Stop you aren't real! YOU AREN'T REAL!" Suddenly the blackness enveloped me again.