Divergent; 13

F I V E

All the initiates sat in a white room waiting to be taken into a room to begin stage 2. Christina and I sat silently we both didn't know what to expect. Suddenly the doors open and Molly comes out shaking and crying like crazy with two Dauntless.

"What did they do to her?" Christina says

"13" Four says I look up at him and stand looking back at Christina and then following him into the room.

"Take a seat" he says I walk over to the chair and take a seat in the chair. "I'm going to inject you with a serum that stimulates the part of your brain that processes fear. It induces a hallucination, and then transmitters in the serum allow me to see the imagines in your mind." He says

"You can see inside my mind?" I ask

"Mom-hmm" he says his eyes on me. "lay back" he says I do as he tells me and lay back in the chair. He walks over with the needle and moves a piece of hair off my neck. He sticks the needle in me and injects the serum I groan feeling a little bit of pain but then it's over.

"Now, you're gonna be facing your worst fears, 13. Most people have 10 to 15 really bad ones. You have to calm yourself. Slow your heart rate and your breathing, and deal with what's in front of you. Be brave" he says my breathing gets heavy and my eyes began to get heavy. And then my eyes shut and everything goes black.

I open my eyes and see I'm in a small room. The four walls around me began closing in. Claustrophobia I was scared of confined spaces. I look around frantically what was I going to do I put my feet against the one wall and my hands on the other. I push as hard as I could but nothing was working I banged on the wall and screamed. I then closed my eyes "this isn't real" I say to myself and then open them. I'm no longer in the confined space but a black room. I look around and see nothing what was this suppose to be? Then I heard it. His voice.

"Amelia" I spin around and see my father. Fear of abuse. He walks closer to me making me back up. He takes a swing at me but I dodge it. He hits me in the back and makes me stumble forward. "It's your fault your mother is dead!" He yells grabbing my arm and throwing me against the wall.

"No!" I scream loudly "you aren't real!" I yell and then he disappears and so does the dark room. I back up panting and breathing heavily. My back hits the wall making me groan. I rub my arms against my clothes to get rid of the sweat look out to a table with a single light shinning on it. I walk over to it and see a gun on the table I pick it up looking at all the details in the gun. Then I look up and see my mother and brother.

"Shoot them" a voice says

"What?" I say

"Shoot them" it says again

"Do it!"

"No!" I yell

"Do it!"

"No" I put the gun up to my own head and pant I squeeze my eyes shut and then pull the trigger. I gasp shooting up in my seat breathing heavily.

"It's all right, it's all right" Four says comforting me and putting his hands on my shoulders. "You okay?" He asks I nod.

"How long do you think you were in the hallucination, 13?" He asks

"Twenty minutes?" I say

"Three. Four times faster than the average. I've never seen anyone do that well the first time. How did you get out of the box? The image wasn't clear.

"Um... I don't know" I say

"Well, next time it'll be a lot easier" he says

"I have to do that again?" I say