I Have Hope (divergent fanfic)

The Choosing Ceremony

The crowd buzzed with excitement as teens and their parents filled the room. I looked around the room at the diversity. The blue Erudite, the colorful Amity, gray Abnegation, black Dauntless, and white Candor.

I took a second look at Abnegation. Caleb was nowhere to be seen. I heard the door open and looked over to see one of the most important people in our government, Mr. Prior. Behind him were two teens. One looked a bit crabby and the other was....Caleb.

Caleb Prior!

My Caleb was a Prior?

I smiled and walked over to the Priors only to have the leader of Erudite cut me off and start talking to them. I saw my mom talking to some Candor and I joined her. The Candor annoyed me a bit so I began to walk back to Amity only to walk right into someone.

"Caleb?"

" I just can't stop running into you! I am so sorry!" He said gripping my shoulder.

" Are you ready?!" I exclaimed.

"Yeah, I've got my lucky charm," he said pulling out the flower. Are you rea-? " Before he could finish I pulled out the handkerchief and smirked.

He laughed and we shook hands wishing each other luck. We both were going to need it.

My mom and I sat down and a woman began calling names. A ton of kids were going up.

"Caleb Prior?" the woman called.

Caleb looked at his sister and got up. He slowly walked up to the bowls and took the knife. He cut the side of his hand and held it over Erudite. I smiled and clapped along with the Erudite.

"Beatrice Prior?"

A slender girl with blondish-brownish hair walked up to the bowls ands cut her hand. At first she was holding her hand over Abnegation then she moved it over dauntless and the blood dropped in. Smoke sizzled over the bowl and she looked horrified. I smiled, if she was brave enough to do it then so was I.

A few more kids were called until....

"Emily Hemingway?"

I took a deep breath and walked up the stairs. The four bowls seemed to glare at me. I cut my hand and painfully squeezed my blood into Dauntless. Cheers filled the room as the dauntless crowded me and pulled me into the crowd.

I took a look back at my mom to see her comforting my dad who was crying. He looked at me and shook his head. My heart dropped into my stomach. I heard one person clapping and I saw Caleb smiling at me from Erudite, and I smiled at him. I looked over at Beatrice, She was staring at me.

"It's Beatrice right?" I whisper walking over to her.

"Yeah." she whispers back as another kid chooses.

"Why do you know Caleb?" She asks motioning for me to sit with her.

"He and I ran into each other quite literally! We actually collided so hard that we fell to the floor. After that we talked for a while and we ran into each other again today, again, quite literally, and talked for a bit." I told her.

She nodded and we were silent again as more kids chose their paths for life.

A tall man lead us out the door in a running pack. We all ran to a moving train and hopped in. Soon the train began to slow down and kids began to jump out.

"What's going on?" Beatrice asked me.

"They're jumping!" I reply in surprise.

"What?!" She exclaims looking straining her neck for a better view.