Divergent (Fanfic)

Chapter 21

Tristan was right - the lie detector tests were a lot harder than the things that we had done in the previous week.

Just not for the reason he had said.

I knew that I didn't fit into Candor. Of course I didn't - I kept lying in the lie detector tests. But I thought that you could be honest without revealing all of your secrets to a machine, and being recorded, too.

The reason that others found the lie detector tests so difficult was because they had to be honest every time they were asked something, no matter how personal it was. Nathan had privately told me that he had lied on the first day, when he was asked his aptitude test results, and said he had aptitude for Candor, so I had told him that Divergents, for some reason, could resist the serums. On the second day, he told me that he was asked again, and he had said that he had aptitude for Amity.

And he didn't get shocked.

Chelsea, Jade and Lily were all also shocked once on their first day. Leigh, Ross, Adam and Paul were shocked twice, and the rest of the Initiates were shocked three times. They had learnt from it, though - nobody was factionless yet.

I was the only one who 'hadn't lied,' which was ironic, because I had lied the most. When I was asked to decide which other faction would suit me most, I just said that I wouldn't fit anywhere else. When I was asked whether I would rather leave the friends I had made here and go back to my family or never see my family again and stay here, with my friends, I just replied with, 'faction before blood,' to avoid having to answer. There were a lot of questions that seemed to imply that they were asking if you showed qualities of other factions - I warned Nathan of this. He would be fine, though - as long as he showed his Amity kindness as honesty. But there were many personal questions - the worst thing you've ever done, the most embarrassing thing that's ever happened to you. I responded with lying to Chelsea a few times when I was younger, and failing. Test and having everyone see my grade.

The second had never happened, and I had only lied to Chelsea when she asked my aptitude test results. But she had lied then, too.

Throughout the two weeks, all I could think was, what if I can't hold off the truth serum? They would surely find out that I was Divergent.

Some days passed in a blur. Some days trailed along at the pace of a snail going up a hill. But I just remember being asked what the meanest thing I've ever done to a person was - an Amity or Abnegation wouldn't have anything. Just saying. - and then being told that Ithaca lie detector tests were over.

Tomorrow, we would be injected with truth serum and would have to answer personal questions in front of most of the faction.

'I think it's stupid,' I said. We had come back from dinner about an hour ago, and were all changed into our nightclothes.

'So do I,' said Nathan.

'I still don't get the logic behind it!' Said Chelsea.

'Don't go saying that to anyone,' I said.

'Just because everybody has the worst things about them out in the open,' said Ross, 'doesn't mean they'll never lie again.'

'In all fairness, you're never going to make someone permanently honest,' said Chelsea. 'It's always going to be your choice.'

'Yeah,' we all agreed.

We decided to go to sleep, and I'm certain I was the only one awake three hours later.