Dissonant (DIVERGENT)

Chapter One: Heart Beats

DISCLAIMER: I do not own anything, but the plot and my original characters. The rest belongs to Veronica Roth. 

"I wanna run where no one else can follow me

Find a calm from the wreckage and the danger of this swelling sea

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I'm just a girl from dust I came and I'll return

So please don't spare your mercy

I need your love at every turn

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I'm born to go where they tell me it's impossible 

Fan the flame and walk on the water"

Heart Beats by Johnnyswim 

“Now you’re just being rude!” Layla Holston yelled. Gage Holston sat at the table her fork poised over her food; trying to be as small and insignificant as possible. 

“Oh I’m being rude?” Rich Holston growled pointing his fork at his wife. Layla raised an eyebrow at her husband. Gage’s eyes flickered between the two uneasily. 

“Well yes you are!” she snapped. “You think it’s cute to pull this crap in front of Gage and make me look like the bad guy!”

“Oh I don’t have to make you look like the bad guy, you are!” he snapped back. The yelling soon escalated and Gage quietly set her fork down. She then stood up and hurried out the door quickly and quietly. She hurried past other Dauntless with her head tilted away and her eyes downcast. They didn’t pay her any attention thankfully. She didn’t hurry to the chasm. Her parents would never notice she was gone. At least not for a long time.

Gage climbed precariously up the chasm’s wall. She hissed as her foot slipped against the dark, wet rocks. She scrabbled for a hold and hauled herself up onto a ledge. She just sat there for a moment, her thoughts jumbled. She then pulled a book out from between the rocks. She opened the book and propped herself against the rocks. The book was about some war that happened a long time ago, but Gage liked it. Gage had just begun reading when she heard voices.

“Here, no one will hear us over the water.” Someone said below Gage. “Now tell me what you heard!” they hissed. Gage closed her book and leaned over the edge to listen. 

“They are hunting the Divergent.” A male voice said. “It’s the Noses, they are scared and they’re dragging us into it. They’ve got the Dauntless looking and the Candor. I got orders today if I find out about any of the Divergent I was to take them immediately to Max.” the voice said quickly. “And if they fight me to kill on sight.” The other person’s reply was then drowned out by the water as they moved farther down the chasm. 

“Oh no,” Gage ran her fingers through her hair uneasily. She tugged on the ends of her hair. She quickly shut her book and stowed it back in the rocks with the others. She sat there for a moment quivering as realization washed over her. 

She was being hunted.

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“Gage!” Shauna called. Gage turned her head, her hair whipping around. Shauna ran up, tossing her blonde hair off her shoulder. Shauna ran up to Gage and Zeke who stood on the platform waiting for the train to go to school with Gage.

“You’re late.” Zeke smirked at her, tapping his wrist.

“You don’t even wear a watch.” Shauna glared at him. Gage smiled briefly as they bickered back and forth. 

“The train’s coming!” A tall boy who hung off the edge of the building yelled loudly. The gaggle of kids began yelling loudly and jumping. Gage joined in with a yell, but it was hollow. The end of school- and the Choosing Ceremony- was coming closer and closer like the train. The train rumbled towards the crowd and kids began leaping on. Gage took off her legs extending in a relieving way. She leapt onto the train and swung around into the compartment Shauna had gone into. Then Zeke soared into them knocking the two of them onto the ground.