The Stiff's Choice

Chapter 1

Beatrice's POV

I cant believe the day has already come, the day most parents dread of. I don't want to let them go, they're still my babies.

I can tell its definite I'm losing at least one, Elizabeth. I see the way she admires the dauntless, just like i did at her age. Shes defiantly daring and brave with little to no selflessness like shes supposed to have. But i suppose I'm not selfless either, neither is Tobias but hes coping well. I think there's divergence in all of us, we just have to smart and brave and kind and truthful enough to find it..

Its exactly 25 years since i found out about my divergence, 3 factions i resulted in- Abnegation, Dauntless and Erudite. It was hard to choose I was scared on my own but when Caleb chose Erudite it put me right off my thought track. Of course i chose Abnegation though, for my own safety. You see people who are divergent can break simulations, they just don't work on them, which apparently is a big deal. So now I'm stuck here, in boring old Abnegation for life.

But luckily for me i met Tobias here, he was my initiate teacher, although being selfless for initiation wasn't all that hard. I often wonder why he chose Abnegation. He told me the stories of his dad beating him, they're not nice, I would've wanted to get away from him too. But I assume he also wanted to be safe from serum, seeing as hes divergent too. Anyway, during my initiation we often spent time together. He scared me at first, like he was going to hurt me but we grew closer during that time and well here we are now, with two children.

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"Morning mum!" Elizabeth said, her face beaming

"Good Morning sweetie, you seem happy today" I smiled

"Well it is amtitude test day, I'm curious to where I belong" she cheers,

My eyes water a little, I've never know someone to be so jolly about it, that's the good thing about her personality she always brings light to a dark situation.

Elizabeth's POV

My eyes flutter open, sunlight streams through my window and my mind focuses. Today is the aptitude test.

I am so scared I might cry but I know my mother is already worried about me and I couldn't bare to disappoint her, it would break my heart so I cover up and pretend to be someone I'm not. A bright and happy girl living life the way she wants.

I get up and put on my standard clothes. In abnegation we own the littlest clothes made from the cheapest fabrics. Vanity is selfishness and abnegation are selfless. I tie my hair into a tight bun of my face. I have no idea what it looks like but I'm trusting my many years of practice. I walk down the stairs and plaster a fake smile onto my face.

"Morning Mum!" I say as cheerfully as I can

"Good morning sweetie you seem happy today" she replies smiling. Oh no she's noticing my fake mood, Come on Elizabeth pull it together make it believable.

"Well it's aptitude test day, and I'm curios to find out where I belong" I say praying she'll buy it. She looks likes she's about to cry when Jonah bursts in.

"Morning everyone!" Uh oh he's using the same tactic as me, mum has to realise now!

"Morning darling"

"Well, Jonah we better get going we don't want to be late today." I say sternly hinting to him that we needed to leave before mum realised.

"But the test isn't till lu..." I kick him I the shin "Oww..." He looks at me confused then seems my expression and gawps at me"choooo" trying to pull it off as a sneeze.

"Well, bye mum!" We call out and hurry out of the house before she has time to be suspicious...

We rush out of the house but quickly slow down because of more abnegation rules. If my aptitude test shows anything but abnegation I'm leaving. I know I should at least have some regret but I can't I just know I'm not supposed to be here. Jonah on the other hand is your typical abnegation always doing as he's told helping everyone around him, he doesn't even get freaked out around the factionless. Like I said totally abnegation. We walk along the plain and dull abnegation streets to the only bus stop.

Our friends Jane and Oliver come out of their houses and join us. I fall into step with her. We have been friends for our whole lives and as kind as she is and as lovely as she is I've always found her rather boring, much like the whole faction I'm from. We arrive at the bus stop at the same time as the bus. Lots of school children and adults on there way to work pile on. I do not try to sit in one of the limited seats as it is frowned upon for young fit abnegations to be selfish and take a seat for themselves. I see some young abnegation children fighting over who should sit down, both saying it should be the other for various reasons. Jane walks up to them and gently says "Hello girls, I noticed you had a little situation and I have a suggestion. Why don't you let this nice lady" she says gesturing to an abnegation women in her late 40s standing beside them" sit in the seat then that would sort out the situation because your both being wonderful abnegations." They both beam at her and usher the lady into the seat who is also smiling sweetly at the girls. They giggle and walk to the back of the bus where there's standing space. I look over and smile at Jane and say " you are such a natural"

"I should hope so I've done it all my life, but thank you" she says giving me a small smile.

Well we know who's not leaving abnegation...