Fire Flower {Divergent Fanfiction}

Chapter 1

"Do you ever feel like something's missing. Like from your life?" Cedar looked over to me where I lied in the grass watching the clouds.

"What do you mean?" I questioned. He sighed then sat up, leaning back on his hands.

"Like you need more then what you have. Like a puzzle that's missing a piece. You just feel like a certain part of you is empty or gone." His swishy brown hair blew lightly in the soft wind, rustling his small curls into his face.

"I don't know. Maybe." I bit my lip. Cedar sighed again. "Maybe there is something wrong with me." He laid back down in the grass.

"There is nothing wrong with you! You are perfectly ordinary." I defended him.

"But it's just strange. I feel- I just feel like Amity is good but I need more. But then I also feel like I can't go anywhere but Amity because it wouldn't feel right."

"You mean like you feel you belong in another faction?" I quickly turned my head to face his deep brown eyes.

"Yes- no- maybe? I'm not sure. I'm just really confused."

"Well you can change factions. The Choosing Ceremony is in just a couple of weeks. And you can see what faction is best when you take the Aptitude Test next week."

"Yea that's should help. Maybe I'm just being stupid, nothing could be my home except Amity, right? I can feel right in any other faction, can I?" He looked to me for an answer.

"I guess you just follow your heart. See where it leads you." I said perfectly Amity-like. "'Give freely, trusting that you will also be given what you need'" I quoted a peice from the Amity Faction Manifesto. Cedar looked to me and smiled.

"Thanks May. You are an amazing girl and no matter what happens with the Choosing Ceremony, you will always be my best friend." He placed his hand over mine where it rested on the grass in the space between us and my heart jumped. Holding hands was a casual thing to do in Amity but with Cedar it felt different. Maybe it was just me, maybe I was the one with something wrong with me. Actually I was.