Shared Pain

Chapter Four- Rush

I ran along with the Dauntless and the other transfers.

My back was screaming for me to stop, but the rest of my body urged me to keep going, to stay strong.

Jumping on a train was something I'd only dreamt about.

The adrenalin must pumping threw my vanes, making my heart pump and my breaths come fast.

The train can rushing down the track. My body was shaking with excitement.

I ran up beside the train and aimed myself at one of the carts, like I've seen Dauntless do many times before. I grabbed the doorframe and pulled my body into the car. My back was starting to numb because of the pain, so it was easier to run, jump and even sit.

I stood at the edge of the car and looked out. There was a boy running beside the car and couldn't quite pull himself on. I offered a hand to him and he took it thankfully. I pulled him into the car will all my mite, he wasn't exactly light.

We toppled over and sprawled out on the floor, him breathing heavy and me trying not to screech at the new pain in my back.

"Thanks." The boy huffed.

I looked at him and smiled, "no problem." I say.

The boy was cute, he had sandy brown hair and stunning brown eyes, he was tall and lean and dressed in all black. Definitely Dauntless.

"I'm Uriah." He said, offering a hand to shake.

"Beatrice." I say, shaking his hand.

"Nice to meet cha." He says.

I smile. "Nice to meet you too."

We sat together and chatted about random things, until he said, "your not much oh a stiff."

I looked at him blankly, then burst out laughing. If I'd had a dollar for every time I've heard that.

"Is it really that funny?" He asks.

"Yes, because it's true. I'm not very Abnegation, I'm very Dauntless."

Uriah just stairs at me, not sure how to respond.

"They're jumping!"

I rush to the side of the car and look out, to see people were indeed, jumping off the train.

"Scared?" Uriah asks. I shake my head, I've been through worse the jumping off a train.

"Speak for yourself!" A Candor girl said. She had short brown hair and glossy brown eyes.

"How about we all jump on three?" I suggest.

Uriah and the girl nod.

"One."

"Two."

"Three!"

We leap off the train and tumble onto the concrete that made up a roof.

"That was great! Let's do it again!" The Candor girl yelled. I would have laughed at her enthusiasm but my back felt like someone had struck a match and lit my back on fire, dossing it with gasoline.

"I'm Christina by the way." I shook her hand.

"Beatrice."

"Nice to meet you."

"Listen up initiates!" A man called.

"Welcome to Dauntless!" Cheers erupted threw the crowed.

"I am Max, a Dauntless leader. And I'll be giving you your first task."

No one spoke..... It was silent.

"Each one of you will jump over the edge of the building and into the hole at the bottom, any objections?"

"Is there water at the bottom?" An erudite boy named Will asks.

"Why don't you jump and find out?" Max says, grinning.

"Any volunteers?"

No one stepped foreword.

I was still recovering from the jump off the train, and now they wanted me to jump off a building, great.

I walked over to the edge and looked down.

We were four stories up ANC there was a hole at the bottom.

"Stiff?"

I stood at the edge, breathing in and out, then I jumped.

I fell down, down, down at a fast rate. It was refreshing, I felt free.

I bounced on something at the bottom and squeaked because of my back.

A strong pair of arms grabbed me and pulled me out, placing me on the floor.

"You get pushed?" Can a silky all too familiar voice.

I looked into the dark blue eyes of the man who took my test.

"No, I didn't get pushed, I simply fell off the building." I say.

He just looks at me.

"A Stiff doesn't jump first, ever."

My shoulders tense.

"And whys that?"

"Because it pulls attention towards ones self." He's says in a duh tone.

"Well, I am no longer an Abnegation, I'm an a initiate who WILL be in Dauntless."

He doesn't answer. He turns around and watches as Uriah screams and falls into the net.

Dauntless, herd I come.