"Everly...Everly, honey, wake up." A gentle voice says, pulling me from a dreamless sleep. I sit up with a fright. Around me, people laugh. I slept in class again. Shit. I look up at my kind English teacher, Mrs Allen, to see her smiling down at me as the class becomes quiet again. This particular teacher happens to be the school's counsellor, meaning I see her a lot because of my incapability to shut my mouth when I get mad or comment on something.
"Sorry. Didn't get much sleep last night." I excuse, rubbing my face.
"Honey, that's what you say every time. Is something happening at Lily's?" She asks. Lily is the most caring, understanding human being that I've ever known. She took me in when my parents died in a car crash 12 years ago. She fosters as many kids as she can, so they don't have to be in the system anymore. Her and her husband, Adam, are honestly the best role models to have. She also happens to be friends with Mrs Allen.
"What? No, no. It's just, uh...nothing, it's nothing." I shrug it off, causing Mrs Allen to give me a concerned look before moving back to the front of the class.
End of lesson
Just as I'm about to walk out the classroom door and back home, Mrs Allen calls my name. Reluctantly, I make my way to the front of the desk, already knowing what this is going to be about. She waits until everyone has gone out of the room before talking.
"Everly, you are a wonderful girl with an amazing head for English language and you have no idea how excited I am that you will be in my class next year. The problem is that you keep falling asleep. Why?" She questions with a sigh, leaning back in her chair. I plop myself down in the chair beside her desk.
"As cliché as it sounds, I always seem to just stare out my window, gazing at the stars." Just like I used to with my dad, I add, in my head. "The only time I realise I need to sleep is when the sun starts to rise." I fiddle with my fingers, keeping my eyes only on them so I don't have to look at Mrs Allen.
"Have you ever considered taking eszopiclone?" She asks, completely serious.
"I like looking at stars and suddenly I'm an insomniac!" I shout, annoyed. I take a deep breath. "Sorry, didn't mean to shout at you."
"I'm not saying you have insomnia, Everly, but you are clearly having trouble sleeping." After a sigh, she finally says the thing I've been waiting to hear. "Okay, you can go." I shoot her a smile and practically run out the room, all the way home.
"Hey, Lily!" I shout as soon as I shut the front door behind me. I drop my bag by the stairs a walk into the kitchen to see Lily looking in the fridge and Mikey, my little foster brother, sitting at his baby table, playing around with his food.
"Hey, Ev. What do you fancy for dinner?" Lily asks me, still looking in the fridge.
"Pizza," I answer, wiping Mikey's mouth and taking off his bib before picking him up and placing him on his space-themed play gym.
"Had that last night." Lily counters.
"Let's have it again," I argue back with a cheeky smile.
"You know what? Let's do it. I'll order the usual." She says, closing the fridge and smiling at me. She grabs her phone. "Oh and uh, something came in the mail for you today." She says, grinning.
"Really, I didn't order anything." Did I order something and just forget about it? It's happened before but there's nothing I would need to b- my mind is interrupted by a pair of muscular arms wrapping around my waist.
"Hey, E." A voice says next to my face. I turn to see it's Luke, my other foster brother. I never see him anymore since he's in college.
"Luke!" I squeal before fully turning around and jumping on him- literally. My arms are around his neck, practically strangling him, and my feet are touching each other on his back. His laugh fills my ears as he wraps his arms around my waist again. Out of everyone who has lived here and as bad as it is to say, Luke has been my favourite. He made sure I was comfortable and felt safe when I first moved in. I drop down from him and smile.
"How's school?" He asks.
"Fuck school! Tell me about college life- the parties, the alcohol...the ladies." I say suggestively, making Luke laugh again. "Come on, you can tell me. I need to know if my brother has a girlfriend." I grin.
"Yeah, well, I don't want to hear all that so off to your room." Lily chuckles. I sprint up the stairs, remembering to take my bag with me, and open the door to my room. My mood goes down at a rapid rate from seeing Anna being thrust into by a guy, who looks older than 18, on her bed. All I can do is stare in shock and horror.
"How can you run that fa- OH MY GOD! ANNA!" Luke shouts upon seeing Anna, who still hasn't seen us, moaning. His face contorts from disgust to detestation. Anna finally stops what she is doing, kisses the guy and tells him to leave. He walks passed us, Luke following him to make sure he actually leaves.
"What the actual fuck, Anna?" I question.
"What? Jealous?" She asks, clearly trying to get a rise out of me. That's just what she does. Anna is the same age as me and something important that you probably already know about her is that she is more or less a whore. And I don't mean that in a way to call her a name, I mean an ACTUAL whore. Like, if you were to look up the meaning of whore, she would be it.
"Jealous of getting an STD? No, not really." I reply smugly, sitting on my bed, though I decided that the better choice is to stand. Who knows where else they did it. I really wish things would go back to how they were a year ago- where I had no slutty roommate.
"Go to hell, skank." She fires back. Did this bitch actually just? OH HELL NAH! I grab the bat near our room door and charge at her.
A few hours later
"Okay, well, I'm gonna head up to bed," I tell Lily, Luke, Jay (my third and final foster brother- he's 10) and Anna. Mikey is already asleep. As I put my plate in the sink, I hear a chorus of "love you" and "night". I sprint upstairs and since I'm already changed, I get into bed straight away. I got Lily to change my bedsheets. I take my all-time favourite book from my side drawer and open it to the page I was reading last. I've read Divergent more times than I can count. Something about the thought of having a place in the world and knowing where that place is, just makes me feel happy. I've watched the movie too. It's good but it leaves out quite a lot of stuff- including my baby Uriah.
Personally, I think I would be in Dauntless for two reasons. One: I'm brave. Two: that's where all the drama happens. Candor is an absolute no as I lie all the time. I'm not smart enough to be Erudite. Abnegation would just piss me off the entire time. It must be so boring to be so nice all the time. I guess Amity is alright. You get to be outside but their thing is peace and I'm what my teachers call 'spawn of Satan' so I don't think Amity would work out for me. I just wish it could all be real.
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Everly Wood | Divergent
Fanfiction-DISCONTINUED- WARNING: i wrote this when i was 12 years old and had no clue how to write. Everly Wood. A young girl who lost her parents too early on in life. What happens when she suddenly awakens in the world of her favourite book Divergent by V...
