I wake up early, thinking about today. Aptitude test... I haven't really had the time to think about it. I've only thought about what faction I would choose not about the test that actually shall help me to choose. Suddenly i feel worry wash over me. What kind of test is it? Does it hurt? Can I get hurt? A knock on my door makes me sit up in my bed. "Come in" I shout and the door opens carefully. "Hi, morning" my older sister Doniya says and enters the room. I move to one end of the bed to give her place. She chose faction for two tears ago and as expected she chose Amity. "Nervous for the test?" She asks me. "I haven't really thought about it" I say. She nods and looks around my room for a while. "It would be quite empty here if you choose not to stay" she mumbles. "I'll see what my test says before I decide"'I say. "I think that's wise" Doniya whispers. "But whatever you choose you will always be my little brother, you know that? She says and makes my hair a mess by rubbing it. "Stop it" I say, trying sound irritated, but fail. She laughs and stands from the bed. "See you at breakfast " she says and leaves. "I know" I mumble to myself as an answer to her earlier question.

"Malik, Zain" the voice in the speakers say and I open the door to the room were I will do my aptitude test. The room is white with big mirrors sitting on the walls. In the middle of the room there is a chair connected to a computer. Beside the chair stands a woman dressed in Abnegation grey with her black hair in a tidy bun. "Welcome, sit down" she says with a polite voice. I walk over to the chair and sit down. It's not so comfortable as I hoped. "For the test you will be send into a simulation where you will be put in different situations. The computer will register your choices until only one faction is left." The woman says and hands me a little glass filled with a blue liquid. "Drink it" she orders. I stare at it for a moment before asking. "What is it?" She looks a little bothered by the question but says. "Nothing dangerous just drink it" I look at her, suspicious for a moment, before I let the liquid pour into my mouth. I feel the taste of strawberry and chocolate on my tongue and lust to close my eyes comes over me. I close my eyes and waits until the taste disappears from my mouth.

I open my eyes and feel a little chocked when I'm still in the room, was that it? But then I see that the woman and the computer have gone and I stand up from the chair. The door is gone to and I walk to the empty area in the wall where the door should be. "Choose" I jump at the sudden sound and turn around. There stands a girl, she points at two pedestals in front of her. On one of the pedestals there is a knife and on the other a cheese. The knife is small but looks really sharp, I turn to the cheese. "Why?" I say still with my eyes on the cheese. "Choose" the girl repeats. "But..." "Choose" she says again her voice sounding irritated. I reach out for the knife, without really knowing why. Just when I've picked it up the pedestals and the girl disappear. I look around me and get a little shock when I see that the room has become about twice as big as it was before. I weigh the knife in my hand and of curiosity I slide my index finger along the knife blade. It's really sharp but luckily it doesn't scratch me.
  When a growl is heard from behind me I wince and almost cut my hand with the knife. When I turn around I see a large dog in the other end of the room. It doesn't seem friendly 'cause it shows its fangs and barks loud before it sets off towards me. My first thought is to throw the knife at it, but what if I miss? I see it come closer and how it opens its big mouth.
  For some reason I'm not scared. How can I not be when a dangerous dog is running to kill me. It's a simulation, remember? My brain asks me, it's not real. Is that why I'm not scared? I won't die if I miss I miss it with the knife.
  As the dog is halfway from me I raise my hand to throw. For one second I'm sure I won't miss, but then it gazes up at me. Its brown eyes meet mine, it's still a living thing I think, I can't kill it. Suddenly I sink to my knees and a clinging sound is heard as i drop the knife at the floor. I hear the sound of running paws fade away and when I look up again the big dog is gone. I smile at the little puppy, that replaced the dog, as it whipe its tail to the sides. I stretch my hand forwards to stroke its fur when I hear a voice. "Dog!" He shouts. I turn my head to see a boy stand in a corner, he smiles and points at the dog. A growl comes from beside me and the big dog has replaced the puppy. It gets ready to run at the boy but without thinking I grab it and pulls it to the ground. It lets out a rather playful bark, the puppy replaces the dog and I'm just going to pet it a little when the room disappears and is replaced by a dark forest.

I stand up and see a group of people around a little fire. They chatter happily and half insecure half curious I walk to them. The warmth of the fire makes me forget to be scared and when one of the people around the fire, a blond girl with her hair in a pony tail, sees me she exclaims. "Zain!" Before I can answer the others turns to me and start to cheer. "Hi!" "Welcome" "Finally" I stand there outside the ring for a moment before I start to understand. It seems like I have the role of a quite popular member of a quite reckless group of people. Maybe dauntless.
"Thanks" I say, still not sure about this, but determined to play my role. I sit down beside the blond girl as she makes place for me there. Not far after I have sat down a gunshot is heard from the forest. The people around the fire including me almost jumps from their seats as another shot is heard, and another. "We should check it" a boy says. "I won't " a girl says. "Zain can do it" another boy, who sits beside me, says. Everyone's eyes turns to me and I start to understand the point of this simulation. Why can't I go and check the gunshots? I won't die anyway, it's a simulation. But what if everyone thinks like that while taking the test. What if it makes the results unclear if you act in the simulation as you know that it's not real? I decide to act as if this situation was for real, if the results can be unclear if you think it's not real and you have to go through simulation again that's not what I want. "We should go at least three together, it's more safe" I say. "Oh he's backing off" someone says, laughing. I feel anger rise in me, I hate being called things I don't feel like I am, like a coward. But I try to control my anger. Act as if it's real I tell myself. And still it's not wise to go into the forest alone. "I'm not" I say. "I'm only thinking smart.

The simulation scene has changed again, and again, is that how it should be? I've met my mother asking me to be honest and tell her if the dinner really was good or if I was just lying. I've been forced to keep the peace between two of my friends who threatened to kill each other. But now, finally, when I open my eyes I'm in the same room as I started in, the woman, the computer and the door is here and I can tell that I'm not in a simulation anymore, this is real. The woman gives me a worried look, and I just think she's going to tell me that I have to go through the test again, when she opens her mouth. "You're done" she says, her voice sounds tensed and worried. She pulls me quickly but firmly by my arm out of the chair. "You can go now" she says. Am I not supposed to get my test result now? Have I got it wrong, do you get to know it later? No I'm sure you're supposed to get it now. "What was my test result" I ask, a little bothered, how could she forget? "They were unclear " she says. "But how? Please tell me" I say pulling my arm out of her grip. She looks at me for a moment. I think I can see a trace of compassion in her eyes before she sighs. "The reason that you had to go through so many simulation situations is the new law. Since the last try to a rebellion the aptitude test has been a little changed. If anyone's choice in the first and basic situation points to more than one faction the leader of the test, in your case me, has to add situations. Situations were the faction the person has least connections to has a big change to be excluded." I nod slowly, remembering reading something about a new law at school. The woman continues. "In your first test your results pointed most to dauntless but a little to abnegation. O added the forest scene hoping that you would choose go alone like the dauntless would, but you did what was most clever, like an Erudite. I added more and more scenes hoping that you would make choices that would rule out Erudite or abnegation, but you chose to do things, a Candor and Amity would do. You're tests point to all the factions-" "But that's not possible!" I interrupt her, but she quickly places a hand over my mouth. "Shh!" She says, her voice low. She lets me go and I stare shocked at her. I would never have thought that an abnegation would have done that. "Listen to me now" she says putting her hands in my shoulders. "It's rare to be in more than one faction, and it hasn't happened one time that someone belonged to all five! It's dangerous. When people belong to more than one faction the government sees them as a threat to the factionsystem. It's called Divergent. People the find out are Divergent they kill. And I don't think they will hesitate to kill you, if the find out that you're as much Divergent as you can be" I feel the worry overwhelm me. Now my problem isn't just that I have to decide where I belong. I have done a test that should tell me that, and that test just told me that I belong in all factions but still don't. Maybe most important of all. I'm a threat to the government, I'm in danger. I'm Divergent.