CHAPTER TWO PART2

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I close my eyes and keep them closed until ten minutes later, When Caleb sits down again.

He is plaster-pale. He pushes his palms along his legs like I do when I wipe off sweat, and when he brings them back,his finger shake. I open my mouth to ask him something, but the words don't come. I am not allowed to ask him about his results ,and he is not allowed to tell me.

An Abnegation volunteer speaks the next round of names. Two from Dauntless, two from Erudite, two from Amity ,two from Candor, and then: " From Abnegation: Susan Black and Beatrice Prior."

I get up because I'm supposed to ,but if it were up to me ,I would stay in my seat for the rest of time. I feel like there is a bubble in my chest that expands more by the second, threatening to break me apart from the inside. I follow Susan to the exit. The people I pass probably can't tell is apart. We wear the same clothes and we wear our blond hair the same way. The only difference is that Susan might not feel like she's going to throw up ,and from what I can tell,her hands aren't shaking so hard she has clutch the hem of her shirt to steady them.

Waiting for us outside the cafeteria is a raw of ten rooms. They are used only for aptitude test, so I have never been in one before. Unlike the other rooms in the school, they are separated, not by glass, but mirrors. I watch myself, pale and terrified, walking toward one of the doors. Susan grins nervously at me as she walks into room 5,and I walk into room 6,where a Dauntless woman waits for me.

She is not as severe-looking as the young Dauntless I have seen. She has small,dark,angular eyes and wears a black blazer--like a man's suit--and jeans. It is only when she turns to close the door that I see a tattoo on the back of her neck, a black-and-white hawk with a red eye. If I didn't feel like my heart had migrated to my throat, I would ask her what it signifies. It must signify something.

Mirrors cover the inner walls of the room.I can see my reflection from all angles: the gray fabric obscuring the shape of my back,my long neck, my knobby-,knuckled hands, red with a blood blush. The ceiling glows white with light.In the centre of the room is a reclined chair, like a dentist's, with a machine next to it .It looks like a place where terrible things happen.

"Don't worry, " the woman says, "it doesn't hurt. "

Her hair is black and straight, but in the light I see that it is streaked with gray.

"Have a seat and get comfortable, " she says. " My name is Tori. "

Clumsily I sit in the chair and recline,putting my head on the headrest. The lights hurt my eyes .Tori busies herself with machine on my right. I try to focus on her and not the wires in her hands.

"Why the hawk?" I blurt out as she attaches an electrode to my forehead.

"Never met a curious Abnegation before, " she says,raising her eyebrows at me

I shiver, and goose bumps appear on my arms .My curiosity is a mistake, a betrayal of the Abnegation values.

Humming a little, she presses another electrode to my forehead and explains, " In some parts of the ancient world, the hawk symbolized the sun. Back when I got this, I figured if I always had the sun on me ,I wouldn't be afraid of the dark. "

I try to stop myself from asking another question, but I can't help it. " You're afraid of the dark?"

" I was afraid of the dark, " she corrects me .She presses the next electrode to her own forehead, and attaches a wire to it.She shrugs. "Now it reminds me of the fear I've overcome. "

She stands behind me. I squeeze the armrests so tightly the redness pulls away from my knuckles. She tugs wires toward her,attaching them to me ,to her,to the machine behind her.Then she passes me a vial of clear liquid.

" Drink this ." she says.

" What is it?" My throat feels swollen. I swallow hard.

" What's going to happen?"

" Can't tell you that. Just trust me."

I press air from my lungs and tip the contents of the vial into my mouth. My eyes close.

To be continued ~

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