Chapter 1:

Tris POV:

The song Brave by Sara Bareilles blares out of my timer on my alarm clock. I peek out from underneath my covers and immediately turn it off. I groan looking at the time, 6:30 am, the things I do to look good.

I stumble out of bed grabbing my iPhone from my nightstand. I walk to my tiny closet, searching through the clothes that I had bought over the summer. All were nothing I was used to, or anyone else used to seeing me in.

As a sophomore last year, I wasn't exactly what you'd call, popular. I wore grey leggings and grey hoodies most the year, keeping my head down. I always had my hair in a ponytail, keeping it out of my face so I could read the board. Everyone never noticed me, bumping into me not even realizing I was there, walking away with no apology intended. Mostly they would call me a stiff and say that I belonged in Abnegation High, with my type of people.

This summer, I decided that I needed to change the image the school had on me, the blonde nerd that sat in the back of the classroom with messy hair. So I got together with a girl from school who was remotely popular, very hyper, and we went shopping for my new style. It took us the whole summer to prefect the new me and I still feel less pretty than everyone, but it will do.

I finally pick out white lacy shorts with a golden buckle, paired with a floral spaghetti strap tank, and to cover, a dull pink kimono, with a thick layer of lace on the end of the sleeves. I lay that all out on my bed before I go and take my night clothes off, shoving them into the hamper, the wrapping a towel tightly around me.

I step into the bathroom connected to my room and take a quick hot shower. When I step out I rewrap the towel around me walking over to the sink and brushing my teeth. After I'm done I put my Pink perfume on my naked body, then walk out into my room.

As fast as I can, I throw the clothes I picked out onto myself and walk to my small chest full of jewelry. I take a golden bangle matched with other dull pink ones and place them on my wrists. I also take fake diamond earrings out and put them into my pierced ears. Next come the makeup which is located in my bathroom. So once again I walk to the bathroom and immediately start on the thin layer of eyeliner Christina, my one and only friend that helped me this summer, taught me to do. I then place a decent amount of mascara on my naturally long eyelashes. Lucky for me, as Christina had stated more than once, I have flawless skin, no pimples to worry about, so I don't need any concealer.

I plug in the blow drier and begin to blow dry my long blonde locks. After I finish blow drying, I take the straightener, I previously plugged in, and straighten the parts of my hair that don't dry naturally straight. This whole makeup and hair stuff only takes me about thirty minutes, and showering and getting dressed also takes about thirty minutes. Currently it's 7:36, which means I have about thirty minutes until school starts. I decide to go down stairs and play on my phone while waiting only ten more minutes till I leave to make it to class on time.

I make my way down the stairs, then I turn to check the kitchen for any other living soul in this household. Luckily I find my brother, who just so happens to be my ride. Yes I do have a car and a license but this way is so much cheaper with gas.

"Hello Beatrice," Caleb states turning to face me in his chair. "You look different than normal."

"Yes I did get new clothes and a new look. And please don't call me Beatrice anymore. It's such an old fashion name. Call me Tris from now on." I propose exactly like Christina told me to, strong and demanding so that my point gets across.

He looks at me funny, then realization strikes his eyes, "It's that Christina girl isn't it. I knew she was a bad person to be hanging out with!"

I look at him with confusion. What the hell does he think Chris and I did? All we did was shop, at my own command.

"Chris is a great person Caleb, I'm the one who wanted to change my image. I don't want to be look at as a quiet nerd anymore."

"Whats wrong with being a quiet nerd. You learn more to help your future, people who socialize don't learn anything." He says defending himself and his inner nerd.

If my brother was not a total nerd, he would probably be really popular. He's not unattractive, without the glasses, and I've seen him throw a football, he would have made it on the team if he hadn't had chess club. Being his younger sister, I already have a reputation of a nerd by everyone who knows him, and knows he made it into Erudite High, while I made it into Dauntless High.

"That's you Caleb. Not me." I tell him, not looking into his eyes to face the disappointment. I walk to the entry way and grab my small purse from a brass hook next to the front door. "Are you coming?!"

He doesn't respond, so I continue to walk into our front lawn, where my parents cars are missing, due to their early morning job status. I walk to my brothers big blue truck and sit on the hood, taking out my phone to check the time. It reads; 7:46, I groan. My brothers going to make me late on the first day of school.

About four minutes later he walks out, "Beatrice, get off my truck, your butt is going to leave imprints on the paint."

I roll my eyes, "My shorts aren't that short Caleb."

"I beg to differ." He mumbles, and jumps into the driver seat. I slide off the hood and go to the passenger seat, throwing my bag into the foot area. As soon as the car door is closed he begins to back out the driveway, and then we are off to school.

It only take about five minutes to get into the parking lot of Dauntless High and he drops me off at the front doors. "Bye Caleb. Have fun." I say quickly hopping out of the truck before he can say anything back.

I open the doors and walk inside, going straight to the front desk where Tori, my all time favorite teacher sits, to hand out schedules. She looks up at me and dulley hands me the papers I need to sign for safety, but not being her usual happy self with me.

"Hey Tori." I say hesitantly, while signing my name and handing it back to her. She doesn't say anything until she looks at my signature.

"Beatrice?" She stares at me in shock,"You look different."

"Yep! I got all new clothes this summer. And by the way I'm going by Tris now." I smile, and she nods her head handing me my paper that states my assigned classes.

"Did someone help you?" She asks, and I'm about to respond when I hear her.

"TRIS!"

"I was helped by that." I state to Tori as Christina comes running up to hug me. She grabs me and pulls me into a strong bear hug. "Chris, I. Can't. Breath." She laughs as she lets go.

"Come on Tris, let me see it." She says as she holds her hand out to take the paper in my hands away from me. I give it to her and her chocolate brown eyes skim over it. "It seems like we only have two classes together and they are both electives! Art and Spanish."

"Oh well. I guess we are lucky to have that much classes together." I say taking the paper back and looking it over myself. I groan loudly. "I have math first hour."

She giggles, "Girl that sucks. We only have fifth hour together so we have to wait till the end of the day to see each other! Well I guess we do have lunch together." She babbles on and on.

"Ya I-" I instantly stop talking because a big group of people were walking our way.

Then Chris yells, "Hey guys come here! I need to show you guys somebody!"

The group of people walk over and stop in front of us. I recognize most of them as people who were in my classes, but a few I don't remember seeing. The two brothers, or twins, are Uriah and Zeke. I only remember them because they are really loud and quite funny, the class clowns I guess you would call them. Next was a girls with her arm slung around Zeke's shoulders, who's name I know as Shauna, and is in fact Zeke's girlfriend. Its the other girl with her arm around Uriah and the tall guy standing next to Zeke, that I don't know.

"...Tris?" Christina asks looking at me and I stare at her in confusion, because what she had just said went straight over my head.

"I'm sorry, what?" And she laughs a little along with the group.

"I said, Do you know most of these people Tris?" She questions again and I bob my head up and down. "Good then who do you not know? I know you don't know Four because he's new and he's…"

She points to him and I make eye contact with him. He has amazing eyes, like an ocean blue. I quickly look away hoping I wasn't staring too long. "...that one." Chris continues to tell me.

Then I tell her I don't know that girl and she points to her and she waves at me just as the first warning bell rings. Everyone begins to rush to class with a small good-bye, and I make my way to math with Mr. Eric, but not before mumbling a short good-bye myself.

So this is a new story and I will try to update it as fast as I possibly can, but if any of you know I have another fanfic if you want to check it out! I post on that on everyday! sometimes twice! I hope you like and please review!

~Divergent24-7