Y/n X peeta

Chapter 1 - District 12

It's a cold autumn morning. The birds treat and the roosters squawking to let everyone know morning has come. The dreaded morning. Y/n has already been up for several hours, during these early mornings she usually gets her snare traps and hunting done for the day. This is usually before the peacekeepers come in to survey the town. Y/n has her thick skinned boots on and is sitting on a near by rock in the woods, the fresh autumn air surrounding her, filling up her lungs and she breaths deeply. She's watching the forest. So peaceful, yet so dangerous for her. This could be the last time she gets to do this. Today could be the day she gets picked for the dreaded hunger games.

Y/n has a sister and a mother, her farther died in the mines a couple years ago and her mother has been scarred ever since. District 12 is the mining district and also the poorest. Y/n enters her name 7 every year just to get extra grain for her family. This year she's had to step it up to 10 as hunting has been sparse recently. This means 11 whole chances she could be picked. She wouldn't know how her family would cope without her, she had basically become her sister's full time career or mother. Y/n has got long brown hair, slim and very tall whereas, Lilly (y/n's sister), has got short blonde hair, also very slim and short for her age. Recently she has turned 12 which means this is the first year she is entered into the deadly hunger games. Y/n is terrified of this. Her only worry ever is about her sister.

Y/n picks up her bow and shoves it into a near by tree stump with a little burrow underneath covered by the overgrowth. She carefully heads back along the trail to the fence which has a small enough gap for her to fit in. She quickly hurries to the market to trade in her finds for the day and hurriedly heads home. Y/n's mother is waiting on the front porch, sitting in the same spot she almost always is in, staring out into the distant sky. Y/n doesn't bother saying anything and heads inside where lilly is already waiting. Y/n bathed in one of the only hot baths she has in the whole year. She sinks into the hot water as she lets it submerge her. Afterwards, she dresses herself and lilly in their reaping outfits. Y/n is one of her mother's old dresses which y/n wears each year. Lilly's is new as it's the first reaping of hers. Y/n slicks back her long brown hair into a plat. Now they are both ready for the horrid day and many weeks of it to come.

The reaping is what it's called. Each year a girl and boy get picked for each district to fight against each other in an arena, whilst the whole thing is televised for everyone to see. Only 1 tribute lives and they are crowned the victor for their district. Whilst others have over 5 victors, district 12 had 1. Haymitch is his name and usually is never seen as he drinks his weight in liquor.

Y/n, Lilly and their mother make their way to the town square where boys as young as 12 are lined up on one side and the same with girls on the other, older children nearer the back. Lilly and y/n separate from their mother as she stands on the side. They both get a finger prick which registers them as they the attended the reaping. Y/n is standing towards the back as she looks for Lilly amongst the crowd just then an announcement is made.

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