Katniss'P.OV
We all have those moments.Between the age of 12 and 18 where we wake up from the nightmare of Effie Trinket calling out your name on the day of the reaping.And then of course,the fear of dying,the very possible most likely fear,of dying.
It was Prims turn.Its not her fault.Its her first time she doesn't what it's like...She's only 12 while I'm 16.,God Bless Her.God Bless Discrict 12.God Bless Panem. God DON'T Bless The Capitol...Ugh,The Capitol.The Capitol who invented the Games 74 years ago.
I start singing to Prim to calm her. "Deep in the meadow,under the willow", She joins in "A bed of grass, a soft green pillow". "You remembered?" " Only because you sing it so much",she replies.My dad taught me it.My Dad.He sang it to me before he died in the mine accident.I had to go to the Justice Building to receive a medal.Other kids were there too for medals.Gale's dad also died with my dad.After the deaths I met Gale.He is about two years older than me.We both go hunting together sometimes.He sets up snares while I shoot with my bow and arrow.Im not the best but my dad taught me in his free time.We sell game at the hob and then buy bread at the bakery.The Bakery. Mellark's Bakery.The owner is usually the one who buys my squirrells.His wife is mean.I once sat outside in the rain after my dad died and mom wasn't doing anything and Prim and I were starving.I looked through the window and then saw her screaming at someone.That someone then came out with burnt bread and started throwing it to the pigs.It was her son.He saw me and stared.Next thing a loaf of burnt bread was not far away and he was walking back inside.Those images always flash in my mind.Always.
I walk out through the district under the hole in the wire and into the woods. I retrieve my bow and arrows that my dad made me from the hole in the tree. I'm just about to short a deer when I hear a call. I turn around and see Gale. The deer has already ran off so there's no point in trying to kill it.
"I brought bread". We sit and eat.
"We could do it you know".
"Do what?"
"Run away like we always planned".
"Prim? In the woods?".
"Maybe not".
"And you have your brothers".
It fell silent for a bit.
"How many times is your name in for the reaping?" I asked.
"42"
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When I got home I bathed in water and got dressed in a blue cotton dress my mom left out for me. She pinned up my hair. I looked a lot different on reaping days.
"I wish I was as pretty as you", says Prim. "No your more pretty than anyone". I notice that the back of her shirt has been untucked from her skirt. "Better tuck in that tail little duck".
When we were all standing in the square,girls to one side boys to the other, I saw Gale mouth to me"you okay?" I just nodded.
Effie Trinket came on the stage saying her speech and then watching the video.
"As usual, ladies first." She went Over to the glass ball on the left of the stage-to our right- and put her hand in. She called out the female tribute from District 12.
The name rang like a bell all through the square.
Primrose Everdeen.
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Hunger Games (Fanfic version)
FanfictionIt's the same way it has been for 74 years. 1 boy and 1 girl from each of the 12 districts are chosen to go into the games and fight until only one is left standing. When Katniss Everdeen volunteers to take her sisters place for the games, she is f...
