"Maisie, I'm scared."760Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxcrPBZzVbP
"Why Tia? You've been doing it longer than I have."760Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoIgJQbcXnP
Tia is my older sister and it's her last year to be entered into the reaping.760Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgL8JH5jbKN
"Well, it's not really about me. It's about Ben."760Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyK1eECr6Z0
"He's not going to be chosen." I said firmly. I was confident that he wouldn't be, I mean, Tia and I took tesserae so support our family. He is only in there once. 760Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbF9kbAxorA
"But what if he is?"760Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4rX7ZNTblZ
"He won't be."760Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7psAbDbP4M
"How can you be so sure?"760Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwCuFGzFlTL
"You've made it all six years, I've made it four. Neither of us have been picked. Why are you worried about him now?"760Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡns7g7tNs9u
"Well, what if --"760Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYmecIYdSyP
"If Ben is chosen, he'll do fine, I mean, he can sword fight."760Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZ25ZYY0oOH
"You seriously call those fights that you have with Ben actual knowledge of sword fighting? I mean, it's just a little fun after work."760Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwosyqtTWZQ
"Tia. It's actually a good workout. Anyways. I think Ben would do better than you in the games." I say with a laugh.760Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXXSdRNiILm
"Why do you make the Games such a light subject? No one else is out there laughing about it."760Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGQ2f1bMDkk
"I don't know. I guess it keeps the pain out of my mind."760Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHX6tAvsucH
Tia quickly turned on her heels and walked away to the room where she worked. She's only 18, but works full time as a seamstress. I guess I shouldn't be talking either. I finished school quite a bit early and am working full time in a factory. I man a few machines that weave fabric. It's a lot of running around, probably about a five or six miles an hour, considering how big the factory is. I don't mind though. I love running. 760Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqM0jwnt4cn
It's kind of surprising that Tia and I are related. I love her and all, but we are so different, she's more precise, detail-oriented, rule following, and thinks she so much more mature. I know I'm not mature, but not naïve. Sure I don't think a lot about thing before I do things, but I'm quick. I like to color outside the lines. 760Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQKsAXAuxxM
Ben is sweet. He's still in school, and after, sometime he comes and works a bit in the factory, picking up scraps of fabric. Anything to keep our family going.760Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVULLNnBYAN
You see, my father left my mother when Ben was born, and my mom is a seamstress, with Tia, which doesn't pay well.
