"Maisie, I'm scared."721Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxiR1zqyD62
"Why Tia? You've been doing it longer than I have."721Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKoaSUIt79z
Tia is my older sister and it's her last year to be entered into the reaping.721Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ91KRa0drtM
"Well, it's not really about me. It's about Ben."721Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWbqeLZAXQV
"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. 721Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtFa8FwBtNe
"But what if he is?"721Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKPBCyF06az
"He won't be."721Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXyN8gzGY6l
"How can you be so sure?"721Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsfce3qdvhs
"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?"721Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡp0uPTcq2cy
"Well, what if --"721Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAvjF56vi0V
"If Ben is chosen, he'll do fine, I mean, he can sword fight."721Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJ4JOYZnuFg
"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."721Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2LKJ7dmLYx
"Tia. It's actually a good workout. Anyways. I think Ben would do better than you in the games." I say with a laugh.721Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtruLtpwLoW
"Why do you make the Games such a light subject? No one else is out there laughing about it."721Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyywhuSYxRs
"I don't know. I guess it keeps the pain out of my mind."721Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnw54NFxqMe
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. 721Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkQQC7XjBsm
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. 721Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBxcB7Avt7C
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.721Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9eIIm2ROAk
You see, my father left my mother when Ben was born, and my mom is a seamstress, with Tia, which doesn't pay well.
