"Maisie, I'm scared."718Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDQLgYrAkRC
"Why Tia? You've been doing it longer than I have."718Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJhGDVLXFRA
Tia is my older sister and it's her last year to be entered into the reaping.718Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmrVBbIOeGq
"Well, it's not really about me. It's about Ben."718Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJXVEvLSC8d
"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. 718Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRlcDiBzLoh
"But what if he is?"718Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyAUF52yI4j
"He won't be."718Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0uJEKxM6XR
"How can you be so sure?"718Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuiDIsHJBYb
"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?"718Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡu4tU7G7hCT
"Well, what if --"718Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjr4NVQQmBN
"If Ben is chosen, he'll do fine, I mean, he can sword fight."718Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGwLhj8YAiq
"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."718Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrls98JKg2Q
"Tia. It's actually a good workout. Anyways. I think Ben would do better than you in the games." I say with a laugh.718Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡL60A2L3jVz
"Why do you make the Games such a light subject? No one else is out there laughing about it."718Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnRK7GmFi4O
"I don't know. I guess it keeps the pain out of my mind."718Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdcPZ5KLarA
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. 718Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbc2KTWG6Uj
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. 718Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7SVU6rd9A2
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.718Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡROXqdY39g1
You see, my father left my mother when Ben was born, and my mom is a seamstress, with Tia, which doesn't pay well.
