"Maisie, I'm scared."799Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcgi5Sss7WJ
"Why Tia? You've been doing it longer than I have."799Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDFxSjPP7fv
Tia is my older sister and it's her last year to be entered into the reaping.799Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXK89Aj3gsi
"Well, it's not really about me. It's about Ben."799Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡw9osR2waIe
"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. 799Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡO1yiP6h981
"But what if he is?"799Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbnCDLvKO3J
"He won't be."799Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGY62hhG6tC
"How can you be so sure?"799Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡG12CotG8Nv
"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?"799Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡR8jDpjNc1e
"Well, what if --"799Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUl3tVRD5c4
"If Ben is chosen, he'll do fine, I mean, he can sword fight."799Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiEbrZcoAxd
"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."799Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcHH8GLbwnq
"Tia. It's actually a good workout. Anyways. I think Ben would do better than you in the games." I say with a laugh.799Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCpd2SSX2o7
"Why do you make the Games such a light subject? No one else is out there laughing about it."799Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4kbvlvzxYu
"I don't know. I guess it keeps the pain out of my mind."799Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRqKtHXqso3
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. 799Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYEGcgCRBdv
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. 799Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpqceZ4oLg6
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.799Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpqaaM2ZtJ0
You see, my father left my mother when Ben was born, and my mom is a seamstress, with Tia, which doesn't pay well.
