"Maisie, I'm scared."765Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDe7fk961I5
"Why Tia? You've been doing it longer than I have."765Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoc6WUpi87i
Tia is my older sister and it's her last year to be entered into the reaping.765Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmdCr5fKgYV
"Well, it's not really about me. It's about Ben."765Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡF8XxYS1vga
"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. 765Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEp01QN7lNa
"But what if he is?"765Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLKvXFv2AOK
"He won't be."765Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOO5ZNWYDr0
"How can you be so sure?"765Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjqktmdTY9t
"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?"765Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyQe8c7IZL6
"Well, what if --"765Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡL6e6SncHd7
"If Ben is chosen, he'll do fine, I mean, he can sword fight."765Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡz1QS8cCpJC
"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."765Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡC37Wwka8IW
"Tia. It's actually a good workout. Anyways. I think Ben would do better than you in the games." I say with a laugh.765Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLOUeZ28IBf
"Why do you make the Games such a light subject? No one else is out there laughing about it."765Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuaGtsz07wd
"I don't know. I guess it keeps the pain out of my mind."765Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡivtrZ8wNQh
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. 765Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡR0b7dsWDH7
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. 765Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzH9nCOmjZw
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.765Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTVVGTxPteg
You see, my father left my mother when Ben was born, and my mom is a seamstress, with Tia, which doesn't pay well.
