"Maisie, I'm scared."871Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMwxuucwKsN
"Why Tia? You've been doing it longer than I have."871Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPFB7mphbYH
Tia is my older sister and it's her last year to be entered into the reaping.871Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnJlzhiovt3
"Well, it's not really about me. It's about Ben."871Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHWsMF4VFnV
"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. 871Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlLOy9mHSc0
"But what if he is?"871Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡM03d4adDLv
"He won't be."871Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡM6xc2sxVlf
"How can you be so sure?"871Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmtSIDD4Fv1
"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?"871Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVSkT4ER4s6
"Well, what if --"871Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqaCI26bxo1
"If Ben is chosen, he'll do fine, I mean, he can sword fight."871Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVB2sOFqVfF
"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."871Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlxBOLo8vQJ
"Tia. It's actually a good workout. Anyways. I think Ben would do better than you in the games." I say with a laugh.871Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBugUHURYRO
"Why do you make the Games such a light subject? No one else is out there laughing about it."871Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡt7Vb1IK70t
"I don't know. I guess it keeps the pain out of my mind."871Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2Klw9V50dw
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. 871Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUpmrLQBhnY
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. 871Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCDm98eYkin
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.871Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuPH2zouu2w
You see, my father left my mother when Ben was born, and my mom is a seamstress, with Tia, which doesn't pay well.
