"Maisie, I'm scared."850Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhaTjtZCEad
"Why Tia? You've been doing it longer than I have."850Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwlyHbS45B9
Tia is my older sister and it's her last year to be entered into the reaping.850Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgX3UzlIXhp
"Well, it's not really about me. It's about Ben."850Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0s0IV3kfay
"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. 850Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ85PxYmQL92
"But what if he is?"850Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRaJkMwz8au
"He won't be."850Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPoPH0IUNiQ
"How can you be so sure?"850Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcIIRmQBfWi
"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?"850Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdB3kFaDvos
"Well, what if --"850Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYnQ0cDCxQR
"If Ben is chosen, he'll do fine, I mean, he can sword fight."850Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡU5CwboNri7
"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."850Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGbagjEdQzX
"Tia. It's actually a good workout. Anyways. I think Ben would do better than you in the games." I say with a laugh.850Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqFxANu9JUP
"Why do you make the Games such a light subject? No one else is out there laughing about it."850Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxBxGbZdnoo
"I don't know. I guess it keeps the pain out of my mind."850Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5By4KEJwzo
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. 850Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡO5i5TQqamj
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. 850Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqbMq8yclT6
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.850Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ799tbi6ABe
You see, my father left my mother when Ben was born, and my mom is a seamstress, with Tia, which doesn't pay well.
