"Maisie, I'm scared."861Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡauP2ZWdbSw
"Why Tia? You've been doing it longer than I have."861Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡasr1bU4VKM
Tia is my older sister and it's her last year to be entered into the reaping.861Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvjDTOxVFpV
"Well, it's not really about me. It's about Ben."861Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpg11y24p83
"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. 861Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUmkhhuUB1N
"But what if he is?"861Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡelURmZk6Al
"He won't be."861Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZnzhqcSCgj
"How can you be so sure?"861Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjO9Bo2FVrr
"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?"861Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdepZfSMTqM
"Well, what if --"861Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBU7lDS1jrN
"If Ben is chosen, he'll do fine, I mean, he can sword fight."861Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqp4BNdxCKQ
"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."861Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbrDxfqjFci
"Tia. It's actually a good workout. Anyways. I think Ben would do better than you in the games." I say with a laugh.861Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvAYWzHnrql
"Why do you make the Games such a light subject? No one else is out there laughing about it."861Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMYGxJm9MDc
"I don't know. I guess it keeps the pain out of my mind."861Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVbwDQB3qT7
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. 861Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡD5eNW56yWO
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. 861Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡS8bXENhLXL
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.861Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0W3n3ZEEk4
You see, my father left my mother when Ben was born, and my mom is a seamstress, with Tia, which doesn't pay well.
