The Hunger Games: 74th annual games

by Anonym Author

We all know the story of Katniss Everdeen, the girl on fire. I want to tell the story of Peeta Mellark in this story. This is his story in his own view. (NEW VERSION!) This is only how I imagine the story if it was told from Peeta's perspective. I do not own any of the characters or their story. I love the real books and I admire the author Suzanne Collins who wrote them.

1. Chapter 1 - The reaping

Chapter 1 - The reaping

"Peeta Mellark" Effie Trinket says when she read the name on the little ticket to death. The people around me looks at me as I watch her, the most beautiful girl in Panem, stand there on the stage and slowly walk up the stairs to join her. She volunteered to save her sister from all this. Effie talks a few minutes more and I look for my brother Sky. He is the same age as Gale Hawthorne, Katniss best friend and her supposed future husband. Now she will sit on a train with me. To compete against me and twenty-two others to maybe see her sister and her mother again. She might do it, she might be the third winner from our district. She is good with that bow and she is used to surviving on her own. She feed her family for several years after the accident in the mines where her father died. I won't survive a day in those games. I am already dead. But she might stand a chance. She knows more about surviving than no one else that enters that arena. I hope she wins, for her family and for our district. It would be an honour to die if it meant that she survived and could help her family. If she returned and lived a happy life, I would die as the happiest man in Panem. Effies voice wake me up from my thoughts, demanding me to shake hand with Katniss. I take her ice-cold hand in mine. I see the horror in her eyes as she looks at me. Already making plans of how to survive and returning to district 12. And I doubt that this is the last time she sees her home when I see the horror, anger and stubborn glance in her eyes.

The peacekeepers show me the room where I will meet my family and friends for the last time. No one really need me. The first persons to come is my father, my mother and Sky. Mother says that district 12 might finally win the Hunger Games. Sky hugs me and tells me to fight to the end. He is keeping himself together, he does not want me to see him cry. I cry my eyes out when they leave, and Josie and Matt come to visit me. They hug me, and I can see a tear in Josie's eye, wanting to fall down her cheek. Matt is already crying. We have been friends since we took our first steps outside the bakery. I will miss him and Josie, who is Matt's girlfriend, as much as I will miss my family. My brothers come to visit me. Uriah and Shawn are my older brothers, they still work at the bakery, but they are both married, and they moved out a few years ago. The twins sit with me for a few minutes until the peacekeeper comes and takes me away from my family. My home. Brings me to my destiny. And I welcome it, even if the tears are falling down my cheeks. I am not afraid of dying. I am afraid to die as someone else. As a monster.