!Warning! MOCKINGJAY SPOILERS
AN: So I am sitting on my couch, drinking chocolate milk and watching American Idol and I decided I want to publish something new. So I took out my laptop and looked for a certain something I wrote weeks ago. I know that this story has been done a million times, but that's not going to scare me off. This little bit is just an intro, to see how people feel about it.
Disclaimer: If I owned THG, there is NO WAY Finnick Odair would be dead.
Shocked. No, that's not strong enough a word. Blindsided. Yes, blindsided is what I am. I feel as if I've been hit by one of the trains that are always zooming around the city.
They just anounced another Hunger Games.
When the rebels took over I had assumed that all the bloodshed and unnecessary carnage would be finished. Silly me. I should have known that since we are human, someone would come up with a cruel way to take revenge. But I don't think anybody would imagine this. Weren't the Games the exact reason Panem had risen up and rebelled? Wasn't the point of all this death and war that there would never be any more? Apparently not.
After school the new officials called a mandatory meeting in the square in front of the mansion for all citizens of the Capitol. Everyone thought it was so they could announce who the new president would be. Instead they told us that in retribution for all the years that the Districts lost their children to the Hunger Games, we would lose ours. The names of gamemaker's children aged 12 to 18 will be placed in a glass ball in a little under 4 months. My name will be written on a small slip of paper among them.
I walk home stiffly, my motions robotic, as I try to come to terms with this fact. In my 17 years, I have never dealt with the terror of a Reaping. Why would I? I am a citizen of the Capitol. I have watched the Hunger Games every summer. Disgusted, but safe in the knowledge that it would never happen to me. Now everything was different. And I don't know how I am going stay standing through the whole thing.
AN: Review and let me know what you think. I WILL continue with the story no matter how many reviews I get, but more will get Chapter 1 up sooner. Hint, Hint.
Also, to anyone who was reading Something Wicked and was wondering if I died or something, I AM SO SORRY! It's been...too many months to count. I have no idea what I'm doing that story and so at the moment I'm not going to update it but I won't take it down. I'll let you know when I decide.
Review! Those things make the world go 'round.