What They Didn't Know

I was chosen as a tribute in the Seventy-Fourth Hunger Games.

No one knew me for who I was.

To them, I was the sly and elusive girl of District Five.

They didn't know I had three younger siblings.

They didn't know we were dying of starvation.

They didn't even know my name.

They didn't know that I was fourteen.

They didn't know I wanted to be a doctor.

They didn't know that my death would benefit my family almost as much as if I won.

Years later, they wouldn't know the girl from Five died from poison, not only the nightlock but the snake himself.

No, they didn't know.

And they didn't care.