HEY EVERYONE! THIS IS CHAPTER ONE OF STAY STRONG! Ok, so here's the thing I'm not going to go into detail about, the rules and stuff of the Hunger Games/Panem because if you are reading this then you have read the Hunger Games and you know them already. Also, i'm not going to curse so at some points it may seem like they should go in there but I don't put them in there. Also, I'm like...eleven chapters into writing it, so I CAN EDIT STUFF! Please give me pointers and stuff so by the end of this story it will be AWESOME! :D PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE review so I know I'm not writing for no one. :) Also, I'm going to try to make this different from the HG, but at some points they will seem similar. So with out further delay...STAY STRONG! :D :D :D
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Stay Strong Chapter One
"Good morning mother!" I said as I walked into my mother's room. She sat on her bed with her hands on her head muttering to herself. I sighed and hugged her, "Mom, do you want me to make you breakfast?" She looked up at me, her dark blue eyes burdened with sadness.
"Your aunt was a beautiful girl you know…she was so kind and never did anything wrong…" She looks up into my eyes. "Honey, I need to do something for me." I smiled at her.
"Sure mother, anything for you." A pure look of hatred washed over her face.
"Be Maisley. Stop being you! You are nothing compared to Maisley!" Tears went down my face and I stuttered,
"B-but mother, you can't really mean that right?" She grabbed me and shoved me off the bed.
"Yes I do, and…and if you can't be like her, just go and volunteer!" I gasped and got up. My mother put a hand over her mouth and got out of her trance. "Oh Madge, I'm so sorry I didn't mean it…" She reached and grabbed my hand but I shook it off.
"No mother, you did. But mother I'm not mad…" this was hard to say but I knew I had to. "But I love you and me being here with you, you'll never get better. I love you mother. Always remember that." I got up and put on the best dress I could find. Today I'm going to volunteer for the Hunger Games.
I walked into the town square for the reaping's. I wore a white dress that went down to my knees. A boy named Josh came up to me and put his hand around me. He had blonde hair that was cut short and he had bright blue eyes. He is my best friend, well guy friend, in the world. "Hey Madge!" I smiled weakly at him. I need to tell him, he deserves to know.
"I'm…good" Chicken. I couldn't tell him, it would be too hard. "So how are things doing at the bakery?" Josh was one of the baker's three sons; he's the middle child. He has one brother who is my age and one who is twenty.
"Okay…you know that girl you're friends with…Katniss?" I looked at him and nodded. Katniss and I are not the kind of friends that have sleep overs and talk about guys. We just like being alone…together. She lives in the Seam, the poor part of District 12. She has had to provide for her family ever since her father died in a mining accident. "Well my brother Peeta, has a huge crush on her, and he's like freaking out that she'll get picked." He doesn't have to worry; even if she is picked…I'll volunteer.
"Oh that sucks." I said, even though I knew it didn't, Josh nodded. A voice came over the loud speaker telling us to get to our age section.
"Well, good luck Madge." I hugged him really tight and said,
"You to." He looked at me and smiled. I looked around and found the sixteen-year-old section.
Effie Trinket, a crazy capital lady, bounced on stage with her faded pink wig tilted and her make-up was even crazier than last year. I looked through the crowd and saw Katniss saying good-bye to her little sister, Prim. Prim is twelve years old and even though she lives in the Seam, where everyone has olive skin and black hair, she has blonde hair that falls down to her shoulders and bright blue eyes like me. I gulped.
"Ok! Now let's continue with the drawings for the 74th Annual Hunger Games!" She skipped down to the pool of slips with every single child in District Twelve from the ages of twelve to eighteen names in it. "Ladies first!" Ok, maybe I'm over-reacting. Her hand dug into the slips of paper. I'm not going to volunteer that's crazy. She picked out the unlucky name that was going to be this year's girl tribute. "Primrose Everdeen!"
"No." I whispered to myself. Katniss started pushing through the crowd to get to Prim who was walking rigidly to the stage. Katniss opened her mouth but I opened it first. "I volunteer!" I say loudly and start to walk up to the stage. All of the shocked eyes in the audience turn to me. Katniss gave me a shocked glance and I decided something right away that if I was going to win I needed to be strong. "Didn't want you to steal all the glory, right?" I sneered. Katniss nodded numbly and grabbed Prim.
"Well, well. You're excited…now what is your name dearie?"
"Madge Undersee. And yes I am the mayor's daughter." I beamed giving the crowd a flashing smile. They gave me cold stares and I knew what they were all thinking: I hope you die first. But, they don't matter it is the sponsors who matter. Effie gave a squeal of delight; she was obviously excited about me.
"Well, on to the boys!" Josh. I look through the crowd and I saw him in there with tears streaming down his face. My teeth clenched and I tried not to cry. Effie's hand grabbed a slip of paper and she grabbed it and read it. "Josh Mellark!"
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