Finally Foxface: Why Me?
"Let the Hunger Games reaping in this wonderful district, commence!" Lenexa Bleriot bellowed into the microphone on the stage. She is the escort for District 5, that's where my family and I live in the country of Panem. During the reaping, that was in the town square of our district, I was standing next to my best friends Cammiliana and Safaria. Then there is me Finch Remiliy. We stood in a single line and all crossing our fingers, Cammilian's name was in the reaping bowl four times and Safaria's was in twice, and I was in their once, because my father is the mayor he can pull strings, so I won't die in the dreaded Hunger Games.
"We will pick the girls first of course, just in every reaping" Lenexa said and tried to make a joke out of it all by trying to get us to laugh. She is the type of people who talk too much and are too perky. The wind was strong, so my golden hair was in my face and I could not see that Lenexa had grabbed a slip of paper inside the glass bowl that was placed in the middle of the stage.
"Ok, now our women tribute is… drum roll please" Lenexa said again trying to hold in her laughter. "Jeneza Cromen" she said. It took a minute to sink in, but didn't she die in an electrical accident last year. I looked around to see the confusion; every one was looking every which way looking for this girl. I'm positive she is dead, because I heard my father talk about it with her parents. Her parents sounded horrified that she died doing something workers do everyday and they protested to stop the electrical work, out side my father's office building. They did this until… I herd gun shots.
"Jeneza Cromen" Lenexa repeated into the microphone. She was about to say it again when a peacekeeper came up and whispered something in her ear.
"It is to my understanding that Jeneza Cromen is not with us today, so we shall pick another women tribute," Lenexa said as her hand reached into the glass bowl for the second time today. When she lifted up the piece of paper, my mussels clenched as,
I grabbed Cammilian's and Safaria's hand. I closed my eyes tightly and tried to block out the sound then I suddenly opened my eyes. Wait a minute, my name is only in there once what do I have to worry about; I need to worry about my friends.
"Now for our real women tribute… Finch Remiliy… The mayor's daughter!" Lenexa bellowed loudly into the microphone. Finch Remiliy ran through my mind do I know her… OH MY GOD! That is ME! I had to feeling in my legs as I hobbled on to the stage.
"Lets hear it for Finch" she said. My emotions we spinning as the applause felt like it was going to break my ear drum. I felt like I wanted to cry in a corner, kiss my life away, but most of all I wanted to seriously injure Lenexa Bleriot.
The thing that horrified me the most was I would have to kiss my family good by when my father just sat and watched me be chopped into a million pieces by a District 1 or 2 tributes. I have watched the games before and saw them kill one by one our tributes. This is like seeing into your future, and I can tell you mine dose not look to bright.