Katniss' POV
I love Panem. Crazy, huh? Well this country is nice. They have a reaping every year for children ages 12-18. If you are chosen you get to live in a very fancy resort. So you will get an awesome home, and life for the rest of your life. In addition, they will help your family forever. Pretty great, huh? Well today is the day of the reapings, but there are certain districts every year. They pick six districts one year and the other six the next year. The districts this year are District 1, District 2, District 4, District 5, District 11, and District 12, my home.
We arrive at the reapings, my sister, mother, and myself. District 12's escort is named Effie. I understand that she is following the Capitol wardrobe but c'mon.
"Welcome, welcome. The time has come for our annual reaping," Effie announces.
"Like always, Ladies first!"
"Katniss Everdeen"
I walk up to the stage, nervous about standing in front of 200 people, but as well excited about how I, Katniss Everdeen, actually got picked for something.
"Now for the boys," she says, her voice echoing through the silent crowd.
"Peeta Mellark"
Man, from what I've heard, Peeta has had a huge crush on me since when we like nine. I'm extremely excited but I'll miss Prim. I mean, we got so close after my dad died. We are escorted into waiting rooms, where family comes and says goodbye to you.
"Katniss, I'll miss you," Prim says with tears in her eyes.
"Hey, hey it's okay. You guys won't have to worry about money or anything now, and I'll come visit for sure okay?" I say trying to comfort her knowing that my mom could probably care less.
"Girls, you need to leave now, the victors need to get on the train to the capitol," a guard says, poking his head into the room.
As they begin to walk out, my mother turns around to me and says nothing. Taking the liberty onto myself, I muster the words,
"Goodbye mom."
The train is magnificent. With studded everything, polished everything, and clean everything, it was like an alternate universe.
"Now you guys can have whatever you like, I mean, you are living the Capitol life now, right? I'm going to turn on the other reapings, sounds good?" Effie says.
"Yeah," Peeta says, still looking in awe.
"From District 1, Glimmer and Marvel were chosen to become the next victors." The announcer announces.
"From District 2, Clove and Cato, were chosen to become the next victors."
As I watched these districts something about the girls of those districts seemed to trigger a memory.
In the third grade, kids from Districts 1 and 2 came to learn about other districts. There were these two best friends, Glimmer and Clove. They would be staying for about a month. There, they meet Katniss. After one week, all of them became best friends. When they had to leave, it was hard because they grew so close. So over the years they wrote letters but they grew more distant every time.
I am so excited to see them.
We started to watch more of the reapings.
From District 4, Audra and Axel were chosen, and from District 5, Jaron and a girl whose name I didn't catch, but she looks like she has a fox like face. Foxface. District 11, Rue and Thresh. Rue reminds me of Prim.
I walk to bed without informing anyone. The small but luxurious bedroom seemed cozy enough. After taking a shower, I headed to bed.
So this was the first chapter of like my first story ever, so please be nice. If any questions or stuff, please feel free to ask.
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