Hello readers! this is my first fan fiction so I am really excited about it. please read, review and enjoy!
The Reaping.
Chapter 1.
"Rue, Rue, RUE! Wake up!"
I groan as I slowly open my eyes. Little sisters are soooooo annoying. I get one day off a week and bluebell here goes and ruins it. As I look around the room I notice that everyone else is up and dressed, well, except me. Then I remember its reaping day, my FIRST reaping day. The knot that has been in my stomach since my 12th birthday returns. Since I have three younger siblings I have to take out multiple tesserae's. This means that my name is in that bowl 7 times. The odds are not in my favour. I do dearly love my family but they are so naïve I haven't even told them I took tesserae.
Only my younger brother Trent knew. My mother smiles at me with worry in her eyes. My parents shield all of their children from the hunger games until they are ten years old. They don't think that the worry it will cause us is worth it. We got away with that fairly easily because our district is so big. Our next door neighbour is 15 now and she hasn't even been called to go to the reaping yet, her brother Thresh is 17 and has been to the reaping's every time and has never been picked. Our district is so big that they have to draw the tributes before the actual reaping so that the town square isn't so full that the person reaped can't get to the front of the square. This is why my parents are so worried. It is my first year and I have already been called. My teacher asked who was going to the reaping and I was the only one who put their hand up. Even I started to panic then, but my best friend Scarlett said that they have to fill up the square somehow and that the need kids of all ages so it nearly defiantly wasn't me going in.
just then my father speaks up. "Good morning Kanga-rue! I am just taking your siblings out so that you can get ready we will see you at the reaping." He smiles sadly before picking up my youngest sister Peaches and walking away with Trent and Bluebell. I get up and walk into the kitchen. I then plonk myself down at the table and watch as my mother pushes a bowl brimming with assorted fruits and nuts towards me. As I was the oldest I always make sure that my siblings always had enough to eat, and this bowl was more than my fair share for the whole day let alone one meal! I started to protest but my mother just said "if my daughter is ready to put her life in so much danger just for tesserae she can have a decent meal." All I could think was: oh crap! "oh Rue what would we ever do without you?"
After I had finished eating she led me back into the bedroom we all shared. She reached under the bed and brought out a simple, brown box. In the box was a dark green, soft cotton dress. I gasped as my mother said "this is yours now Rue." as I slipped into the dress I smelt pines and wild flowers. After that my mother brushes my hair and places a light green bow in my hair. I look in the mirror and gasp. I look completely different to what I normally look like. you can't wear dresses when you are climbing in the trees, and on my days off I normally just sleep and eat to make up for my lack of rest in the week.
At the reaping I see no-one I know except my family, but I can barely see them as it is. Every other 12 year old is shaking in fear with me. We know that no 12 year old has ever won the hunger games. In fact the youngest victor ever was a boy named Finnick who won when he was 14. Just then the district mayor, UllsWater walkes on stage to make his speech. Behind him are the districts only victors Seeder and Chaff. Mayor UllsWater does a speech about how it is an honour for the district to take part in the hunger games. I think this is a load of apple bushels since we are forced to kill each other in an arena which we have to be picked to go to. After he has finished a lady with hair so blue it must be illegal bounces up to the stage. She says how this district isn't known for great intenders or lookers but that she hopes this year will be different. You can tell she is capitol because she whispers into her mike "I can't stand another year in this dump." After that she says "I have just the thing to spice this reaping up." She pauses for what must be called 'dramatic effect in the Capitol. "Gentlemen first!" with that she waddles over to the clear bowl full of paper on the right of the stage. With that she plunges her hand in and wiggles it about for a while before bringing up a slip. She then looks at the crowd and opens the paper. She looks back at us and I swear if I wasn't scared for my life I would be laughing my head off right now.
She then un folds it and shouts out "Thresh Pinewood!"
Uh Oh, poor Scarlett!
My first chapter I promise I have big plans for this story so keep tuned. I don't mind any criticism so review favourite and follow.