I opened my eyes, I saw a perfect blue sky from my window. Today was reaping day. There was a pale pink dress hanging in my closet with a set of pale high-heels that matched perfectly the dress.

Anna, our maid came into my room with some tea. She putted the tea in the table and served it in two porcelain cups that had a red rose painted, when she was done putting every ingredient carefully into the lemon tea she gave me a cup. "Thanks" I say, she looked deep into my eyes, Anna had dark brown eyes, dark skin and black hair that she always putted in a bun. "It will be okay" she said and hold my hand tightly her presence always made me feel more relaxed, I felt protected when I was with her.

We stayed like that for some minutes and drank some tea, she took the empty porcelain cups and went down. She left me in my room alone.

I putted the dress and shoes on. Then I saw the picture. It was the picture of my mother she used this dress on the day of the reaping, her best friend got selected, my mother were one of those few people who were afraid of the hunger games she was of those ones who didn't consider it as an honour, but she volunteered for her friend. And then she came from a tribute to a victor. My father says that I need to volunteer to at least those are his orders I don't get it but he says it's for honouring my mother.

We are at the middle of the city the place where they always do the reaping, everyone comes, rich people are bidding of which teenagers could win and which ones not. A new woman comes on the stage she has brown straight brown hair with some blonde highlights and brown eyes, she looks really normal for being from the capitol. "Welcome, welcome to the seventy fourth annual hunger games" she says with a pretty light capitol accent. I look at the girls my age , they look kind of big for being fourteen. But I guess they were more into training than I do, without even knowing the capitol woman is already holding the opening the note with a girls name and luckily my name because I don't want to volunteer. "Relax Clove, it will be fine, do it for your mother" I whisper to myself "Clove Hudson" she says with her capitol accent.

My eyes are wide open even if I wanted it, well not really but at least it needed to happened anyway but it was just awkward to hear my name, I slowly walk to the stage while everyone is looking at me.

I'm at the stage with my eyes opened as much as I can I look at everybody, anybody volunteers I wonder why maybe the saw my mother… Maybe they know that I can.

While the capitol woman opens the paper with the boy's name in it, I think about who would it be, but why should I care there isn't anyone I really care about except for my family and Anna. "Cato Hunter" perfectly pronounces the capitol woman, it sounds that I know the name but I don't really recognize it most be someone at school or something but I just forget about it. I look at the boy, a strong boy with blue eyes and blonde hair, he come into the stage with a smile in his face, I guess he really feels honoured for being in the hunger games.

We go into a car for going to the train station where we will take a train to get us to the capitol, while being in the car I start thinking more about Cato I'm sure I know that name, then it pops in my mind, I remember it he always played with me when I was little I grew up being his friend until we got to be twelve we started going to training and he just seem to became distant… And that broke my heart cause I loved him.