I had at dream; I had all the food in the world, all the riches, and my mother and father were alive. We were all sitting in a daisy meadow eating delicacies such as ice cream and steak. Birds chirped overhead and the sun cast a warm glow throughout the dream. But suddenly my mother started crying. My mother, with her dark hair and blue eyes, who looked exactly like me. I knew something was wrong but I didn't know what. I tried to comfort her, but she only got worse. The sound of her crying became more and more real...
I opened my eyes to the sound of someone actually crying, a muffled cry that someone was obviously trying to conceal. I turned around in my bed and saw my younger sister Ruby next to me- she had crawled out of her bed and laid next to me in mine. Her face was squished into her pillow. I could hear her soft whimpers.
It was morning, probably six forty-fiveish. Time to get up and dressed for Reaping Day. I knew why Ruby was crying- because this year I was twelve, and I was included in the bowl seven times; one for my age and six for tesserae. And little eight year old Ruby didn't want me to get reaped. I was extremely nervous too- my district, District 12, was the most poor, and people from the later districts rarely won. And I was only twelve, the youngest age for getting reaped.
After I had comforted Ruby, I got her dressed into her nicest dress: a blue flannel dress that went down to the ankles with a pink bow around the waist. I changed into a tan dress that went down to my knees and braided my hair. Then I put Ruby's blond hair into pigtails with bows to match her dress.
I lived with my Aunt Ingrid, every since my parents had died. She was kind, but nothing compared to Mama and Father. We had two hours before the Reaping, so she sent us out to the bakery with some coins to buy a loaf of bread that me and Ruby could share as a treat.
Reaping Day was at ten o'clock, so Ruby and I spent the rest of the two hours sitting on the grass and eating our bread. I split the bread so that I got one fourth and she got the rest. Ruby was depressed because I was in the Reaping bowl, but even the bread made her smile.
Because nothing was better than the bread from the bakery.