*****I own none of the Hunger Games characters or the Hunger Games. My OC's are mine though.

Chapter 1

I was laying out on the front porch as the sun shined bright. The amber waves of grain out in the field gently moving in the breeze. The music playing on the radio making this the picture perfect moment. I live in District 9 and even though it's not very prosperous I wouldn't have it any other way. The peace and quiet and our nearest neighbor living a mile away, so nothing to bother us.

I'm Star Weakley, I'm 18 and I live in the heart of District 9. I have honey blonde hair that falls slightly past my shoulders and bright blue eyes. I have my daddy's height being 5'10". I live at home with my daddy, my mom died during childbirth. My daddy named me Star, because the night I was born the stars were at their brightest and he said he knew I was meant to do something great. I don't know what that is, considering all I do is work on the farm with dad. My dad has the biggest fields in District 9 allowing us to live more comfortably.

I pulled my pocket knife out and started playing with it like I usually do. My daddy gave this to me when I was 7. He said that he wasn't always going to be at the house incase anything happened. I learned how to handle a knife very quickly, considering how many snakes get in the house. Our house has been in our family for many years, but that just makes me love it more.

"Hey Strike, what's up?" I heard my friend Munch yell at me. I sat up seeing the whole gang walk up and sit on the porch with me.

I grew up with all guys and now these guys are my family, we're all so close. There's Dakota (Kota), Tyler (Tiger), Chad (Night), Eric (Munch) and Wesley (Hype). We each came up with nicknames for each other; we don't call each other by our names. If you can tell my nickname's Strike, because I'm the first to strike in a fight. Did I mention my daddy taught me to fight? So I could stand up for myself in school, I was in a fight every other day of the week when I was actually in school.

Kota is very tall and muscular, but then again we all are from having to work our whole lives. He has short blonde hair and smooth brown eyes. Tiger is the shortest out of all off us even me. He has short brown hair and bright green eyes. Night's the same height and build as Kota only with brown hair and dark brown eyes. Munch is the red head of the group; he's a little taller than me with hazel eyes. And lastly Hype he's taller than Munch, but shorter than Kota and Night. He has bright blonde hair and hyper blue eyes. They're all tan, but then again we all are. Either they work on their own family farms or they're here helping me and daddy.

"Nothing much, what are you guys doing here?" I asked.

"Well your dad's bringing in the crops today, so we came to help," Kota said.

"Ok he's about ready to go, let's go," I said getting up.

We walked around the house to the barn. I could hear dad inside working on the tractor. We walked in and I saw my dad hooking things together getting ready to harvest the grain. I was an exact copy of my dad; I didn't get any features from my mom.

"Hey boys are you ready to work?" my dad asked.

"Yes sir," they all replied.

The rest of the day we helped dad bring the crops in. Dad invited the guys to eat dinner with us. Like I said earlier my daddy and I are comfortable. We have enough food, so the guys can eat with us on occasion. We are not nearly as rich as the people in Districts 1, 2 or 4. I was out on the front porch with the guys as we joked around after dinner.

"Hey Strike there's a snake," Tiger said pointing at the slithering animal.

I sighed taking out my pocket knife. I flipped it open before throwing it. The knife went through the snake's skull and held it to the ground while the last moments of its life ended.

"Your accuracy with knives scares me," Night said getting up and getting my knife.

He grabbed a washcloth that was lying on the porch and cleaned it before handing it back to me. I flipped it closed and put it back into my pocket. I sighed none of us wanted to say anything about tomorrow. It was the reaping for District 9. We've been lucky not getting chosen and hopefully it continues to tomorrow.

"I'm scared guys," Hype said.

"Dude we all are, that's just the way it is," Kota said.

"I know, I just have a really bad feeling about it this time," he said.

We all sighed; when he had a bad feeling it affected at least one of us.

"Hey let's keep our heads up. We have today to relax before looking at tomorrow," I said trying to get our minds off of it.

They nodded agreeing as we started telling stories and having a laugh.

"I never thought I'd see a guy piss himself, till Strike pulled her knife on him," Night laughed making us all laugh.

"Hey he pulled a broke bottle first," I laughed.

"Strike it was in the middle of lunch at school," Kota said.

"He broke the bottle first, I was protecting myself."

"And after that they checked her every day for a knife," Munch said.

"They didn't check my boot," I laughed.

"And that's how you pulled it the second time. I have to admit it was sweet as shit though. You kicked your left leg behind you and all of a sudden you have your knife," Tiger laughed.

"Alright Strike we need to be getting home," Kota said as they all stood up.

"Alright guys, I love you," I said.

"Love you too," they said walking back up the pathway.

I layed outside a little longer as the sun was starting to set. I heard daddy's boots as he walked outside.

"Let's take a walk kiddo," he said.

I nodded and got up as dad and I started walking the trails around our property. I laughed and went down to the stream by our house. I pulled off a leaf of spearmint and started chewing it. Daddy and I have been taking these walks since I was little and he taught what was edible and what was poisonous. Daddy and I took a seat by the road that is hardly ever used. We picked up rocks and started throwing them down the road. As the sun set lower we started walking back to the house. When we were back at the house we sat on the porch. I sighed seeing another snake slither across the ground. I took out my knife and again killed it the same way as earlier. I got up to get my knife.

"You know, the stars haven't been this bright since the night you were born," dad said looking at the sky.

I picked up my knife and looked at the sky. The stars really were bright out. This is too weird, first Hype now the sky. I have a really bad feeling about tomorrow now. I sat beside dad and cleaned my knife with the same cloth from earlier. I put my knife away and hugged daddy. I was truly scared for what tomorrow brings.