Thanks for reading. This is my first hunger games story, Please notify me if i get any facts wrong. Sorry for not updating this story in months. Instead, I'm editing the old chapters.
Chapter 1 - The worst day of my life.
I was running through town, Laughing with my best friend, Max. Although we shouldn't of been laughing. It was the day of the reaping for the 65th Hunger Games. I then watched from the crowd as he, At the age of 12 was called as tribute for our district, District 6. I remember screaming and crying and pleading with the peacekeepers to take me and to let him go. We were inseparable as the adults liked to call us. But the peacekeepers just wouldn't listen. I was only 9 at the time and of course, They would not let me enter into the games yet. I then remember watching as him and Amy Leef, Another girl from our district get shot out of the tree by some career tributes. The last thing I ever saw was his bloody face across the tv screen.
I woke up, Panting and crying. I wish they had never pulled his name out of the ball during the reaping. Oh how I miss him. I quickly jumped out of the bed, Listening to my fathers mumbles whilst he got up. I quickly ran to the bathroom and stared at the face looking back at me. I was sweaty (Obviously) I had Blue eyes and Brown Spiky hair. Unlike the normal faces of District 6, Mine was more like District 12. Last year I signed up for Tesserae for my whole family. This year I had done it again because even though my Father did do construction work for the tracks, It couldn't pay for all the family. I splashed water onto my face, Getting me out of my deep thoughts and memories.
"Will, are you walking with me to the reaping today?" I hear my father shouting through the house.
"I probably will." I shouted back to him, My heart still pounding from my dream.
Oh god, We overslept! We have a hour to be in the town square!" I heard my dads worried voice through the grumbles of the other residents of the house.
I quickly ran into my bedroom, Throwing on my reaping clothes. They looked like an assassin's suit. They were originally my dad's but because we couldn't afford a new one, It turned into a hand me down. After eating breakfast, Dad and I started to walk towards the train station.
Tell me again why these stupid games are even on?" I asked my father.
"Because, Its basically to show everybody that the Capitol owns us." My father told me.
"But they don't" I protest back to him, As if a argument will start. He then ignores me, Until I ask another question.
"Why do I wear this on the reaping?" I ask my Dad.
"Because, Its to show others that you aren't to be messed with." He tells me.
I then hear the sound of a train as we enter the train station. District 6 is massive, so we have to travel by train to the square. For special days like Reaping Day, we are allowed to travel on the trains for free. My dad quickly jams the train door open so I'm allowed entry. A peacekeeper runs to us but before he can pull us off of the train for delaying it, the doors shut and he slams his face in to the side of the train.
The train then takes off as we are thrown into seats by the sudden force. I watch as things zoom past as we are getting closer and closer to the justice building. The massive building getting bigger in the distance as we get closer. When the train stops, you hear a robotic voice saying "Justice Building" as people pile off of the train on to the platform next to the train. When I get outside, the train then dings and it takes off yet again. I then jump the entry gates in to the train station as I run towards the town square.
We end up making it to the square, Just in time as I watch our mayor, One mentor and our escort, Triston Bloom. Line the stage and sit down. A peacekeeper then taking me and sorting me into the thirteen year old crowd. Their normal, boring speech about the dark days and how everybody bowed down to the capitol when District 13 was bombed. About the past victors of the Hunger Games and why the Hunger Games is still here today. "To stop rebellion in its tracks" as they put it.
"As usual, the girls go first." I hear the escort, Triston Bloom say over the microphones. He dips his hand in and grabs out a piece of paper.
"Trinity Lockheart" He announces with a sick grin on his face.
There is a dead silence in the crowd as the seventeen year old Trinity gets called out through the crowd. You can hear the girl's mother screaming and pleading in the backround. Me and my friends firmly grip each other's hands not wanting it to be ourselves, But not our friends either. I watch Triston smile and go towards the Boy's ball. All I can hear is my heart beating as he pull's the name out of the ball. Boy did he look evil right now.
"Will Celestial" I hear him calling my name out over the crowd of people.
"Give em hell mate." I hear someone behind me say.
It only fully registers that I was called when a peacekeeper drags me up the stairs of the justice building. The mentor, Justin Crimp whispers into my ear to smile as I get up there and stand next to Trinity.
"And may the odds be ever in your favour!" I hear the mayor call out as I smile.
The crowds start to disassemble as I am dragged into the Justice building by peacekeepers into this really nice room. My family crowding into the room five minutes just after I enter.
"Will!" I hear my sister scream through all of them, She sits down and then she hugs me.
"Well.. Will.." I hear my mother sobbing through her tears.
"What she is trying to say is, Here.. Take it as your token." My father says, A silver train pin in his hand.
I take it off him and I pin it to my clothes.
"Heres some sandwiches.." My mother says, Trying to hold back tears. To be strong, For me.
Over the next hour, They basically just tell me that they love me and how much they want me to come back home, Alive. Justin then walks into the room and tells them that they have to leave now, and he then escorts me to the train station with Trinity. He holds up our hands for the crowd of people behind us to roar proudly, Then to brings us into the train. I turn behind myself to watch my family cry as the doors shut, and the train starts to go.
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