Hey guys! I know I have been MIA for a while but now I'm back but mostly for editing my previous chapters and then writing new ones. I'm so sorry! I have been MIA for a super long time! But I'm back and I suggest you reread the chapters because I will be adding new stuff but I might not change stuff, too!

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Third person POV

Percy wakes up with the light streaming into the window. 'Errrrrrrrgggggg… I can't even sleep in on the reaping day,' he thinks to himself before he gets up, gets dressed, and walks into the kitchen to cook breakfast. He looks into the fridge and all they have are a few eggs and some orange juice, both from the market.

His district isn't the poorest district, but his family is one of the poorest in his district. He has to take tesserae each year for his family. Today though, even though he is only 16, he will have 25 strips of his name in the reaping bowl. Luckily, his little brother, Tyson, is only 10 so he is definitely not going in the hunger games. Even if he was of age, Percy wouldn't allow Tyson to apply for tesserae. One less thing to worry about in Percy's mind.

"Percy, you don't have to make everybody breakfast." Sally says while having a cough afterward. Sally is one of the nicest women in the world though she was really sick so Percy took over as the head of the family no matter how much protesting his mother did. He didn't trust his pig of a step-father, Gabe, to take care of the family, knowing he would make them starve with his gambling habit and Tyson was only ten.

"Yeah, Mom, I kind of do," He replies with a smile. Sally sighed and took her seat at the table.

"No you don't, Percy. Your good for nothing mother should." Gabe leans on the frame of the doorway. "I mean, isn't that what women are for?" he asks, taking a swig from the bottle he had in his hand. He gets so drunk; it makes Haymitch Abernathy – the drunken victor of district 12- look like he never had a drop of alcohol in his life. But when Gabe gets drunk, he gets violent.

Percy walks up to him and says right in his face, "You never talk to my mother like that." Gabe raises his hand and slaps him right across the face. He lands on his side with his hand on his cheek where Gabe slapped him. Sally's screaming for him to stop but can't move fast because she is too weak from her sickness. Gabe goes up to Percy and grabs the front of his shirt and punches the side of his face and drops him on the floor. "Stop!" Sally screeches. She walks toward Percy as fast as she could and helps him up.

Percy could take him, but he wasn't allowed to hurt a hair on his ugly as hell head. "Don't you dare talk to me like that, you little brat. I am your superior," Gabe says with his nose in the air.

"More like senior idiot." Percy mutters while rubbing his newly-forming bruise on the side of his temple and cheek.

"What's going on?" Tyson asks from the oppisite doorway, leading to the boy's bedroom. "Nothing, Tyson. Don't worry about anything. I made some eggs and I am gonna go fishing today," Percy replies, putting a fake smile on for his brother.

Tyson smiles brightly. "Okay," he says cheerfully, plopping down in his seat. "How come you have a bruise on your head, Perce?" Tyson asks.

"It's nothin'"

"Perseus Jackson, tell me why you have a bruise on the side of your head." Tyson demands forcefully. Percy chuckles. he can't help but laugh when his brother tries to act bossy. The boy is ten and everybody in the whole town knows he can't hurt a fly.

"I just ran into a pole yesterday night when I came home. You know how clumsy I can be," Percy lies smoothly. Percy doesn't want Tyson to know how Gabe treats him. Gabe is only violent towards Percy and that is all he wants it to be.

"Yeah, you're very clumsy. You broke your leg last year when all you did was trip!" Tyson exclaims.

Percy cracks a smile and is happy to see his little brother happy. "Yeah, I am," Percy chuckles.

"I'm going fishing now. See you at 12 to get ready for the reaping!" he says, while kissing his little brother on the top of his head and he is out the door heading towards the beach to fish.

I hope I got the tesserae correct this time! It took me forever to figure out tesserae! Correct me if I'm wrong! So this is the end of the edited edition of chapter 1! I suggest you go and look up a few songs! 1. The fray- how to save a life.

2. The script- hall of fame.

3. ed sheeran- drunk

4. celine dion- it's all coming back to me now

ENJOY!