I don't know what's going on with me.
Well actually I probably do. Today was the one and only lesson we receive in school on the hunger games. It's really no wonder there are a million questions running through my head. You probably think being a daughter of two victors would mean that I know everything there is to know about the games but that is absolutely wrong. I was only ever told two things: my parents were both victors and the hunger games along with life back then were both unbearably awful. I never needed to know anything more. I saw before my eyes what it did to my parents. How do you think it feels to wake up from your mother screaming from nightmares you know will never stop haunting her? Or to watch you watch you father turn pale and rigged as a marble statue as your mother quickly whisks you out of the room for reasons you don't know? It's terrible. That was all I needed to know, or so I thought.
Laws were passed 5 years after the revolution as to what would happen about the past. Memorials were set up by the arenas, every 10 years (from that year) there will be a service in the Capitol for survivors and high up government officials, and the hunger games and the days of old will be taught about one day during a student's education when they are fifteen. Well today was that day. Never again will I think I know about my parents' lives.
They told us how once the Capitol completely controlled all the districts and to show that power they made the hunger games. Every year they would pick a boy and a girl from each district to fight until all but one were dead. The arenas they would fight in were almost worse than the idea itself. After the 75th games the revolution started and the districts won their freedom from the Capitol.
Although I didn't see either of my parents in any of the pictures my teacher showed our class I knew they were there and that was enough.
A million questions are running through my head and I want answers. I will stop at nothing until I get them.
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