About 16 years ago…
My real mother was in the 58th Hunger Games. She didn't know she was pregnant. She thought she was getting fat.
She was from District 2. They were hunting when she started getting contractions. Her district partner took her back to camp. They delivered me as quietly as possible. But no one would attack the careers, especially not when they are giving birth. When she had me, the game makers became furious. The game was about death, not new life!
So they told her one rule. "If you live, she lives. If you die, she will be sent to a poor district to live the rest of her life."
Little did I know, there was more to that rule. But I wouldn't find out until my reaping day. When I was sixteen.