Hi everyone. This is my first Fanfiction story so please be nice. I hope you enjoy it. Please review! Suggestions and complements are nice.
Chapter 1
I didn't want it to happen like this. I offered to take her place but since it was the 75th time they were taking whoever's name came out of the hat went to the games with no questions asked. So there went my poor sister. To the arena. To fight to the death.
Now to back up a bit. My father, my mother, my sister and I lived together in a small house near the outskirts of District 5. Each district has something about it that makes it different from other ones and each district has an animal that represents it. There used to be 13 Districts, but now there are only 10 because there was an uprising and the three Districts llost the fight. I remember the girl who started it, the girl on fire. The Peacekeepers keep her locked up and if anyone does anything bad, they torture her and then they torture the person who did something bad. And her boyfriend, Peeta, was killed right in front of her. I feel really bad for her.
Our District eats just about anything we can get our hands on, which by the way isn't a lot. We eat about two meals a day if we are lucky. To get more food you can put more pieces of paper with your name on them into the hat on the day of the reaping. I did that, but I won't let my sister do it. Oh who am I, do you ask. Well, my name is Annabeth. I am 15 years old, so this is my second to last reaping. I have long wavy blond hair and grey-blue eyes. My sister's name is Aria. She is 13, so this is her second reaping. She had long golden-brown hair, with the odd curl in it, that flows almost to her butt. Her eyes are brown-green. My sister is very small, very agile, can climb trees like a monkey, can sneak up on anybody and is one of the best archers I have ever seen. I was the one who taught her to climb, shoot, and sneak up on people. Oh ya one more thing, when I'm asleep, if I want to, I can see what she did during the day in my dream.
Our whole house hold was getting ready to go to the reaping. There were two pieces of paper that had my sisters name on them and 10 that had my name on them (I added 6). I was wearing a blood red dress that stopped just below my knees, a simple magnetic choker, red heels that add about 3 inches to my 5 foot 4 and simple red earrings. My sister was wearing a floor length sky blue dress, blue flats, the blue necklace she made, and similar earrings to mine except blue. Our mom was wearing a plain white dress, white shoes, a white choker with fake pearls(because we couldn't afford real ones), and pearl earrings. Finally my dad was wearing my dead grandfather's suit, black dress shoes, and no tie (once again because we couldn't afford it).
We walked together to the place where the reaping happeneds, which just happened to be in the middle of District 5. We separated from our parents and went to the group of kids who's names might be called. Then I turned to look at my sister,
"You do realise that there is a very big chance that I will be chosen to go into the arena." I told her. But she merely shouck her head, refusing to even consider it. So I didn't press the matter. Then our Leader, Emily Jefferson, started to talk so we all became quiet. She makes it brief,
"Welcome everyone to the 75th reaping. To make this one special you aren't allowed to volunteer for the person whose name is pulled out of the hat." Then she gestures to another woman who is holding the hat.
"Usually we do ladies first, but this time it is going to be boys first." she says and dunks her hand into the hat.
"Jayden Roberts." she reads off the slip. That was fine with me, our family hated their family.
"And for the girls we have," she pauses to read the slip of paper, "Aria Stephenson."
"And that is when my vision went black.
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