I was walking with my best friend Mika towards our houses. He was talking about how his family should win this award thing the mayor gives out every year about who is the best fisher and swimmer and bla bla bla. You know District 4 stuff, very competitive. Usually I always listen when he talks but my mind was else where. Mika has a way with words that when he talks everyone listens. The reason for my wondering mind was that I had a very strange dream last night. I wasn't quite sure what it was about, but the moment it happened I realized what I'd seen. (I'll tell you what it was in a bit).

"Helloooo?" Mika said, "Are you even listening to me? Spring!"

I jumped out of my dazed state. Mika's bright blue eyes staring at me.

"Hmmm?" I replied.

"What's going on with you today?"

Mika knows something is wrong. Even though he's my best friend, he must be the most self-centered, egotistical person in our entire district. He knows he can make the entire town go quiet if he wants to say something important. (Also he's hot. He knows that too, but not from me. I don't talk about that to him. He's not supposed to know I think that. Anyways…)

I told him about my dream. He just stared at me without showing any emotion. When I finished telling him about my dream, he was about to say something, but before he could tell me it happened.

A mushroom cloud of smoke, very far away. It looked like a puffy mushroom you could pick up. Just as that happened the ground slightly shook we could only barely feel it, but we saw our lake which is normally very still quiver.

"Mika, that's my dream! I saw that explosion, except I was closer." I was in a state of shock I could barely even realize that everyone just heard me scream that I knew this would happen. What an idiot I am! They all looked at me. A second later a voice was heard.

"Please report to your home." That's it? We all notice an explosion and all they say is go home? The voice said again. "There will be speech by President Hanner that's mandatory to watch."

They didn't need to tell us twice. We all wanted to know what was going on and what was happening. Thankfully for me it seemed everyone forgot for a moment and ran inside.

Me and Mika live next to each other so we ran to his home. My parents died in an accident a while ago, my little sister doesn't remember them, but both me and my older brother do. He's 24 so he counts as our guardian. My little sister 5 almost six she was only 10 months old when they died. I was 12 and my brother was 19. He is Kane and my younger sister is Jennifer, Jelly for short.

We got inside. "Hey! Where have you been?" Kane said. Every important thing we always go to Mika's house because his parents help us out when we didn't have ours.

"Kane, we were already on our way here when hell broke loose."

"I was scared Spring!" said Jelly.

"Sorry Jell, next time I'll be sure to rush home."

"Next time?…"

Immediately after I'd said I wish I hadn't. I don't think there will be a next time, it just came out…

The tv started flashing. "You're lucky the speech hasn't started yet."

"Well it's about to." Mika's father said.

We all stared at the tv as the numbers slowly counted down to one.

12, 11, 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1…