I know, straight away everyone in district 12 hates me im the girl who thieves and fights, the girl who takes peoples boyfriends and steals money. It was obvious I would be picked for the games I hated the hunger games this year was the one every Panem citizen was waiting for, the quarter quell the 25th anniversary of the hunger games and they've put their unique evil twist on it this time each district must pick 2 tributes to go to the arena and that was me.
I stretched out of my bed, the old wood creaked at breakage point, I made a mental note that I would need that fixed but it dawned on me that there was no point im going to the capitol.
"Your awake, finally!" Reeder my brother said huffing at me "im going to go see Cindy wish her luck before the games"
"like she'll need it! im the one everyone hates here, im bloody glad to get out of here for once!" I huffed back
"Alys you won't get picked, I reckon someone will do something drastic and heroic and volunteer" he replied
"PHA! This is district 12 Reeder, no one here will you know that" I said folding my sheets and rearranging my hair pins.
"Like I said see you later" he said walking towards our shabby wooden door
"Wait! You have to be back quick we need to get ready for the reaping!" I said shouting to him
"im not getting all showed up for something I don't care about, there all blood thirsty down at the capitol makes me wonder if they like vampires or somin" he said slamming the wooden door as he walked away
"whatever" I muttered the nerves in my stomach made me feel sick, but I thought it would be good to eat something but there was nothing that's the only thing appealing about the capitol the friend Edith had said that the new capitol fashion was lace, coloured lace of course, very colourful lace.
I decided to go and see her, she was the only one that would really care about me going, no actually district 12 would care to see the back of feeling sorry for yourself it won't help I told myself and I shrugged into a dress to go see Edith, only a couple more hours left in district 12.
The walk to Ediths stone shack was uneventfull, the peacekeepers roamed the streets smoking there long pipes shoving there weight I saw gave me some sort of dirty looks, if looks could kill ran through my mind but no they don't the careers to with there big knives and swords or rocks, there bare hands! the nerves rocked through me like a boat on a stormy sea.
"Edith" I said knocking on her door "it's me Alys"
"Just coming" she sang the door opened to show a very clean pale faced girl in a faded pink dress, her hair was all pinned up into a top platte and I couldn't help admire the necklace she wore they almost looked like real pearls from district 4 but that was impossible
"oh my, Edith you look lovely!" I said hugging my best friend tight "but it's not the reaping for ages yet, the peace keepers haven't even finished sorting the square"
"yeah, I know but I kinda wanted to come round to help you get ready, then I knew I wouldn't have any time for myself" she said shutting the door of the stone shack and standing next to me
Edith was one year older than me, she had brown hair very thin and wispy, her face was always pale and her eyes were always droopy, but she had a sweet puppy dog effect on her
"oh no you don't have to do that" I said knowing very well this was like preparing me for slaughter.