Through My Eyes

Chapter One: Here is my second try of this fan fiction. I'm trying to make it longer and better. Thank You, TheAmazingKuna for giving me some ideas on improving my story. Also thank you Beastlynerd for being first to favorite my story. Hope you like this better than before.

I made my way through town towards the Justice Building. As I was approaching I noticed a girl my age walked by me followed by what appeared as her younger sister. I smiled a little at the sight of her. "Hand." demanded a Peace Keeper as he grabbed my hand and took my blood.

I walked over to the male 16 group and waited for the reaping to start. I looked down at what I was wearing I had just gotten it the day before. It was simple just dress pants and a simple light colored dress shirt. I was thinking about the girl that had walked passed earlier. When I was pulled out of my thoughts when a capitol lady walked up to the stage and cleared her throat. She was dressed like every other capital person. Bold, colorful and expensive. She introduced herself as Effie Trinket the same escort for as long as I can remember. A screen went down and a video immediately started about why we had the Hunger Games warning the districts to never again rebel against the capitol. "May the odds be ever in your favor." announced Effie.

I noticed myself holding my breath and my hands starting to sweat. I felt myself getting jittery with nerves.

"Ladies First." Shrilled Effie Trinket as she stuck her perfectly manicured hand into the reaping bowl. She grabbed a slip of paper out of a big glass bowl. "Primrose Everdeen." She announced.

That was the little girl I had seen earlier. The crowd made a sad noise like they did when ever a 12 year old was picked as tribute. A girl ran out of the crowd "Prim!" She screamed."I volunteer, I volunteer as tribute."

I felt something break when she said those four little words. I had always felt something for her ever since I was younger but I wasn't quite sure what that feeling was yet. For some reason I just had a feeling that the odds would not be in my favor this year.

She walked up the stage, I could tell she was trying to look brave and strong but her misty gray eyes gave her away as they darted back and forth. I heard a few people sigh as she got to the stage. In district 12 Katniss was well liked and now highly respected for volunteering. Effie did the protocol for a volunteering tribute. After Katniss had answered all Effie's question an amazing act of respect and love happened. Almost a of district 12 put two fingers their lips then put their hands out in almost a salute matter.

"Now for the gentleman." Announces Effie. She pulls out another slip of paper this time from a different glass bowl. "Peeta Mellmark." She says.

My heart falls as I walk up to the stage. I try to act fearless and brave like Katniss did but I can tell I am shaking badly and my eyes had went wide as my name had been called. I can't let the other tributes think of me as an easy target. Why did they have to call my name, I can't kill Katniss I just can't.

We are told to shake hands and we do. I reach out my hand toward Katniss she hesitates a second than grabs it and gives it a nice firm handshake. The peacekeepers usher me and Katniss into the Justice Building. They tell us we have an hour to say are good-byes. Before we are inside I glimpse our mentor falling off the stage and try to not laugh.

I'm trying not to show how I really am feeling on the inside, I am completely terrified I don't know how to survive and I've never killed anything in my life, I can't kill Katniss and most of all I really don't want to die. I never ever thought that my name would be reaped. My name has only been entered a handful of times unlike most people in District 12 who have to enter their name more than they need to, to have food to eat and survive. My family had it good we lived much better than most family's we always had food and shelter, a steady flow of money. Sure my mom would beat me and my brothers if we ever messed up and my dad is nice and kind hearted but I love them both and them coming in here right now may be the only time I will ever see them again and this breaks my heart.

These thoughts are running through my mind when my mother and father come in first we hug and they cry about how I might never come back. I try to tell them it will be okay and I will try to get back to them but they must have as little faith as I have in myself because as they are told to leave my mother says that District 12 will finally have another victor, but I can tell they don't mean me they are talking about Katniss. The girl with the bow and arrow and knows how to make a clean quick kill and never misses her target. They are my only visitors and as I am sitting in the room I think about how Katniss volunteered for her younger sister. How come my older brothers didn't volunteer for me? I am pondering the meaning of love and to love when a peace keeper comes in and leads me to the train.

"Come on." He says pulling me harshly by my arm.

"You know I can do this by myself." I said sternly.

He looked at me and then released my arm. He led me down a dirt road toward the train that would take us to the capitol, to the arena and finally our deaths. Effie gives us a tour around the train, teaches us how to use a few things and then orders us to go get something on for dinner and be out by 7:00 so that at 7:30 we can watch the other tributes being reaped with the rest of Panem. We are lead to our rooms and I shut the door and head to the bathroom to the take a shower. I get out and head over to the closet to pick out some cloths. The closet is filled with a bunch of fancy Capitol cloths but I skip over them and end up with older pants and a tee shirt. I open the door and head out to the kitchen.

I got to the table before Katniss and Effie introduces me to Haymitch our mentor who won the 50th Hunger Games. He is drunk as he was before at the reaping and he looked very rough and tired I didn't know how he was going to sit up even but he managed.

We sat down at a beautiful oak table with food covering the whole surface. I saw Katniss eyeing up the food and looking scornful of having to always fight to put enough food on the table for her and her family to eat.

After sitting down and finishing eating we turn the TV on to watch who the other tributes from the districts are, when a certain scruffy drunken man plops himself down on the cough next to Effie who looks like she is about to have a fit. I am thinking about his Hunger Games and how I could use some of his strategies when I hear the official anthem of Pamem and the emblem comes up. I see the district 1 tributes appear a girl that looks way to pretty to be a tribute and a boy that doesn't look like much their names are Glimmer and Marvel. Then district 2 tributes look muscular and deadly a tall muscular boy and a girl that looks small for her district they are both giving death glares their names are Clove and Cato. These are the only tributes I have to worry about because they are the careers and there is no doubt that they will all join up together. After the careers I don't pay attention the only tributes you have to worry about is the careers who train before they are even able to be reaped and in their districts it is an honor to participate in the Hunger Games and almost always win. Right before they show ends our district 12 appears and I see me and Katniss up on stage. It feels funny watching me on the screen. Katniss gets up suddenly like she is going to say something she opens her mouth decides against it shuts it and sits back down again. We all glance over at her weirdly wondering what it was that she was going to say.

After a few minutes of silence Effie orders me and Katniss to our rooms telling us we need our sleep and that we have a big day tomorrow. I put on more comfortable cloths to sleep climb under the warm sheets and as soon as my head hits the pillow I am asleep. I slept restlessly thinking of the careers and Katniss.

Hope everyone enjoyed this chapter a little better the second time. I will work on fixing the other chapters now that I am out of school. Comment, review give me ideas and things you think should be changed. Also favorite me too.