"Welcome, welcome to the 100th Annual Hunger Games" Rosedale Trinket screeches in her weird Capitol accent. Rosedale was the daughter of Haymitch Abernathy and Effie Trinket. Effie was the one who reaped my mother, Katniss and my father, Peeta. My mother and father are always scared that the reaping will be rigged, so my name will be pulled out, because of what they did when they were in the hunger games many years ago. They defied the Capitol and made Seneca Crane eat his own computer generated berries therefore committing suicide because there was no other way out for him. I try not to let The Hunger Games get to me though and it works... sometimes.

I almost forget all about it some days but other days I think of what I would say to my parents as a goodbye but I really don't want to come to that stage, so I try to block my thoughts and listen to Rosedale.

"This year is a special year everybody!" She squawks out,

"We will be picking one girl and boy as usual, but they will have to work as a team to win the hunger games together, so one district will have both of its tributes back or two districts will have one of there tributes back each." A half sigh comes to me. Hopefully I won't get picked but if I do I at least have someone to rely on.

My mother cries at the thought of losing me, I try to block her face out but it's getting harder every minute. Rosedale walks over to the pots and picks out one little piece of paper from each pot, she trots over to the microphone, in her way to big for her high heels, and pronounces this years unlucky pair.

"This years District 12 tributes are Mr Alexander Heroy and Miss Charley Mellark, come on up Alexander and Charley…"

There was a silence. My heart started to beat faster. I suddenly wish that my long blonde hair was down so I could hide my face behind it. My pale complexion gets paler as I turn to my mother to give a reassuring smile but she just screams and drops to the floor crying her eyes out, in a heap, at my father's feet. I turn around and start to walk calmly up the stairs, swallowing the painful lump in my throat. Rosedale attempts to walk over to me and hug me but Effie steps in front of her and blocks her from me so she walks over to the male tribute instead.

"Hi darling, how about I take you inside and get you a nice, big mug of coffee yes?" Effie says comfortingly. Between each word she leaves a gap which seems to carry for longer than needed. I stand there. Emotionless. It seems even Effie is at a loss for words.

"Um" I try to form words calmly but I just can't speak,

"I know it's a bit scary but you need to get used to it for when you two win!" She said whilst beaming,

"Win?" I hadn't thought about winning just yet, I mean I only just got reaped.

"For your mother, father and brother?" She persists.

I just nod, unsure of what to say back to her. As soon as Rosedale says "Happy Hunger Games" we are whisked away to the Justice building to say our goodbyes. It's harder than I expected it to be and I just had to call security to take my own mother away but my father and brother both put up a fight and agree to stay, so long as they don't scream or cry like my mother. They just sit in the corner of the dull room; with beige walls that had gotten dirty and faded, old wooden skirting around the ceiling and an old wooden floor. They seem to be watching my every move like a couple of hawks, trying to remember who I was before they lost me to the Capitol, President Snow and his daughter Summer.

Summer has got to be one of the most evil people in Panem, out of the three children Snow has fathered, Summer is the most like her dad. Summer hated her step-mother Arianna because Snow loved Arianna more than her. Her older brother Luke and her step-mother Arianna died in a fire that she ordered her servants to start. Summers servants were hanged afterwards and her little brother Josh was always really kind and quiet, probably because Summer was always on his back telling him what to do, how to speak to her and when to shut-up.

Authors note: First of all thank you for all of your support! This is the same story but I decided to edit it and change parts (mostly in the second book), so please read again in case you miss anything new and don't forget to Favourite and Review! Love you all :D