"Calm down." Trying to be comforting, I wrapped my arms around her. "It's only your first year, your name is only in there once ... Between the names of millions of other children. What are the chances that you will be reaped?"

"N-None." she sobbed.

Father knocked impatiently on the door. "Raff? Rikka? Hurry up!"

"Yes, father, we're coming!" I yelled back.

Rikka began to sob even harder. I sighed. "Rikka, even if you are chosen: There will be someone who will volunteer for you."

It was true: District 1 was full with children who trained their entire lives for the Hunger Games (I was one of them). In our district there was a big career academy where only the rich went to. Less wealthy families trained their children themselves, in case they would be chosen. Because my father was a victor, we lived in the victor's village and we were among the richest families in District 1. This had its advantages: For example, Rikka and I didn't have to ask for "tessera". The capital gave to each family of the district a year long supply of food in exchange that the children's name are added additional times to the reaping only once per family member. The chances of the children been chosen would be even higher.

District 1 is participating in the games because they(yes, they. I don't care about the games to be honest...) think it's a great honor, but I already told you about that, right? The career academy always asks and expects that the two best students that they volunteer for the games. Those who refuse will be seen as weak.

These are all thereasons why I'm not afraid for my little sister. This year Ruby is expected, the best female career of our academy, to olunteer. So my sister is safe.

"But big brother ..." Rikka looked up. Her crystal blue eyes were full of tears. "I'm not afraid for myself, I'm afraid for you!"

...Ah. It's true that I'm in the top 15 of our academy, but I'm still too young to volunteer according to the rules of the academy. And I must indeed ask permission from the academy to volunteer. The academy usually wants that 16-year-olds and older volunteere, not younger. So I'm completely safe. The boy who must volunteer this year is Gerard. A muscled boy of 17 who fights with brute force.

There is another knock on the door. "RAFF! Rikka! COME OUT IMMEDIATELY!"

Father really has no patience ...

My mother kissed my forehead before that she Rikka sent to the queue for the twelve year old girls. I made my way to my peers and stood beside Idor. He grinned at me and then looked in front again. Our victors who would be this year's mentors were already standing on the podium. First, there was Diamantis, who won by scratching open the throat of her opponent a few years ago. She was a beautiful young woman with long straight blond hair and cold caculating eyes. Actually, now that I thought about it, almost everyone in District 1 was blonde. Seriously, anywhere in the district, you could see different shades of blonde.

The boy, who looked no older than 16, was Jay. Maybe the only one with black hair ... We were together at the academy, until last year, against the rules, he volunteered and won by cutting his opponent in half with a sword.

Now that he was a victor, he was my neighbor. Although since he had won, he was kind of aloof and sometimes even looked sad. Our eyes met for a second, but then he looked away. And then Germana, our escort, stepped on stage. As every year, she looked ridiculous with her purple hair and pink clothes . Oh what do you want, she's the capital. They are well known for their horrible appearance and the fact that they love watching children murdering each other.

Germana began to babble. About what an honor it is that our district may participate in the 61th Hunger games, blah blah blah, how she hopes that we will win this year, blah blah blah, you know the unnecessary nonsense.

She made her way to the glass bowl. "Now it's time to announce our female tribute!"

"I volunteer!" Ruby yelled, her hand up in the air and her pink lips stretched into a smirk.

I saw Rikka sighing in relief.

Germana blinked before smiling widely. "Oh? We have a volunteer, great!"

I rolled my eyes. Figures. We have a volunteer every year, you should be used with it.

Ruby walked with a proud look on her face on stage. I hope she wins. I mean it. We're maybe not friends, she is after all older than me, but every time we talked she was very nice and sometimes she helped me during training. It would be a shame if she would die.

Germana then placed her manicured hand into the glass bowl for the boys and pulled out a small paper. "And our male tribute is ..."

I yawned. Man, I'm so bored. When exactly is Gerard going to volunteer? He could do it now. Because I know for a fact that if he doesn't he would be considered an outcast and be bullied. "Raff Wishart!"

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... Say what?

The boys made a small path for me to walk. I looked at Gegard. Son of a bitch! It was planned that he would volunteer this year! He gave me an 'I'm sorry' look and I glared at him. If looks could kill then Gerard would have died several times. Because I was not the only one glaring at him, the headmaster, Gerard's family and the teachers of the academy were also beyond angry. I clenched my hands into fists. How dare he-!

"Raff Wishart" Repeated Germana with that annoying capital accent of her.

I calmed down and smirked. If this would be aired on tv (which it would), I had to look confident. "Oh, what a handsome boy!" Germana said when I went to stand beside her. "Hopefully he dies without damaging his beautiful face!" she joked.

I had to restrain myself not to break her neck. "Is there anything else you want to say to your district?"

I looked around. I first looked at the headmaster who gave me a stern look. He wanted me to win for sure. I then looked at my mother who had tears of joy and then at Idor who gave me determined look and then at my sister who had tears of sadness. I pointed a tumb at myself. "Remember me ... I may be young but I'm going to be this year's victor!"

A/N: Phew. This took a long time to write and I had to google some things so that it would still fit in canon. Sooooo, what do you think?

Just to make it clear: This is my very first Hunger games fanfic. I ussually only read HG fanfics, most of them being Finniss(KatnissxFinnick) stories, but hey don't blame me, they could make a pretty great couple XD Anyway, since this is my first HG story I would like some feedback about what I could improve.

This story is the first part of my HG series. The second part will be about Finnick's games, the third one will be about Johanna's games and the fourth part will be about Katniss' games up until mockingjay.

Oh yeah, the pairings will be Johannaxoc (in the sequels...which I didn't write yet, lol) and KatnissxFinnick. (Sorry Fannie and Peeniss' (oh god) fans)

Thanks for reading and don't be afraid to leave a review!