This story came to me after a binge watch of Game of Thrones and i was thinking how about we do a arranged marriage but here in the Hunger Games series. I really wanted to see what it would bring on and i hope that you will read this story and enjoy it. The couples in this story will be Peeta/Katniss, Haymitch/Effie and Gale/OC. Please give this story a chance. Thank you and enjoy.

Chapter 1: The beginning

Katniss laid wide awake in bed unable to fall asleep the whole night. She looked at the clock on her bedside table and sighed. It was 5:15 which was a reasonable hour to get up for a run. After her morning stretch Katniss got out of the bed and hoped into the shower. She let the warm water sooth her muscles which so tense. Nobody who turned or will turn 22 this year will be asleep at the moment. They all will be wide awake thinking what their future will bring to them. She had it better than some of the people from her District. Some where forced to move to an another side of the country. All alone without their families. Today is the day. Today they will meet the person they will have to spend their lives with as husband and wife. Why you ask?

About a century ago the biggest longest and the deadliest war had happened. The war lasted a whole 25 long years, the whole world was at war. Innocents from all countries were killed leaving only one third of the population alive to tell the tale. The damage was so bad that the every country big and small signed a treaty promising allegiance to each other and peace.

USA was taken over by a new government and it is now called Panem. The 50 states where turned into 13 districts and a Capitol. The economy was at its lowest point. The were jobs to be filled in but there were not enough people to do them so the government passed a law that declared anybody who turns 24 to be married in that year with a partner that the government have chosen for you. That is because they need to choose two people that will be compatible both mentally and physically together and eliminate the risk of divorce and bad relationships and to produce the most perfect offspring. In fact divorce is unheard of. Its only given under special circumstances

The government makes every young person do series of test in the beginning of February and on those they chose the best partner for you. On 22nd May you meet your future husband or wife in the justice building.

The girl moves to the districts that her future husband is from so Katniss is grateful that the person she will have to marry is from her districts so she is still close to her mother and sister. She thinks of her friend Madge who had to go District 2 last night.

Katniss was born and raised in District 12 yet she had no idea who her future husband might be. It was not the first time that she cursed her inability to socialise with people besides her best friends Gale and Haymitch and Madge who left yesterday. Maybe now she would know who her husband be. She knows it could not be either one of her best friends. They were all so alike that it was so unlikely. Bedside they were like her brothers so she was thankful that it would not be them.

Once the couple meets in the justice building the girls move to the guys house and from that day the couple has a month to get to know each other before they are presented with some dates to choose from to get married in the next month. The couple than has one year to get pregnant. Katniss leaned her head on the wall of the shower and sighed. She was not ready to become a mother yet and she was expected to have one within the year. Like the slogan said: "Provide Procreate Prosper." She remember her mother and her complication during Prims birth resulting her in inability to have any more children. Katniss was scared to have a child. Will she be a good mother. Can she look after a life that she created with a man she does not know yet. Katniss closed her eyes and took a deep breath to calm down. She was panicking for no reason yet. Her father always said that everything works out the way its supposed to in the end.

Katniss opened her eyed and looked at herself in the mirror. Her grey eyes reminded her of her father and she felt a pang in her chest. She still is not over her father's death that was so sudden and unexpected and turned their lived upside down. Katniss cant think about it and she will not.

Katniss dressed and looked at her room again that was filled with boxes expect her bed and signed. It was her last night in the house. Katniss sat down and looked around her room and memories just swooped in her mind. Her father chasing after her dressed as a cowboy. Her mother braiding her hair. Prim and Katniss having fun in the room. The multiple sleepover with Madge. Getting drunk the first time and the two day hangover she had. Katniss let a lone tear slide down her cheek before she wiped it down and stop feeling sorry for herself. Its a start of something new and she needed to accept that.

Katniss needed to get out of the house, the walls were closing up on her. She needed a fresh air and calm her nerves down and she needed to stop thinking just for one moment. She went out for a run.

Katniss ran at full force for what she felt like hours when in was only 10 minutes. She pushed herself harder than she had ever felt before yet she loved the burning in her muscles it was something else that she was feeling instead if dread. Her lungs were screaming for air yet she still pushed harder just to see how fast can she go. Her head was clear of all of the thinks and she felt light and free. That id what she wanted from the run and when she got to the town square she stopped bending at the waist her had resting in her knees trying to catch her breath.

She stood up and took a swing of water after her breath went back to normal and she saw to figures walking up to her. She recognised them immediately, how can she not, they were her best friend Gale and Haymitch. Both were tall and and handsome and they both had olive skin dark hair and grey eyes just like her. In fact when they were still young they used to pretend that they are sibling they looked so similar.

"Who are my eyes seeing. Its our favourite shorty. Come on and give us a hug." Haymitch roared at her with him booming voice. Katniss had no choice but to smile at her best friend and she walked up to him and gave him a hug.

" I told you i am not short your just freakishly tall." Katniss said letting go if him and looking into his eyes that were full of mischief.

" I cant help it. I'm tall and handsome . I'm a Greek God." Haymitch said and dodges the punch that Katniss aimed at him.

Katniss looked at Gale who stood there not saying anything with a frown on his face. He was always the most quite of the group and the most brooding one. He hated the law and he wanted it gone but there was nothing that he could do. He was just one person in this big big world.

"You okay Gale." Katniss asked quietly looking concern.

"I wish there was no law and i did not marry someone who is a stranger to me. This law is bullshit and its not right!" Gale exclaimed and looked away from the group with an angry look.

"You need to let it go man. I told you before. There is nothing that you can do that will change the law. People were forced to marry long before you were born and they will be forced to marry long after you die. You just need to accept what it is." Haymitch said with an annoyed look on his face.

"So what you are okay with spending the rest of your life with a girl you have never met. What if she is ugly. What if you don't like her. What is she a prepy goody to shoes from the Capitol who will teach you about your table manners" Gale finished with a Capitol accent at the end and narrowed his eyes at his best friend.

"Do you have to be such an asshole. I am worried without your snarky comments so stop and shut up. What if your actually going to fall in love with her and be happy. You don't know what will happen so stop whining like a little bitch." Haymitch said.

"I doubt it." Gale murmured and Haymitch was about to say something more but Katniss decided to step in at that moment.

"Ok guys cut it off. This is not the time to argue. We should be supportive of each other not fighting." Katniss said looking at her two best friends with a crossed look on her face. The guys looked down with a solemn look on their faces before looking at each other and saying sorry.

"I am sorry Gale i know you worried and i know how cranky you can be when your stressed out." Haymitch said getting a narrow look from his best friend and a sign.

"I am sorry too. I hope your woman will be a beauty." Gale said.

"I know she will. Did you see the way i look. I am the most beautiful man that ever walked the earth. Even if she is not the looker i can be beautiful for the both of us." Haymitch said earning a laugh from his two best friends

"I hope Madge will be ok. I hate to see she is with a guy that is not good for her." Gale said and looked worried earning a worried look from Katniss.

"Don't worry guys. She is Madge. She is the sweetest and nicest girl we have known and the guy will fall in love with her instantly." Haymitch said and earned a small smile from both of them.

"Ok i better go and get ready." Katniss said and all said goodbye and left in opposite ways.

When Katniss stepped through the door in her house she could smell coffee and breakfast; her mom must be up. When she went to the kitchen her mom was sitting down at the kitchen table with two cups of steaming coffee and smile in her face. Katniss sat down and her mother took her hands in hers.

"Tell me what you feeling honey?" she said and Katniss just looked at her mother who had gentle baby blue eyes surrounded by wrinkles and a smile on her face that made everything seem better.

"I am so scared mummy. I don't know how to react when i see him. I don't know how i am going to be able to live with a man let alone away from you. I don't know if I will be a good parent. Its to much. I can't handle this." Katniss let her feeling out

"Honey you are the strongest person i have ever met. You took over looking after this family after your father passed away. I was no use to you and your sister. You brought me back. You can achieve anything you want. You are a beautiful and smart young lady and i have the privilege of calling you my daughter. You will handle this." Her mother said and Katniss believed her. She never lied.

"When i met your father he was the handsome bad boy from the Seams and i was a merchants daughter. Who would have thought we could ever fall in love and it it happen. Once i got to know your dad i feel in love completely and this will happen for you to my sweet. Just wait and give yourself a chance to let yourself to fall in love." Her mother continued and they talked more than they should have had but Katniss did not care. Her mother was calming her down, telling her stories from when she was young. They laughed and they cried. It felt so good. Like they have created a new bond that they did not have before and Katniss was very grateful for that.

When they realise what time it was her mother helped Katniss get ready cause she was sure she will be late and she was. Even when she ran she was the last person to get the paper to see in which room she was in. Katniss looked at the paper and took a couple of deep breaths. She was parched but she did not have the time to get a drink yet. She was late as is it. She found the right room her and her heart jumped in her chest. This is was it. She will meet the person she will spend her life with. She took a couple of deep breaths to calm her beating heart and opened the door to her new destiny.

So how was it. Should i continue this story or not. If yes please review if not please dont hate on the story.