So this is my first Fanfiction sorry if it is not that good but it would mean a lot to me if you would bear with me and read the entire story as it comes out;)
Chapter One Life
I wake to the smell of porridge, my cat Ginger curled up next to me, life was good or at least I wish it was good but living in district twelve it is almost impossible to have a "good" life.
From my bed I watch my seven-teen year old sister, Lilly make breakfast, her light touch always makes things taste better. "Swan come on its getting cold I know your awake don't make me get you at of bed myself" don't you dare I tell her back. Whenever she says that she tickles me till I can't breathe even though I am fifteen and two years younger than her she still has seniority. I'm awake you don't have to get me up I tell her. "Good" she retorts.
I get dress in a simple pale yellow dress my dark auburn hair lying on my shoulder and making the yellow brighter my comparison. I go to the window hoping to see the sun but yet again the sky is dark with clouds threatening rain. "Come on Swan hurry up if you don't eat now you won't be able to eat before school" Lilly says her lighter auburn hair complimenting the royal blue dress.
I sit down to eat, but after a few bites my cat starts meowing for her food. Here is you breakfast Ginger, I give her some scraps from dinner yesterday, just be quite I'm thinking. "What are you thinking about" my sister says teasingly. If you really want to know here I'm thinking about a place like the Capitol but no rules, no barriers, and especially no hunger games, nothing but freedom I say. "Well if you want that go find us a miracle because that would be nice" Lilly says. I keep thinking while I finish up breakfast till I'm disturbed by my best friend Monarch. "Ready to go Swan" "Yep just finishing up "I say. Oh sis just a reminder but I'm hanging out with Katniss after school if you know what I mean. On Wednesdays and Fridays Katniss takes me into the woods and I hunt with her.
When the door is shut behind me I feel the emptiness in the house my mother trying to earn some extra coins working with the cobbler and my father working in the mines I rarely see my parents. My thought is cut short when I feel rain drops hitting the top of my head and landing on the tip of my nose and someone tugging on my skirt " come on Swan come on before we get to wet" Monarch says. We walk into the school house I see Griffin and smile at him but he doesn't notice so I continue to my class room. He never seems to notice I mean I give him some of my game to give to is parents at the butcher shop and that is the only time I seem him actually look at me.
Walking into my class I bump into venture or my "boyfriend" as my sister calls him. "Hi Venture" I say. He smiles and waves back at me. My teacher Mr. Finch walks in. "Hello class to day we will be learning all about the Hunger Games for the reaping is tomorrow so there shall be no school. "Yes no school I hate being locked up in a scruffy house all day instead of being outside but we won't have school tomorrow because of the reaping" I think to myself. I look up and see my best friends Monarch and Venture's smiles disappearing. We sit through an hour long lecture by the only victor still alive from district twelve.
As I walk to my next class I see Katniss one of my sisters friend even though she is a year younger than Lilly I still look up to Katniss her ability to hunt without being caught and that she take time out of her hunting time and her time with Gale to take me hunting even though I am only a year younger than her. I think taking time from hanging out with Gale is the biggest sacrifice because I see the way she looks at him and vice versa.
As we head into the wood Katniss whispers "If earthier of us get reaped we have to stay strong" As we near the fence we listen for the electricity running though the fence but as always there is no electricity. We slip under the fence and head in to the woods.
We grab our bows and arrows from the hollow log. We start walking to the lake stopping now and again. By the time we get to the lake Katniss had taken down three squirrels, a rabbit, and a few prairie chickens to trade at the hob. I killed three turkeys and two rabbits to trade at the hob as well. I see Gale setting a snare he tried to teach me how to set a snare but I gave up after failing twenty times if I had to set a snare I could but I would rather use my bow, Hunting Knife. He hangs out for a while till dinner time.
I say goodbye to Gale, and Katniss and I head to the hob to trade. I have always feel uneasy at the hob but Katniss feels at home so I follow along. We head over to greasy Sae's booth. Katniss trades her rabbits and most of her prairie chickens to her and gets fifteen coins; I trade my killings and get ten coins. I keep two turkeys with me; Katniss keeps her squirrels to trade to trade with the baker.
Katniss and I split ways she heads to the bakery and I head to Griffins house he always wants my turkeys. Griffin is the son of the butcher so I get a few coins for a turkey from him. I get six coins from my turkey we shake hands and I leave.
I walk back to my house and put my turkey on the counter. I'm alone in the house on Wednesday Lilly helps with the cobbler and always has dinner ready for me because after I come back from hunting I'm ready to sleep. I change into some old comfy clothes eat and lie down in bed. My cat comes by and sleeps with me. I fall asleep thinking about what will happen tomorrow.
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