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Chapter 1 The reaping

"Sarah Odair"

I just looked around and it slowly started to sink in that I was the female tribute for district 4. I gasped and I started shaking, it felt like my world fell apart. Everyone was just staring at me and it made me feel awkward. I slowly walked up to the stand, but halfway I looked over my shoulder and saw the big crowd. I tried to find Finnick but it was impossible to recognize him.

Alexander, our major, waved his hand to me and told me to come up. I tried to look confident, but I was dying inside. Could I win the Hunger Games? Am I strong enough? What if I'm going to die?

"Wow, another Odair, we have high expectations of you." Alexander was so excited to have me at the Hunger games. How could he think he could calm me down with saying they expect a lot of me. All I hoped for was for this to be over.

Alexander walked back to the other bowl with the names of the boys in it. He talked, but I couldn't listen. I tried to not break down and just cry. A little boy came walking up to the stand. He was just twelve and he already needed to participate. He smiled at me, but everyone could see he was terrified.

We turned around to walk away. I looked back one more time to see if Finnick was there. I saw a lot of different faces and I looked at them all, but no Finnick.

I got pushed in my back by a peacekeeper and the boy tribute and I got escorted out. I sat alone in that big room. I just looked around and others would say I was calm, but from the inside I was panicking. Staring out of the window, looking up to the clouds I tried to calm down. It felt like I was isolated for days, it felt like it never would end. I was hoping it just was a dream and I could wake up every moment.

"Sarah!"

Finnick stormed in and pulled me into a tight hug. I broke down and started crying, I couldn't help it. Finnick let loose and grabbed my hands.

"You are going to be fine"

I looked at him with tears that filled my eyes and Finnick saw that I didn't believe him.

"I promise"

I didn't know how, but he directly made me feel better. I just smiled at him and he smiled back. The peacekeeper came in and told Finnick to leave. Finnick gave me one last hug and walked away.

As soon as he went away, I felt horrible again. All I could hope for was for him to be my mentor. He could support me and give me tips, but would the capitol allow him to mentor his little sister? I sat there a long time, as insecure as I was and I had no idea of what would come.

After waiting a long time they finally arrived and they brought me to the train.
Inside I saw the boy tribute and Annie, she was one of my mentors. Mags or Finnick, one of them would be my other mentor. I heard a familiar voice and Finnick came walking towards me. I was so happy I couldn't explain. I ran his way and gave him a hug.

"I understand that you are happy to see each other, but we really need to start." Alexander sounded quite irritated and I didn't know why.

"He's right, we have a lot to talk about so have a seat." As Annie sat there she pointed at the sofa. I sat down and waited for Annie to say something, but we needed to wait for Alexander, but he was calling someone. So rude, at first he is irritated, because he needs to wait for us and now he doesn't even care. Why are all people from the Capitol so rude?

After all the waiting and an awkward silence, we finally began with our trip to the Capitol.
We talked for a long time, just to get to know each other. I already knew our mentors, because Finnick was my brother and Annie was his girlfriend, but the boy tribute didn't know them at all. I could see that that made him feel awkward, so I pretended to need to go to the toilet. When I was gone he started talking more and he got to know our mentors. I thought about it and I didn't even know his name. "Hi Sarah!" He said. It made me feel bad that I had no idea what his name was. I said hi back as normal as possible, but it felt weird.

It was late in the night and we were still talking. It was fun, until Alexander started to talk.

"Hi, we are arriving at the Capitol tomorrow so maybe you two little kids need to get some sleep?"

He could be so annoying sometimes. He called us 'little kids' I am 16 I don't consider that as a 'little kid' but maybe he was right this time. It was going to be a busy day tomorrow so I decided to get some sleep.

That night, I had a horrible nightmare about dying in the hunger games. When I woke up I forgot that it all was real. When I opened my eyes and looked around it started to sink in that I was on my way to the Capitol. I tried to fall asleep for hours and it felt like forever.

"Come on kids, time to wake up!" You could probably hear Alexander screaming miles away. I turned around and put my pillow on my head to lower the volume. When Alexander found out I ignored his command to wake up he came to my room and started to talk to me and he was clearly trying to start a conversation. I really didn't want to talk to anyone, even not to Finnick. I started to realize it was real, I was on my way to the Capitol. In a few days I would stand in an arena with 23 other tributes. The idea of only 1 person coming back alive was killing me.

"Kids, breakfast is ready you need to get ready" Alexander started screaming again.

When I got up everyone was ready for the day and I still walked around in my pyjamas. After breakfast I got ready too and before I knew it we arrived to the Capitol.