Chapter 1: The reaping day morning

I wake up, it's cold in my bedroom since my window is open. I walk to the window to close it. Before I close it, I see that someone talks to Madge, daughter of the mayor of district 12. It's a girl there, she's pretty skinny and isn't very tall. Her hair is long and dark, in one single braid. Her eyes are probably grey, that's how a regular coalminor looks like. But that single braid, it's Katniss Everdeen. There's a boy too, probably Gale. I've always been jealous at him; he is Katniss friend, not me. Sometimes it looks like they are more than just friends. And that's what I want to be to Katniss, but since I haven't told her that I love her, it isn't Gale's fault. I realize that I am staring at them, if she saw me now; she would probably think that I am crazy. Sometimes in school, I realize that I am staring at her. I walk out my bedroom door. My brother Sky opens his bedroom door, like synchronized with me. He grins at me and say "God morning, seen some beautiful Everdeen's out there?" He loves to annoy me with such of things. He loves to make me blush or angry at him. "God morning yourself. Very fun. How could you know that I've seen her?" I grin back at him. "Didn't close your window, right? She could hear you. She probably got a fantastic hearing, since she hunts in the woods, you know". He smiles at me and I know that I blush. I love my brother, but he's very annoying sometimes. Then I realize that he's right. My window is open, and my door was also. Embarrassing.

I walk to the kitchen, my parents sit there, they argue, as always. They can't stop argue. If I wake up and don't hear voices that argue, I would probably be in heaven. "God morning, son", my father says. "God morning", I replay to him. "It's reapingday, so it isn't a god morning" my oldest brother Sam says behind me. He isn't in the games, since he's over the age of eighteen. But he worry for me and Sky, since I am sixteen and Sky is eighteen. But how many slips do we have together? Like twelve slips. Katniss have about twenty, and Gale probably has even more slips than her. I am more worried for her, and her sister, Prim, is probably twelve this year. But I know that Katniss never let her take more slips than the single she have in the games.

Some hours later: The ceremony

Effie Trinket, the annoying woman from the capitol twitter to an audience that doesn't want to hear. Haymitch, the only victor from 12, stagger into the scene. The mayor sighs, he hear the capitol laugh in his ears. Haymitch give Effie a hug, and her wig doesn't look any nice anymore, it didn't look any nice from the first beginning, but now, it looks even worse. She says "Laidies first" and pick a slip from the bowl. Not Katniss, not Katniss Everdeen. She doesn't say Katniss, but she says Primrose Everdeen. Her sister. Katniss will volunteer as tribute, I know that. Katniss is the only one in this district that dare. I hear Katniss scream. She run to her sister and she volunteer as tribute. Prim screams and Gale carry her away to her mother that looks at her oldest daughter that enter the scene. She let a tear find her check when she wraps her arms around her youngest daughter. Katniss is special, not like everyone else in this district. Haymitch enter the scene once again, he talks in his drunk, and he ridicules the capital. He fell of the scene and some paramedics come to help him. Effie twitter about something, but I've stopped to listen to her. When she says "Then, now for the boys" I begin to listen again. Not me, not Sky, please. But things don't seem to go my way today. Effie says happy "Peeta Mellark". It's me. I am terrified. But I enter the scene. I shake my hand with Katniss and remember the rainy day with the bread. Some peacekeepers fallow us in the Justice building, and I am alone in a room.

The first so come is my family. Sam cries. I hug him, and Sky joins in a group hug. My mother says, "Well, district 12 might have a winner this year, she's a survivor that one". It hurts that my own mother don't believe in me, but she is right. Katniss could win. And I want her to. I will help her as long as I am still alive to help her. My father says, "But so are you, son" and looks angry at my mother.

The next to visit is my friend Delly, a blond girl. She cries and says "Peeta, you have to win, to come back to us. Try at least". "So you can get cookies for free?" I joke. She smiles and tell me that I am silly that think that cookies is the reason that we are friends. She walks out the door and smile at me. My other friends from school join me for a while and then I am alone again. I start to cry. Not for my own death, but for Katniss. I want her to win. I won't fallow the games rules. I will protect her with my life when we get to the arena.

When we get to the train station, my eyes are red of every tear that I've cried.

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