District 1 reaping's

Lacie MacKenzie:

"Three two one…go!" In that instance I start out by punching my brother in the stomach, he tilts back a bit so I swoop my leg under him and make him loose his balance. I back up quickly and do a full forced kick to the jaw; he falls down and lands on his back. I fly down and pull his head back and then my father says: stop.

"That was great sweetie. One thing-"my sister cut in.

"Ya you hurt me! I hate this, it's stupid!"

"To you, but I need the training, I'm going into the games and have to be prepared. You know that! So quit whining, you get to do this to Hanalei next year and after that till you go in." I turned around grabbed my sweat towel, and water bottle. I took three huge gulps. It was a normal morning just a regular reaping day. My brother Pride was whining about everything…like normal. I was secretly training in our back yard. Today is the day that I get a shot! I get the spotlight, today is my reaping day. I was about to listen to my dad go on and on because since he's a past victor everything in his eyes are perfect; except what his kids do in training. But thankfully my mom saved me.

"Okay enough training, time for breakfast and then you guys have to get ready!" She said with her loving chirpy voice we all love. As I ran to my house I was thinking about my family. My mom: Mirabelle, my dad: Roshan, my younger brother: Pride who was: 12. Younger sister: Hanalei, who was: 7 and younger sister: Mayleaf, who was: 2. we were the perfect family. Ya we had our imperfections, but so does every other family. It's not like we are angles. But in my eyes we are golden. For breakfast mom and May cooked eggs, bacon, biscuits, and had homemade orange juice, my favorite! We have a new tradition going. For birthdays we always let that kid have whatever they want for the three meals, and we all had to eat it to. So now it's if you're volunteering you get to have a special meal. So I chose this. Most girls in my district are girly, whinny, rich, and straight up babies. Me and my best pal Moon are the only normal ones. Don't get me wrong I'm friends with some of them but not very close. They agitate me; they are scared of bugs, lizards…heck animals! Nothing can't get dirty; nothing can be out of place. I mean how can you have fun like that?! It doesn't make sense. The only other normal kids here are most of the guys. Which Moon and I hang out with a lot. I'm closest to Dylan, Kline, and Sage. But one guy I want to get closer to is Carson Light. I mean we talk and all and hangout but he's not my best guy friend. To be honest I have a major school girl crush on him, but would literally die if anyone found out. After talking about the reaping's and my dad's past games, like we do every year. I went upstairs to get ready. First I took a nice long relaxing shower. I love it when I have privacy. Living in a house with 3 younger, whiny kids can be a pain but I still love them. Once I was done I blow dried my hair. Since we're number one in the Capitols eyes we get some extra stuff every now and again. Once my hair was done I looked at myself in the mirror. I love my hair; it starts out straight and goes into beautiful waves. I like my bangs and all but the fact that I have to keep pushing them to the side, gets annoying! Once I was done I went upstairs another level to my bedroom. Our house was a 2 story house with a basement and attic. The bottom floor was a: living room, kitchen, dining room, bathroom, and kids play room. The second floor was: all the bedrooms and 2 bathrooms. One was for my parents and one was for us "kids". The attic was all mine. We cleaned it up, concealed it…and made it perfect. It was my bedroom, and I loved it. Our basement was just another training area and exercise room. I walked over to my big dresser and pulled out my soft pink dress. It had spaghetti straps and ended at my knees. Once I put it on I just smiled. I am naturally a little tan so this dress just looks fantastic on me. Each year my mom makes me wear an elegant dress color. This year it landed on pink but I wasn't going all out girly. So I added some pearls and navy blue flats. Now you're rockin! I thought. I decided to just leave my hair down, but already my bangs were bugging me. So I found two bobby pins and braided them back. I got downstairs where my mom was in her Sunday church dress that was blue and white polka dots and my dad was in his blue suit; camera ready. They were holding my sister May she was wearing her yellow sundress with white flowers all over it.

"Well aren't you the cutest girl here." I taped her nose and she started to giggle. Then my sister came down stairs in a white strapless dress, and a light blue shoulder cover. Shortly followed by my brother in a dark green dress up shirt, and black pants.

"Picture time!" My mom squealed we got one of us going to the reaping, one of the family, and one of me.

"Well off you go. Have a good time; we'll see you in the good bye room." Said my dad and I led my sibling to the reaping when I caught sight of Moon.

Carson Light:

I started walking with older sister Calliope and my mom Carmel.

"You're going to do fine, I believe in you."

"Thanks mom, but I don't need all that mumbo jumbo." He said with a smile.

"Okay, well run off, we'll see you at the goodbyes." Said Calliope

"Sure thing, bye." Once I got signed in I walked off to my age group and found my best buddies Maze Brown and Talon Blaire.

"Hey my mans." Then we did our three man handshake. "What are we thinking on the ladies this fine day?" I asked them. They both smiled, but Talon spoke up first.

"I think that the top five hottest chicks are: Haley Stein, Krista Phyla, Jene Cook, Bae Whit, and Lacie MacKenzie." I looked around and found all of them except Lacie. "Good work my man. How about you Maze?"

"Well I agree with you on Bae, Jene, and definitely Lacie. Damn she was smoking! But my other two are Moon Richter and JaeJae Kingslee." I started cracking' up! Then they soon joined in. I looked around and found Moon and JaeJae, but no Lacie. Normally she's always with Moon.

"Is it weird that I can't find Lacie? I mean she's always by Moon...plus if she's as hot as you say I don't think that I shouldn't be able to find her. All of a sudden I felt someone fall on me, luckily I caught her.

"I am so sorry! I'm just…uh." She started to get up and whipping off the dirt. "The peacekeeper shoved me, I was just trying to get my brother to his side, and-"

"It's fine…" I trailed off and looked up finally to see it was Lacie herself, and they weren't kidding she looked beautiful. I guess I must've been looking at her funny.

"Lacie." She stuck her hand out and shook mine. "Well thanks for catching me." She said starting to laugh.

"No problem, if you ever need to fall and have someone catch you, just come on over." That made her giggle. Hey she's kind of cute. I didn't have much time after this to talk to her because all of a sudden I was swarmed by girls of all ages, and they were just gawking over me. I looked up for an instant and saw her smile fade to nothing. She just stood their speechless and said one last thing.

"Looks like you've got your hands full…again. I'll see you around" That last part was quiet because she turned away and went to her side.

Shit.

Well I just blew that, thankfully some peacekeepers told them to go.

"Whoa man, I think you like her!" Said Maze.

"Nah, he can't have a serious relationship, he sees 7 girls a week."

"Shut up Talon." I turned around and saw Lacie talking to Moon, then she looked at me; we locked eyes, and then her beautiful set of green eyes were back at the dirt.

"Something about her is just-" I never got to finish my sentence because in that moment our escort: Carla Maple came up on stage in a highlighter yellow unitard with a white 1920's dress on. That was like a million years ago! Gross! Everyone started to applaud and I joined in.

"Ladies and gentlemen. The time has come to select, one courageous man and women; to compete in the 43rd Annual Hunger Games. But first we much watch this brief video that I know you're all going to love to watch again! So here we go."

Once the video was done she spoke again. "Ladies first!" She walked over to the big glass bowls that had the names of thousands of children in them from the ages of 12 and 18. She walked back over to the mic and said,

"Honey Monk" She started to come out of the crowd shaking…I couldn't help but think she was pitiful I mean obviously someone was going to volunteer! Then someone did.

"I volunteer!" Then a pretty, wavy haired brunette took the stage, in a pink dress. Lacie. Great she's going to hate me this whole time…I sure hope the girl from two or four's hot…or I'm screwed...I just hope Lacie knows what she's doing. Then Carla walked to guys bowl picked a name from the guys bowl and walked back to her microphone.

"Finn Brice" Before the kid could get out of his group I volunteered and took the stage. I couldn't tell what Lacie was thinking or feeling because she looked emotionless…like a spirit.

"Ladies and Gentlemen I give you your tributes from District 1! They are fine pair might I add, let's give them a round of applause!" The crowd roared and I saw some man in the back give Lacie a thumbs up, that must've been her dad. I know him! I can't believe I didn't figure this out. Her dad is the Roshan MacKenzie.

"We actually have a destiny in our mists; Ms. Lacie MacKenzie's father is Roshan MacKenzie. Our great victor who won many years ago." Then everyone started to applaud and Lacie smiled, but it faded. I knew exactly what she was thinking, Thanks for stealing the spotlight, dad. I would be pretty pissed too.

"Well were off to the goodbyes, and then to pick up the other victors! Thank you!"

All of a sudden I got this feeling inside, I wasn't familiar with it…and it was confusing…but for some reason I knew it tied up with Lacie. Weird.

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