Hey this is the first chapter, they will all be different lengths because I'm putting them in parts of events so they will have different word counts. I will try and choose a song every chapter,

the song for this chapter is my best friend by weezer

bye.

I woke up with a strange panicky feeling than I remember what today was. The Reaping. I changed out of my pyjamas and put on my one piece swimming costume and put on a sundress over it. I put on my converse and grabbed my sunglasses. I ran downstairs and grabbed an apple. I went out the front door and closed it behind me. I went to my usual route to the beach but before I go I make a stop to pick up a friend. I go around to the back and open the door where I can greeted with mrs tide.
"Hi mrs tide, is he awake yet?"
"it's 7 o'clock I doubt it. Go on ahead."
I make my way upstairs and stop at his room. I knock on the door,
no answer.
"Andy got your lazy ass up!" I yelled though the door. I herd a muffled 'no' than a small thump which I'm guessing is a pillow hitting the door.
"Anderson I'm coming in!" He know it's serious when I call him Anderson but I think he doesn't care right now. I walk in to he him sprawled all over the bed shirtless and has only boxers on. "Dude get up I need to swim today's reaping." I say with my hands on my hip.
He let out a deep sigh and got into the sitting position." Why must u wake me up, it's only-" he looked at the clock,"7am"
"Oh come on this is the usual time you wake up. Now hurry up" I turned my back to him and looked at the stuff on his wall while he got changed. "After this 2 more reaping until we are free."
"I know, how many slips u have?"
"Six."
"Me too"
I looked down and fiddled with my bracelets. The 3 off them I got from Andy. I remember when he made the first one when it was my fifth birthday, than my tenth and my fifteenth. They are braided pieces of leather with shells clipped on them. The fifth and tenth one aren't the nicest looking ones but it was still the nicest gift I had ever gotten. The fifteenth one is beautiful, it's not just leather and shells but it also has a fat pearl in the centre and smaller ones In between the shells. I remember when he gave it to me I gasped and hugged him for so long and kissed his check. I couldn't stop thanking him and he said it took him a couple of months to finally find the perfect pearl in the middle.

I snapped out of my daze to notice that Andy's calling me. I follow him downstairs and started walking to the beach.
"What was that back in my room? you were frozen and starring at the bracelets I gave you."
"I was thinking about when you gave them to me, and I guess I'm just nervous for the reaping."
"Stop worrying you won't get picked." He said. He raised his hands and played with his shark tooth necklace, which I got for him. I
Remember when my dad caught the shark, when It died I pulled it's tooth out and put it on a necklace for his twelfth birthday. Now whenever he plays with it it means he's nervous. We make it to the beach, kicked off our shoes and started walking to our usual spot. I threw my shoes on the ground and turned to Andy.
"Exited about today!" I said with fake enthusiasm.
"Totally." He said scrunching up his face. He chucked off his shoes and shirt and I took off my dress. We started walking to the water when I pushed him with my shoulder. He turned to me and said playfully "that's it!" And threw me over his shoulder and I yelped. He started running Into the water dragging me with him. He threw me in head first and I surfaced and crossed my arms and put a fake pout on my face.
"Meanie!" I said and splashed him. "Race you to the bouy!" I said and turned to swim. I always feel this rush of power when I'm in the water, it's weird but I feel more powerful and calm in the water. I made it to the bouy just before him smacking it for emphasis. "I win!"
"No fair you had a head start."
"No I didn't"
"Yeah u did."
"No. 't!"
"Yeah ya did."
"Whatever." I said with fake sadness. I swam back to to shore and sat next to our stuff. I looked out in the ocean, the way the waves crashed to shore and the little ripples on the water from the air. Andy started walking to were I'm sitting. I never noticed how nice his abbs are, I quickly flicked my gaze to my bracelets and let my hair cover my blush.
"When should we go back?" I ask as he sits down.
"I think it's eight so I guess in an hour or 2 than we can get lunch."
"I can't eat before the reaping."
I get up, take his hand and motion to the water than we start running into the water. We play for probably an two hours. Just splashing, jumping over the waves and games like that. We really are still kids. Im getting exhausted so I call a time out and lie on the shore, l lie down just were the waves die on the sand. He lies next to me and I look up into the clouds.
I take a deep sigh and ask "Should we get back?"
"I guess we should, we hafto get ready and all, it starts at 11."
I just realised something "Nooooo!" I look at him and he makes a confused face "I have to wear a dress! So not fair!"
He smiles and laughs. He gets up and stands over me "come on, we have to go."
"Noooo." I beary my hands in my face. "I don't want to go to the reaping, it's so boring!" I exclaim. I open my fingers and look at his face which has the 'come on' face. "Noooooo" I groan again. I feel like I'm being lifted of the ground and when I open my eyes I see his well sculpted chest. I wrap my arms around his neck and roll my head back "why must I be so lift-able." I mutter and I earn a snicker from him. We reach our stuff and he gently lets go of me. I put on my converse, dress and we start walking back. I can see kids getting ready, parents hugging them, I just hope no little kids get picked.

We make it to his house I say 'see ya' and I walk to my house. I run upstairs and get dressed, I grab the only dress I have and slip it on. I have to admit I love the dress, it fits perfect. I play with the pink lace at the bottom and look at myself in the mirror. The pink ombré's from light pink to dark pink lace, a small light pink belt under the sweetheart neckline and stops just above my knee. I put my hair in a fishtail braid.

I walk down stairs and I see my older sister "hey destiny, are you coming to the reaping?"
"This is my first year not being in the running so no!" She said, "hey whys your hair wet? Oh where you with Andy." She said Andy in a mocking tone.
"Yes and stop saying his name like that!"
"The boy has to make a move one day."
"No, no he doesn't" I said "But anyway can you please come, please" I said begging.
"Fine lets go."
We were walking to the town square when I saw Andy a couple of Meters in front of me so I called him, he turned around and went wide eyed for a moment.
"Somebody likes your dress." Destiny said in a Singy voice.
"Shut up." I said bumping her shoulder annoyingly.
I said bye to my sister and walked up to Andy.
"Wow. You look amazing." He said smiling.
I looked into his eyes and saw something I have never seen before. I quickly flicked my gaze to the ground and smiled "Thanks." I said. "Um, we should probably sign in now." I said praising myself on how quickly I avoided an awkward situation.

I signed in and went into the 16's girls section. Just standing there I realised that I don't really have another friends besides Andy. I've never had girly talks because I had been fighting, girls had been jealous because I had always had the boys attention without trying. Standing over here I felt so alone, so I looked over to find Andy In the 16's section of the guys area. He was talking with some guys from our classes. I finally caught his eye and I smiles as a sign of good luck, he smiles back and his friends noticed and started playfully hitting him. I made a confused face and he rolled his eyes.

I turned back to the stage to see that our escort Shimmer Ambros was on stage and was yapping about the war and shit. I naturally tuned out until the emotional part.
"District 4's female tribute Is..."She reached into the bowl and picked out a name.