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Chapter 4:
The facts that the reaping is tomorrow hasn't really affected me. My District is one of the most populated and this year, i don't have to take tessarae, limiting my chance of being chosen. I still have butterflies though.
I got outta bed and got dressed ready to go work. I might as well start early today so i can get home early for dinner tonight. Every year before the reaping my family, My Dad, My Mom, and my twin sister Mona, have a family dinner. We do it so we can have one last family meal in case Mona or I get reaped. It's kind of depressing if you think about it, but it ensures we'll always be together as a family, no matter where we are at.
As soon as I get to the fields to start working, they tell me that the district has a day off today. I found it odd but went home.
"Hey mom! I'm home! The district had a day off today!" I yelled when I got home.
I walk into the kitchen to see my parents sitting at the kitchen table looking ashen-faced. The last time I walked in on this setting was when my 4 year old brother drowned in the lake last year. My stomach knots itself up as my mom lifts her head and saw her eyes were red and puffy.
"Mom, what happened?" I worriedly asked.
"It's Mona."
My stomach feels like somebody was hitting me over and over again.
"W-what happened?" I stuttered.
"She was taken. She was on the way to find you and tell you that we have the day off and a little boy saw someone take her, but he couldn't identify them." My mom said with tears running down her pale cheeks.
Not Mona. My twin. She's the only one who always knew what I was going through and helped me no matter what. I couldn't believe somebody could do that. Especially with my parents already losing one child, and still remembering it like it was just yesterday. My stomach is in such a knot by now that I can't take the pain.
I fainted and crumpled to the kitchen floor.
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