Chapter 4

Thresh and I are shoved into separate rooms to wait for visitors. I look around my room while I wait. It's decorated nicely with pale blue walls and dark blue furniture. It looks more like a district 4 room though; it doesn't fit into the all green district 11. I sit on one of the leather sofas in the corner of the room.

After a short while my family come rushing into my room crying. They all hug me at once so I feel suffocated. Most of them are in tears and I end up comforting them even though it's meant to be the other way round.

Alyssa comes up to me, the only one who isn't crying. She hugs me round the waist and is fighting back her own tears trying to stay strong for me.

"You have to win Rue," she says

"I will try my very hardest to win," I say

My father comes over to give me some last minute advice.

"Rue, you know how to survive. You have got food for us for 3 years and you have the best edible plants knowledge I know. You have the best aim with a slingshot and you fly round those trees. Don't let them ignore you Rue, show them that you aren't just a small girl from eleven and you can win," he says

Suddenly the times up and they are all herded out by Peacekeepers and I hug them all for probably the last time a wave good bye as they are taken away. My last glimpse of them before I die.

My last visitor is my best friend Madison. We hug each other for a long time just in silence and I tell her to move on without me as I probably won't be coming back. There are bigger and stronger people from all the districts and I know I don't stand a chance.

She leaves after a tearful goodbye and I am alone again.

Soon enough though, Icicle comes in to take me to the train where I will apparently meet my mentor Seeder and my partner with the child we will have to take care of. You can see in her eyes that she pities me and I suspect that I will be the only twelve year old this year. I have no chance.

We cross the street to the train station where the massive capitol train waits to take us to our deaths. Many people in the crowd are crying for me including my family who are at the back waving at me. I wave at everyone silently saying goodbye.

Icicles arm is around me as we enter the train which is magnificent. I thought the justice building was well decorated but this is a whole different story. It is beautiful. There is a massive lounge compartment with lush sofas and a massive TV. There is a dining room with every kind of food imaginable with a huge buffet available. You can get room service and there are people there to wait on you hand and foot. I am almost drooling at the sight of all this though I stop myself quickly.

Icicle tells Thresh and I that our Partners and the children are waiting in our rooms to greet us so, Thresh and I head down the train to meet our allies.

I turn the handle on the door and walk in to my room. It is beautiful just like the rest of the train but what draws my attention is the red haired girl on the floor playing with a child who looks around 4 years old.

The child notices me first smiling at me as I watch them. The girl notices me after a minute and turns around.

"Hi I'm Rue Amides," I say.

"Ginny Weasley," she replies.

"One of my sisters has the same name as you,"

Cool it means a flower just like your name I believe,"

"Yes all my sisters are named after flowers except Ginny,"

"Who is this then," I say.

"I'm Skye and I'm four," (ooo guess who) Skye says.

"Hi Skye I'm Rue,"

"I like your name it's pretty."

"Thank you," I reply

"Can I see your doll," I say

We sit on the floor for a while playing with the dolls for a while and I see that Ginny is a really nice person plus she makes Skye and I laugh.

Soon, Icicle calls us for dinner. She tells us that we won't be in the capitol until early morning as we are the furthest away apart from District 12.

We sit down to a wonderful dinner. I pile my plate up and then I eat until I'm stuffed and I can't eat another morsel.

It is a task to feed Skye and Threshes child Amy. Harry who is Threshes partner and I are assigned to this job and when they have finished most of it is on the floor and Icicle is giving us dirty looks from across the table while Chaff, Seeder, Ginny and Thresh are giggling at us.

I carry Skye out and go and wash her hands and face in my bathroom.

Then we go to the lounge and sit down where everyone else is already waiting so we can watch the reaping's. I pull out my notebook and sit ready to take notes on the tributes which may be useful later.

The reaping's start and I immediately recognise district 1in the background. The two tributes, Marvel and Glimmer are average careers nothing special though they look like they will get 8-9s. The girl in particular is extremely beautiful with long blonde slightly curly hair and the district 1 blue eyes.

Next comes District 2 which is the masonry district the tributes here look like they have trained with weapons since they could walk. Cato and Clove look brutal though Cato looks slightly insane, He is smiling but it's a malicious smile like he can't wait to start killing.

Three is nothing special and four is a disappointment. The tributes there are a thirteen year old boy who is probably the same height as me and a girl who is young and doesn't look very strong at all.

From five there is a red haired girl that looks smart and also kind of like a fox.

6, 7, 8, 9 and 10 are not very interesting though the boy from ten has a crippled foot.

Then comes our reaping and I am glad to see that I look brave when I stand on the stage and thresh looks strong and fearsome so the other tributes will know that he is a threat.

District twelve has another surprise in store. The sole mentor Haymitch Abernathy is so drunk who falls off the stage and the escort looks slightly disgruntled as Haymitch nearly pulled her wig off. Back to the tributes there is a volunteer for the first time in 12. A girl called Katniss Everdeen volunteered for her sister Primrose who is twelve like me. She looks okay and the boy Peeta Mellark looks strong and has very big muscles. They both look like contenders this year.

I was right though, I am the youngest this year and possibly the smallest as I look around ten years old.

After the reaping's, the TV is switched off and we are all sent to bed by Seeder. Ginny has got her own room and Skye has her own room off mine. I put Skye to bed first and then crawl into my own bed. I am asleep as soon as my head touches the pillow.

In the morning I am woken by Icicle saying "Up up Up! It's going to be a big big day. I quickly speed around getting sky dressed and then myself. We run into the lounge and too the window where we can finally see the capitol people waving in at the window.

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