District 9

I flick my wavy brown hair out of my eyes. Who do you like? What kind of question is that, wow my brother has lost it, of course I don't like anyone. I have too much on my plate already.

"Nohea! Did you take the cheese rolls out yet?" I shout to my brother, he calls back "No!" Ugh of course he hasn't, he never does anything…no that's not fair, he cleans the dishes, makes the cakes, ices the cookies, sweeps the floor, and paints the sign every six months. Never mind, maybe I'm the lazy one; but whatever I don't have time, I have to make all the bread and work the register and still have time to get ready for the reaping. Crap I forgot about the reaping, as I bend down to get the fresh bread out of the oven the chime on the door rings, "We'll be open at ten." I call out.

"No, it's us! We figured you could use some help" our two best friends, Lila and Chase call out.

"Hey guys!" Nohea says, walking into the kitchen.

"So what can we do?" Chase asks giving me a wink, it's an ongoing joke between us to pretend we have feelings for each other to annoy Nohea, because he hates the thought of other guys holding my hand and hugging me, which is something Nohea and I do a lot because we're so close.

"So why don't you go get ready and we'll take out the rest of the bread." Lilia tells me and I agree. So I walk upstairs and slip on my favorite blue dress with some flats. As I walk downstairs they all stare at me,

"What?" I ask, my eyes going wide, afraid there is a rip in my dress.

"You look…fantastic." Nohea tells me, which is a huge compliment because he is always brutally honest.

"I told you my girl is a knock out!" Chase says joking, but it still causes Nohea to glare at him.

"You do too." I tell my brother, because he always does, he's one of those guys who looks great in everything. But he just laughs and says "I'm not even dressed yet." I giggle, and put on an apron, I have one last batch of cookies to make.

As we walk to the town square Nohea squeezes my hand, he always gets nervous on Reaping Day.

"Okay see you later." I say to my brother. As Lilia and I walk over to our section. While the mayor and our escort give their speeches I wonder how Nohea would take it if I was reaped, although he tries to act tough, like me, he isn't,he probably wouldn't take it well. Finally our escort calls out the girl tribute's name.

"KANINI DARLING! COME ON UP KANINI DARLING YOU ARE ONE LUCKY GIRL!" shouts our escort whose name I can't remember. I feel my legs move forward and I shake the escorts had.

I hope Nohea takes it well.

Kameron Forrester

"I love you." My to-be-fiancée, Tiama tells me as I go into the kitchen to get something for us – and the baby – to eat, when I come back Tiama's hand is on her stomach, I can tell she is deep in thought, but I kiss her on the forehead and give her her food.

"Is this okay." I ask, afraid that what I gave her was on the very long list of things you can't eat when you are carrying a baby.

"It's fine!" she laughs, "really Kam, you have turned to mush ever since you found out about the baby."

"Well, I want it to be okay. I mean it's ours!" I still can't believe that in nine months we will have a child of our own.

"I love you" I whisper to her as we sit down on the couch, I notice she sits down with her legs crossed pretzel style.

"Um, Tiama… I have a weird question for you, why do you keep sitting with your legs crossed, I mean even on the kitchen chairs you sit like this, why?" I ask trying to put it sweetly. She laughs at my stupid question.

"I don't know, it just feels right." I laugh, we've been doing this a lot lately, me asking stupid questions, usually referring to the baby, and her laughing, and then both of us laughing.

"Come on." She says getting up, "we need to get down to the town square." She grabs my hand and pulls me out the door and into the warming sunshine. It's a short walk to the town square and when we finally get there we stay together, it's our last year and I wish I could just skip today and go ahead nine months, Taima is going to be an amazing mother, and she will be so happy. I watch as the poor baker girl walks up on stage, I remember back before Taima I thought that girl was so gorgeous and she still is. I feel bad but I practically shout with joy that it's not Taima, I don't know what I would do if it was, maybe try and run away with her, into the woods. I'm so busy thinking about what I would do that I don't notice that they are ready to reap the male tribute.

"KAMERON FORRESTER!" our escort, Jenkie Jenkins calls out. I hear Taima let out a strangled cry, but I give her a kiss on the cheek and walk up to the stage. First I shake Jenkie's hand and then Kanini's.

I am going to make it back; for Tiama, for me and for our child.

Hey sorry it took so long to update, I became so busy with school and then Christmas! I am really sorry that it is only 9 – 10 I started 11 but then realized I'm missing info on characters from there. So 11 and 12 will be up soon! Please review!