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Reaping For District 10

Keaton Pulido

I woke up in my own puke. At least I think it was my own puke. I couldn't be too sure, last night was all hazy. It had been a while since I went out partying and I definitely overdid it last night. I went with Michael and Ray, we had so much fun, but now I am starting to regret it. I left the puke and went to have a bath, trying to remember something important I had forgotten. It was definitely important, I just couldn't think what it was.

I washed and put on some scruffy clothes that I wore yesterday. I felt like death. I went downstairs to have my breakfast, it was eleven o'clock and I had to be somewhere important, I just couldn't remember where or what it was. My parents weren't in the house, they rarely were. Millie. My mother and Jorje, my father, didn't really talk to me much or spend time with me. I was kind of an accident; they never wanted children so they avoid me more and more as I become older and more independent and able to look after myself. My parents say they don't avoid me but I know they do, why hang out with me?

I had started relying more and more on my friends over the years, Michael is like a brother to me now. I have pretty much grown up without my parents so I don't really depend on them like some other kids do. At the reaping I see kids hugging their parents and their parents wishing them good luck, but I'm just on my own or with Michael and Ray most of the time. We're usually together a lot at the reaping-

I cursed as I remembered where I was supposed to be. It was the reaping today. I ran upstairs and changed in to a blue dress shirt and black dress pants, ready for the reaping. I wasn't late or anything, it started at two o'clock but my friends and I liked to hang out a bit before so we could cheer each other up.

I found Michael and Ray walking around the district.

"You look like shit." Michael said as I walked up to him. He was the type of person who just said what he thought. He was usually really loud, like me, and he swears a lot.

"So do you." Was my reply.

"Did your parents find out about the party?" Ray asked. Ray was the smarter, quieter one of us. He loved to party, like Michael and I, but he was the one who usually kept us from doing something stupid that we would seriously regret later on.

"Nope, I don't even think they noticed I was gone," I smiled, "Did yours?"

"Yep, and now I'm grounded after the reaping." Ray's parents weren't like mine; they actually cared about what he did.

"And I am also grounded," Michael added, "thanks to some fucking idiot at the party who told my parents."

"Who was it?" Rye asked.

"I don't know but when I find out I'm going to- to- I don't know what I'm going to do, but I'll think of something."

We all laughed at that. Then we heard it. The bell, the one that told us it was time to make our way to the reaping. Four kids would never make it back home.

There was a moment of silence across the district. The same silence that there was every year, when kids realised that this could be the last time that they see their family and friends.

Ray left to say goodbye to his family and Michael and I walked to the reaping.

"Pick me if you're reaped." Michael told me out of the blue.

"No." I replied instantly.

"You have to, there is no one else to take and it's not as if Ray volunteered himself."

"You're like a brother to me Michael, you know that. I can't take you."

"It doesn't make a difference anyway, none of us are gonna get reaped, so just say you'll take me."

"Only if you'll take me."

He paused. "Ok, fine then."

"See, look how easy that was. You had a full conversation without swearing."

Michael laughed. We stood together in the fifteen year old boys section and Ray joined us.

The escort walked on stage. She was called Flavia Fleur Flinkleferry. There was no way that that could have been the name her parents gave her. I just couldn't accept it. She must have changed her name.

As you would expect, with a ridiculous name like that, one must have a ridiculous outfit. So Flavia walked to the stage dressed, literally like a pom pom. Pink and puffy are the only two words I can think of to describe her. She was just different shades of pink. Her eyes and lips were more of a darker, reddish pink, while her skin was a bright pink. Her nails and hair were florescent pink and she had a tattoo of a pink fairy on her shoulder. She was also covered in piercings, which, in my eyes, is just gross. Her hair was somehow tied up into a ball. Just imagine someone with a pink ball on top of their head. Her dress thing was a pom pom. There were just her arms, legs and head sticking out of the pale pink pom pom. There were little strips on a pom pom that covered her... parts. So, let's just say I'm glad it's not a windy day.

"Welcome to the reaping!" I think she sits in a pink room and inhales helium before she comes on stage.

"I'm going to get this over real quick for you babes!" She calls everyone babes.

"The girl this year is Lillian Kai! Who will you be taking with you in to the arena Lillian?"

There was no answer.

"Yoo-hoo Lillian, where are you?"

There was hissing from the twelve year old section, then yelling for her to come up. Peacekeepers dragged the poor girl up on stage. I didn't know her, she didn't go to school. She was small and had dirty blond wavy hair and big grey eyes. She has freckles that run across her pale skin and lots of scars from working on the farms.

Then the weirdest thing happened next. One of the most popular kids in school volunteered to go with her. Levi Willis, a strong looking guy with shaggy blond hair actually volunteered for her.

"Now for the guys, Keaton Pulido."

"Shit." I heard Michael whisper.

I walked to the stage without freaking out.

I said I would take Michael with me and then we were taken in to the justice building.

Ray was the only one to visit me. He brought me my brown leather necklace for good luck. It had been passed down through my family and I was glad I had it now. We hugged and ray left. My parents never visited me. I had never realised that they hated me that much.

I was escorted to the train and, as the train pulled away, I looked out of the window and saw my parents there, stood together, watching the train pull away and taking one last look at their son.

Lillian Kai

I woke up to silence. The same thing that I woke to every day. It wasn't a bad thing. I got used to the quiet. I wasn't completely alone, though. I had my animals, they were my family now. My first family all died when I was seven, I have nothing now. I was forced to go to school when they died, but I dropped out. I remember everyone's reactions when I went to school. They all ignored me, like I didn't even exist. No one even looked at me and they all avoided me. Except this one boy. He never really talked to me, but he didn't avoid me, it was the only thing that kept me going really.

Now I'm 12 and old enough to be reaped. I have been living on the farm for a long time with my animals. I have started to take tessere for them now that I'm old enough. It's normal for me now, living on the farm, alone.

I changed into my reaping outfit. It was my first reaping, so I just picked out the nicest clothes that I own, a ripped blue plaid shirt and kakis. I then just did what I do every day.

I fed all of my animals and I gave them water, then I took an egg from the hens and ate it for breakfast. I milked the cows and gathered some more eggs. I drank some of the milk before taking it and the eggs in to town.

People looked at me funny as they always did in the town, that's why I lived further away and on my own. I suppose it is a strange sight, a twelve year old girl in town trying to sell milk and eggs. People still bought them though. I had some of the best milk and eggs in the whole of the district. I didn't care what people thought of me, as long as they bought my milk and eggs.

Once I had sold everything, I went around town getting everything that I would need. I bought bread, food, some material and some hay. That was all I needed. I still had some money left over, so when I got home, I put it in a little jar that I had for my savings. I had almost one hundred dollars in it now. I had been saving for five years. Just a little bit of change left over every time I went shopping and now I was near one hundred dollars and I couldn't be happier.

I sat down on my chair and thought about it for a minute. There was nothing else to think about, I was actually really bored. Maybe I could spend the money on a television, or some books. Just something to keep me entertained. I had my animals, but they can't keep me entertained all of my life.

I wish I was like the rest of the children in my school; they all had a family and friends. I was just on my own; the only thing I had was a house and animals. I was thankful for it though. I could have very easily ended up without any of that, I could still end up without all of that. My family left the house and animals to me and no one even knows that I live on my own, well, no one important. I don't mind people knowing, it's just certain people would send me to the orphanage, then I would lose everything that I ever had.

I put on my necklace. I had a white gem on it. My mother had given me the necklace before she died; now it's the most important thing in the world to me. I missed my family so much. I am just so completely lost without them; sometimes I don't know what to do with my life anymore. I'm just going to grow up alone, with nothing.

Or, if I'm reaped, I won't grow up at all. It's obvious that I will die as soon as the games begin if I'm reaped. I don't stand a chance. At least I'll see my family again. That's the one thing I want most in the world, the one thing that I don't have.

Who would I even take with me in to the arena? I had no loved one and I couldn't take any of my animals, it was probably against the rules. What would happen to my animals when I'm gone? Would I be buried? Would anyone miss me? Probably not.

The bell went and I made my way to the reaping for the first time. I stood with some other girls and the escort walked on the stage.

I knew her name from town, she was Flavia Fleur Flinkleferry. That was easily the most ridiculous name that I had ever heard in my entire life.

Flavia was wearing a pink costume. She was also pink, with mink hair and pink nail varnish and just so much pink. The people from the Capitol never cease to amaze me.

"Welcome to the reaping!" She said in the most high pitched, squeaky voice I had ever heard.

"I'm going to get this over real quick for you babes!" Babes? Really?

"The girl this year is Lillian Kai! Who will you be taking with you in to the arena Lillian?"

Me? That wasn't me. It must have been someone else who just hadn't heard their name. Poor soul.

"Yoo-hoo Lillian, where are you?"

Someone jabbed me hard from behind. It was me who had been reaped this year.

I couldn't go up on stage. I just couldn't bring myself to get up there. In just two weeks I'll be dead, I don't want to die.

"Get on the stage you idiot!" Someone hissed at me.

"Go already!" Someone shouted and shoved me.

Peacekeepers swarmed around me then, dragging me up to the stage.

I just gaped at what happened next. The guy who didn't avoid me at school volunteered to go with me. Levi Willis he was called. Why would someone as popular as him volunteer for something like this? If he was ever reaped, he could probable get someone to volunteer for him. I was still gaping stupidly at him as he was stood on stage.

"Now for the guys, Keaton Pulido."

Keaton walked to the stage. He was quite tanned and he had black hair and hazel eyes. He picked someone called Michael to go with him on to the arena. It looked like they'd planned it.

We were escorted to the train. I could have gone to the justice building, but there was no one there to visit me.

I wondered what they'll do with my animals. I felt suck thinking about it. They'll probably slaughter them, sell my house and my food. They'd take the money that had taken me five years to save up for.

I curled up and burst in to tears. I really did have nothing anymore. Everything I had worked for in my entire life had just gone. Forever.

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