heyyy everyone! i hope you all had an amazing holiday. I have been really busy, and i am sorry if i wasn't here because i got a new dog and he is sooooooo cute. its a yellow lab.

sorry for all my horrible mistakes, I am just so tired because my dog likes to keep me up at night.

thank you for all who reviewed and has been reading and putting up with my horrible writing. I do think i have gotten better since the beginning.

I will gladly take any writing tips.

Thanks again so much!

-Annie xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxox

Stewert Cotton

District 6- male

Age 14

I collapsed on the hard, cold wooden surface of my bed chamber with the coldness of the wood almost soothing against my skin. For once, I let everything out, all my emotions run free and I didn't care if anyone saw me cry.

The reality of my situation soon sinks in and I accept my fate. Everything I have always known will be gone. I didn't even get to say good-bye to my family properly. My parents just stood in the room with a grim look on their faces and didn't even try to calm me down. There will be no way I will ever be able to live through this. My vision starts to get blurry as my tears flow freely down my face.

I walk over to the mirror in the bathroom and seriously look at myself. All I see is a scared, little, scrawny boy who doesn't have any chance of winning. The boy in the reflection wipes at his red, swollen dark brown eyes and runs his shaking hands through his crimson hair. I have always been good at school and was always considered the smartest in my class, but this isn't the same, reading and fighting are two different things. I won't even get to make it past the blood bath, that's if I am lucky; and chances are, I will be done in a matter of seconds.

The desolation soon fades and anger overpowers it. Rage runs through my blood and I start to blame people I love and care about for what has happened to me. 'It is my parents fault, they were rich enough to send me to training. But No, instead they had to pay for my stupid piano and school lessons. Look what good all that did, I could really use spelling when someone is about to sink a knife into my abdomen.' I couldn't stand looking at myself in the mirror and slam my fist into the glass until the mirror shatters, breaking into a million pieces. I glance at the wood floor and see all of the shinning specks of the glass glistening in the light. I look at my hand that did the damage to the mirror. It was badly cut and the blood started to coat the top of my knuckles. I stare at my hand and watch my blood be dispersed over the top of my knuckles and closer to my wrist with every minute that passes.

I probe the raw bloody skin and pick out the large shards of glass from in my hand. The raw skin burns with the touch of air and I wince when I turn the faucet on over my hand. The water runs over my bloodied hand and the water turns pink underneath it. I look through the wooden cabinets in search for any medical supplies but find none. So, instead I grab a spare hand towel the hung on a metal rack next to the shower.

I press the towel to my hand and applied pressure. The pressure applied made it feel a little better but I felt my hand pulsing from the loose of my blood. I wrap the towel loosely around my hand and tuck the end of the towel underneath.

I walk back to the broken pile of glass on the floor and sweep it up. My hand still hurts and I am sure that once I get to the capital they will fix it up. I think about the life I once had, and if I had a second chance I would do a lot of things differently. For starters I would try to make friends with my free time instead of studying and I would try to do sports and become more involved in my district; but it is all useless, what's past is past and you can't take it back. I look out the window and see the landscape changing as hours pass by and I can't help to feel lonely in this harsh world.

sorry for it being short again. I just didn't know what else to write.

cause i cant think of anything else...

What two colors make up the color green? 10 points( first person gets 20 points!)