Osiris Horatio- District Ten male
Everyone has secrets. Some don't matter, like a man who doesn't think his wife is pretty anymore but has no intentions of doing anything with the women he looks at. Others are big secrets, but they belong to little people. I didn't care if a penniless button seller once killed a Peacekeeper who followed her home at night. She didn't have anything I wanted, so I left her secrets alone. But if I wanted to, I could. If I wanted to, I could blow the lid off just about anything. No one in Ten was safe from me.
Last one yay!
It wasn't always like this. I used to be a normal boy, with normal desires. And I had my own normal secrets, and that was how I learned how dangerous they could be. Argus was my best friend. We went hunting together, for little things no one would miss and the Peacekeepers didn't care about, like muskrats and pigeons. That was a secret, too, but it wasn't what started it all. It was something so much less dirty.
It was Argus that did it. I was only doing what was natural. I'd seen the way he looked at me, and how he valued the time we spent alone in the woods. We were there almost every day. It was inevitable that someday one of us would act on it. I sidled up to him like a cat, and I did what we'd both wanted to do for so long.
The kiss lasted less than a second, and it undid everything. Argus' face shattered me like glass- the way his eyes went hard and his lip curled up as if at some putrid stench. He ran from the forest, leaving me wondering what went wrong.
The next day, everything changed. People skirted around me in the halls, laughing as they left. They clustered against the walls, tittering and looking at me, then looking away when I looked back. I didn't think it was possible. I didn't want to think it, and I refused to until one of them came up to me.
"You actually thought Argus would go for someone like you? What a freak," the boy said.
He told. For the second time, he broke my heart. It was then that I knew exactly what the world was like, and just how valuable secrets were.
Ever since then, I'd never given a single one away. Instead, I collected. I knew everything about everyone. No one noticed me watching, because after the rumors died down and blew over, they forgot all about me. I never fell in love again and I never made another friend, because I knew what they could do to share. Friendship meant sharing. I would rather take.
Aspasia Sommer- District Ten female
There was so much good in Ten. There was good in all of Panem, but that didn't erase the bad. Good was so much harder to nurture than bad. So many people wanted to help, but wanting to help wasn't enough. People were so generous with their money and time, but they did things that didn't end up helping at all.
My best friend Periko and I were determined to make a difference. We sat on either side of the upended hay-twine stool that served as the table in our headquarters in an overgrown field and studied our list.
Secret Help District Ten Project
By Aspasia and Periko
Ideas:
Secretly buy things for people
Learn how to be veterinarians so we can fix animals for free
Scholarships for poor kids
Tesserae relief fund
"You know what all of these have in common?" I asked Periko.
"Money?" he asked.
"Money," I said. Neither of us were poor, but we weren't rich either. It was going to be hard to give a lot of money away if we didn't have a lot of money.
"We need to figure out how to get a lot of money," Periko said.
"If there was a way to do that, everyone would have done it," I said, thinking about something. "We need a way to do a lot with a little bit of money."
"Like budget?" Periko asked.
"What about… instead of giving money away, we loan it?" I asked.
"Then we're just like the banks! Everyone will be in debt," Periko said.
"Little tiny loans," I said. "Enough for someone to buy a cow or fix a fence," I said. "We give the people the money and tell them it's like a loan. They can take as long as they need, but once they get it paid off, instead of giving it to us, they give someone else a loan."
"So the one loan keeps on going," Periko added.
"It won't be just us helping," I said. "It will be everyone helping each other."
"That's way better than the veterinarian thing," Periko said.
This one's really short. I didn't plan it, I just got my point across in fewer words this time.
Aspasia: an average sized teenager with a slightly above average build. She's of Middle Eastern and Mediterranean descent and has wavy black hair with tan skin and chocolate brown eyes. Her hair parts in the middle and her curls frame her face.
Osiris: tall and slender, his skin is olive. He has cat-eyes, which have the color of sparkling emeralds. A nice contrast to his darker skin. Osiris also has very long chocolate brown hair that falls to his shoulders. He likes to keep it up in a messy bun. He wears round glasses. Although he doesn't exercise much, he has a naturally muscular build. Osiris has two ear piercings on his left ear and wears a necklace with a tooth attached to it ( Not his tooth but of some wild animal, he hunted down with his best friend ). He wears a lot of fur from animals that he has hunted down.
That's funny, they're both Mediterranean.