Wraith Devlin, District Four Male (17)

Wraith was in a state of joy.

He was gonna be let to volunteer for The Hunger Games.

He didn`t have much going in his life. So this was gonna be a great adventure.

Wraith liked adventures. When he was a small child he liked to imagine he would one day go on to join The Hunger Games, or a television show about the sexualities of people and how sex was bad, as he didn't understand why people did that horrendous act.

Now, one of his two childhood wishes was gonna come true. And he was so happy.

He got up from his bed. He hadn`t slept all night because of the excitement he had in his veins, and he wasn't going to let that stop him from volunteering.

He put on his clothes, brushed his teeth and went downstairs.

"Oh my child!" Said his mother right after he started making the breakfast. "I am so happy for you! I know you will kill all them off and you will win that death match everyone talks about!"

His mother was like that, but he loved her anyway. It didn`t matter he would always be embarrassed by her. She was her mother and she loved him, and that`s all that mattered.

He went and said goodbye to his dad and left.

He walked the streets of District Four, the fishing district. He liked and didn`t like it at the same time. The reasons were that he loved eating shark and the reasons for the other thing were-

"Oh! Look who is here" Said Dolphin Mackenzie, his bully of all life. Even though Wraith didn`t go to school, Wraith had to be with Dolphin at all times because their parents were friends and Dolphin didn`t have many friends at school, obviously because of his attitude. "The ugliest guy ever"

Wraith signaled some insults. Wraith didn`t many patience for bullies. He had suffered enough because of his lack of friends and everyone gossiping about him and saying things like

why is he homeschooled, is he diseased? Does he have cancer or something? Ew, don`t say Fisha. Cancer for people who are weak. That`s why he liked being alone. No one bothered him if he was alone.

And the worst is that he didn`t even care about people calling him ugly or weak. No, he didn`t care and he had showed them off that he could do whatever he wanted by becoming the selected volunteer. No one, even eighteen-year-old Dolphin Mackenzie had stopped him.

But oh boy, did he hate him.

"Why can`t you speak, huh. Are you dumb?" Dolphin pushed him

"Are you afraid?" Dolphin pushed him again

"Are you-"

"Oh, please. Stop it Dolphy." A girl who he recognized neared them. She looked younger than them, and if Wraith were her age and did like people sexually, he would bang her, because she was aesthetically good looking.

"Oh sorry, Opal is this your friend? I didn`t know. I am so sorry please forgive me please."

"It`s okay Dolphin. Just go get drunk and I will right back with you."

Dolphin then went into the tavern of the district.

"So, this is the great Wraith Devlin. A kid who can`t defend himself." The fifteen-year-old laughed. Wraith hated her guts in that moment.

You can`t make someone who I am not.

"It`s okay kid. I will defend you in the bloodbath" she laughed and in that Wraith walked away. Everyone knew her parents had paid for her being selected as the volunteer.

Wraith went to the square and waited and waited, till it was time for the reaping. He went there and joined the other kids in the lines. He saw Opal volunteer, proclaim that she was gonna be the best victor District Four had ever had.

And then it was his turn.

He ran up the stage, but then a voice called over

"I volunteer!"

It was Dolphin.

Tormenta looked at him with curiosity and then back and forth between him and the other kid.

"So, I don`t know what to do." The escort said. "This isn`t what I am paid for."

"Just let the mute kid volunteer." Wraith was shocked at Opal`s words. She was betraying her boyfriend for this?

"NO NO NO" Dolphin screamed as he was carried away.

"Good luck, buddy." Opal send a wink towards Wraith

This wasn`t good.

Ryella Aral, District Nine Female (16)

"Ryella Aral!"

Ryella walked up the stage in that moment of terror, and stood next to her crying district partner. She knew that boy, Miller. She had seen once in a while in school, and he was always good to everyone.

In that moment, Ryella envisioned a future where her boyfriend volunteered to save her because he couldn`t stand to be away from her just for a while. They both danced and kissed in each other in the interviews and they would win together, like those two kids from the Seventy Fourth Hunger Games.

But that didn`t happen. Instead, she was left in a unhospitable room with very few lights.

She didn`t care that her parents came to her crying, but that in one moment her mother told, supposedly as a joke, that this will be an opportunity to get money. She didn`t care that her friends were also crying, and wishing her good luck.

To her that didn't matter. The only thing that mattered to her was Max.

When the peacekeepers opened the door and he appeared, she was truly happy. She didn`t know if she was going to die and she wanted to be with her boyfriends all the remaining time she had.

But then, they appeared alongside him.

"Oh Ryella, I am so excited to see you wear those sexy capitol outfits in the Capitol!" said Lace laughing his ass off.

"Ryella, when you are in the Capitol, please send me a note saying how your death is?" Said Corny. "Oh wait, you won`t because you will be dead!"

They all laughed. Corn, Lace, Sax, even Max giggled a bit. Ryella didn`t care, what mattered was that her boyfriend was there.

"Oh Max, are you gonna tell her you looooooooove her and that you will die without her!?" Sax spoke up

"Nah, I am good." Ryella still couldn`t understand after all these years how Max changed himself when he had other people, namely bosses or friends, around him. It`s like he turned into a more difficult man to deal with. Ryella, however, stood her ground. She still loved Max no matter what she did. He was the only person that truly loved her and she wanted to make the most out of these goodbyes.

"Psst, Ryella, could you give these to the redhead avox in the train?" Sax said handing her a mini bag of drugs.

"Oh-Oh okay." Usually, Ryella would talk and talk, but right now she wasn`t feeling like she wanted to talk to anyone. No one except Max

"Max, I-"
"Yes, sexy girl?" Ryella frowned

"Don`t call me that."

"OHHHHHHH" Said all the other three boys. "RELATIONSHIP PROBLEMS!"

Max raised an eyebrow at this.

"Bro, Max, you got to show her who is the man."

"Yeah, Max, tell her who should be in the kitchen."

"Maxim, slap that bitch!"

Max looked shocked. "I-I-"

"Yeah Max, slap that nasty bitch!"

"Max, slap that ass!"

"Destroy that booty!"

Ryella felt a hand punch her in the face in that moment. But she didn`t care. She still loved her boyfriend. He was just being pressured to do something he didn`t want to do. And she was okay with it, because Max loved her.

The peacekeepers arrived soon after, and Sax, Lace and Corn left fastly, Max tried to stay behind.

"I love you, don`t forget that." Max kissed her forehead.

"Time to leave kiddo." Said the peacekeeper behind the door.

"I love you too." Said Ryella. And it didn`t matter to her that Max will probably mock her or cheat on her in a party his friends make, or that he will be high and might forget about her for a while.

That all didn`t matter, cause Ryella felt loved.