Mercedes Swift, 17, District 8 female
I open my eyes and let out a loud yawn as I look up at my chandelier that my daddy got for me and I smile as I just want to lay on this super comfy bed and be under this amazing air conditioner all day! I promised my friends that I'd go shopping with them today and I sigh aloud. I sit up from my very comfy bed and I can see myself across the room on my diamond plated mirror as I smile brightly. Even when I wake up, I'm still pretty! I'm totally rocking this body!
My daddy is the wealthiest man in this district and he of course gets me whatever I want because why not? I'm pretty and I deserve it! I look at my beautiful room but it's so messy! I have clothes, shoes and jewelry all over the place but I just don't feel like cleaning it up, why should I? A pretty girl like me will just get herself all dirty cleaning up this room and I'm not having that! I'll tell my mommy to clean it up. I haven't cleaned this room in months and my mommy WILL do it if I tell her too! Why? Cause I'm pretty and I ALWAYS get what I want!
I want to go downstairs and get some breakfast but I don't feel like it. A pretty girl like me should never starve though so I have the finest idea!
"Daddy! O Daddy!" I scream at the top of my lungs and within seconds he busts through the room.
"Good morning my love! How are you!" my daddy smiles.
"Can you carry me downstairs to the breakfast table? I don't feel like getting up, so hurry up please." I order.
"Of course my love! Of course!" my daddy smiles before picking me up out of the bed and begins carrying me downstairs and I can already smell the delicious breakfast that my very basic mommy is in the kitchen cooking. I always order her to make a massive breakfast each morning! Pancakes, eggs, bacon, sausage, grits, toast and homemade orange juice. We're rich and we deserve to eat like rich people! After I'm done eating, there's still usually plenty of food left but I throw it away and cover it up with bleach so the poor people won't go through the trash trying to eat this amazing food. Yeah there's people in this district starving to death, but that's not my problem! I'm rich and I'm happy!
"Daddy when we get downstairs, can we go over my birthday gift list?" I ask him.
"Ofcourse my love!" My daddy smiles and I smile back as I kiss him on the cheek. This is why I love my daddy! He's rich and gets me everything I want!
After he carries me downstairs he sits me at the table where the large dishes of breakfast sit there, just ready to be eaten.
My daddy goes over to the bookshelf and grabs a stack of papers which is my birthday list and he sits next to me as we begin going over it.
My birthday list is twenty pages long and there's atleast thirty gifts on each page. My very basic mommy sits a pitcher of orange juice on the table and goes back in the kitchen without saying anything.
We suddenly stop on page sixteen though and I only give him an annoyed look.
"Why did you stop reading?" I ask him.
"Oh well I haven't gotten around to getting these stuff yet." My daddy explains and I feel myself getting very upset.
"What do you mean you haven't gotten around to it yet!? Why did you only buy sixteen pages worth of stuff!? Why not seventeen,eighteen or better yet everything!? Why do you have to be so slow!?" I raise my voice.
Yes my birthday is still months away but still! He should've gotten everything on that list already! It's been two days for crying out loud! That's more than enough time to get me everything I want!
"I'm so sorry my love! I'll make sure to buy the rest of the gifts tomorrow…" my daddy apologizes.
"Today! I want you to buy all of them today! Well? What are you waiting for!? Get dressed and go outside so you can buy my gifts that I deserve!" I yell at him.
"Y-yes! Right away my love!" my daddy stands up, puts on his slippers, a jacket over his pajamas and heads outside to buy me my gifts that a pretty girl like me deserves!
I eat a piece of bacon but throw the rest of the food in the garbage before pouring a bunch of bleach on it, I'm not hungry right now so I'll just wait for lunch to eat. I go upstairs to my room and pick up one of the many dresses off my floor and throw it over me. It's a mango colored dress and I put on some matching shoes to go with it. I then clean myself up in the bathroom and go into my basic mommy's room so she can do my hair since I don't feel like doing it myself.
I'm supposed to be meeting my two rich bestfriends at a very nice mall that only rich people can visit. My friends Lily and Maria are rich but not nearly as rich as my daddy! Anyways I need a new dress so I can look nice for the reapings tomorrow, who cares if I have like two hundred dresses on my room floor? I'm rich and i get what I want!
The walk is only like two blocks away but it feels like ten, arrgh this is so much walking and now I'm starting to sweat! Pretty girls like me are not supposed to sweat! I don't feel like walking anymore so I'll just tell someone to carry me. I see a man walking past me and he seems strong!
"Mister carry me to the mall!" I suddenly call out and he turns around looking surprised.
"Huh?" he questions.
"Carry me to the mall! I don't feel like walking there!" I whine.
"You mean the mall down there? That's only a few feet away, why do you need someone to carry you there?" He scratches his head.
"Cause my dad is rich!" I yell and he raises an eyebrow.
"Uh that still doesn't explain why I need to carry you..." and there's an awkward silence as we just both gawk at each other.
"Just carry me to the mall!" I shout breaking the silence and he only sighs before picking me up and it only takes a few seconds to get there but my two rich bestfriends are standing infront of it talking to each other and squeals upon seeing this strong man carrying me.
"Oooooh who is he? Is he your new boyfriend?" Lily squeals.
"He's cute too! You picked a good one this time!" Maria squeals.
"Nope, he's too poor to be my boyfriend, I want a guy with money who will buy me whatever I want!" I declare.
"Wouldn't want to be with you anyways, think I lost five years of my life hearing that annoying high pitched voice of yours." The man comments before walking off and me and my rich bestfriends only look at him in shock.
"The nerve of you! You peasant! Not anyone has the luxury of carrying a rich pretty girl like Mercedes!" Maria shouts at him but he just continues walking away.
"Well anyways! With that very rude, very poor and very stupid man gone, let's go shopping!" I squeal and my other two rich bestfriends squeal with me as we run into the mall together!
Only rich people come here and since this district is poor, me and my rich bestfriends are usually the only ones here! I jump in a shopping cart and Lily and Maria take turns pushing me around the mall as we squeal together. I start picking out things that rich people like us should have like make up and jewelry!
We reach the dress aisle and I jump out of the cart as I begin examining the dresses. Let's see, let me pick out a dress only a rich girl like me will wear. I see a nice blue dress and try it on as I look in the mirror, I'm so pretty! My platinum blonde hair, my teal eyes, pale skin and I like the dress too!
"Eww that dress makes your butt look big!" Maria complains and I immediately gag.
"Yuck! I don't want to look fat!" I grimmace as I snatch the dress off of me and see a pink halter dress nearby and try it on.
"That dress is so beautiful! I bet only rich and pretty girls like us can afford it!" Lily compliments me.
"Yeah I like it to!" Maria shouts.
"Yes! I can't wait to wear this!" I shout and we squeal aloud. Oh I'm going to be so beautiful for these reapings tomorrow!
Percival "Percy" Klein, 17, District 8 male
"Hey get back here!" I hear an angry yell and I only laugh maniacally as I dash away from the window I just egged. Three windows down! Two more to go!
"Percy wait up! You run so fast!" Emery complains as she's way behind me carrying a nearly empty carton of eggs.
"c'mon slowpoke! Run run run run!" I tease her but I only hear her groan more as she tries to catch up to me. Me and my bestfriend Emery always do this on the day of the reapings, egg the houses of all the rich people who will rather sit on their money and spend it on stupid things while the rest of the people here die of starvation.
We usually stumble upon cartons of rotten eggs that bakerys throw out and we use that to egg windows. Me and Emery quickly cut through an alleyway to lose anyone that's stupid enough to chase us and Emery tries to catch her breath as I excitedly jump up and down.
"You ready? Huh? Huh? Hello?" I quickly ask in an excited tone.
"Can you give me a second, My heart feels like its about to explode, your energy is just limitless huh?" Emery pants.
"You know it! Now hurry let's go! Let's go! Let's goooo!" I grab her arm and we make our way to the next house. We have to make this quick since the reapings are starting soon! We reach another house and it's the house of the richest man in the district, he has a daughter that's around the same age as me and she seems like a real spoilt bitch to put it bluntly.
"This is the house of Walter Swift, he owns all of the textile facilities in this district, you sure you wanna do this?" Emery asks and I snicker.
"Ofcourse! Why wouldn't i? Huh? Huh? Are you gonna answer!?" I quickly ask.
"My god shut up already!" Emery laughs.
I can be quite annoying, very annoying and I love it! I peer up on the second floor and I can see the daughter Mercedes in her window still in her pajamas spinning around the room while using one of her hair brushes as a microphone to sing. She even left her window open too! How stupid!
I snicker to myself some more as I take out an egg and aim it at her and I let the egg fling and it goes through the window and splatters all across her face as she jumps up, dropping her brush and let's out a deafening cry and I'm laughing so much as me and Emery runs away that tears are beginning to roll down my eyes.
"That was some epic aim dude! Can't say she didn't have it coming though!" Emery laughs aswell. I've been wanting to hit her in the face for the longest, guess that's the closest I'll get to doing it, so I'll bask in my accomplishment. There's only one more house to go though and I made sure to save a few eggs especially for this.
"One more house to go! One more house to go! C'mon keep up! Keep up!" I quickly shout as I run way ahead of Emery.
"Alright I heard you the first damn time!" Emery shouts back and I only laugh aloud. We reach the house though I only look at it in anger for a moment.
"Well you sure got quiet all of a sudden, for a good reason though." Emery comments.
Here's our last target, the house of my parents. My parents are also wealthy, and me? I'm just a result of one of the many crazy nights they had together. Once I was born, they immediately gave me up for adoption as they considered me a "screw up". The very thought of that angered me. I wonder what those scumbags were doing right now, probably having such a good time wining, dining and sitting on their mountains of cash, not even trying to make an effort to help those in need. It sickens me what pigs they are!
I was adopted by Emery's parents soon after. She's only a few months older than me and her parents wanted her to grow up with a sibling close to her age. We struggle a lot sometimes, we can't even a meal for a day or two, but they're my family and I love all of them.
"Emery don't hold back, whatever you have left, unload it all on that window!" I sternly say.
"You got that right!" Emery snickers and we proceed to throw the rest of our eggs at the window and hear a woman shriek out, probably my mom and we run away laughing our heads off as we make our way back home.
"Hey Emily, hey Rory!" I greet Emery's parents as I run several laps around the breakfast table jumping up and down.
"Relax Percy! You're going to break something!" Rory scolds me but I only laugh as I continue running laps around the table.
"Please listen Percy!" Emily intervenes and I sigh as I only sit at the table but begin tapping my feet on the floor in a rhythm that seems to annoy them.
"He's just full of energy huh?" Emery sighs as she sits next to me.
"Where were you guys anyways?" Rory asks.
"Nowhere special! We just went looking for gold!" I joke as I continue to tap my feet on the floor even louder.
"We just went for a walk, it's a nice morning!" Emery lies, her parents will be so mad if they found out we were egging windows.
"Yeah it is a nice morning, let's hurry up and eat though so we can head to the square, and Percy please stop tapping your feet on the floor." Emily orders and I sigh before looking at my plate.
As I said before,we struggle a lot. All we have for breakfast is a slice of bread and I break pieces of the bread off and throw it in the air before catching it in my mouth.
"Stop playing with your food Percy! Eat properly!" Rory scolds me and I only groan and eat properly but begin tapping my feet on the floor.
"Oh for the love of god!" Rory sighs before storming away from the table and Emery only laughs.
"This is not funny Emery! Percy can you go even a moment without annoying everyone? and you're tapping your feet again after I told you to stop!" Emily scolds me and I only laugh as I tap my feet louder and Emily curses under her breath and leaves the table aswell.
"You are so annoying!" Emery laughs.
"Tell me something I don't know!" I giggle as I toss a piece of bread up in the air and catch it in my mouth. After we're done eating breakfast I take a quick look at myself in the bathroom mirror. All I have is a T-shirt and jeans on me and I look at my face as I do a confident smile. I have tan skin with medium length dirty blonde hair and brown eyes. I'm around the same size as most poor seventeen year olds and I do several jumping jacks before running out of the bathroom and out of the house.
"Hey Percy wait!" Emery shouts as she tries to catch up to me but I only laugh as I run way ahead of her and she eventually loses me. I make it to the square as I wait in line to register and the line is moving too slow so I just start doing more jumping jacks while singing out loud.
"Someone's hyper…" I hear a kid mumble behind me but I ignore him and start singing even louder while doing jumping jacks.
"Would you shut the hell up!" A peacekeeper scolds me and I only glare him, I hate peacekeepers and I don't feel like listening to him but all he's going to do is abuse his power more and I won't give him that satisfaction. I continue my jumping jacks and register before going off into the seventeen year old male section where our escort, a very overweight man by the name of Sharkman who dresses in a undersized shark costume every year takes the stage with our four living victors.
I start more jumping jacks and sing to myself as I wait for this stupid shark to draw a name.
After watching the boring video, Sharkman lays on the floor and wiggles his way to the males bowl as he pretends to be swimming, Wow he really does look ridiculous!
Sharkman stands and is extremely out of breath from the workout and pulls a name out of the bowl
"Marvin Texeira!" Sharkman pants and a small twelve year old boy begins walking towards the stage as he trembles in fear as both of his parents are crying.
I don't have anything going for me though, I'm just a huge pest in this district that just gets on everyone's nerves and besides, this kid has a loving family and probably a bright future too. It's not his time to die, not yet.
"I volunteer! I volunteer! I volunteer! I volunteer!" I shout over and over as I race to the stage and begin jumping up and down on the stage like it's a trampoline.
"A Volunteer! How shocking! What's your name!?" Sharkman asks.
"Percival Klein!" I continue jumping up and down.
"Well Percival, you're a brave man, a very hyper one too apparently, anyways time to reap our female!" and Sharkman gets on the floor and wiggles to the females bowl as he pulls out a name.
"Mercedes Swift!" Sharkman calls
"Oh my gawd!" I hear an annoyed groan and ofcourse it's the rich girl I egged in the face earlier today and I can't help but laugh. She only continues groaning and rolling her eyes as she makes her way on the stage. She did a good job cleaning the egg of her, guess she had to take an extra long shower after that. She doesn't even know it was me that threw it since I fled before she can see me.
"Why did I have to get reaped? Like oh my gawd! Like I'm supposed to totally go shopping today and you in your stupid shark costume wants to inconvenience me!" Mercedes scolds Sharkman.
"Any volunteers?" Sharkman dismisses her but no one answers.
"So no volunteers at all? My daddy is the richest man in this district! I have plenty of money! So someone volunteer for me and I'll make your family rich!" Mercedes demands but still nothing but silence.
"Fine no one volunteer then! I'm pretty so a lot of people are going to sponsor me anyways! I have nothing to worry about!" She shouts.
"Well here's our tributes representing district eight, shake hands you too!" Sharkman announces and Mercedes only gives me a nasty look.
"No! I just washed my hands! I don't want any germs on me!" she whines in her high pitched voice as she follows Sharkman towards the justice building. I thought I was the most annoying person here, but apparently I have some competition.
Here's district 8! Mercedes Swift and Percy Klein! There's only four more tributes left to introduce and I'm very excited to almost be done with the reapings. The goodbyes will be short and sweet, I'm not going to drag those out too long and we'll finally start the pre-game chapters where we can start seeing some interactions between these tributes! Thank you all so much for your wonderful reviews and I'll see you guys soon! Till next time!