As i lay there on the hard brown wooden floor waiting for Arora to come in and help me up but she doesn't come. Instead of waiting for a couple more minutes. I stand up walking to the bathroom while my white night gown is flowing easily on the floor. As i make my way to the door i spot Arora coming back in with 2 buckets of im guessing milk. She sees me and says hi and goes in through the rusty old nailed door. I enter the bathroom wash my face and tie my hair into the same old messy bun. I head down to my bedroom again to grab a change of clothes.I grab the same old clothes i wear every Sunday. There kind of more special then the other clothes even though there are still some stains on it. Here i am look into the mirror where i can see all the 7 cracks where i had banged my hand. I have a blue velvet dress on that stops all the way down to my ankle with flowery designs on it which is also blue but a little darker. The sleeves are still a little to long they stop at my bandaged knuckles. The rips can still be seen a little even after all the sewing i still see the big rip in the middle. I grab my blue slippers and head down to the lunching room.

Arora is dressed in her usual white dress that goes down to the ground showing the curve of her sides, making all the boys stop and stare. This time she has her blond silky hair in a pony tail. She stares at me as if i had done something about to open her mouth but stopped by the knock on the door. Wondering who it could be i head for the chipped up white door and open it. Revealing my friend Medeline holding out a fish about the size of a size 10 shoe. She has her hair down and is wearing brown pants with a simple black shirt and some brown boots. She steps in and walks over to Arora. Still shocked by the sight of the way she is dressed i stop her from stepping in any further.

With my heart beating fast i open my mouth but before saying anything Arora steps in talking about how one day we should all work at the Orbitionary. I always loathed the Orbitionary its nothing but a whole bunch of girls being pranced around in dresses and pain money to do an amazing but pleasant talent and if you don't do as told you get sent to a "facility." Last year a girl named Sky had gotten execution for speaking the truth about everything being unfair. I come back to my senses and before Arora can finish talking about the Orbitionary, i open my mouth saying
"Shut up!, no one wants to work at the Obitionary."
I should have never done that i feel bad for what i just did. Arora and Medeline are staring at me i try to get the words out Im so sorry but it won't come out its like im choking on the words. Before anyone can let out a single sound i run upstairs with my right arm over my face covering it and tears flying out.

I enter the room climbing onto the bed. I bury my head into the almost yellowish pillow and kicking my slippers off my feet. Its the worst feeling possible, how could i just yell at her like that. After an hour or so i start dozing off. I don't want to go to sleep i think to myself. In about i minute my eyes start feeling heavy and are barely open. There its shut closed i doze off into dream world. When i wake up i find myself only in my under garments with my covers on top me. I see Medeline here smiling at me. I sit up holding my covers close on me and ask "where's Arora. She answers "she went down to the market but she'll be back in a few." Oh the market its different from where i live. Everyone there are like family. The brown rusty door at the entrance. With wood floor and sometimes stains on it. I remember Adeline she was so kind to me and i really miss her. Her gray eyes which is common here. Her flowy blond hair that stops down to her shoulders. She's about the same age as Arora just a bit younger.

I remember the day i met Adeline. That was two years ago. She was fifteen years old and i was only twelve. It was my first day at the market, Arora had ordered me to go get some stuff for her medicine so she could heal the mans wound. I had got two bottles of medicine but when i went to give two coins i only had one.

"Sorry kid but if you ain't got two coins you can't this." said the man with a big gap in front and breath that always smells like fish his name was well i never really got his name. Adeline walks up and shes smiling. Saying hi to the man and asks what wrong with her the man answers back while biting on a toothpick

"She only has a coin but what she needs cost more then a coin" She looks down at me and smiles she bends down and takes my hand instead of putting a coin in she puts about ten coins. I look up at her and smille

"Whoa! For me..i...i...i couldn't'" I say in a sweet and innocent voice. I laugh a little.

"Its ok keep it!" before i could say thank you she walks out and waves goodbye

"See you tomorrow?" she says

"Sure" i say over whelmed with joy!

The day of the reaping i was called up my heart was pounding the minute i set foot on the stage Adeline shouted from back
"I volunteer!"

Those words, it feels like someone just stabbed me on the back. She can't volunteer i think to myself! She steps up while smiling at me and she motions me to go head down. I walk stiffly down while trying to hold tears. She...she...she volunteered for me. Before she left she told me that everything was alright she was going to come back. I didn't believe that because she had a half smile. I cried and cried and begged her not to leave me until time was up. Before leaving her forever she handed me her locket and whispered in my ear
"Sleep tight little bug..."

i cried while walking out and she waved her last goodbye to me. Sleep tight little bug i had been crying so much that i didn't even notice she was singing the song that she would sing to me every night after talking with Arora.