Luna Night

District 6

Violet eyes look into mine, and suddenly I am 12 again. My dad towers over me, yelling. Saying terrible things. Soon his fist meets my face, and I'm laying on the ground, tears making paths down my face.

"Don't be a wimp. Crying is for babies. Get the hell up!" He grabs me by the arm and pulls me up, soon he is calm again. I had never seen him like that before, ever.

And as quickly as it started, it finished.

My violet eyes flew open at the sound of a crash, and I pushed my long black hair from my face.

"Nina!" I heard my mother yell from outside my room, and I groaned. If the rest of my family was up, it must be the reaping. I push myself out of bed and walk slowly over to my reaping clothes. I'm still half asleep though, so its kind of hard to walk over.

Once upon a time, I was nice and friendly. Not saying that I'm a complete bitch now, but I'm not as friendly and open as I once was. I used to be friends with everyone, and me and the ones closest to me would good off. I didn't have a care in the world.

And as quickly as it started, it finished.

My dad didn't hurt me at first, he didn't hurt any of us. But when I was 12, it changed. May, Mom, Nico, Nina, and I, would come home to daily beatings. Until he died.

And as quickly as it started, it finished.

I sighed and pulled on my reaping dress, before making sure my super black waist-length hair was alright. I checked my sidebangs that covered my right eye, making sure I didn't look completely terrible, then I combed through it to make it its normal pin-straight.

I walked out to my family and sat on the couch with May, my 13 year old sister.

"What did Nina break?" I asked her. May laughed.

"A plate. The one that looked like it was gold? But it was really just painted?" I nodded. My grandmother had told us to do that.

"Well, there goes all our money to replace it." I said sarcastically. We weren't rich though, that part was definitely true.

"Well she's five. I'm just surprised Nico didn't break it, that's his specialty. Breaking stuff." I laughed a bit at her comment before making my way over to where the plate was laying on the ground in shards, and started picking them up.

"Luna, I think Nina should have to pick it up." I just shook my head as I dumped the shards away, taking the big pieces and saving them. You could always use those again, or sell them.

I was about to walk out the door when Nico started tugging at my arm.

"What?" I practically hissed at him. I hadn't known it was him, actually.

He appeared unaffected, or used to it. I had my moods. "We have bread, if you want some." Tesserae bread. The bread that tasted sour on my tongue, and made me want to throw up with the cruelness of how we got it.

"I don't think so. It might not be a good idea to go there with a stomach full." I pushed myself forward, willing myself to go to the terrible reapings.

OoOoO

"Now welcome our escort!" I snuck my way through the crowd, making my way to friends that were not there. They couldn't deal with how I acted now, how sarcastic I was. Nobody knew what I had gone through

A girl that looks no older then 16 steps onto the stage, white hair trailing on the ground behind her, golden eyes making her face same innocent.

"Ladies first!" Chirped the girl. I hadn't even caught her name, I had been so lost in thought. She slowly reached into the bowl and pulled out a slip of paper.

"Luna Night!"

I heard several cries in the crowd, most likely from my family, as I walked forward. My long black hair swayed around me, shielding my face from the world. Blending me in, even as I walked forward to my death.

Right then, I made myself one promise.

Even if I die, they are going to remember me.

I step onto the stage as loudly as possible, feeling satisfied with the loud clack they create, that makes half the district cover there ears. That's good. They deserve as much pain as possible, letting me be sent off to die like that.

"And now the boys!" I grin, because I can tell she likes me already be her voice, she sounds like she is about to start laughing as she pulls out the boys slip.

"Avian Tiller!" a pale boy walks up calmly and stands next to my, hand outstretched. I can tell he want this over as much as I do.

"Congratulations to the tributes from District Six, Luna and Avian! Happy Hunger Games, and may the odds be ever in your favor!"

OoOoO

"You can win this. I know I yell at you for getting into fights all the time, but now maybe it will turn out to be a good thing! Come on, win this for us Luna." My mother is begging me to win the games, and I don't know how to answer to that.

"You act like I already gave up hope." I chortled a bit before continuing. "Mom, I'm coming back. You know that. Besides, maybe I will get out some anger."

Suddenly my mom looked angry and left without further explanation, sending in Nico and Nina, and going to talk to May.

"You made momma sad." Nina stated.

"I think we are all sad." I sighed and leaned back against the wall. Maybe if dad hadn't done what he had did… I wouldn't have had to take Tesserae, and I wouldn't have been picked.

"I'm sad." Nico proclaimed, befre coming over to me with his arms outstrected, waiting for me to pick him up. After I did Nina came and wrapped her arms around my leg, and we sat like that until May came.

"Mom's mad because she wants you to remember they are people your killing. It isn't a game." May looked into my eyes, and suddenly I could tell she had complete faith in me.

"Don't mess this up. Win." She left without saying goodbye, and I leaned back against the wall.

Don't worry, I will.

A/N I wrote this hurriedly and stuff so I could call that friend that's been calling me all day? And now she wont answer. Figures! So yeah, I need to get to bed sometime soon, but I probably won't. Next chapter I will probably introduce how sponsoring is going to work, and then I'll post it on the first page too. I will also slowly work on adding up everyones points. But I will have that done before the games begin, So you will know what you can sponser. Thanks for reviewing (: