"JULIA!" My older sister, Terra, called out to me. My mother and father screamed out to me, they knew I would be tribute in one of the Games. But they didn't expect my name to be pulled the first year my name was in, like my mother's little sister, Prim. If she didn't die from the parachutes she would be Aunt Prim. I knew she died before my mother lied to me til I was ten. That was why she never visited us.
Anyway, Terra was pulled twice, like my mother, and she won both times. She was pulled in the 98th Games and then the 100th for the Quarter Quell. She is too old to compete anyway and my little brother is 5, so there's no way he'd volunteer. Mainly because of his age, but then he'd have mistaken himself for a girl. I have to stand up for myself. I have no way to get free of the Capitol's grasp. My mother always wondered if the choosing was rigged, so the original tributes before the ones picked a few years after, when they have kids, they would pick their kids the year of that.
"I have to do this. Everyone knows the hardships of the Games, and I will find a way to live through this like Terra did."
Just then, Effie called the boy's name. "Teran Hawthorne"
Mother screamed again. Teran is 15, 3 years older than me. The reason why this shocked her is because...
This is Uncle Gale's son.