a/n: Hey guys, I haven't written in this for ages.. I just wanted to let you know that I am still going on with this, I'll just go on to the reaping. I have a lot of tributes but still need more. I hope I didn't disappoint you guys, as I always say, on with the chapter!

"Mommy! Don't leave me! Please!"

A little girl in a grey dress with her hair up in pigtails is standing in a field. The women who I suppose to be her mother turns around and waves to her. The girl morphs into an older child still standing there crying but now her hair is down and she is wearing a black dress and holding flowers. I rub my eyes and I see the girl has grown up and is now wearing a t-shirt and a skirt and is talking to a friend laughing. Her mother is standing behind her with a pale look to her. It seems that the girl is oblivious to her mothers presence. The women speaks in a voice that seems ill-fitting.

"Wake up!"

Wait, what.

"Rubie! Get your ass down here! Wake up!"

I groan as I get up and push back my long hair.

"I'm coming Lucia"

I get up and grab my dressing gown from the back of the door and put it over my shoulders as I walk down the stairs. I smell coffee from downstairs in the pot. This is the morning I'm most happy about, its reaping day, and today is the day that I will show everybody I can. I can win, I can do this. I'm not just a pretty face. Kill or be killed. What will I do? Hint: I won't be killed.

I feel the slight breeze of hands in front of my face.

"Are you awake my queen"

I open my eyes to see Lucia grinning mischievously clapping her hands like I was a queen, but not in a good way.

"I'm sick and tired of your attitude Lucia, you're a maid, not a mother or a personal annoyance''

I can feel Lucia's eyes burning into the back of my skull as I lean down to take a spoonful of my cereal.

Out of the corner of my eyes I see her go to the closet and retrieve her tan trench coat.

"Why are you leaving? Its ten in the morning"

She fixes the collar on her coat and turns to me and speaks.

"I have a family of my own and I need to be there to.."

She pauses trying to think of a word, and I start sitting down on the chair. I put my head in my hands and mumbling out a barely audible response.

"Support them?"

She smiles evilly and looks at me.

"Yes…. Support them…"

After I finish my cereal I go up to my closet and try to find an outfit to wear.

I decide on a red dress and flats that my father gave me for my birthday. After all, we are the richest family in the district, we can afford it.

I get my fathers concierge to drive me to the town square because my shoes are too small to walk in and the are ruby encrusted, why muddy them up? I'm not from district twelve.

The escort is standing at the ball of names at the in front of the justice building. Her name is Zalin I believe. No one knows her last name because she has never told anyone. Her hair is a dark purple and puffed out in every direction and her black dress hangs on her body limply. I find my place at in the sea of children. I am pumped, this year I will volunteer so I can win and show them.

I search the crowd of people and try to find garnet. I see her standing with the other trainers like a group of sort. She waves and I wave back. She is nineteen so she cannot be called up to the stage.

Zalin walks closer to the ball of paper and pulls out a name, probably for the girls, but she never says.

"Shay Chrani"

The girl who I suppose to be Shay walks to the stage she stands in front of Zalin looking very sad and worried.

"Any volunteers?"

She can barely get the words out before I raise me hand a yell

"I volunteer!``

I hear another voice say the words in exact unison with my own.

I turn to the right to see another girl with her hand up I kick her leg to get her to buckle over before Zalin focuses on the crowd.

I walk up towards the podium with my head held high and I walk past the boys side and wink, Hey it gets sponsors, I fell something touch my backside and I turn around to see a boy snickering and high-fiving his friend.

I walk closer towards them and yell.

"who touched my ass?!"

The four boys scatter reveling one in th center doubled over with laugherter, I make him jerk him upright and knee him in the balls. he still doubles over, but now in pain. I turn around and keep walking but I make sure to turn around and yell at them.

"No one messes with Rubie!'