A/N Sorry for the late update, homework has been super time consuming this week. There is a longer author's note at the bottom, so I'll leave it art that for now. ;)

District 2

Lashea Pexix, age 15 POV

"Hey," I type in the message box. A few seconds later, Erica returns my greeting.

"Hey," the screen says. "Reaping starts soon."

"Yeah," I type back. "You nervous?"

"Nah. Only five slips."

"You never know…"

"Stop it. You know how I hate the Reaping. At least your District trains its tributes. Can't say the same for mine."

"I gtg get ready 4 the reaping. Ttyl." I sign off and get into my reaping outfit. A stunning white strapless dress, with sequins dotting every spec of fabric from the waist up. The dress goes down to about my knees, so it shouldn't hinder me during my mad dash for the stage. I fix my hair into a high bun, and slip on some sparkly flats. I waited on my porch til my parents were ready. My boyfriend, Max, stops by. "You look beautiful," he says. I twirl around in my dress. We link arms, and walk to the square.

7:20 am.

Alec Ampeoda, Age 18

It was a warmer day, I woke up to the soft sound of what I thought was my father. Quickly sitting up, my head hit the ceiling, making a large thumping sound. "Ow." Mumbling, I slid down the small set of stairs and looked around my room, sighing. Today was the day I would join The Hunger Games, and I was not going to win. After my father won, he slowly became insane, talking about how I need to win, to follow in his footsteps. That was a little less than 15 years ago. I have been training since I was a toddler. I was a ruthless career, and I hated it. I hated the games, and my father. I quickly got dressed in my reaping day outfit, thinking of how I could stop all this, but it was useless.

I couldn't do anything.

"Ready to go soldier?" my father yelled from the other room, he too was in his best. He almost looked human. Almost. He headed out the door, towards the large stage in the center of town. I already knew what I had to do, along with the girl who would be accompanying me. She was just like the rest, beautiful, evil and cold hearted. Her name is Quispe. I quickly copied her look, a soft smile, some tears as I hugged my father. The lady on the stage started to go through the normal routine, then she walked towards the two bowls filled with names, and though my name will not be picked, I will be heading full force into the madness, with a large smile on my face. The escort picked a girl, a twelve year old named Shelby Matthews. A girl from the 15 year old section cried out, "I volunteer!" Quispe made a dash for the stage, only to be tripped by the girl.

"Not this year, sweets. This year is mine," she says, in an innocent tone that makes me want to hurl. She pranced up on to the stage, taking the microphone from the escort. "My name is Lashea Pexix, proud sister of a victor, and daughter of the mayor of District 2, and I am honored to be your female tribute for the 73rd annual hunger games." Lashea said. "I'm just so…"Lashea began, faking tears as she quickly hugged the girl, Shelby. "…Thankful to my family and District for this wonderful opportunity. I won't let you down!" The crowd roared with approval. Our escort finally wrestled the mic away from Lashea, who was still "crying." The Woman laced her hand around a small paper and smiled sickly. "And who shall be accompanying this sweet young lady?" she paused, reading the name before looking up. "Alec Ampeoda…?" she looked around the crowd, waiting for the second career to volunteer, but I just held in a laugh as I walked up the stairs and waved to her, slipping my own smile on my face. I walked over and put one of my arms around the other girl, who was still crying and smiling to the crowd. My father looked furious, and I almost felt happy.

A/N: Hello! If you were wondering, the second author of this story had changed their username from LittleSeerOfTime (LSOT) and now goes by

TheInsufferable!

I have good and bad news:

Good news: You guys have met 1/3 of the tributes (YEAH!) which is wonderful. Also I plan on putting up a new poll soon, so cheers for that!

Bad news: We talked it over, considering how much we can't wait for blood to we spilt, so we decided that we aren't going to publish all the reapings. Instead, we will have one, maybe two, more reaping chapters then we'll have goodbyes then onto the chariot rides (Hurrah!), which I guess isn't that bad. The next updates will probably be as followed:

District 7 Reaping: By Next Wednesday, June 3rd

District 3 Reaping: By Monday, June 8th

Train Rides: By Friday, June 12th

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