''AHHH, YOU USELESS PIECE OF... Why can't you do anything right darling? You know I hate yelling at you, and you know that I love you so much. Why won't you just listen to what I say?'' My mother shouted.

''It's not my fault, anytime I do anything wrong around this house you yell at me!'' I shouted back.

''I'm sorry, Claudia, it's just that the capitol is coming to district two today and, I just want to be prepared for whatever happens. You have three sisters and three brothers, anyone of you could be chosen. You all are in the range of 12-18 except for Josie, who is only 11.'' My mother exclaimed.

''I know, but who's fault is that? It's not mine for hell's sake. The stupid districts were the ones to be treacherous little douche bags and try to kill of the capitol. Shoot, dad even left us to go work for the capitol because he was afraid of what they were going to do. You have no idea how pissed of I am at this new 'game' people so call it.'' I said.

''You know that dad left because he wanted to do what was best for us, and all the districts knew that what the capitol was doing was wrong. Why do you think we all fought for what we believed in?'' Mother said.

''You fools believe in wasting your lives for some almost impossible to achieve.'' Mother was mad after I said that.

''DON'T YOU EVER TALK THAT WAY AGAIN. I KNOW YOUR FATHER AND I RAISED YOU BETTER THAN THAT.'' She yelled.

''YOU DIDN'T RAISE ME WELL ENOUGH I GUESS THAN.'' I yelled back.

I stormed out of the house as my siblings and grandmother watched us fight. My mother tried to stop me from walking out, but I didn't listen. Unfortunately for me, I only had my bra and underwear on, I forgot all about my clothes as I left the house. Everyone stared at me, and I felt completely embarrassed . All the boys stared at me, the perverted ones were the ones I hated the most. Luckily, I had my good friend who wasn't as perverted as the others to tell them to find something else to do besides stare at a half-naked girl. I quickly rushed back inside and grabbed my clothes. After that, I ran over to my friend, Lione, and grabbed his hands and ran quickly to the river by our district. I quickly changed there while he threw pebbles into the water. We started talking about this new ''game'' and how we would avoid it. We joked about how we wold easily win, but then things got serious. We started thinking about all the over-sized kids that could be in the games, it wasn't a surprise if there were giants standing at 6 or 7 feet tall. There are plenty of those monsters in district two. I always see them tumbling of each other and fighting. We take fighting here in district two very seriously, even more now especially since we're the Masonry district and provide weapons for the capitol, so we should be able to have an advantage in the Hunger Games. I preferably choose knives, I don't know why but they seem so light to me. We started talking more about if the both of us got chosen to represent district two, and that if it would come down to the two of us, what would we do? I grabbed his hand and told him that it wouldn't happen, neither of us would be in it. He listened to me and we were straight with it. To be honest, I never noticed how awesome it was to be around him until this day. As soon as I was about to say something, a hovercraft flew over the district, it flew over were we were and we had to cross the bridge to get into the center of the ring.

''Let's go, we don't wanna be late for the reapings.'' He said.

''Right.'' I said.

Once we got there, I saw my family and they were quiet, my mom looked sad, and I knew that my dad was watching this one the television wherever he is in the capitol. Once we all got our blood taken, the escort for our district came out. She looked very funny in my opinion. As soon as she started talking, I laughed my ass off. Everyone was staring at me, and the girls around me were trying to get me to shut the hell up. Our escorts name was Cherese Goldthorn.

''Anything funny, little lady?'' She smiled at me.

''No, I'm sorry, you just look ridiculous as fuuuuu.''

''Hmph, you obviously don't know how to be classy, since you're wearing that...'' She replied.

''But, I'm wearing a silver plated dress, with diamond pearl earings, and you're wearing... A puffy as jacket with makeup that makes you look like a test subject for classy ass rich girls with no talent.'' I smiled.

That made her shut up and the crowd was laughing at her, I looked over to the right side and saw a boy that's really quiet, I swear he has a terrible side to him, I can just see it. He has light blue eyes, but I've seen him mad before and they turn dark gray when he's pissed. I once saw him slay three lions in the forest, and I even saw him in a fight with a kid that's now in a wheel chair. I felt terrible, but he saw me , but I ran as far as I could. He looked me dead in my eyes, and scared the living crap out of me. If he was chosen, I wouldn't be surprised if he won. He stabbed the kid in the stomach with sharp knives, like the ones I use for practicing. He also put the kids legs in a weird ankle lock that I've never seen before, and his bone snapped. That kid scares me...

''Anyways, time for the reapings. Ladies first as usual, and the young woman representing district two is... Claudia Vernice. Claduia come up here please young lady.''

My pupils grew large as I heard the sound of my name, everyone looked over towards me, and my mom burst into tears. All my siblings looked over to me, and all had a their mouths open, one of my brothers was mad and wanted to take my place, but they said that only girls could take girls places and guys could only take guys' place. I slowly walked to the stage and that one guy kept looking at me, he had a sinister grin on his face, but I just kept walking.

''Oh wow, it's smart mouth who's up huh, well, do the best you can honey.'' Cherese said.

''Eat me.'' I replied.

As I was walking up, Lione ran up to me. He made his way past the guards and turned me around and kissed me. We kissed for a while until the guards grabbed him and slowly hit him with batons. I saw his light black hair try to make it's way up as his blood spattered on the floor. I yelled to try to get them to stop, but it was to no avail.

''Wow, sucks to suck doesn't it, anyway, for the male tribute to these games for your district. Urvin Duster, Urvin come up here darling.

That was the kid in the wheelchair. Everyone was surprised, but they remembered that there were no rules to these games, no matter what state of health you're in, if your name is chosen you have to get up there. Everyone stared as he made his way up, and gulped. He started sweating and stared at everyone. He looked like he was about to cry until the guy who injured him quickly stepped up and said the two words, ''I volunteer.''

''What is your name, you brave soul?'' Cherese said.

''Byron, Byron Monin.'' He said.

As he walked up, he pushed the kid in a wheelchair aside to a safe position.

''Here are your district two tributes! Also, we had our first volunteer ever in the first games ever! Hahahaha, how exciting is that? District two has a lovely bunch of tributes doesn't it?'' Cherese said.

''Let's go district two!'' Byron said.

Everyone clapped and smiled at his enthusiasm. Everyone loved him, but didn't know his true nature, like I guess, I sort of did.

''Well, at least we have one enthusiastic tribute in this district, one your way, hip hip, hurry up you two little ones.'' Cherese smiled as she said that.

I broke down as soon as I went into the room for private time for our family and friends. I couldn't imagine the hell that we would be put through in the arena, and I'm pretty sure the arena's wouldn't be the same every year, that would leave people with an easy advantage over it. Now, I'll talk to my family and try the best I can. Who knows, maybe I might die first, or just kill myself. Let's see what happens. All I know is, I'm gonna miss my family and Lione.