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Chapter two Possible allies
I'm shocked but i make sure not to show it. I walk up stiffly to the stage but i keep my head high and back straight. People probably expect me to cry but i wont. Ill be escort, Victoria, askes for volunteers but i already know their wont be any. She sighs and says "OK well now for the boys."
She walks over to the boys and ends up picking the name "Thresh Overden." I'm sad for this because i know this boy. He's older than me but he lives a couple houses down from me. When i was new to the orchard he stood up for me when other kids teased me for not understanding what to do. He seems like a nice guy to me and i really don't think he will kill anyone unless he has to, so i am some what cheered up by the idea that one less person will be trying to kill me until the very end and maybe not even then.
When he gets to the stage we shake hands and the anthem plays. They then escort us to the justice building. I'm escorted into one room and Thresh into another. It's very fancy. I wait for a couple minutes and my family walks in. Holly runs into my arms and cries into my shoulder. "Shh, it's OK it's OK," i tell her. Though i know it won't be.
The rest of my family come and sit around me. My mother and the three youngest are all crying. I can tell my father, Violet, and Orphys are close. "oh rue," my mother says, "please at least try to come back." "ill try my hardest." i tell her. We sit in an awkward group hug until the peacekeeper asks them to leave. They start to but Holly doesn't let go. I know she will miss almost more than the others.
The peacekeeper starts to get impatient so my mother gives me one last hug and grabs Holly. Before she leaves though she hands me my necklace i made out of grass. Its my good luck charm. She tells me "They let you wear one thing from your district, so here." "Thank you," I respond. And she's gone.
No one else comes and i didn't expect anyone to. Victoria takes thresh and I to the train. I thought the Justice Building was fancy before i saw this. So much so I actually gasp at how fancy it is. Everything is plush and almost everything is covered in velvet. Then i learn we all get our own chambers. i don't understand why they need so many rooms. When i get to mine Victoria tells me there are clothes in the drawers and that dinner is in a hour. I look around and find a shower with hot and cold water and a panel with multiple controls.
I decide to take a shower. It feels great. So much so i almost forget my traumatizing day. Almost.I get out and go to the dresser. I grab blue pants and a white shirt. By then its time for dinner. I walk into the dinning room and take my seat. Victoria, Thresh, and Marco, one of the past winners of the hunger games from district 11, are already there.
The second i sit down i am served with a huge plate of food. The second i clean that one a new one is in front of me. I keep eating until I feel like i could burst. we never have so much food or food this rich at home.
When we are all done we go to a room with a TV in it to watch a recap of all the reaping. As we watch a few kids stick with me; a pretty girl from 1 who i know will get a lot of sponsors with her beauty, both from district 2 but mostly the boy, a fox-like girl from 5, and the girl from 12 who volunteers for her sister.
The girl from 12 really sticks out for me. Her sister is my age and she looks about sixteen but what really sicks out is in the non-career districts volunteering is considered a death sentence. She has to really love her sister. I like her and if she seems a little more trust worthy i might want her as an ally.
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