Hey guys! I am really sorry it took so long for the second chapter but I was at summer camp and I wasn't able to write until now. But what matters is that I have the second chapter of the broken one so enjoy and please review
I start walking up with my head held high and with my face emotionless. To my surprise I don't feel scared or hopeless I feel slightly relieved after all those years of dreading this day I'm glad I can finally accept it for what it was, inevitable. I walk up the stairs taking my time. I steal a glance al uncle Woof to see how he's doing, unfortunately not very well. His face is green and he looks like he wants to throw up. I want to tell him that everything is going to be fine but that would be lying so I keep on walking instead.
When I finally reach Vibia she gives me a hearty hug and then turns back to the crowd.
"Isn't she a beauty? Hope she does as well as her brother, huh?"
My muscles tense at the mention of my brother but I try hard to keep it from showing and stare back at the crowd. It surprises me how many people are crying. Why are they crying? Their daughters are safe for another year and I don't have any family or friends in the crowd so why are so many of them crying? Vibia´s voice brings me back to the square as she is about to pick the male tribute.
"And for the boys we have." She makes a dramatic pause before continuing "Ethan Sparks!"
The name bounces in my head Ethan Sparks, where had I seen him before? A tall boy with jet black hair and electric blue eyes comes up, he must be eighteen or seventeen. I can't tell if I know him but he does seem familiar. He reminds me of my father with his black hair and blue eyes, almost everyone in the district looks like that, that's why my green eyes are quite rare but I got them from my mother and I don't really know where the hair came from since both my mom and Michael where blondes.
I'm still staring at Ethan when VIbia says "District five, I present to you your sixty-eighth Hunger Games tributes Emily Blackbird and Ethan Sparks! Now shake hands you two!"
I hold out my hand and he shakes it carefully without taking his eyes of my face as if waiting for me to run away or have an emotional breakdown. Unluckily for him I'm not doing either. We are ushered to the rooms where we are to say our final goodbyes. I make myself comfortable in a chair and stare out the window, I´m not waiting for anyone.
I´m surprised when the guards open the doors and a group of twenty-year-old men come in. I´m even more surprised to see that I know all of their names; these are all of my brother´s friends. One of them comes forward he looks sad and is trying to avoid my gaze but still he speaks.
"We´re very sorry you got reaped, you don't deserve this."Very, very true.
"No one deserves this." I try to keep my voice even when I say this but it cracks at the end so I have to turn around to put myself back together before continuing."And besides we all knew this would happen."
Another boy steps up."That doesn't make it right." He thinks about it a moment before adding "Or fair."
"This is an unfair world, I accepted it a long time ago and its time you did too."I know I'm being a little harsh on them but they are making me feel like a victim and maybe I am but I don't want to feel like one, or to be treated like one. But still I'm grateful they came and I want to let them know.
"I really appreciate you coming to visit me, even though you didn't have to." I say and when I look up to see their faces they're smiling.
"You're Michael´s little sister, we had promised him we´d take care of you." He seems to hesitate before going on "And we all came here because we wanted to." I smile at this, they didn't come here out of debt to my brother they here because they wanted to.
The peacekeepers come in then saying their time is up they all say goodbye and wish me luck. At the end there is only one left, I know him he was my brother´s best friend his name is Jordan Sparks. Sparks, of course Ethan Sparks is his brother.
"Take care and try not to be the first one to go." He tries to smile, I see his humor is still there.
"Thank you, you too." And with that he leaves.
Surprisingly more people come to visit me even though I had never spoken to the majority of them, they all come to wish me luck or to say how they miss my father I half listen to most of them though. And in no time it's time to board the train, maybe to never come back.
Soooooooooo what did you think about chapter two! I´m sorry it only talks about the reaping day but I just had to write that down but next chapter I will try to take it to the Capitol!
Hope you enjoyed and pleas review ;).