Chapter 2
Waiting for Our Death
When I am dressed and ready to go, Eko, mom, dad, Wests, Kane and I make our way down to town square where the reaping is held. As we pass shops I look at my reflection in the mirrors. My long dirty blond hair is hanging straight down my back, my body is draped in a light green dress and my blue eyes look almost grey in the lighting of the sun. I look beautiful. Once we get to town square, Eko and I have to leave the rest of our family to go wait with the others our age of the same gender.
In the square there is a big stage that has a large screen, the mayor of district twelve, a flag of Panem, the representative of the capital and two clear bowls with strips of papers with names on them. Eko goes left, I go right. As I walk all I can think about is how in the bowl to the left, seven of the strips have the name Lily Fairdale and the bowl to the right has seven strips with the name Eko Fairdale.
"Water Lily? Loly Poppy you there?" I look up and see my two best friends walking over to me. Tala is sporting a baby blue dress and her short red wavy hair is hanging down so that it out lines her green eyes. Sionn was the most responsible of our trio, he had black hair that was always in his eyes, a very muscular build and his face was perfect. He was very attractive. They both where good looking, I was too I guess but damn Sionn was HOT!
"May the odds" Tala said."Be never" I said. Tala and I looked at Sionn for him to finish. We had been doing this scene we where ten and our names where put in the bowl, it always put a smile on all of our faces. And it still does.
"In our pants" Sionn said with a smile. We started to laugh, but just then the bell sounded for the reaping to begin.