"Maisie, I'm scared."910Please respect copyright.PENANAyOHiWmXf4y
"Why Tia? You've been doing it longer than I have."910Please respect copyright.PENANAVsUdiEbrXg
Tia is my older sister and it's her last year to be entered into the reaping.910Please respect copyright.PENANAKZVp191DLz
"Well, it's not really about me. It's about Ben."910Please respect copyright.PENANAqPzywO5q9g
"He's not going to be chosen." I said firmly. I was confident that he wouldn't be, I mean, Tia and I took tesserae so support our family. He is only in there once. 910Please respect copyright.PENANARWVmL31tbl
"But what if he is?"910Please respect copyright.PENANAXCWCVFjeFp
"He won't be."910Please respect copyright.PENANAwpcBQWtn5F
"How can you be so sure?"910Please respect copyright.PENANAKfpFBKvb2N
"You've made it all six years, I've made it four. Neither of us have been picked. Why are you worried about him now?"910Please respect copyright.PENANAV6s7b28nM2
"Well, what if --"910Please respect copyright.PENANAxKsUxNjBPP
"If Ben is chosen, he'll do fine, I mean, he can sword fight."910Please respect copyright.PENANA3TegeDhPBB
"You seriously call those fights that you have with Ben actual knowledge of sword fighting? I mean, it's just a little fun after work."910Please respect copyright.PENANAlqI0aKA3Z9
"Tia. It's actually a good workout. Anyways. I think Ben would do better than you in the games." I say with a laugh.910Please respect copyright.PENANA0uczOkVlCQ
"Why do you make the Games such a light subject? No one else is out there laughing about it."910Please respect copyright.PENANABN2MqOkZ4g
"I don't know. I guess it keeps the pain out of my mind."910Please respect copyright.PENANAr7vLwVk8iO
Tia quickly turned on her heels and walked away to the room where she worked. She's only 18, but works full time as a seamstress. I guess I shouldn't be talking either. I finished school quite a bit early and am working full time in a factory. I man a few machines that weave fabric. It's a lot of running around, probably about a five or six miles an hour, considering how big the factory is. I don't mind though. I love running. 910Please respect copyright.PENANAxwz9CSRxWI
It's kind of surprising that Tia and I are related. I love her and all, but we are so different, she's more precise, detail-oriented, rule following, and thinks she so much more mature. I know I'm not mature, but not naïve. Sure I don't think a lot about thing before I do things, but I'm quick. I like to color outside the lines. 910Please respect copyright.PENANAvXwjaMl35J
Ben is sweet. He's still in school, and after, sometime he comes and works a bit in the factory, picking up scraps of fabric. Anything to keep our family going.910Please respect copyright.PENANAqr7TDZsnRA
You see, my father left my mother when Ben was born, and my mom is a seamstress, with Tia, which doesn't pay well.