102nd Annual Hunger Games

District 4

Kyle Taylor POV
I am a peacekeeper and I am not proud of it. This means that I have been away from my family for months at a time and when I do come back I am so sore and guilty and tired. I have one daughter and she has been there for me and she doesn't ask questions about work. That's what I feel most guilty about, leaving my family, my life, my old one.

"Atten-tion!" Screams the officer in command. Everyone suddenly is standing up that little bit taller. "Today I am going to choose which of you is going to be sent to be the peace keepers for the reapings then for the Capitol. If you are to go to the Capitol it would be a privilege, you would never make eye contact with anyone and will do what ever you are told. That includes the tributes and anyone, but make sure that if you get two errands rank the person of importance and do the more important person first." He rants on, at this point I stop listening and start thinking of my family and the last kills that I have done. 18 kills in a week, I mean I may be one of the best peace keepers around but I don't like it, it takes my innocence away and when I was little I hated peace keepers. My dad was murdered by a peace keeper, my sister went into the hunger games, only to be murdered by a peace keeper because I don't know but she never went into the games. "Ok now for the names. Kyle Taylor, Sean Harrington, Thomas Laycock....." The officer in command calls out reading names off a list. I knew that was coming.

Finally we are allowed to leave and go back to our room thing. I start walking back and my friend, Sean, comes up to me and smiles. I know he is smiling because his posture changes slightly, I know it's him because of his stance and the way that his hair is just a bit to long so it pokes out of the helmet a bit. I take my helmet off and smile at him "Well done mate you've been brought up to the nasal palace now". He jokes while taking his helmet off and carrying it under his arm. "Like you aren't. I just want to go back and be with my family before I go to nasal central. Lilly has been training her whole life to be in the games and I don't know if she got chosen or not. If she is just want to se her one last time, and if not I just want to hold her in my arms again and tell her that's it's ok and I still love her". Tears well up in my eyes as I say this and I quickly wipe them away "anyway what's your post for now?"

Day of reaping
I get up out of bed and wake up Sean, he likes to sleep in a lot. When he finally opens his eyes I roll my eyes as he realises what day it is. "Time for the slaughter house" I whisper shaking my head, everyone else that is still doing reapings and capitol are all shaking their heads in disbelief. We get changed into our uniforms and carry our helmets under our arms down to the eating place, there is a little bit of talking going around. Everyone is silently hoping that their children don't get picked for the hunger games, of course everyone knows that district 4 always volunteers but after what happened in district 1, who knows.

The officer in command strides into the room and bellows out at us "Today is the big day today. Today we are going to the reapings to make sure no commoners such as yourselves listen to the people that are more important than them, which is everyone. So you will be set up in your stations around the town square, you will still have your headsets so you will all be able to hear me". Sean and I look at each other when he says this, like we couldn't listen to him anyway. He finally stops talking and we all grab our helmets and clip them onto our suits.

We have 3 minutes to get to our patrols otherwise we get hung, and at this point in time I don't really want to be dead.... Yeah defiantly don't want to be dead. I run to my patrol and see a girl running down the fence to the entry way, ugh don't look at her and maybe you won't have to kill her. She looks at me and for the first time I see her face, Lilly! No don't go there please, no Lilly, I have to do something but I can't otherwise she dies, look away now Kyle. "Dad!I'm sorry, it's just mum and I need the money. You haven't been there for us and the trainer chose someone else. If I die it would be easier for both of you, I'm sorry". Tears are flowing down her face, she runs up to me and hugs me, then she sees another peacekeeper coming around the corner and she lets go of me and flings herself up to the fence and gets electrocuted. The last thing I heard from her was "I'm sorry dad, I love you!" before she dragged away limp.