102nd Annual Hunger Games

District Five

TANITH TITIL

I wake up and smell the breakfast of Waffles and eggs. I then roll over and look at my alarm clock, silly thing it never went off, well I never set it. Ugh I don't want to get up I can always get my personal Avox to get me a new breakfast later. No Tanith do not think like that you will either miss out or get up. I am not a supporter of the hunger games, one of the very few in the Capitol, in fact when I am old enough I am going to help the districts.

What is the point of the hunger games by the way? To entertain the Capitol? We have so much other things to do, the districts have nothing and they know how to entertain themselves. The Capitol are arrogant self-centred but then again I am one so I should stop saying things like that. Plus my dad is the head game maker so if I say anything about the hunger games it wouldn't be too good for me.

I look at my alarm clock the time reads 7:45, oh no I will be late to school if I don't..... Wait a second it's the fifth day no school, every odd day and both weekends for the hunger games days there is no school, and all during the days of the games. I push myself out of bed and pad down the stairs to the table and steal myself some food. I plonk myself down on the couch and turn on the TV surfing through the channels and finding nothing interesting I put it on the cartoon channel and take out my phone. I tap 5 keys and I find myself ringing my best friend, who is a supporter kinda of the hunger games. "Hey Tanith what's up? You bored? You know what forget that I ever asked that I know you are? You excited for the district 5 reapings?" I let out a low growl. "Sorry forgot about your... Beliefs" I hung up on her there and then.

My sister walks down the stairs giggling, she looks at me and sneers "Ugh you, what do you want" she asks me. Um the hunger games to stop, you being in the last one and losing, I don't know.... A pony. I didn't say of this out loud just in my head, because I don't want to get told off. Then my twin brother runs down the stairs pushing past my older sister and practically knocking her over. He grabs some food off the table and plonks himself down next to me, he is like me, a hater of the horrible hunger games. He smiles at me with the mischievous twinkle in his eye.

Dad appears on the steps with mum and he calls out to us "Today is a good one we have one we have a 15yr old and a 13yr old. Do you want me to give you their files?" Charlie and I exchange looks and we both nod our heads, we only get the files to see what everything is and how we can help them. He hands the files to us and we run up the stairs to our little attic room and we lie down and spread everything out on the floor. "I can't believe they threaten the escorts to say the two names that they tell them to, to make the games more interesting. Well actually I can't believe they do the hunger games full stop." Charlie looks at me and nods I shake my head and grab out the first file marked 'GIRL'. I open it up and read:

NAME: Abigail

AGE: 15

FAMILY: Mum, Dad, Younger Brother (12yr old)

EYE COLOUR: Hazel
HAIR COLOUR: Brown

RELATIONS TO BOY: None

CRIMES SHE HAS DONE: None

WHY SHE SHOULD BE IN THE GAMES: Her family needs her

OTHER RELEVANT INFO: Is happy all the time

I shake my head in disbelief as I read out loud the file to myself and to Charlie. I look at him and ask "How could they do that? Her family needs her and they deliberately send her into the games because of that?" Charlie just shrugs his shoulders and then shakes his head again, he quickly wipes tears from his eyes thinking that I won't notice. "Charlie? What's wrong?" He shakes his head and pulls out the boy's file:

NAME: Thomas

AGE: 13

FAMILY: Only a mother

EYE COLOUR: Blue

HAIR COLOUR: Sandy blonde

RELATIONS TO GIRL: None

CRIMES HE HAS DONE: Kicked a peace keeper in the shin

WHY HE SHOULD BE IN THE GAMES: Because he is not needed

OTHER RELEVANT INFO: Gets angry easily

Charlie looks at me after I had finished reading and he has a look of disbelief in his eyes, that and also the tears that are threatening to spill. We get up and carry the files back to my room and I place them in the locked compartment in my study table. Charlie walks over to my bed and lays down on it, I pull out my big plush chair and settle myself into it. There are fresh tears in his eyes and I know that they are not from those files.

He gets up and motions for me to follow him so I do so. We tiptoe out onto the top of the stairwell just as my family leave to go to the hunger games making thingy to watch the reapings. He nods his head and rushes into Mum and Dad's room holding the door open for me to come in. We walk inside and he walks up slowly to Dads desk and points at something there. I creep over and look down at what he is pointing to "The files? What do they have to do with you crying?" I pick up the files and go back to my room to study them better.

When Charlie finally turned up in my room after like 10 minutes he had read eyes and cheeks and his hair was all mucked up. He plopped himself down next to me and opened the files straight up to the black tab there, strange he always starts from the front. He then jabs his finger at the title of that section, even stranger because he can't read or write. I still read it and it reads "Capitol Citizen Avox Files Going to the Games "My god even more people, I shake my head but he doesn't stop there. He flips over 2 pages and lets me read it myself it reads:

NAME: Charlie Titil

AGE: 12

FAMILY: Two sisters, Mum, Dad

EYE COLOUR: Hazel

HAIR COLOUR: Brown

CRIME HE DID TO BE AN AVOX: Bad mouthing Capitol and the games

WHY HE SHOULD BE IN THE GAMES: There are too many avoxes

OTHER RELEVANT INFO: Is head game makers son

I gasp and tears that I never knew formed spill freely down my face as I cling onto him. He holds me tight as I cry, I can feel he is crying too. After a while I dry my tears and lean up and kiss him then I wipe his tears away saying "While we've got all the files in one place let's have a look through all of them and write them in the journal. We'll see who you're up against". So we do that and once we finish we put the book away and head downstairs, plonk on the couch and turn on the TV and cry some more.

Mum and Dad come home late saying that our older sister is going on a sleepover for the night.......... Really don't care. I nearly yell and scream at them about how cruel and mean they are especially since they are sending their own son in. But Charlie kept shooting me looks silencing me every time I went to say something because we both know that if we tell him Dad will know that we went into his book. When we finished with the book we were careful to note every detail down, even how districts 11 and 12 will be out of the reaping bowl so now we will always have a copy of it.

Charlie was an Avox for 5yrs. This was because he was caught bad mouthing the Capitol.... And its games. He was talking to me at the time he was taken away, the last thing that I heard him say was "The games should never have been done it kills, the Capitol is stupid and doesn't have a clue!!!" But then he got knocked out and dragged away for 5yrs and I didn't see him until he came home. The only way I got out of not being an Avox is that Charlie talked the judge into believing that I wasn't a part

of it and I feel really guilty about that.

Him coming home was emotional, I had stayed home from school yet again and my sister was still at school and my parents were out at work. A peace keeper came knocking on the door, so I went and opened it up to get Charlie shoved at me. He stumbled forward and fell literally onto of me, I helped him up the stairs and into his room and onto his bed where we sat and cried happily. But he has had side effects from being an Avox such as not being able to talk ever, wakes up with night mares practically every night. He also had a girlfriend that left him and did I mention that he can't read or write? I thought that he got sentenced to 5yrs of Avoxy but apparently he is going into the hunger games too, which by the way I am never watching again.