The Beginning of a New Story

Reaping day

Chapter 1

The soft sounds of the waves crashing to shore were the only thing you could hear at the beginning of dawn in district 4.

At the side of the shore in the sand sat a young 16-year-old girl with (H\L) (H\C) that softly flowed in the morning wind.

The smell of the ocean was the same as always but the tension that started to move out across the 12 districts of Panem was higher than before.

Children that were usually playing around were getting ready for the special day that was coming up.

The usually loud talking that you could hear out in the streets was not more than a whisper.

This was the morning of the reaping day....

The morning where everything and at the same time nothing would change.

*Your POV*

As I was breathing in the soft morning air outside of my house, I hear my mother calling me.

"(Y\N)!"

I sigh looking back at the ocean one last time before standing up and walking back to the house.

As I walk into the kitchen of the house where my mother probably was, I see her cleaning up.

"I'm here mother what do you need?" I ask her as I pull out a chair and sit down.

"What I need?" She asks looking up at me "Dear you need to get ready for the reaping" she says looking at me with a sad smile.

'Great' (note the sarcasm) ' the reaping where one boy and one girl get picked to go into the arena to fight till death until only one is left standing' I thought as I look with dull eyes outside of the window next to the rusty table I was seated at.

I could hear my mother going on about what is should wear as I get lost in thought.

'Last year the games were more than gruesome, the winner that won could not even be called a winner after all that went down. The arena was in the desert and if not because of the bloodbath then because of the weather, was it horrible.

Many died in the bloodbath thanks to the careers that year, heads cut off, getting slashed in the chest with a spear of such, it was honestly just gruesome but when is it not?

And once every participant was dead and only the careers were left hell went down.

They went full-on crazy and in the end, the career girl from district 1 that won was left with a cut off leg.

Before the airship of the capitol had time to get to her, she was already dead because of blood loss.

After that, the whole capitol was left in a riot many people of the capitol were getting mad and had gone crazy.

So without question would the games this year going to be on a whole new level, so the game makers could make up for the mistake they did last year.'

I was pulled out of thought as I hear my mother say "Right (Y/N)?"

I look up to see her staring at me, I look at her confused and hear her sigh.

"I was talking about how after the reaping you and I could go out and buy a cake, I saved up enough money for us to buy one thanks to your good hunting. Anyways go and get ready for the reaping now dear" that was the last thing she said before I stood up and walked to my small room.

As hard as my mother is trying to forget the fact that I might get reaped today we both know that it is a possibility.

If I get reaped today I don't know how my mother is going to survive, even if we live in one of the more wealthier districts we are still on the poor side of the district.