Cato's Hunger Games

CHAPTER 1 REAPINGS

"Wake up!" screams mom, "You'll be late for the reaping." Ugh I hate the reapings. I'm on my last reaping because I'm eighteen now. "I'm coming up, Cato, you better be dressed" mom yells louder than normal. I put on my best clothes and go down stairs for breakfast. As usual, for a reaping breakfast I get a blueberry muffin, eggs and bacon. Then I head over to my best friend Clove's house to walk with her and her sister to the reaping.

District two's escort, Felicia Damire, walks over to the reaping bowls and says, in her impossibly high pitched voice, "Ladies first!" She picks a name from the big glass bowl. "Clove Sanel!" Clove grins and walks up casually and chirps, "I'm sixteen."

Then Felicia goes to the bowl containing the boys names "Cato Sebastian!" No, why did Clove have to be picked with me? I charge towards the stage to where Felicia and Clove stands. "I'm eighteen." I growl.

Felicia claps and some fat peacekeeper leads me to a room to say my goodbyes.

First to come is Reina my ex girlfriend she sobs on me soaking my clothes in tears. Mr. Fatty (fat peacekeeper) takes her away. I'm not surprised when mom doesn't come to see me leave. She hates me! I don't have a dad, he died of sickness when I was ten.

As I board the train, cameras flash everywhere. Why can't they knock off?

The brainless freaks are screaming our names. I ask Clove who came to see her off and she said her family and Ono her friend. She asked me I said " Reina, she was the only one who came." Clove scowls, she hates Reina. Clove hates her because Reina loves me and Clove doesn't want me to talk to other girls.

We meet our mentors Brutus and Enobaria in the dining car on the train and they ask what weapons are we able to use "Throwing knives!" Clove says a little too enthusiastic. "I can use swords and um... daggers." I reply uncertainly. We watch the reaping recaps and the only thing that surprises me is that in district twelve a skinny girl volunteers for her sister.

Then we arrive in the Capitol and plunge into darkness.