Safe & Sound (Cato Hadley Love Story)

Chapter 1: The Reaping Day

There he was standing before me with the sword in his hand. I felt as if my feet were glued to the ground and I couldn't move, so I just closed my eyes waiting for death, yet it never came. I opened my eyes and the boy was gone. I turned around and it was then I got stabbed in--

"Kat wake up we have to get ready WAKE UP!" My sister Emerald screamed in my ear shaking me. "I'm up, I'm up" I mumbled dragging myself out of bed. I went straight for the bathroom taking a slightly warm shower since that is the best we get here in District 2. I hate today. I hate the capitol. I hate the Hunger Games. Today is the oh so joyous Reaping Day were one boy and one girl from 12-18 gets picked out of all 12 districts and fight to the death for the capitols own sick twisted enjoyment. 

I'm not worried though, if I get picked I'm not scared that my mother will care.She hates me because the day I was born my father died by getting shot by a peacekeeper. She has blammed me for the whole thing. My sister on the other hand, she is my everything, and my mother's everything. I finally got out of the bath and got dressed in my favorite floral dress with a coral skirt, with my nude flats, and my iron feather necklace my sister had given to me once I was able to walk. She said it was my fathers, I wish he was here, then maybe my mother wouldn't hate me. I sigh going into the family room, my mother was sitting by the window looking out it "Hi mother" She just looked at me and sighed, she only cares on days like this, I know deep down she really does care, but she just doesn't show it, well she does to my sister. "Emery can you please do my hair?" I asked in my most inoccent way possible. You see my secret weapon is my innocence, people always think I am to small and frail to be able to do anything, well if I get reaped, then they have another thing comming.