stronger

part 1

I stare down my shoes, hiding my weakness and I try to face my fears. My mother used to say that I have to be strong and don't let people change me. But that was before she died. Everything changed that night in woods. I can still remember how she tried to save me. I was only 12 when it happened and we went to the woods because my brother was very ill. We had to find food for him otherwise he would have probably died. My father was working all nights and days long. He didn't had time for his family, all he cared about then was his job. He should have knew what happened that night. I was trying to catch a bird with a knife when suddenly a peacekeeper was looking down at me. He was carrying a gun with him and he pointed it at me. I can still hear my mother screaming. "Don't you dare do that! Take me then! Leave my Rosalyn alone!" And that was the moment he shoot. Right in her hearth. Tears are running down my cheeks and they fall on the soft ground. "Be strong Rosalyn. Be strong" I say to myself. In district 12 you have to be strong. You are always hungry, only not when you are a victor of the hunger games. Which isn't normal here. We usually eat one time a day, my father works in the mines, I collect stuff in the woods and my brother Michael helps me. If we have a Lucky day we sometimes catch a bird or find another animal to eat and That's how we survive. The odds aren't really in our favor, though. I walk back home with my mothers coat tightened around my body. That's the only thing I've still got from her. I don't have many friends. Well, I had them a while ago. But they ignored me after I was sad all the time. I hadn't spoke a word to them for months. Even the teachers of my school where done with me. I braid my light Brown hair to my right shoulder and walked further.

As I come back home my brother is waiting me up at the door. He calls my name and I jump into his arms. He is the only friend I have got left here.

But he always is too worried about me, he says that I'm way to thin. That I look tired all the time and that I need to take a break. But I won't take a break. Because I have to be strong. I have to be strong like my mother was.