The Hunger Games: What If Katniss Never Existed?

Chapter 2

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Prim P.O.V.

I guess I forgot to tell you about myself. I'll start with my name: Primrose Everdeen. I'm the food provider for the family, my father is the person who pays the rent, buys clothes, etc. and my mother cooks, cleans, and does other house work. My siblings and I all go to school everyday except for the weekends and we have it pretty good for people who live in the Seam. The Seam is the poor part of District 12, the place where all of the unsightly and dirty people who work and toil in the coal mines live. Every year we have the Hunger Games, the ultimate punishment for the rebelion among the Districts 74 years ago. The Hunger Games are the games where kids anywhere from the ages of twelve to eighteen are forced to fight to the death, there are twelve remaining districts and each has to send 1 boy and 1 girl into these games. Now, the reward for winning the games is sweet: the ability to live in the Victors Housing for the rest of your lives and having a steady supply of money. Also, the whole district recieves food rashions and a festival for a year before everything turns normal again. Unfortunately, loosing means death. They choose the people by having a glass ball with the names of the boys nd girls eligible in it, a new ticket goes in each year, each one is added to the number of years you've been eligible. I am twelve and I only have one ticket in there, next year will be two, then three, then four, and so on until I turn nineteen and will no longer be eigible for the games. Another way to get your name in again is to sign up for tessera, one meager years worth of grain and oil for one person. Despite the hardships, my family seems to be in pretty good shape and happiness.