This is based on the first hunger games and divergent book and movie. Some characters have the roles they have in the normal books. Some characters have another personality. It just fitted my storyline better. This book is written in p.o.v (point of...
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P.o.v Tris
The day of the reaping is here. After 365 days, again. Another reaping. Every year I ask myself why people do this for. Children from around my age die literally every year, for what? The fun of adults? Well, welcome to my world. Welcome to district 10, we prevent life stock for the rest of the districts and the capitol. It's kind of like Amity. The 'faction' in a book I love to read. It's called Divergent. I've read it like 100 times. I never get bored of it. Now about now. Today is the reaping. I hate it. I'm quite happy that I'm 16, I still have 2 years to go. Then I'm free of the reaping, the horrible, terrible reaping. My brother Caleb is also 16. Well in a week he'll turn 17.
It's around 11:00 AM. At 12 exactly the first name will be reaped. The girls always go first. District 10 is really big and we don't really have a square. We have fields were the reaping takes places. They set up huge screens. In the middle, the real reaping will take place. If the reaped tributes aren't at that field. They will get picked up. Half an hour ago my mom started helping me with looking nice and stuff. Ugh, I hate it when she acts like I'm those normal girls that love make-up, talk about boys and stuff. I even never really had a friend that is a girl, well one. Tori, she is the daughter of the mayor. We talk sometimes at school, but that's it. I do have a friend who is a boy, his name is Will. He is really nice, sometimes after school, we sneak away and just go to a completely empty field and just hunt on some rats. They're good as food. I don't really have other friends, I'm not good at talking to people. So my mom was helping me with looking (what she calls) beautiful. I just hate it when I can't wear pants and can't wear my hair in a ponytail. She gave me one of her old reaping dresses she still had hanging around in her closet. She puts my hair in a bun, she says that it looks neat. I just hate it.
10 minutes later we walk to the field that is the closest to our house. It's the middle field. Or what some of us call it during reapings: The middle of the hell gates. First, we have some blood test. I don't know why, my dad told me as a joke when I had my first reaping that the capitol used it for accessories. That they had for every blood bit they used it for a drink. It scared me so much I started crying in the middle of the field. He had to tell that it was a joke because we were keeping the row up. When we got home that day I started crying again only of the thoughts of it, My mom had to calm me, thinking again of it. I smile with the thoughts.
At 11:50 the capitol man that always do our reaping walks on the stage. I always forget his name. I don't know why, but it's quite long. It's something like Rudolphusage. Everyone calls him Rud. Rud walks to the microphone. Does his speech, let see some film they made in the capitol to let us remember why we have the Hunger Games. Then the reaping starts. Rud walks to the bowl of the girls. There are so many papers with names in it. Rud grabs a paper and says the name:'' Beatris Prior.'' I swear that my heart just skipped a couple of steps. The faces of the girls around me turn to me. Well, everyone seems to know me. I walk slowly to the stage. I see my mom standing with my dad with tears in her eyes. I try to find Will, but I can't find him in the crowd. Then it's the turn of the boys. Rud calls a name Uriah Pedrad. I recognize him when he walks on the stage. He is 2 classes lower than me. Then before Uriah is at the stage someone screams:'' I VOLUNTEER! I VOLUNTEER!'' The sound comes from Zeke. I know him, He is in my class. Zeke is the older brother of Uriah. Wow, He volunteered for his younger brother, would Caleb do the same for me if boys could volunteer for girls. Probably not, he is quite a wimp. He is still scared of spiders. How sad it is, he wouldn't even survive the blood bath...
When we get lead inside we are split before we can say a word to each other. We both got to lead to different rooms. This is where the tributes can say goodbye to their family. First, my parents and Caleb walks inside. My mom hugs me first. I'm her only daughter, she always wanted multiple daughters. Then my dad and Caleb hug me. My dad can give me some life advice: ''Stay alive sweetheart, you can fight with or without a weapon, good luck.'' Caleb looks like he's about to cry, I hug him an extra time. Then they got pushed away by some guardians. Then Tori walks inside. We don't really talk, that's why I didn't really expect she would be here. She says that she will give extra emotional support to my family. I hug her, then Will walks inside. He hugs me. Pretty unexpected. but then he gives me something. It is a pin of fire. He says:'' I wanted to give this for your 19th birthday, to celebrate that you are finally freed from the reaping, but there are some tiny small chances that you won't save that. So I wanted to give you this.'' He hands me over. He gives me some advice and then he needs to leave. I have a couple of minutes alone. I really want to cry, but It just doesn't happen.
Then I got taken by some guardians and I got taken to a car where Rud and Zeke wait on me. In the car it's really silent, we just don't know what to say. At dinner in the train, the first words are said, not by me, not by Zeke, but by Rud. He tries to cheer us a bit up. I appreciate his job, but I'm not really in the mood. After dinner, I take a shower, brush my hair and go out of my cabin to search Rud. I wanted to apologize for my behaviour. He told that he was pretty used to it, tributes that didn't want to talk. There was even one year a male tribute that went to his cabin for the whole trip. Came three times a day outside for getting food, not eating it with the others. He just took some food and went to his cabin. It almost worked. In the capitol the people loved him. It let him almost win. He was the last 3, then a girl from district 2 killed him. Poor boy, he was 18 and almost freed Rud and I talked for some time. We got along pretty good. at 10:00 PM I went to my cabin and fell asleep.
That morning at breakfast Zeke said his first word to me. He asked how I slept. I answered with:'' Pretty, fine and you?'' He nodded and said:'' Same'' I have some feeling that Zeke doesn't really like me or something.
The rest of the train trip went pretty fast. The trip takes 4 days When we arrive at the capitol a lot of people are waiting for us. I walk to the window and start waving at them. They look pretty happy, I don't know why. I'm probably dead in a day or 13, I ask or Zeke comes to join me, but he doesn't he just walks back to his cabin to pack his stuff. Weird guy that he is...
