Three Worlds Collide

Meeting The Greenman Twins (District Nine, Part One)

Sam's POV

'Up you get Sammy!' My sister whispered in my ear. 'It's reaping day.'

I coughed and spluttered my way off the bed trying not to fall back into a heavy sleep again. Glancing over at the clock I saw that it was one pm only an hour till the reaping. I allowed Alanna to have the first shower trying to be somewhat of a gentleman. I may have been sick but I didn’t have to be mean.

Alanna and I live alone in our parents old house which is the only one occupied in this area of District nine. Alanna, our parents and I lived in the middle-class area of District nine. Dad died when Alanna and I were three and our little sister Freya was only three months old. Only a month ago a plague hit District nine's lower and middle class. Freya and Mum died from it whilst Alanna and I survived. I still have it but luckily Mum being a nurse in the hospital was able to trade in her pay for a new medicine to make it non contagious. Unfortunately she gave it to me rather than taking it herself or giving it to Freya which caused them both to die and me trying to fight this off with the help of Alanna. She and I both have jobs for after school trying to be able to afford all of the necessities life has to offer. She works the the hospital as a receptionist and I work as a postman seeing it is the only jobs that sick people are able to do.

'The showers free Sammy. Now come on we only have a half hour for me to get you looking somewhat presentable. Now hurry up!'

Throughout my shower I kept thinking about how even though we hardly get anything to help us live we still seem to manage to get through the tough time together. Now I may be kinda scrawny and short and a bit of a nerd it is hard to believe me and my sister are twins. She looks exactly like our mother and Freya. She loves all of the really girly stuff and absolutely hates school but knows it is the only way for her to get a proper job. Whereas for me school and the public library are retreats for me. There I sit and read and my mind goes elsewhere.

After getting out of the shower I saw that Alanna was already dressed, hair and make-up done and my clothes already laid out on my bed. She dragged me down and did my hair before leaving and letting me get dressed.

Alanna's POV

My brother the only way to describe him is, SLOW. He takes longer than me to get ready so I pretty much have to drag him everywhere with me. Once he had gotten dressed I dragged him down to the train station where we caught the train into the square. Half of District nine was already there and all the kids were signing in. Sam and I signed in and made our way to the separate sides of the fourteen-year-old section.

A few minutes past until when Marina Levecorpse came out to draw out them names.

'Hello everyone, Why don’t we do one of each before we get to the end Hm?' She said as the rest of the district kept quiet. 'Well men first. Sam Greenman and for the ladies, Alanna Greenman. Siblings. How exciting.'

As I walked out to the pathway Sam and I switched looks. As if we knew what was going to happen. We stood up on stage as the rest of the District looked at us. No one was crying over our reaping or anything. We just were a few out of the whole district to be picked. Seeing as though the plague wiped out half of our population we had a higher chance of getting picked and seeing as though Sam and I had our names in a few dozen times the odds weren't in our favour. Our hands linked knowing that together we would do what we could to survive.