Selected

12

Being at home after all this time is strange, it's been three days since I've gotten back and I feel like I don't even recognize my own district.

I had forgotten about the uncomfortable beds,I had forgotten about the plain food, I had forgotten about the homeless.

How could I have been so wrapped up in that stupid selection that I had forgotten about my people? The people that I'm representing in the selection?

No one expected anyone from the lower districts to still be in the game and yet here we are.

These past few days I've been trying not to think about Evelyn, drake and basically everyone in the castle at this point. There has been way to much drama for my liking.

Instead I focus my mind to Marlee and those words those who you do not see die are never truly dead I try and I try but I still can't seem to figure it out.

Asides from that Maria and my mom informed me that Mercedes left to live with maya and her husband so that's fun.

I still don't understand why she was so angry with me, it's not like I asked to be chosen.

Sighing I pull myself up from the uncomfortable dirt and stretch my body out. For the past hour or so I had been sitting at the old park thinking and trying to figure out where exactly my life went wrong.

Looking up at the sky I see the sun is starting to set so I turn and start making my way back home.

But before I could get far an overly warm hands grips my shoulder and I yelp.

"Shhh! Relax It's me Marlee" I turn around to see exactly who she said Marlee.

"Marlee?! What are you doing here!"

She shrugged "that's not important, what's important is that you follow me" she grabs my arms and starts pulling me off in the opposite direction.

"Wait! What, no where are we going?" I ask frantically

"Relax I'm not gonna hurt or kidnap you your highness, I just need you to follow me" she says without turning back in my direction.

I groan, I'll follow her for now but I definitely don't trust her.

She led me behind a large building and into some strange alleyway before she finally stopped.

"Where are we?" I asked pulling my arm from her tight grip.

She looked around and pulled me in for a hug "what are yo-"

"It's the signal" she pulled away and two men started walking in our direction.

"Seriously Marlee what the hell is going on?"

She shook off my question "have you figured out what I meant the other day?" She asked instead I sighed defeated and shook my head no.

"That's okay, your about to find out now" she said as they approached I was about to ask what she meant by that when I looked over at one of the men and my heart skipped a beat.

Could it be?

"Daddy?"

The man nods "Bebe" he says pulling me in for a hug. I'm shook to my core.

The man I thought was dead all these years...is alive

"H-how?" I stuttered pulling away, he smiled pushing a strand of hair behind my ear.

"We have a lot to talk about bebe"

2 hours later.

"Okay...tell me one more time" for that past few hours my dad had been explaining everything to me. All of it...it's just so hard to wrap my head around.