Wise Heart&Harmful Love

Weepy Reaping

Our escort, Talia Hewn walks to the concrete grey stage in district 3. all to be heard during this tiredness reaping was the clickings of Taila's royale purple high heels.

Taila had on a yellowish golden jacket dress that went down to her thighs, with a ribbon belt matching her shoes, with pale pink stockings to match her skin tone. She had large long eyelashes that were the color of her jacket. Taila also had royale purple lip stick on and eye liner on, and gold eye shadow. She looked like a person to come out of The Grinch Stole Christmas movie, especially with her royale purple wig on.

It was quite hard not to laugh at her, but if I laughed I would be stared at or maybe worse so I would never would want to take the chance.

It was my 3rd chance at being reaped. I didn't take any tessera because that is mostly for the poorer districts and most of us kids and parents in 3 are well feed.

I have a younger brother, Darrin he is 8 years old. Looks pretty similar to me, he's a bit more tanner than me but that's it. He is standing over by my mom and dad who is just praying that I will be fine. My name was only in the bowl 3-9 times so I know my chances are very very low.

I was just standing their looking around. I was in the middle group closer to the back because yet I was a 14 year old I was very tall for my age, 5'9 it's actually hard for me to believe that. In 7-8th grade I was taller then all the boys and girls. But now in 9th grade some of the lucky boys are catching up to my height and are not asking "How's the weather up their weather caster." I should have never told people is 6th grade I wanted to be a weather caster.

"Hello hello, welcome to district 3s 74th reaping!" Talia applaud. She looked around the crowd but the whole district 3 was as quite as a mouse.

"Time for my favorite film to start!" Talia said to the crowd once again. In district 3 we don't watch many films, most of the films we watch about is the Hunger Games obviously and short films about mechanics and stuff. We don't get a lot of time to watch fun movies here unlike the capital.

War, terrible war- Started playing, my legs were so tired that I could pass out any second. Maybe reading theses magazines all night long to keep my mind off the reaping wasn't the best thing to do...

One minute, two minutes, three minutes- I was counting down the time until four minutes which too my counting is how long the film is. The only plus side to the film is that it isn't the reaping, which I kind of do regret getting bored with the films because I don't really want the reaping to happen fast thinking about it.

Talia finishes off the film with her lip-synching the last few words of the film then it was the reaping that I dreaded the most.

"Okay! Time for the reaping, ladies first like always." Talia says as she takes 5 click clapping steps exactly to the female bowl with girls ages 12-18 names in it.

I took a very deep breath as Talia digs her slim hand in the bowl. It was so quiet that I could hear Talia's gold finger games swish through the papers and click against the reaping bowl.

I closed my eyes crossing my fingers hoping for the best. I rigged my crossed fingers behind my back and closed my eyes and counted one, two, three, four, five until I heard her take her wonderfully painted nails out of the glass female reaping bowl. The second I heard the clicking and swooshing nosies from the bowl and paper I open I eyes. I opened my eyes and say Talia opening up the perfectly folded white pice of paper.

Talia clears her voice and then says "Amber Prescott" It took me about 10 seconds to realize she just called out my name. Everybody started to stare at me. My mother gasped and my brother was seen with tears in his eyes, my fathers face looked shocked but with little emotion because that was just the person he was.