"Maisie, I'm scared."857Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXqVsSDJdxN
"Why Tia? You've been doing it longer than I have."857Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlj5TD7QP1h
Tia is my older sister and it's her last year to be entered into the reaping.857Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNAskEQOHoN
"Well, it's not really about me. It's about Ben."857Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnEy6oO874Q
"He's not going to be chosen." I said firmly. I was confident that he wouldn't be, I mean, Tia and I took tesserae so support our family. He is only in there once. 857Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6KxqtOmHly
"But what if he is?"857Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzMWSpkubFn
"He won't be."857Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1s6nz6MP9J
"How can you be so sure?"857Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTzOz72sca6
"You've made it all six years, I've made it four. Neither of us have been picked. Why are you worried about him now?"857Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpupOLYTQ3n
"Well, what if --"857Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCvttZiudms
"If Ben is chosen, he'll do fine, I mean, he can sword fight."857Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUEEqCMQ2oq
"You seriously call those fights that you have with Ben actual knowledge of sword fighting? I mean, it's just a little fun after work."857Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzCbMZo0yim
"Tia. It's actually a good workout. Anyways. I think Ben would do better than you in the games." I say with a laugh.857Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlrCJCiCxb1
"Why do you make the Games such a light subject? No one else is out there laughing about it."857Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQ0TdNdIRzM
"I don't know. I guess it keeps the pain out of my mind."857Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkpCG9aQCUh
Tia quickly turned on her heels and walked away to the room where she worked. She's only 18, but works full time as a seamstress. I guess I shouldn't be talking either. I finished school quite a bit early and am working full time in a factory. I man a few machines that weave fabric. It's a lot of running around, probably about a five or six miles an hour, considering how big the factory is. I don't mind though. I love running. 857Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNn4cEZWAfN
It's kind of surprising that Tia and I are related. I love her and all, but we are so different, she's more precise, detail-oriented, rule following, and thinks she so much more mature. I know I'm not mature, but not naïve. Sure I don't think a lot about thing before I do things, but I'm quick. I like to color outside the lines. 857Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5KnPI3aooD
Ben is sweet. He's still in school, and after, sometime he comes and works a bit in the factory, picking up scraps of fabric. Anything to keep our family going.857Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkaYfP0WD5z
You see, my father left my mother when Ben was born, and my mom is a seamstress, with Tia, which doesn't pay well.
