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She's a Survivor That One

Chapter One

70th Hunger Games: The Beginning

Katniss Everdeen sighed heavily, today was the day that could be her death sentence. After, all today was the reaping for the 70th Hunger Games. At 12 years old Katniss should've been safer than most people in District 12. However, after her father died in a mining accident when she was eleven and her mother decided to give up on life; Katniss became the sole provider of her family of five so she had to take out the tesserae as many times as possible.

Her sister Freesia was ten, Primrose was eight, and her little brother Telstar was only two. No amount of their begging, pleading, and crying from any of them could get their mother to act like what proper mother should. For that, Katniss would never forgive her especially after how when Telstar started calling Katniss 'mommy' and her mother didn't even react.

Katniss had taken out six slips; she marked the father line on the tesserae just so they could have more food. That's seven slips of paper that say Katniss Everdeen on them, seven chances she might die soon and leave her little butterfly, her little duck, and her little monkey in the hands of her useless mother.

"It's not going to happen, there are still thousands of slips." Katniss whispered to herself, drawing some comfort in her beloved woods.

"Talking to yourself there, Catnip?" Gale asked. Katniss smiled they've known each other for a little over a year now, their fathers died last January in the same mining explosion,

Katniss started hunting mid-March after finding hope from the boy with bread, soon after she met Gale in the woods but it took a while for them to become friends in fact it was last year's reaping when both realized their hunting partnership had somehow became a very close friendship:

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