To Be A Career (A Very Clove Story)

"Clove." said a sing-song voice from above my head.

"Let me sleep." I insisted.

"It's Reaping Day. Get up." The voice said. I opned one eye, to see a smiling face and black hair. Of course. It's Karma, my twin sister, telling me to get up.

"Why can't I sleep Karie?" I say.

"Because it's Reaping Day. Now get up." she says, pushing me out of the bed. I see the first light of morning slipping through the window me and Karma share.In all 15 years of my life, I've shared a room with Karma.

"The Reaping's in an hour. Let's go." she says. We both end up wearing the smae dress, whcih is kind of a joke becuase we're identacal, so we see if anyone can tell us apart. No one ever can. The one major diffrence between us is our personalities. Karma's usally calm and quiet, a favorite of most adults. But I'm louder and crazier. That's the diffrence.

"Come on Karie. Let's go. You know that Gram isnt coming." I tell her. Gram is what we call the lady who takes care ofus. She's not out Grandma, she's not out mom. Gram is the lady who took us form our mom, and then killed her. But insted of the community home, she took us. But Gram is dieing.This makes me happy. I never liked her anyway.

We get into the Square, and go inside of the section for 15 year old girls. It's only about 7 am here, and I'm dead tired. The mayor starts of on the lecture about the Captial and the Hunger Games, and I know I start to doze off becuase Karma pinches me on the arm, which is out signal that mean I'm doing something that would cause Gram to hit me. I listen to the mayor with too much attention, which gets me a strange look. Then out escort, Dindle Tarsle, gets up on stage. Her skin is a strange shade of purple,kind of like lilac. She talks for a bit about how glad she is to be here, and then she starts off with "Ladies Firts!" She walks over to the ball, which has my name on five slips, and Karma's name on 5 slips. She pulls out a slip, and I hear a name.

"Clove Readson!" she shouts. I see Karma about to tear up, and I walk up to the stage, almost in a run. Then she calls out the name of a boy in the year above me, who looks frightened.

I walk over to Dindle. "I just thought I should tell you, I'm refusing voulnteers." I say. I want to win, and I don't want Karma to voulnteer.

"Clove refuses voulnteers!" Dindle announces.I look at Karma, who looks shocked, angery, and very sad, all in one expresion. Then I see three boys come to voulnteer for Kyle, I think his name was. Cato ends up becoming the male tribute for Two. I know Cato, he's in my class at school. He's always talking, or training for the Games. Karma calls him a nitwit. I call him awesome. The mayor talks for a bit, and then we're escorted by Peacekeepers to the Justice Bulding. I sit in a room, with lavish furnature, and sit.

Karma walks in, holding something, with tears in her eyes. She hands me a small necklace, puts around me, and gives me a hug. She starts to sing a song we found on some old device, an Ipod Nano it was called. I have one song on there, it's called "The Scientist" by some band called Coldplay, and I love it. Karma sings it in a high clear voice, her tears hitting my shoulder.
"Don't worry Karie, when I win, we'll live in Victor's Village. We'll be rich. And life'll be great." I tell her.
"Don't die Clove." she says. Then we lay on the floor, looking up at the celing, and we sing songs. We sing everything we can in an hour, and when they take her away, a single tear falls on my cheak I wipe it away, and the Peacekeepers escort her out. I can't cry in front of the cameras, I can't cry in front of Cato, I can't cry in front the escort,the mentors. I can't cry, so I might as well stop trying to. Because in the Games, tears won't save me.

Hey! I hope you liked it! Anyway, I was re-reading the Hunger Games, and I was thinking about how Clove was kind of represented as this evil, souless girl. So I desided to make her more human, and give her a story. Please comment and rate! Bye!
Love always,
Annemarie