1 October Hennings

Hi. It's October. I am new to this high school. I am a freshman and I don't exactly understand how high school works and that stuff, but today is my first day. Tomorrow is the day that they decide who the fourteen kids are that participate in this decade's games arena. The winner apparently gets $200,000,000 to support themselves for the rest of their lives.

I have done stellar research on these games, since well.. last decade, my cousin participated. She's twenty-six now, but she was the color green. Her name was Giselle. She is in the hunger games hall of fame for defeating, mainly for the moment where she shot Rosa, competitor for pink, in the head. You know, she acted like she felt sorry, but I don't think she did.

I grabbed my nice red bag with orange leaves patterned on it and I sighed, thinking about what tomorrow is going to be like. The color hunger games and everything. Who is going to be chosen? I decided to call up my cousin, so I don't continuously sit on this couch all day, bored out of my mind. Picking up my phone, I dialed her phone number.

"Hey, cuz. How you doin?" I asked her and I waited for a response.

"Hey, Oct. I am doing good. What did you want to call about?" She asked me and I looked over at the book about the games.

"I have some questions about the decade's games." I said and I hear a lot of audio in her background.

"Were you chosen?" Giselle asked me, and I sighed.

"No. They choose who plays tomorrow." I said and I hear Giselle's footsteps through the phone going to a quieter place.

"I'm coming over. Now." She said, hanging up the phone.

I rest up normally on the couch, turning on some TV while I wait for her to come to the house. She said she's coming over, but I am not fully sure if she is, that's just what I gathered from her. As I turned on the movie 'Twilight' I hear a knock at the door. I paused the TV and I walked to the door, peeking through that little hole they have on some of those doors. It's Giselle. She came awfully quick I must say.

I unlocked the door, opening it to see my big cousin at the other side of the house. I hugged her, letting her in. She seemed to be carrying a lot and she's in her business work outfit. I still wonder how she has a job if she won the games a decade back. She has a lot of money.

"So, what did you want to know about the hunger games? How it works, how it is played, how you win?" Giselle asked me and I shook my head.

"Gis.. I am very nervous. What if I get chosen and I die?" I asked Giselle and she shook her head.

"Oct.. you'll win. I promise." Giselle said and I sighed in relief.

"So, do greens normally win..?" I asked her and she raised her eyebrows.

"No, Oct, you would be an orange.. if you were chosen." Giselle said and I sighed as I looked down at my nails.

"What would they do to me once I enter the room?" I asked her and she tried remembering what her time was like when she was sixteen.

"Well, Oct.. you will be fine. They will just make you wear an orange shirt and put orange marks on your face. It's not anything dangerous. Then you meet your partner, and you are supposed to fall in love with them, but if you don't, you win. If you do, you lose. And Gerald.. my green partner.. he lost. He fell in love with me, and I won by keeping my eyes on the prize." She said and I start to get nervous.

I am sort of frightened about what would happen if I fall in love with the partner that I am assigned. The final couple gets to challenge their love for each other, no one has ever gotten there before, so I am a little bit anxious about what I have in store.

"You want to get some snow cones?" Giselle asked, holding out her credit card. I looked at the golden credit card and then back at her.

"Yes please!" I said and she nodded, as we walked outside to the car together.

She opened the drivers seat door and I hopped in there, sighing as I closed the passengers' door on the side of me. She put the keys in the car and drove off. Why doesn't she have a limo? She's hella rich. She won $200,000,000 from the games.

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Sitting down at the snow cone place, it has never looked so fancy. It is a nice small orange building with red streamers and green window outings. It looks super beautiful. I smiled at the scenery, and my sister stopped me from looking at how beautiful the scenery is.

"What do you want cuz?" She asked me and I looked up at the menu.

"I would like a medium blueberry." I said and Giselle nodded, walking to the snow cone register at the front of the shop.

As she came back to the seats we got right next to the register, she brought me my blueberry snow cone and sat down holding her cherry snow cone. We licked and chatted about the stuff that the games were about. You know, the stuff that was giving me very much anxiety.

"So, what is it that you are MOST MOST MOST afraid of?" She asked me and I just looked around for a second, to think about it.

"Well, I want to know what happens if my partner and I both end up in love with each other." I said and she sort of giggled the concern off.

"No one has ever gotten to that point, but I heard that they fall in love with each other. Like I said, it's just a myth. No one has actually ever gotten to that point." She said.

As we finished licking our snow cones, we talked a bit more about the games, just so that I know exactly what I am in for. Just so that I know how bad tomorrow and possibly the rest of my life is going to be if I get selected.