In a small house in District 4, which is located in Panem, a girl with long red hair, grey/blue eyes, and freckles dotting her pale cheeks and nose, is woken by something slimy, wet, and alive.

A loud shriek escaped her mouth as she sat up, a large beta fish falling into her bedroom floor.

"Fox!" She snapped, her attention focused upon a small girl with curly ginger hair and amber eyes. The younger girl giggled. At this, the girl with blue/grey eyes smiled and her features softened.

Fox's true name was Rose, but everyone called her Fox due to her fox-like appearance. And the older girl was Skipper.

And the reason Fox had placed a live fish on Skipper's face is because they were in District 4 - the fishing district. And Skipper slept in constantly, but today was the reaping.

The reaping was where a male and female are chosen from each district, and put through the Hunger Games. This is where the selected people - known as tributes - are forced to survive in an arena. There is a huge backstory to it, but that is not what is important currently.

Skipper took the dieing fish and walked to the kitchen with Fox behind her, still giggling. Skipper carelessly tossed the fish with a bucked if other dead fish, before cleaning her face and hands.

While this happened, over a few streets away, a 15-year-old female with long, wavy, light brown hair and eyes the color of ice woke up to another nightmare.

A nightmare about her sister, Dove, who had died in the Hunger Games a few years ago.

The girl - Raven - stood and went to the bathroom of her house and washed off her face, looking into the cracked mirror. Freckles also were seen on her nose and under her eyes.

She trudged to the kitchen where she found her breakfast with a note from her father. He was off setting up the area for the reaping, and asked her to get ready.

She sighed and trudged back to the bathroom, where she prepared herself a bath and searched for a nice dress.

After a few hours, all three girls were waiting for the names of their district's tributes for that year. District 4 was part of the careers, as other districts called them, but they do not have volunteers as much.

They had fingers crossed, hoping it was not themselves. Fox was holding one of Skipper's hands in fear. It was only her first reaping.

In District 4, the woman on stage rummaged around the small bowl.

The first person called was Raven, who tensed up.

She began to stiffly walk to the stage, looking around desperately.

She arrived at the stage, but no one volunteered for her.

Second was Rose Tepfer.

Fox looked up at Skipper with side eyes, but Skipper was frozen in shock. Fox then slowly walked out of the crowd and towards the stage. Skipper slowly snapped out of reality, and as the woman at the front asked for volunteers it was silent.

Then "I volunteer!" Was heard in the crowd. It was Skipper. Fox widened her eyes and shook her head, but Skipper hurried up to the stage and grabbed her sister, hugging her before peacekeepers took her off and put her in the crowd.

Fox was screaming "No!" Repeatedly, tears beginning to leak out of her eyes. Skipper stood up, trying to remain expressionless.

The woman beside Skipper looked shocked. "Well, um, who are you?" She asked.

"Skipper Tepfer." Said Skipper, and added in an undertone "the one and only."

"I presume you are the sister of Rose?" Asked the woman.

"Fox." I corrected.

"I guess so. Well, let's give these wonderful tributes a round of applause!" Said the woman. Raven looked like she really did not want to be there.

And Skipper felt the same way.