Ruby Jay D9 CBD #3

I don't get them. Boys, that is. All of them think they can do anything better than me and I just don't get it. I can climb to the top of a roof on a house that was way too big to be in District Nine. I can run around in the mud and get dirty just like them. And I am definitely better at catching animals than they ever will be. Dares are the best thing though. I've gotten too many dares from boys that shouldn't ever try to beat me. Too many careless boys in District Nine that think they can get an upper hand on me. Sorry bud, but I will do anything, so long as I put them in their place. There's nothing for them to do or say, but watch in awe as I do some insane thing for fun or a dare. Either way, I love the rush of accomplishing danger.

My family is different than most. My brother and I didn't have parents like the normal kids do. We were at an orphanage for a good chunk of our life, fighting other orphans for food and play things. It was a life full of dangerous people and dangerous things. I've seen a lot of the worst things that you could think of. Starving children, gang violence, and boys who don't know when to stay silent. Some young guy who we know as our father now, Mocking Jay, adopted us because he wanted children of his own, but had no significant other. That's how we got adopted by him. I convinced him to get my big brother, who is kind of a dick, but still he's all the family I have left. Mick named us, even though we had names before, but we just kept them because it was easier than fighting with that crazy man.

Our life couldn't be any better now. I'm feed, clothed, and living under a roof with my brother. Well, I gotta go now, I think one of the neighborhood boys has a dare for me.

Stay safe,
Ruby Jay