Salem Pinewood District 12

I sit on my bed with my black,flowing,knee length hair spread around me. My slender fingers find their way to my gruesome face. I give a painful sigh as I feel the long scar under my one-eye covering bangs. I stand on my slender,yet strong legs and walk over to my closet. I choose my favorite brown tee and a pair of skinny jeans.

I look at my hands,cut from years of work in my gardens,and slip on a pair of gloves that are my favorite color:black. I smile slightly as I remember I received them from my dead best friend,Jay. I remember how we tried to become tanner but both of us had skin that was a pink-ish colored light brown.

I stand and put a small mockingjay pin I got from the hob,over my heart. I found the pin deep in a box and it was given to me.

I run down the hall excitedly as I smell cooked ham in the kitchen. I sigh when I realize I was smelling old wonders and grab a small bow and a quiver of arrows and fun outside my house. The "electrified" fence is practically right outside my door. I run up and crawl through a hole in the base of a post.

I aim my bow in the air and skillfully kill tonight's dinner,boiled geese! I check my snares and find enough game to get me through the week. I smile,as I rarely do. I look around,expecting to see Jay at my side and painfully sigh.

In my head,I curse the capital and everyone in it for creating the hunger games.I am a great grudge holder. I have a photographic memory. I'm good with a bow and some arrows. I cannot compete in hand to combat,nor am I a fast runner. I would not last a day in the hunger games,not without going crazy and snapping every neck I could with my bare hands.

I sit and think of my life.

When born,I was given no name. Until I was 9 years old everyone called me "girlie". I hated it. When I reached the age of nine I looked at my family and said"My name is Salem!"

When I was about 12 years old I met Jay while exploring the food variety in the woods.I was looking at a squirrel's house and he came up
behind me and squeaked"come away from my house!",I spun around and found a 15 year old boyboy laughing his head off and I snapped"Shut up! Your scaring off the prey!" He realized I said something smart and stopped laughing,he stood up and asked me"what's your name?" I was looking up at him and choked out"Sa---" he smiled"Sa how do you know about scaring prey?" I shook my head and ran home. He must have seen me before and found my house. My mother called"Salem a boy named Jay is here to see you!"I groaned"send him up!". Jay walked in my room and I explained my brother taught me before he died and he got it from my dad,before her died.

All the family I have left is my mother and two old cats. My brother and father died in the mines. Jay died in the hunger games. My mother went a little crazy after and the cats are so sweet. One is named peetie and the other captain.

I have my gruesome scar because I was caught hunting one day and a peacekeeper cut from under my eye to the middle of my lower lip. But I still have a voice like the birds. I sing for hours as I hunt and they prey becomes confused.

I can get rid of the hunting if you like and just an fyi she hunts for food and money.

Also I can edit out the mockingjay pin part