Credence Crouch Distric 12 finished

She was thin and this was typical for District Eleven. She had tan skin, big brown eyes, a lot of hair and bony shoulders. When she was nine one of her brothers chopped off the pinkie finger of her left hand while collecting firewood. This and the dead grey tooth at the front of her mouth were the only things to set Cree apart.

Cree was always a quiet, secretive person. Cree intended to open up a restaurant at the edge of the mines where she could serve her world famous broth to the workers. Her siblings thought she was a strange child, and her parents agreed.

She was a plain speaker who used her words sparingly but lied a lot. Nobody knew that her favourite colour was purple- she would lie and say it was green and anybody who asked would be told that her favourite food was her broth. It wasn’t; she liked raisins, but had never once in ten years eaten a raisin in front of anyone. She didn’t have many friends but collected insects.

Norman Crouch entered into marriage in spring of his 34th year. Some people said it was late to be getting married- the life expectancy for a district 12 miner was not high after all, but Norman was a quiet man of few words who shrugged and said he had not wanted to be married before that. Sylvia Crouch was a quiet woman of few words, ten years his junior who accepted a proposal of marriage with a small nod; she had a large gap between her teeth and seldom opened her mouth unless it was vital. Her favorite thing in the world was the sound of butter spreading on toast- a pleasure that she did not often get to experience and over the next decade Norman and Slyvia had five children.

Cree was the middle child of three girls and two boys. Childhood passed quickly into adolescence and none of the Crouch children achieved much more than mediocrity- as was expected of them. Lars, the eldest was strong- but not the strongest boy in the district. Then came Hope, who was pretty- but not overwhelmingly so. Harry could burp the alphabet (which was not a useful talent in the grand scheme of things) and little Edie drew very straight lines without the use of a ruler. In the middle was Cree, who cooked well, collected insects and was a little odd.

I couldn't figure out colors :s