Hazel Lloyd - District 9 - Complete

My sister has pretty strawberry hair. It is really wavy and long and soft, too, and I like to play with it. Her eyes are brownish-green like mine and they are really, really big, not like mine at all. My sister is very pale and she doesn't have a lot of freckles. Her nose is small, like her mouth and her thin lips. I think Hazel has a pretty oval face.

Hazel looks kind of short, and she is really skinny. Skinnier than a lot of the people in our district. Her arms and legs are pretty long. She only ever wears a grey dress that reaches her mid-shin, and she is always barefoot. On Reaping day she does the same thing except she puts a white ribbon in her hair, I really like it and Clover uses it all the time. I don't like her forehead though - its so big.

(((HAZEL)))

My mother is named Jenny, my father is Matthew, and I haven't seen them since I was ten and the peacekeepers took them away. I still don't know why. I have one siblings, his name is Kenneth and he is three years older than me and we are not in touch anymore.

(((CAROLINE)))

Hazel works for me at the flower shop. I would describe her as quiet, industrious, and always honest with me. There is something quirky about her though - especially with those younger siblings of hers. Its almost like she is hiding something disturbing from me. I try not to let it bother me too much, for she is a trustworthy worker that I can depend upon.

(((LANCE)))

Hazel is my neighbor. She doesn't talk to me much at all, actually. I know she lives with just her younger siblings, and no matter how much help I offer she always refuses it and leaves me.

(((HAZEL)))

I remember when I was seven, and my father used to take me outside and we would go camping. He would take out a little bag of apples and we would eat them, then we would go to sleep. I wish I had that much food now. Now - I make hardly enough in my flower job for a slice of bread at the end of the week. Caroline acts like a sweetheart, but in all honesty, she's a b*tch.

(((CLOVER)))

Sometimes Hazel takes us outside and we lay on the grass and stare at the stars at nighttime. She tells us stories about witches, and princesses, and dragons, and elves, and other things that give me happy dreams. Oliver has a lot of nightmares.

(((OLIVER)))

I once asked Hazel where our parents where and she told me to shut up. I went to her room later and she was crying. She still won't tell me, and she gets very angry or sad when I do. Clover and don't mention it anymore.

(((HAZEL)))

When I was twelve, I met a boy named Wyatt, he was fourteen and I used to brag about him to my classmates. He was handsome, he was chivalrous, and he was always so romantic with me. I remember my first kiss. It was behind the school building. I was starving up until he kissed me - it was then everything stopped for a moment and I was able to enjoy the moment. I thought I loved him. I thought he loved me.

(((NOELLE)))

Hazel? That girl from seventh year? With the funky hair? Oh yeah, I remember her. That Wyatt boy and her were very close. Hazel never had many friend, maybe one or two, but she lost them once she started ignoring them to hang out with Wyatt and his friends. I always thought they were trouble, but she never seemed to notice. My mother said those boys were mature but not in the grown-up way.

(((HAZEL)))

It was March, I was thirteen, and Wyatt's friends were talking about the girls at school. Wyatt didn't join in, he has his arm around me, stroking my ear. I thought it was magnificent. Wyatt offered to take me to his house. When we got there, he showed me his room. Then we stared at each other for a few moments. I swear - I did not want it, he made me, and I couldn't scream. I could not scream.

(((OLIVER)))

There used to be this boy who came over all the time but he stopped coming a few months ago. I didn't really care, he just kind of looked at Clover and I whenever he came over and kept walking. He mostly went to Hazel. She is sick all the time. Maybe its because she never eats, or as much as I can see, she gives her food to Clover and I.

(((CAROLINE)))

I know Hazel doesn't eat much, I can't help if I don't have much money to give her, but there is something else. Like her body is messed up. I don't know if its in the way she walks, or the way she stands, or she the shape, but something affected her body in an unhealthy way and I don't understand it.

\b](((HAZEL)))