[Loved] // District One (CB)

The first thing the excerpts should really know about her is that she's a liability.

But she can't bring herself to tell them.

Ever since she found her way to the readings, she's fallen in love. For the first time in her easy, well-to-do life, she found something challenging, something and someones who asked her to think about more than which charity she wanted to patronize, how soon she might want to take over the family jewelry business. These were not real questions; her parents merely posed them to have something to say over the twelve seat dinner table.

She had never wanted for anything, and in never wanting, had missed learning all about desire. The moment she heard the first text read aloud - illegal and wonderful, archaic and prescient - she knew there was nothing else she would ever love more.

Of course, if her family ever found out, the texts would be burned in the name of the Capitol. She should tell someone. She knows it. But she cannot.

Because it seems like such a small risk, compared to being truly loved.