Whatever it Takes: Chapter 1 by hhippen941, literature
Literature
Whatever it Takes: Chapter 1
It's almost dawn when I wake up. A bright pink ball, smaller than a needle's point, is rising over the ocean. The pink of its rays invades the crisp indigo of the sea and sky, I smile at that. It invades the cold with its warmth like hope, I've lost my smile. Hope. That's why I wasn't sleeping, so I guess I never really woke up to this sunrise. I have no hope. I have to force myself out of bed to get ready. First throwing my nightdress in the laundry and then picking out something for the Reaping: the reason I and every other twelve to eighteen year old has no hope.
I hate reaping day, I hate reaping day more than any other person alive, and