Switched Around

Switched Around
'''Additional Info: What if the Hunger Games was told from Peeta's point of view? Can you even imagine it? This is only his perspective for Book 1 of the Hunger Games, but more coming soon. You'll be updated with news as you read, so get to it!'''

P.S.: Small things from the plot may be changed, just to make it more interesting...hehe

Prologue
'''Are you ready to begin? Good. Now let's dive back a few years....'''

It was pouring outside, raindrops slamming on the bakery windows. My father was busy sorting through the list of ingredients we needed to get while my mother was making sweets, consisting of cookies and cakes. I was left to bake the bread. A simple job, really.

I couldn't help but notice the girl outside our window, digging in our trash. She's from The Seam. I can tell just by looking at her ragged and torn up clothes. When she lifts her face, I feel a flash of recognition. It's Katniss Everdeen. I remember my father telling me about her once.

''"Who's that?' I had asked him when he was picking me up from school. I pointed at Katniss. I had noticed her because my father seemed to be staring at her mother. "That's Katniss Everdeen. I wanted to marry her mother, you know. She ran off with some coal miner before I could propose, though," he had told be in reply. "Why?" I asked. "Because when he whistles, even the birds stop to listen," I recall him saying. The rest of that scene was vague in my mind.''

I tried not to stare, because my mother would notice that my attention was attracted to what was outside the window instead of the bread, and also because she generally hated anyone from The Seam. She calls them peasants. She views them as people who were raised to steal and do wrong, even though most of them don't.

Unfortunately, I didn't do too well hiding my attention from the window. My mother stomped to the window and when she saw what was outside, she threw her spatula in her hand to the floor and went outside in the cold rain.

"You peasant! Get away from my home! If you come back again, I will call the Peacekeepers," she screeched at Katniss. Katniss shrinks back and she retreats into the woods, hoping my mother won't notice that she hasn't left. Lucky for her, she didn't. But I did.

I was suddenly hurrying to finish making the base for the bread so I could pretend to accidently burn it and give at least a portion to Katniss. I could only hope that she would stay long enough.

After a while, I was finally ready. Everything went as planned and I burned the bread. My mother notices it, and she loses it. She takes her rolling pin and uses it to bash against my head, and all I can do is clench my teeth and wait for it to end. After that was over, she told me to go feed the bread to the pigs.

"No one decent will buy it," she said, her face disgusted. Clearly, she was thinking of Katniss. She just plain wanted her to starve. I felt my stomach tie up into a knot.

"Yes ma'am," was all I said in response as I walked out the front door and onto the steps. I saw Katniss still leaning against that same tree, and when she heard the door creak open, her eyes flickered towards me. She sighed in relief knowing it wasn't my mother and calmed down again.

I split the bread into two portions. One for the pigs, one for Katniss.

She seemed to notice that I had broken the bread in halves, and her eyes narrowed. She began to become suspicious. I was saddened by this. Couldn't she just believe that I was doing this out of the kindness of my heart?

i tossed the bread to the pigs first so that my mother could hear that i obeyed her orders. Then, I tossed one towards Katniss. She jumped up in surprise, looking at me. She then looked at the pigs, as if ensuring herself that what I gave her wasn't poisonous, or something. How silly.

She smiled so wide I could see her full set of teeth, and I saw her resisting the urge to eat it all up then. But she was selfless, and I knew she was going to wait until she got home to share it with her family.

That's the Katniss Everdeen that has been in my mind every since that day.

'''Eeek! So, do you like it? Any comments? Yes, no? Hope you're enjoying it so far! More coming soon.'''