Starvation Prompt: What don't you understand? I won.
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Silence
"I thought I could be sarcastic again, you know?"
Silence
"Look, if you're not going to help me, then maybe I should just leave." And with that the young naive boy was gone.
I sigh; this wasn't the way things were supposed to go. I did need to help him. But I couldn't. Maybe if I...How about if I...I pound the wall in frustration. I couldn't help him without seeing them. The pictures of the arena. Closing in on me, like I was in some box. I grunt, and of course at that moment, Layla, District 12's escort chooses to come in.
"Plade, you need to help him. It's your job." She has the disapproving look on her face she always gets when she talks to me. I guess cause I never dye my skin, or do anything like that. Whatever, you're the freak not me.
When she finally left, I got up and padded down the hall to his room. "Kid, don't do anything stupid. You made the capitol look like a fool, and...I'm not gonna fix it for you."
"What're you talking about?' He looked confused.
"You're in trouble. Watch out." I glared at him to make my words sink in.
It worked.
"What don't you understand? I won! I won, and that girl who I fought deserved to die, they all did. Because I won!" He's outraged, and now he's throwing things at me. Which I dodge too easily. I shake my head when he finally stops.
"Don't you get it kid? No one wins the hunger Games. Not you, not me, no one. One day you'll see what I mean. They all do." I think about watching the careers righting to death, laughing as they found a new target.
Watching them kill her.
The one true love of my life.
The one who loved me because I was surly, rude, and had fun irritating her.
She didn't get to see life the way I wish she did.
She deserved it, not me.
Not me, who doesn't care about anything, or anyone.
Especially not the two kids I talk to and train to send to their death.
But finally, finally one of them won. Now I won't have to mentor both of them, just one, yes! My life is already looking better.
Man, I need a nap.