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Prim's POV
I woke up one morning screaming, my head off, the name Primrose Everdeen still bouncing around my skull, fresh from my nightmare. It was just a dream, I told myself. Katniss didn't let you take out any tesserae. You're name's only in once. You're not going into the arena.
/Still, I couldn't shake the terror that was overtaking me, so I tiptoed out of the bed I shared with my sister and crawled in with my mother. As I walked across the room, my cat Buttercup watched me with his green eyes. Katniss hates him, but he's
/family. I tried not to wake my mother, but she did when I lay down beside her. "Did you have a bad dream?" My mother asked. "Yeah," I admitted. "It's ok," she said. "The reaping scares everyone, even me. Try to get some sleep, Primrose." My mother
/and Katniss love me and protect me in every way they can, but even they know that they are powerless against the Games. I curled up against my mother and went to sleep.
Gales POV
I woke up before the sun was up, slipped into my hunting boots, and snuck into the woods. It was nearly an hourbefore Katniss and I had agreed to meet here, but I wanted to suprise her. As I walked past my first snare, I saw that it had caught a
/fat squirrel. It was a fine catch, but would it be enough? It would have to be. I slipped under the fence and walked to the bakery. When I knocked on the back door, the baker answered. I held up the squirrel, and he handed me a loaf of fine bakery
/bread. "That's too much-" I tried to protest. "Take it," he said. As I was walking away, he called after me, "And good luck!" "Thanks," I said. "I'll need it." My name was in the reaping bowl 42 times-not exactly putting the odds in my favor.
I slipped under the fence again and went to meet Katniss an our meeting place. I waited for about 15 minutes until she appeared. Before she got to me, I stuck an arrow through the bakery bread and hid it behind my back. "Hey, Catnip!" I called. The
/first
time she told me her name, she had only whispered it, so I thought she'd said "catnip." "Look what I shot!" I said, pulling the bread out. She laughed, and her whole face lit up when she did. Somehow I knew that she would never marry, but that didn't
/stop me from liking her a little. Of course, she didn't know, but if she opened that door to me, I would walk straight through it. "How much did it cost you?" she asked. "Just a squirrel. I think the baker was feeling sentimentalthis morning.
Even wished me luck." "Well, we all feel a little closer today, don't we,"she said. "Primleft us a cheese," and she pulled out a little goat cheese, made from the goat we had got her a few years ago for her birthday, wrapped in basil leaves.
"Thank you Prim," I said. "We shall have a real feast today. I cut the bread and spread the thick, fatty, creamy cheese onto each slice. Katniss and I sat there, eating them. A blackberry bush stood nearby, do I popped a few into my mouth. "I almost
/forgot," I said in a silly, high-pitched voice, in mockery of the silly Capitol accents. "Happy Hunger Games!" I threw a blackberry up in a high arch. Katnisscaugh it in her mouth and said, with a smile on her face "And may the odds be everin
/your favor." For a while, we just sat there, eating, until I burst out what was on my mind.
"We could do it, you know." "What?" Katniss responded. "Run off. Leave the district. Live in the woods. Me and you. We could make it." Katniss just stared at me. "If we didn't have so many kids, that is." She knows they're not our kids, just our younger
/siblings that we take care of. "I never want to have kids," she said dismissively. "I might, if I didn't live here," I confessed. "But you do, so what's the point talking about it?" "Forget it," I snapped. We abandoned the conversation and just hunted
/and gathered until about 10:30, when we went and traded half our goods at the hob and to the merchants. Then Katniss and I parted ways, and I got myself ready for my very last reaping.
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