A/N: Hey guys! This is my new fan fiction, water lilly, which is the story of Finnik and Annie, told in Annie's point of view. WARNING, THIS STORY CONTAINS MOCKINGJAY SPOILERS! Well, please enjoy! Oh yea and at the beginning each chapter is going to be named after a grade level.

Water Lilly

By: Annabeth Charlotte Odair

To start off let's get one thing straight. Finnick Odair is dead. He died fighting to free the people of his country. He fought for what was right. He fought for me and for his child, that he did not even know was in my womb. I am proud of him, yet there isn't a day that goes by that I don't miss him. Every night, I look at the other side of my bed. I see the pillow without a head resting on it, a blanket with no hand clutching it, an empty space meant for another. I wish that he was right there next to me and the thought sinks in again that he is not on vacation. He is not in the kitchen drinking a glass of water. He's not going to walk through the bedroom door and come back into bed. He will never lie in that empty space again; he is dead. That's when the tears stream out of my eyes and I cry myself to sleep. This is the natural order of things and it always will be, because I will never love another man. I will cry in agony every day, every night, for the rest of my life. But let's start from the beginning.


When I first saw Finnick, we were in the first grade. I was a bit of a loner. Nobody really liked me that much. I don't know what it was. Maybe they didn't like my long red hair or my face full of freckles. I guess you could say I was a little bit awkward.

I stood in the school hallway on my first day, holding a small lunch bag that was decorated with a painting of a water lilly. I tried to make friends, I really did. As kids pass by in the hall, I give a slight wave and try to introduce myself.

"Hi, I'm...; Hi I'm… Hi my name is…" No one stops to say hello, or listen to my name. I eventually give up, until I see him.

He looked like a nice enough kid, and he had freckles, like me. His hair had a little bit of red in it. I thought that we could be friends. I would say that I had a crush on him, but I was only in the first grade. I don't think I even knew what a crush was. Another thing I noticed about him was that he seemed to make friends easily. There were a lot of kids hanging around him. Maybe he could help me make friends and be more popular. I decided that I would go up to him and ask him his name.

I begin to walk over to him, but I don't see the puddle of water on the floor. I slip and go flying until I land with a thud; right in front of the boy's feet. My lunchbox had landed right next to him. He takes my hand and helps me up. Then, he picks up my lunchbox and hands it to me.

"I think you dropped this." I couldn't do anything, but smile. Ok, maybe I did have a little crush on him.

"That's a pretty design on your lunchbox. The water lily is my favorite flower."

"Mine too." I reply with a chuckle.

"I'm Finnik by the way." he says. "Finnik Odair. What's your name?"

"Annabeth, Annabeth Cresta."

"You should go by Annie. It suits you." Then, he waved goodbye and walked away. I had no idea that I had just met my best friend.


That afternoon after school, I took a walk down to the beach with my older sister, Abigail, who was five years older than me. I was sitting at the edge of the ocean, letting the little fish tickle my feet. The waves come crashing up to my knees. Abigail is nearby, collecting buckets of water to bring back to my mother. Then, I see Finnik running up to me with an older woman. She must have been his mother.

"Hi Annie!" he says.

"Hi!" I reply back.

"Do you know how to skip stones?" he asks. He picks up a stone and throws it into the water. I watch as it goes hopping across the waves.

"Well, I've never tried, but it looks fun!" I say. I pick up a stone and throw it into the water, expecting it to zoom across like Finnik's did, but instead it just sinks to the bottom. Finnik chuckles a little bit, but I'm frowning.

"Here let me show you how." he says. He reaches down and picks up a small, flat stone and puts it in my hands.

"For starters" he says. "You've gotta start with a nice flat stone like this one." I go to chuck it into the water, but he takes my hand to stop me.

"No." he says. "You've got to flick it in with your wrist. It's all in the wrist." Then he moves my wrist and I let go of the stone. It went skipping across the water perfectly.

"Good. Now try it on your own." I pick up another flat little stone and put it in my hand. Then, just the way Finnik had showed me, I flick my wrist and watched the stone go gliding across the sea. We both smile.

"You did it!" he says.

"Where did you learn how to do that?" I ask.

"My dad." he says. "He taught it to me when I was younger. Did your dad teach you anything?" I frown.

" My dad died in a fishing accident before I was born." Finnik looks at me with compassion.

"I'm sorry" he says. "My dad died last year."

"I'm sorry" I reply. "My dad never got the chance to teach me anything, but my mom taught me how to make crafts from nature." I point to the seashell necklace that I'm wearing.

"I weaved the band for this out of seaweed, and strung the seashells on."

"Cool" he says. A dove flies over our heads.

"Doves are so beautiful." I say. "They're my favorite birds."

"Mine too." Finnik says. Suddenly, Abigail is calling me over.

"I have to go home for dinner I say."

"Me too. I'll see you in school tomorrow."

"Ya see ya." I go to sleep that night with a smile on my face, because I have found a best friend that I can relate to.

A/N: Well, that's it for now. I hope you guys liked it! Let me know what you thought in a review. If you liked this one and/ or are a fan of either the kingdom keepers series or the lying game BOOK SERIES then you'll like my other fan fictions. I am a Disney freak, so I leave you with this

"Now it's time to say goodbye, to all our company. M-I-C. K-E-Y. M-O-U-S-EEEEEEEEE(see ya real soon)"

Tee hee. Bye guys!

-Kingdomkeepers365