Ms. Orion, my history teacher looked over at me with her face full of complete sadness before she introduced our guest speeker. I looked over at my friend Hena for help but she wasn't paying attention to me.

Let me introduce myself before the story goes on anymore, my name is Parker Primrose Mellark. I'm the daughter of Katniss and Peeta Mellark. My brother is Kyle Finnick Mellark as well.

"Guests, please welcome all the way from district two... Gale Hawthorne."

Something about that name itched in the back of my mind. Like it was an old story or name my Mother said.

Gale took a seat in front of Ms. Orion's desk. "Hello, I've heard you've been learning about the Rebellion."

We all just stared at him, like he expected us to answer him.

Ms. Orion nodded at him to continue. "I was a soldier in the Rebellion. Have you heard of the Hunger Games?"

We all slowly nodded.

"It all started with the seventy-fourth," he said.

Ms. Orion looked like she wanted to stop him but she couldn't or she'd been in trouble.

"My best friend's sister Primrose Everdeen was drawn for it."

My heart dropped into the bottom of my throat.

"Katniss, her sister. She volunteered for her."

All eyes turned to me and Gale looked right at me. So I slowly raised my hand. "May I be excused?"

Ms. Orion closed her eyes and nodded like she was expecting this to happen. So I gathered up all of my things quickly and left without a word. I wasn't aloud to leave the school until it was over so I sat outside and drew until class was excused.

Everyone came busting out of that class and I stopped Hena in mid run. "What else did he talk about?"

Hena's eyes were full of excitement. "Your parents! I can't believe your parents were in the Hunger Games!"

I felt sick to my stomach, "I better go home."

"Do you want me to go with you?" Hena asked before sticking a peice of bubblegum in her mouth.

I shook my head. "No, this sounds like it might be a family matter."

Hena shrugged, "Well have fun then."

I ran off toward our house in the old Victor's village. Now that makes since. I knew Dad would be at work and Mom would be at home with Finnick.

I burst through the front door. "Mom?"

"In here Parker!" My Mom called from the livingroom.

So I walked in there to find her playing peekaboo with Finnick. "You're home early."

"You'll never guess what I learned about in school today," I sat down in Dad's arm chair.

"Um, I have no idea. What did you learn about?" Mom asked and then turned to me.

"Did you know a Soldier named Gale Hawthorne?"

Fear flashed through her eyes, "Parker-"

"Mom, I want to know."

"Go up to your room, your Father will be here any minute." Mom said instead of scolding me for being rude.

I stomped up to my room and threw myself onto my bed. I glanced out my window, it covered my entire wall of my room. It gave me a perfect view of the forest right by our house and then the meadow.

A few minutes later, Mom and Dad came up to my room. Dad looked pale and Mom's hands were wrapped around his. They both sat on either side of me, in their hands was an old CD.

"Sis," Dad said quietly. "I heard what happened today."

I burried my head in his chest, not wanting to say anything to him.

He wrapped his strong arms around Mom and I. "I'm sorry that we didn't tell you sooner."

Mom wrapped her arm on me too. "Tomorrow we're taking a day off of school. We're going to go hunting, just you and me."

I smiled and lifted my head from Dad's shirt. "That sounds like fun."

Dad eyes softned, "you don't have to watch this if you don't want to, but... It's our games."

My heart skipped a beat, we were only aloud to watch parts of these in schools. I had never seen the actual one. "I don't know..."

Mom looked over at Dad. "Peeta she's only twelve."

"Prim and Rue were twelve-" Dad said but I knew he immedietly regretted it. "Katniss I'm sorry, I didn't mean to bring it up."

She nodded, "it's fine."

"You don't have to watch it if you don't want to." Dad said softly and I knew he didn't want to watch it as much as I did.

I shook my head, "maybe later. But not right now, it's a lot to take in."

They both laughed and hugged me tighter, "you better get some sleep. We've got a lot of hunting tomorrow," Mom said.

I laughed and hugged them both before they walked out of my room. Then I changed into my pajama's, slipped into bed and fell asleep.

When the sky broke through the horizon, Mom and I were already in the woods with our bows. We have enough money to go to the butcher but we perfer wild animals. It tastes better.

We shot countless squrils and birds. Mom wouldn't let me take the deer the crossed our path because we already have three for the winter.

On the way back home, Mom started telling me about how things were when she lived here.

"Hunting in the woods was forbidden, any weapon was forbidden. This was before the rebellion, if they caught you... They would whip you publicly." Mom said, her voice no higher than a whisper. "That's what happened to Gale."

I looked down at my boots, not wanting to interupt.

"My Dad died in a mine explosion, we don't do much mining around here anymore. He taught me how to hunt and he made me my first bow." Mom said and looked down at me before pulling me into a hug. "But now I have a family and that's all that matters."

I giggled and wrapped my arms around her neck. "We all love you Mom."

She smiled but she had tears in her eyes. "That's all I ever need." She said and pulled herself up right. "After you were born, only holding you in my arms would make me feel happy."

"Not even Dad? You guys were the star crossed lovers from district twelve!" I protested, a blush growing on my face.

She smiled, took my hand and started walking again. "You were my first born, I was so scared that I would hurt you or something. I guess the time has come to tell you about our past."

We crossed the line were the old fence used to be. It goes quickly from meadow to gravel. We walked silently back to victors village, which isn't victor's village anymore.

"Mom?" I asked silently, picking up my feet after accedently dragging them earlier.

"Yeah?" Mom asked me and turned her face over to look at me.

"What about Gale? Isn't he going to be in town for a few days?" I asked quietly, probably going to get water works.

Mom cursed under he breath, surprizing me. "I don't know what I'm going to do Parker. I don't want to talk to him."

We had reached our front door so we went inside. "Should we go see your Dad over at the bakery with Kyle?"

I shrugged and threw off my hunting coat, "sure."

She walked into the kitchen to get a glass of water while I turned on the TV. My heart dropped to the bottom of my stomach when I saw who was on TV. "Mom!" I called into the kitchen.

She game running in, her glass of water sloshing everywhere. "What? What's wrong?"

I pointed to the TV screen, "look who's on TV."

Gale Hawthorne was being interviewed right outside of the Hob, this was being brodcaster in the entire country.