Darkening Secrets
I am Katniss Everdeen, 16 years old and the newest sophomore at Panem High School. It is the middle of October and I am starting tomorrow. As of right now I am trying to help my aunt and uncle get all the boxes out of the moving truck. "Katniss! Hunny!" shouts my "aunt" Effie
"Would you please take the boxes labeled Kitchen and put them inside for me?" She says as she points her overly manicured finger at the 4 boxes sitting on the driveway ground."Yeah, sure Effie."
I begin to take the boxes towards our very large front door. As I open the door I am hit with the odd smell of a newly build house. Which happens to be a combination of dry wall and wax put on by the overly paid men who build this place. My feet echo against the marble tiled floor as I walk towards the kitchen. As I set down the boxes my "uncle"shouts out "Sweetheart while your doing that unpack those and put away all the dishes." his voice bounces off the empty walled house. sigh and start my mundane job of the moment.
about halfway through the second box I spot the little flowered cup that I thought I broke with the rest of the things before we came here. I take it out and hold it delicately in my hand. I am suddenly hit with a flashback to that night. The night that has forever changed my life.
Smoke, heat, the smell of burning chemicals. MY vision is blurry and I try desperatly to run to the door I know the one person I care about is in. I feel the flames licking at my heels, it only adds to my rush to make it in time. The shouts of the people who were suposse to love me and care for me. All that matters now is that i save her. Shes all i ahve left in this hell I have to call my life. I trip, my heart drops, the sound of something crashing comes over me. The screams that follow make me want to put myself in the persons her pain, that I've been trying despratly to stop. Before I can make another move someone hits me from behind. "Don't you dare try you little whore. The only people that know what has happend are you two and me. I'll Die before either of you can get out." He says the man who has caused all this. With the little strenth I have left I push him away just as the falling beam crushes him I back out.
"Katniss. KATNISS!" I come back to the remanig hell that is now my life. "Why could I have done something." A hand touches my shoulder. I smack it away. "Its all my fault I'm useless just like he always said! I couldn't save her. I'm a monster!" I sream as my "aunt" and "uncle" come to the floor with me. I fall to the ground sobbing for the loss of the only thing that meant anything to me. The one thing i had to protect. And I couldn't.
After hours of sobbing and patts from my "family" I am sent to bed with a parting "Sweety its all alright now, just go to bed. School starts tomorrow." As I lay in bed I am pleged by the flashes of what has happend. I dread the tought of having to live while she doesn' is ok and it never will be.