It has been a long day, today was a week before the Reaping Day, and Katniss was more worried than ever. This year would be her first year to have her name in the reaping bowl, Not only is she worried about being reaped, she is worried about her family. Ever since the day that her dad got killed in the mine accident, Katniss Everdeen has been left with only her mother and Prim.
'No, only Prim. Mother went with Father, she died when he died, she was just here physically.' Katniss thought.
When her dad got killed in the mine accident, not only did she have to live without her father, but her mother just sat there like a stone, not caring that her daughters were about to die from starvation, she just sat there, grieving about her husband, and Katniss will never forgive what her mother did (or in this case, did not do).
Just after school, she picked up Prim from her classes and went home together, where she put her bag down and went to the edge of the fence and into the woods, where she will be meeting Gale. Just the though of going into the woods makes her smile.
'Oh, I just love the woods, where I can be free of all the stress.'
She arrived at the edge of the fence, listen to see if there is the "hum" sound that means the electricity is charging through the wires.
'There never is electricity here, the Capitol doesn't care about us having electricity.' Katniss laughed silently, 'Well, better safe than sorry."
She climbed through the loose area of the fences and retrieve her bow and arrows at the log, She proceed to check the traps that she and Gale had set the day before and found three squirrels. Spotting a deer, she walks closer to hopefully get a cleaner shot, 'Just a bit more' she thought, 'Come on, little guy, one more step for me to shoot you.'
"Hey Catnip!" A voice that she can recognise everywhere shouted. She quickly shot out the arrow in hopes to still catch the deer. No such luck.
"Damn you Gale! I was just about to get that deer!"
"But what are you going to do with it? It's a week from today is the Reaping day, there are peacekeepers everywhere, you can't just kill it and leave it here!" Irritated, Katniss didn't respond. "Aww come on Katniss, I'm sure we can get more others, wanna go on our usual trail?" Gale, ever the sensible man to sense women irritation, tried to coax Katniss into forgetting about the Reaping.
"Fine, but next time don't do that!" They walked in silence, never the type of people to fill the silent air with pointless conversation. Suddenly, they spotted some kind of bird flying towards the village, they quickly hid behind a bush and peeked around the edge. As it flies closer and closer, Katniss got her bow and arrow ready and wait for Gale signal that means the bird is closer. 'Here it comes' She thought, 'signal, signal, signal…' Gale signals her, giving her a 3 second heads up. And out shoots the arrow, right in the bird's eye, just like every time.
They went over to retrieve the fallen bird, and…
"It's not the usual birds…" Said Katniss.
"Way to point out the obvious, Catnip." Teased Gale.
"Oh shut up. But what is it?" Katniss talked as she inspects the bird. "Hey! There's something ties to its feet!"
"Let's take a look." Gale decided. They untied the envelope from the bird's feet and opened it. Inside were two separate envelops, the first one reads:
Miss Katniss Everdeen
The Second Bedroom
House 25
The Seam
District Twelve
Panem
The second envelops reads:
Mr Gale Hawthrone
The Third Bedroom
House 16
The Seam
District 12
Panem
"This is weird, nobody ever sends anything by post." Wondered Katniss.
"The real question is, how do they even know which is our bedroom?" responded Gale.
"This is a joke, I don't have the energy to deal with this, let's just forget it. Come, I want to hunt." Katniss, dealing with the stress of the Reaping, really wanted to get her mind off freed, and so they went, leaving the letters behind. They caught a couple of squirrels each and went to the mob to trade some of it. Afterwards, they went to their separate homes.
"Oh, there is my little duck." Katniss said as she saw Prim. "Come on, I'll make something and then you should sleep." They ate and went to sleep.
That night, Katniss had a very weird dream.