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Chapter 1

"Jessie! Jessie where are you?" I couldn't see him anywhere. I dunked back under the water. The water was crystal clear but he was no where to be seen. "Jessie I know you are here somewhere!" All of a sudden there was a hand on my shoulder. "Ahhhh!" I screamed.
"Shut up! You'll scare all the fish away!" I squinted at the shadowy figure that loomed over me. "Calm down Desy! It's all right. I'm right here"

. I couldn't see his face but the soft yet gruff voice made me sure it was Jessie.

"Sorry. You know ever since-" I couldn't finish my sentence.

"Ever since what?" Jessie knew what it was that had happened but he wanted to hear it from me.

"You know what never mind. Let's finish fishing OK?" I know he was hurt by the anger in my voice but I didn't care.

"Yeah Ok good idea". I heard a splash and I knew he was back underwater.

A few hours later, we visited the new trading market called the Goblet. We visited Greasy Sae's Granddaughter Venna. She traded us ten bowls of soup for five of our freshly caught fish. "

"My my that fish looks good! I'll make a chowder with that!" Venna could make soup out of anything just like her grandma.

We visited a few other vendors also.

"OK so I got four loaves of bread, two chickens, and my half of the soup". Jessie closed his game bag. "What did u scrounge up?"

Jessie licked his lips as he smelled the aroma coming from my bag. "I got some herbs, some cheese, my half of the soup, and some freshly baked biscuits Do you want some?" I took out a biscuit and tossed it to him. He split open the delicate crust and inhaled the heavenly aroma. While he was enjoying the biscuit, I tossed some in his bag.

"So I'll see you tomorrow?" I looked over my shoulder at Jessie. He was looking at me with shock in his eyes.

"Desy. Tomorrow is Mockingjay day!" He had a gentleness to his voice that I had only heard on certain occasions.

"Oh yeah I forgot. Well I tried to forget". I very rarely felt sadness but I always did on Mockingjay day. I felt tears coming into my eyes. I started to turn and walk away but Jessie caught me and embraced me.

"It will be OK. You get through it every year!" I looked up at him.

"I barely get to see her ever! And when I do, she is always surrounded by her team!"

He held me by the shoulders and shook me gently. "You will be OK!" He kissed me on the cheek and walked away to his house across town.