Hey hey hey to any living (or maybe dead) beings who happen to cross these stories, its Katannamione. This first chapter is in Katniss's pov. Here goes;
The scorching sun shines in my eyes, as I chase after my father. I giggle (something you never see me now a days), my small feet padding across the slippery grass. The time and place of this memory comes to me without even probing my mind for it. It was when I was about six and my father had taken to play in the meadow while my mother tended to my two year old sister.
I continue to pursue my father but, I soon realize I am dreaming. It is a pleasant surprise because my dreams are usually filled with dead children, flames, mutts, and other horrors that cause me to wake up screaming only to find that I am alone in a dark room in the middle of the night. This is one of the few happy dreams that I can pull from my mind. I am euphoric but I know this feeling will soon turn sour as my dream changes for the worst.
"Wait up," I call stopping dead.
"What is it?" My father asks turning to look at me. Seeing his face makes me want to jump up and run to him, but I don't seem to have any control of my actions. It's like watching a movie of me through my eyes. So I just take in his face trying to capture every detail of his face that I have forgotten over the years. He strolls toward me and crouches down so that he is eye level with me.
"Come on let me show you something," He whispers. "It's a secret and you have to promise not to tell anyone. Can you keep a secret?"
I nod my head vigorously, my braid bouncing on my back.
"Good," He tells me as he lifts me into the air giving and sets me on his shoulders. Then he turns and runs in the direction of the fence that borders District 12.
"Where are we going," I ask. "Is it far?"
"You'll see, Just be patient."
Patience is one of the many good qualities I lack but I keep my mouth shut. My father ducks under one of the many gapping holes in the "electric" fence. At school they tell us not to go near it or it will shock us but I know that the current is rarely ever active. We continue walking me on my fathers back, until we reach the lake I use to hang out with Gale at. It brings back many bittersweet memories of him ranting about the Capitol. Then I just agreed with him and let him talk but little did I know that someday we would actually be putting those words whispered in the deep woods to the test.
My father places me down on the rock, our rock, where I would lay with Gale letting sweet rays of sun dance across my face.
"I took your Mother here once, she complained the whole way out here but one she saw this clearing she fell in love with it," Father said with a hint of a smile and a twinkle in his eyes. "You look like her you know, not your eyes or hair but your smile, when you laugh…"
I respond by saying, "Mommy's pretty." My father just smiles and nods his head a bit.
"Want to go for a swim?" Father asks.
"Oh yes, please," I respond bouncing up and down. My father helps me undress so I am only wearing my under clothes, and then he jumps in the lake. I walk to the water surprised by the cold temperature. I do my best to ignore it and wade in to my knees. My teeth chatter violently and I wrap my arms around myself in an attempt to keep warm.
"If your cold we can go back home," my father says swimming up to me.
"No," I say, "This is my home."
We swam and played on the shore until the sun started to dip behind the trees when we gathered our clothes and headed back to District 12.
That's all for today folks sorry it was so short I need to work on writing longer chapters. Please review so I will know if I should keep writing or never write again. Don't be afraid to be honest. Next chap. will be about Kat + Gale… I think. Thanks for reading.