This story takes place after the rebellion, I know its short, but that is only because its a prologue. :) Enjoy!
Disclaimer: I don't own the Hunger Games.
Letters to Catnip
Prologue;
Father and mother had left to go out to have dinner while, Pax and I had to stay home with Haymitch. He of course wasn't paying much attention to us, as usually, he was drinking the white liquid he always drunk and watching TV.
Pax, my little brother, who was 6 was playing with his cars. I, on the other hand was reading, reading about sketching techniques. I, unlike Mother and Pax, wasn't fierce, even if I looked like her, I had inherited Father's artistic sides. And drawing was something I could do best.
It was dark outside but I wasn't tired yet, but when I saw Pax rubbing his eyes, I noticed how sleepy he looked.
"Do you want to go to bed?" I asked Pax smiling. Pax nodded briefly, so I dragged him up the stairs and put him in bed.
"Goodnight, Pax, call me if you can't sleep," I said as I put the blanket on top of him. "Will do," he replied and closed his eyes. "Goodnight," I whispered again and left to go downstairs.
"Where's the other kiddo?" Haymitch asked, he was drunk, so he probably forgot Pax's name. "He went to bed, I'm going to wait until my parents arrive," I replied as sat myself back on the chair and grabbed my book again, noticing I had reached the last page so I decided to go to my parents' room to find another book.
As I reached my parents their bedroom I couldn't find a book that I wanted to read, there was nothing interesting, really.
As I wanted to go back downstairs to Haymitch, I tripped over Father's pencil case. "Shit!" I murmured under my breathe as I felt my knee burning. I wanted to stand up when I suddenly noticed a big box underneath their bed. I sat back up, my knee still burning and pulled the box from underneath the bed.
The box was massive, there were a few books in it. And I took them all out. There were a few interesting books like "Frosting for dummies" and "How to hunt". I laughed as I realized they were fathers. I also found a few drawings that father had made. It contained drawings of mother, of me, Pax and some other people I couldn't place. Suddenly I saw a pile of letters that read: "To Catnip Everdeen, Victors Village 6, District 12, Panem". I couldn't place the handwriting, I sighed and when I was about to take the first letter I heard Father from downstairs.
"We're home dandelion!" I heard Father say. I quickly put all the books in the box, all the drawing and the letters. I then pushed the box back underneath the bed and ran downstairs.
"Erica!" Mother said as I walked down the stairs. I gave Mother a quick hug and asked her how her dinner was.
"It was a lot of fun with your father!" Mother replied.
I tried to stop thinking about the letters that were addressed to "Catnip Everdeen". Did this person mean Mother? And who was this person, why couldn't I place anyone that called mother "Catnip", who was this person? And why did the writer still use Mother's old surname "Everdeen". Ever since she had married Father she hadn't used that name anymore. Everyone in District 12 knew Mother as Katniss Mellark, not Katniss Everdeen. I then decided I was going to open those letters tomorrow, I felt guilty about it but I wanted to know who this person was and why he had been writing Mother so many letters. Had she replied? Or had Father hid them on purpose?
Even when I was about to go to bed I could not shake the feeling off of me. It had me wondering all night until my clock said: 2:15 AM, and I decided I had to go to sleep now.
I bet you guys know who wrote them! Haha. Well, review if you like it! I will update as soon as possible.