So this is actually a re-write of the original but I promise that this is the last time I am re-writing. I'm just about to replace the rest of the chapters too.
Chapter 1- strange dreams
Im in that horrible place again, that place I swore I would never go to again in my life, behind the bakery on the worst day of my life with my mother and prim at home starving because I failed them again and wasnt able to get them food. I am hoping that the Mellarks had something really nice to eat last night and the didnt eat it all so that I can get some out of their trash cans but so far I haven't been so lucky.
Life has been really bad since my father died in that horrible mine explosion that killed many men down in the mines whilst they where at work. I have been tryng to keep my mother and prim well fed but so far nothing I have tried has worked. My mother and Prim are at home really ill from being hungry and I am here sat next to a bin trying to find food.
All of a sudden this woman who I think is Mrs Mellark comes out of the back door of the bakery and starts yelling at me for looking through her bins, even though she isnt gonna need any of this rubbish anymore why would she be angry that I am lokking through stuff she doesnt need anymore. when she is done shouting at me I crawl over to a tree at the end of their yard and sit there crying in the rain wishing that I could just dies right there because I am not of much use to the world anyway so I might aswell be dead anyway.
I hear shouting from inside the bakery once mrs mellark has gone back in and then seconds later a boy walks out, peeta, he's in my class at school, he walks over to the pig pen and starts breaking the bread in two to throw to the pigs for them to eat but instead he sees me and throws them both to me. I am so confused that I forget about the bread lying at my feet and then I remember about it and pick it up and shove it under my jacket so that it doesnt get too cold and so that me my Mother and Prim can eat it warm. I smile at peeta and run off down the street to give the bread to my mother to cook.
I wake with a start and see that I am still in my bed at home with Prim snuggled up to me, it was only a dream. Why do I keep having that dream? I dont even know Peeta Mellark that well and he is already invading my dreams. It happened 4 years ago and its still in my head... Of course its still in my head, he saved my life and I need to find a way to repay him somehow and I have no idea how to do that. FOCUS! you can think about repaying Peeta Mellark some other time, right now you have to get up and meet Gale in the wood or you wont get any food. I climb out of bed, careful not to wake Prim and walk over to the side of the room. I pull on my clothes then walk over to the chair in the corner of the room to pull on my fathers hunting jacket.
When im ready I walk downstairs and out the front door into the morning air and close the door quitely behind me. Outside you can see the mine workers saying goodbye to their families and setting off for work, 5 years ago that was me and dad before he went to work but because of that dreadul mine explosion that will never happen again. Most people in the district are happy now because the 73rd Hunger games has just finished and their kids are perfectly safe for another year. I dread to think who will go into the Hunger games next year, it is Prims first year next year so im scared for her and Gale because they are the only 2 people I care about that are in the reaping other than myself.
I make it to the meadow and the fence in no time and slip out into the woods beyond. I retrieve my bow and arrows from a tree on my left and walk over to mine and Gales meeting place, which is just a rock but its where we first met.
When I get there I see that he isnt there yet so I sit and wait for him. This gives me time to think about my dream last night. Having the same dream over and over again has got to meen something and what if Peeta Mellark is having the same dream as I am or having a dream about me over ane over again, ill have to ask him at school tomorrow. No I cant just go up and ask him what he has been dreaming about, I dont even know him. Maybe ill ask my mother and Prim if it means anything...
