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You are all invited to District 4,
To celebrate the 16th Birthday of Finnick Odair Jr.
This invitation is enclosed with train tickets for the whole family for you to spend the entire summer with us.
Love,
The Odairs
"Peeta!" Katniss called up the stairs. In less than a minute Peeta came thundering down the stairs slightly stumbling over is metal leg.
"What's the emergency?" Peeta asked franticly running towards Katniss.
Katniss giggled before saying. "Nothing. We just got a letter from Annie, inviting us to celebrate Finn Jr.'s birthday."
"Wow that's great! I'll go tell the kids."
"Great. I'll go make breakfast," Katniss called over her shoulder as she made her way towards the kitchen.
"Uh… sweetheart maybe you should go tell the kids and I'll make breakfast. I mean we don't want a repeat of last time do we?" Peeta said amusedly.
"The fire wasn't even that big and nobody got hurt! And don't call me sweetheart!" she yelled while changing courses and making her way upstairs instead.
Katniss knocked on her eldest child's room first. "Rose! Wake up!"
"Do I have to?" came the muffled reply.
"Yes!"
She then made her way to her youngest child's room when the door opened. Ethan her youngest came out of his room dressed in his favourite grey shirt that matched his seam eyes that he had inherited from her. He was also wearing blue jeans and had had his blonde hair combed neatly off of his forehead.
"Oh hey mom," He greeted her cheerfully. Ethan had also inherited Peeta's happy-go-lucky personality.
"Hey sweetie your dad's making breakfast downstairs."
"Ok," he said before he dashed downstairs and into the kitchen where you could smell the delicious aroma of eggs and bacon frying.
Katniss also turned and headed to the kitchen but not before banging one last time on her teenage daughter's room to make sure she woke up.
After about ten minutes Rose groggily wondered into the kitchen and slouched into her seat at the table and started picking at her scrambled eggs. Her black as night hair was tangled into a messy bed head and her sky blue eyes were clouded over with sleep. All in all she looked like she just rolled out of bed. Everybody chatted happily for a few minutes well except for Rose who was basically sleeping in her eggs.
"Oh before I forget we're going to District 4 for a month," Katniss said happily.
"Why?" Rose questioned suddenly wide awake.
"To celebrate Finnick Odair Jr.'s birthday," Peeta told her.
"Cool!" Both kids shouted before running upstairs to pack.
"We are leaving in three hours," Katniss called after her kids.
Rose's POV
I am so excited for this trip! I've never been outside of my District before. I wonder what it will be like. Although I heard District 4 has the best beaches in all of Panem. I quickly pulled out my blue suitcase and stuffed as much shorts and tank tops as possible. I also packed my grey and blue bikini that matched my eyes perfectly and my purple tankini that had tiny pink flowers all over it. Plus I packed a few pairs of jeans and a couple sweatshirts because I also heard that it can get really cold at night. I jammed my laptop, iPod and cell phone on top.
I had to start jumping on my suitcase to get it to close. It was completely stuffed. It almost burst open tree times!
"Rose! Come on we leave in an hour! We have to get to the train station!" I heard my mom yell.
When I was finally able to drag my suitcase down the stairs to the door, I saw my parents, little brother and Haymitch standing by the door with their suitcases waiting for me. Since the rebellion Haymitch has made a surprising effort to try and stay sober.
"Hey Mitch!" I called as I stopped by the door. I started giggling at my lame joke and I saw my family silently snickering in the corner but Haymitch just scowled at me and stepped out of the door and into the cab waiting outside. Did I forget to mention that since he stopped drinking Haymitch has also been slightly moodier? No. Well he has. I blame the alcohol withdrawal.
"Let's go!" Ethan yelled excitedly following Haymitch out the door with the rest of us following after him. Ethan is only thirteen but he is always really hyper. I blame his addiction to sugar but then again am no better. Oh well at least am not always so hyper.
We took a cab to the train station even though it wouldn't have been a very long walk we just didn't want to walk through District 12 with our entire luggage. The ride by car only took like five minutes. We made it onto the train fairly quickly and saw that Annie had booked a whole first class apartment for us.
"Awesome!" yelled Ethan before turning on the TV and settling in the nearest sofa. I lay down on the couch furthest away from my annoying little brother and started to drift off into dream land because I knew this was going to be one long train ride.
They will start reading the books somewhere in chapter three! Sorry! I wanted it to be shorter than that but I had to get the ride to District 4 and all the meetings out of the way.