April 22 2023
My mother was the greatest legacy ever. She ended the Hunger Games. Katniss Everdeen was nicknamed the Girl on Fire. I never knew why, until I was 11. My mother and father, who was named Peeta Mellark sat down in our house and told us the story. My mother said she had a beautiful sister I was just like. I was very special. I was not the best, but okay at painting, I know a thing or two about archery, but am AMAZING at healing. They told me about the huge war that happened, and once there was something called the Hunger Games. It was so much to hear, yet I felt something I've never felt. Pain. I've felt pain, but not this kind. I felt this again, when my father became very sick. He was mumbling things I never understood. It was like "Real or not real." Or "Just a jabberjay." I got very scared. I treated to him, but I couldn't do anymore than soothe him. I always called my brother Cinna to sing to him. He inherited my mother's singing talent. I sometimes envy his talent, but I remember the talents I have. I could tell he wasn't getting better, so I said we had to stay with him as much as possible. 3 months later, when I went to give him his medicine, he was gone. Not as in death gone, but vanished gone. My mother said he wanted to see her mother. He's in District 4, and come back as soon as he can. But I'm now 13, and he still hasn't come. I know he's not dead, I've video chatted with him, I just did one an hour ago. Mother says he's very weak, so when he's a little stronger, he'll come. But I still doubt he'll come. I miss him dearly. I walk in the Meadow, thinking. I see Cinna, walking around, picking a bouquet of daisies and humming our song we'd never forget. "Hey Cinna. What're you doing?" "Oh Rue, I'm hunting elephants in the Meadow." "Ha ha. Now… about the bouquet. Is it for mother? Or that apparently secret crush on-" "Don't say it! Seriously, that's why I don't tell you anything." "You're supposed to tell me everything. I'm older." "It's just year. Really, 12 years of age is alot. So, how's dad?" "Well, he's still in District 4. Why does he want to see grandmother? I'm a good healer." "Yeah but-" "Behind you!" He turns around to see a spy. They're everywhere, mostly to train us, but there are the Capitol spies. They want control over the Districts, so they do these types of things. He lunges for Cinna, so I do the first thing to protect him because I promised myself I'd protect him with my life: I push him out of the way. The spy gets me, and you can hear Cinna scream "RUE!" My mother comes, and she gets her bow and arrows. But it's too late. We're to far away. I try to escape, but he says "Not a word. You want to see your father, don't you?" I don't understand what he says, but he pushes me in a truck, then I pass out.