Hello there. This little get up is sorta based on a dream I had the other night and I couldn't get out of my head until I put it on paper. This will be largely be about places where I grew up. Which is an in small town Kentucky. I also like to make references to music as much as I can because that's what inspires me the most. I hope you enjoy and expect this to be multiple chapters but I am not sure how long…. Only time can tell. Last but not least I do not own the Hunger Games characters….just love them.

AthenasGrace14

College life was fantastic. Okay sure I hadn't made one friend and now well into the semester with midterms only a week away. But that why I was here for school and my social life has always been lacking outside of five people my entire life. And now I am here at Western Kentucky University striving to complete my Environmental Engineering degree in a whopping four years. It's more difficult than you think but taking 16 hours is a work load. I really do love it here at school. The classes and professors are wonderful. But I miss home too. Being super close to my family it was difficult moving away, even if it's an hour drive from home. I have missed them. My mother: who knows me better than I know myself and is always right. My father: a hard worker to give us the best life possible but very loving. I was always told I am spitin' image of him in girl form. My sister: My best friend and the greatest possible thing that could ever happen to me. She is the sweetest and makes up for my sometimes cold personality.

We just departed from our weekly visit to get our dose of each other and myself actual human contact outside class. They are truly my favorite people to be with. Besides my aunt Johanna who is only ten years older than myself and my friend Gale who went out of state on a baseball scholarship. They are all I have that I know me. I couldn't be more satisfied with life right now. Working toward doing my dream career and being somewhat independent and doing this inside a city limits. For a small town girl it is a big deal for anyone to leave the safety on the nest and when time came you are obligated to raise a family right next to the house you grew up in. It was a great life but not the one I wanted.

I can't complain about how I was raised. I truly loved my home. My father being a second generation dairy farmer and having one of largest farms in the county, I grew up with motive to work hard for what you want. I was also very thankful for the 100 acres of forest on the farm. It provided a good space to practice my favorite hobby. Archery. I killed some small animals just for target practice but we ate the meat they had. The woods is really I feel the most like myself in my true element. My dad and I would spend hours on weekends in the woods. Singing with the birds and shooting down squirrels that cross our paths. I have never felt happier than in the woods.

I am broke out of my trance with my phone ringing. It was an unfamiliar number.

"Kantiss Everdeen?" A strong man's voice on the other end.

"This is her. Can I help you?" I got an uneasy feeling in the pit of my stomach.

"I am Officer Brutus. And I am sorry to say this but your family has been in fatal accident on the interstate and they did not survive." After he said this I dropped the phone and fell to my knees where I was standing. Water poured from my eyes. In a matter of seconds my whole life crashed before my eyes.

I reach for my keys and rush back home. Back to a place I will never see my family again and where their ghost will haunt me for the rest of life.

The Day of the Funeral

This day is the worst of my life. Today I bury my whole reason for living. They died because they were on the road for me. Well mainly a trucker had lost control of the wheel and plowed them down in traffic but they would have never been on that road if it wasn't for me. I haven't stopped crying for two days now. My eyes are red and puffy and my whole body feels like a giant lump. I shower but it's more like warm water running down my body. When I get out I braid my hair down the side like usual and then slip on my dark green dress. When I go down stairs I see my Aunt Johanna looking as sad as me attempting to eat a bowl of cereal. I haven't ate much in the past two days and I don't want to eat now. I has no value to me right now. We don't say anything and we don't need to. We feel the pain. We both need each other right now and I am grateful that she is here now.

We head to the car and make our way to the funeral home to say our last goodbyes. I have no family outside my aunt now but my family was very popular in the community. Our pastor prays for them and for those of us who survive and tells of their great love and passion for life and how they will continue to live though us. Haymitch Abernathy, one of my father's good friends, said a few words about how my dad was like a brother to him and loved him very much. Gale was even there and held me as they put three of my favorite people in the ground. Never ending waterfall of tears escaped form my eyes. I thought I would run dry but more always came up.

When I got home I said goodbye to Gale as he had to return to school and I went to my room and cried myself to sleep.

The next day my Aunt Johanna had to go back home and get to her job. But before she left there was some things to be discussed. Mostly the farm and now that was all under my control.

"Katniss? What are you going to do about the farm?" She asked.

"I'm going to keep it."

"Keep it? I had some buyers already give a good sum of money for everything. The house. The farm. The forest. The cows. They would take care of it and that money will cover for your school. Besides you can't this place all by yourself. You have school and you can start over. Live with me during Christmas and summer. Don't be so brainless over this. The farm is a huge responsibility."

" I am not going to sell the only thing I have left of them. This is greater than me. I'll quit school and take up this farm. I will get some help along the way. Maybe Haymitch can help me some. I could even hire one or two people along the way. I just can't let go of this place. It's my home. It was their home." My aunt just sighs and shakes her head.

"You are really brainless for doing this," she smirks a bit "but if you willing to do this I guess there is no stopping you. You are so strong all the time and I admire you for that but you don't always have to be so noble." I just shake my head. This is something I have to do. I feel it what they would have wanted.

"I'm going to see if Haymitch can take care of things today while I move out of the dorm. I will also have to withdraw from the school. Have a safe trip home." We hug and are both on our separate ways.

This will be an Everlark story. Sorry no Peeta yet but hold on tight because his little baker buns will be coming soon enough. I know this was somewhat sad but had to set the scene for what will come next. The next update of this might be sometime in the next week or two. College life and work can keep me from writing this stories and also the MLB World Series.. Thank you for reading and it will be M because of some language and later sexy stuff. I promise this will not be all melancholy but one cannot know true happiness if they do not know sorrow.

AthenasGrace14