Mahogany get your ass up! I hear my lovely father Haymitch says
Somehow I knew that he was already drinking today
I sigh and pull my pink sheets over my head 15 more minute's dad!
Now Now Manners Haymitch I hear my mom's perky voice say to my dad
Well she needs to get up He replies
She will Haymitch she just needs time my mother says back
Then two more voices join my mothers and fathers
Hey Haymitch! I hear my hero Katniss Everdeen says
Hey Sweetheart he replies then I hear Peeta with his echoing laugh come in
Where's Mahogany? He ask
Oh Asleep says Effie
Peeta and Katniss laugh rings into my bedroom so I jump out of bed and run to greet them
Peeta Kat! I hug my aunt and uncle so tight till Katniss yelps not my stomach dear!
Three pairs of eyes train on her everyone's but Peetas
You're...Pregnant? My mother says
Yes...Katniss Replies in a whisper
Nice job Peeta ever heard of a condom? My dad says taking a swig of Vodka
Peeta face goes blank luckily my mother faints and Peeta helps her up while Katniss and me take a seat beside my dad at the table
So Sweetheart you're having a baby my dad says grinning
Yep I am she says back
Well it seems like just yesterday…Mahogany cover your ears
I do as I'm told and my dad says something to Katniss that I just catch a few words of Sister and hunger games. Suddenly Katniss is in tears and running away from the table I unplug my ears
Dad I whisper
Yes? He replies
What are the hunger games? And Katniss had a sister?
His face goes pale white and his drink falls out of his hands
Ok...Mahogany I guess it's time to tell you about the hunger games.
My eyes train on the box of video tapes in the living room
My mom on the TV screen a lot younger then now my father drunk as ever walking up the steps of the old Justice building the one before the capitol blow our home to bites I see children some I have never seen some I know but there a lot older now with kids of their own my mom is speaking in a perky voice then she goes over to a bowl and says Ladies First! Her pink glove slips into the bowl and pulls out a slip then she walks to the microphone and says Happy Hunger Games May the Odds Be Ever in your favor.
She opens the slip
The name is read out
And it's Primrose Everdeen. A little girl maybe 12 starts walking toward the stage then a girl about 14 with brown hair braided runs forward screaming I VOLNTEER I VOLNTEER AS TRIBUTE!
My heart sinks that's Katniss isn't it? My dad nods.
And that little girl Prim? I'm named for her...That's Katniss little sister isn't it?
His eyes look down Yes Mahogany it is
My eyes train back on the TV Peeta named is called next two boys stand beside him. I already knew Peeta had two brothers that were killed so I guessed that's who they were.
He makes his way onstage and then there's a speech by the old mayor who was also killed in the bombing along with his wife and daughter Madge. I watch Katniss and Peeta board the train I watch my mother smiling happily I watch my dad...Well he's passed out.
The video ends and I know that's the best thing I'm going to see.
The next thing I know crowds are cheering people in bright costumes on chariots are riding through the streets of the capitol I catch sight of Katniss and Peeta in flames...In flames? That can't be right I check again and they are bright red flames. Their stealing the show. Everyone loves them! Then it ends. The next scene in a big gym or training center I guess Katniss is alone and shooting arrows at dummies. None of the people watching her who my dad calls gamemarkers are paying her attention. That's when she faces them pulling her arrow back and she does it she shoots an arrow straight through an apple in a pig mouth on the gamemarkers platform. She bows and walks out and I hear my dad let out a chuckle and I see why one of the gamemarkers fell into the punch!
The next thing I know an old man with blue hair and a twinkling suite is on a stage beside to white chairs. CaesarFlickerman appears on the screen in big letters then he's sitting with a tall blonde boy from district one, then the girl from one and then the boy from two who's really hot and then the girl from two I stop watching until I hear Rue from district eleven name being called. I watch her interview closely I had heard rues name come up before but they always drop the topic if I was around. So that's her I think to myself. She's a little dark skinned girl with a thin body and pretty brown hair.
Then its Katniss turn she talks about some Cinna who I guess designed her outfits and then she's up twirling flames coming out of her dress with every spin. Wow I whisper and my dad smiles. Cinna was amazing Mahogany too bad you never met him. He`s dead? I whisper my dad nods Oh I say and turn back to the TV were Peeta
Is talking to Caesar.
Caesar asks him if he has a girlfriend back home. Peeta hesitates, and then gives an unconvincing shake of his head.
Handsome lad like you. There must be some special girl. Come on, what's her name?" says Caesar.
Peeta sighs. "Well, there is this one girl. I've had a crush on her ever since I can remember. But I'm pretty sure she didn't know I was alive until the reaping."
Sounds of sympathy from the crowd. Unrequited love they can relate to.
She has another fellow?" asks Caesar.
I don't know, but a lot of boys like her," says Peeta.
So, here's what you do. You win, you go home. She can't turn you down then, eh?" says Caesar encouragingly.
I don't think it's going to work out. Winning...won't help in my case," says Peeta.
Why ever not?" says Caesar, mystified.
Peeta blushes beet red and stammers out. "Because...because...she came here with me."
I smile knowing this is the first time Peeta said he liked Katniss.
Alright Mahogany I'm not letting you see the death scenes for awhile but there you have it. I sigh wishing I could know what happened well other then Peeta and Katniss winning.