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HungerGamesOwl
Goodbyes
I begin to cry. Then, some random Peacekeepers take me and finally realise that I am not going to attempt escape. Yeah right, like I´m crazy´enough to do it. Really. The whole way to the stage I sob like a crappy weakling. Many people look pitifully at me. Pah, I hate it when people look at me this way. But I´m not silly- if I want to win this thing I have to play my role.
At the stage Pira isn´t very pleased to my appearance, but I really don´t care about her. My heart fully hates her. I hate the Capitol in general: President Snow who has killed my father when I was only 4 years old, the Peacekeepers and these random people who wear such terrible clothes in gaudy colours and think they are the most beautiful people in the whole of Panem: there are always some ugly women who dress in all pink. Ugh, I hate that colour.
But now I have to snivel like a baby. Pira stands a few feet aside from me, so I won´t touch her in any way. She watches me with disgust in her eyes. I wish I could tell her how ugly she is. I wish I could throw my axe into her head. But now isn´t the time for it. Maybe after the Games.
Now she´s walking to the other bowl, and reads the name of the "lucky" boy who has the "honour and pleasure" of taking part in the 68th annual Hungergames. She clears her throat:
Benjamin Liston
A little boy of the age of 12 or 13 is walking up the stage. I don´t know him but I´m sorry for him. Yeah you have heard right. I´m sorry. It´s not like I have no feelings. He has brown hair like anyone of District 7, and is very thin. We shake hands. The whole time I sob like a baby. It´s weird but I want to win.
Then these annoying Peacekeepers come, and we are escorted into the Justice Building. There I wait a couple of minutes until my mother storms in. She cries a lot.
"Oh Johanna, I´m so sorry"
"It´s Okay" I calm her down "I am going to win and then we can live in a big house in the Victor´s Village"
She nods but doesn´t look confident. "You are very good with axes" she says weakly
"I know" I hug her "I know. Please keep an eye on Brandon, will you?"
"Yes" she answers.
"Come on mom, all is going to be good, stop crying" my voice sounds angrily, but in reality I´m only scared that she´s going to go all depressed and unresponsive again.
"You are right" she answers and stops crying.
"Time´s up" shouts an Peacekeeper. I hug her, one last time then she´s taken out of the room.
The next person visiting me is Brandon.
"You will do it" he states confidently.
"Yeah, I know" I say and look directly into his eyes. I see that he seriously believes in me and for some random reason I am relieved that there is a person who won´t give up on me through the Games.
"The act is very good. Play it along and you´ll be home in two weeks" I smile. I don´t often smile but when I do, it´s real.
"Thanks" He nods seriously "I´ll take care of your mother" he says.
"Thanks" I answer again. The Peacekeeper comes to take him away.
"See you" are his last words, then I´m alone.
I think about the games. There is a possibility that I´m going to win. What do you think, Johanna? You will win, you aren´t allowed to think in any other way. After some minutes the Peacekeeper takes me to the train station where the train is waiting. I go in, and then the door closes. Goodbye district 7.
I rub my eyes so my mentors will think I have cried the whole time in the Justice Building. It seems to work because that guy Blight sighs, stands up and murmurs something about no chance. Then he goes away and me and this little kid are alone.
"Do you want to be allies?" he asks after a while. I could strangle him. I wish I could tell him how silly this is but I have to be a nice weak baby and so I answer quietly
"No thanks. I don´t think that´s a good idea".
"Oh, alright" Then there is silence.
We are sitting there arfor about an hour, then I stand up and walk into my room. Oh, guess in which colour it is. Yeah you´re right: green. I roll my eyes. Really? Just because we are from district 7 it doesn´t mean that all has to be green or brown. All the t-shirts are green and the trousers brown. Even the shower has green carpets. Very clever, Capitol, very clever.
Before the dinner I don´t change my clothes, so I´ll look weird and weak. Also my eyes seems like I have cried for 3 years because I have made them very red. So I´m proud of myself, I have been a weakling the whole day and nobody has noticed the real me. I laugh quietly. I am so excited what their faces will look like when I have won the Games. Probably very silly, not that there will be any difference to what they do now.
I arrive in the dining room and all of them look shocked at me. The female mentor stands up, takes my arm and drags me into my room. There she turns on the shower and stands me under it so me and my clothes are completely wet. Oh, if I could, I would kill her now. Such a bitch. But instead of this I whimper and she looks angrily at me.
"Do you want to blame yourself?!" she shouts at me angrily. "You are a shame of our district"
Oh Miss-I-am so-much-better-than-you, you are soo original, really. I begin to cry hard and she lets me go. Finally I get out of the bath and follow her into the dining room but I eat nothing. Blight is nicer than this bitch but he´s a weakling. I don´t know how he has won his games, really.
After the dinner I go into my room where I ask the avox to bring me some food. I want to seem thin and weak but I know that I have to eat very much so I have protein for the arena. The little kid has eaten as much as he could but that´s also silly because I bet he will throw up the whole meal. The avox brings me some water and bread with butter and ham. Hmmh, that´s really good. Then I pull my clothes out and now the only thing I´m wearing is my slipper. I don´t care that in the morning somebody could see me, I don´t have any problem with being naked.
I go to bed and fall asleep immediately.
That was the second chapter. Hope you have enjoyed it. Please review!
