Forresters POV
I was mentally screaming, SCREAMING. My best friend, my very best friend, Maize was a tribute! I was shocked, after all the chances that Maize would make it were... Slim.
The crowd starts to leak out of the docks, sombre, lighthearted, all mixed emotions, all I could feel was a fire, a raging fire climbing up my throat, choking me. I will not cry, I will not cry, I told my self as the doors to the hall slammed shut and my best friend dissapeared.
I walk out of the docks, and hop back on to Lucy,
Hugh and Saxon get in the cart, I had walked into the docks praying that Paige wouldn't be drawn, but I had forgotten about the girl I has always loved.
Maize's POV
The armchair sagged beneath me, the boy, Finnick was in the chair next to me, faking sleep. Deyhna comes to sit down in one of the chairs opposite me, she starts talking, slurring the syllables of my name
"Hello there sweetie, I'm Deyhna."
"Hello." I reply curtly.
"Do you pronounce your name Mae-z or Maay-zee? I just never know with you District folk." she smiles jovially, as if I hadn't just been sentenced to death.
"Mae-z, its a type of grain." I tell her.
"Oh, of course sweetie." her plastic-like skin stretches over ghostly white teeth, each with a diamond inset into it.
"Anyways, I just came to tell you the timetable, bout' what's happening and when it's happening." Another smile.
"We leave on the train tomorrow, so today we'll be doing some goodbyes and a little bit of a meet and greet, then we'll hop on the train and be off! Mm-Kay?"
I nod, sadly.
"oh and there's a few people waiting to say bye right now, follow me."
I get up and walk through corridors showing the beginning of grandeur and splendor, My mother, father, brothers and the Chidiacs were all there to say goodbye.
Deyhna starts talking to them.
"You'll have a five minute one on one audience with your tribute and then, it's over, am I clear?"
Nods came from the crowd.
"Mm-Kay! So who's first?" This question was meant for me
"My mother please."
My mum comes into the small ante chamber and Deyhna shuts the door. Mum hugs me tightly.
"Maize, oh Maize! I'll miss you so much!" she sobs into my arms, I do my best to console her but I'm getting tears in my eyes as well...
We roll through my family, tears fall, promises are made and consoling is done. At last only Paige and Forrester are left, Paige comes in first.
"Maize, we've been friends and I want you to know that when you come back... And you will come back." she opens her eyes wide and nods "We'll still be friends no matter how different you are, I'll stand by you, I will Maize."
She walks closer to give me a hug and just as she hugs me the door opens and Deyhna ushers her back outside, she gives a small smile as she walks out the door. Forrester comes running in straight afterwards.
"Forr!" I cry out loud, and envelope him in my arms, I start sobbing, I'm leaving my mother and father and all my brothers but eaving him hurts the most. Light is streaming through the antechamber window and falls on Forr's face and it shows that his eyes are still wet with tears.
"there's something I need to tell you Maize." he says this in all seriousness.
"I really like you and I don't want you to go!" he sighs.
"I like you a lot to Forr. I'll miss you a lot too."
"No, Maize, that's not what I meant, I meant that I love you! We've been friends for years and I think that subconciously, it's been taken to another level altogether."
I am stunned, nobody has ever declared love for me before, I am plain, I have mousy hair and big blue eyes, I'm nothing special, just an average district four in looks, whereas Forr has so many girls after him, he is tanned, dark and has blue eyes and chestnut hair that sticks up in large curls. And he likes me of all people.
He leans in close to me and asks,
"Do I have permission to kiss the girl?"
"I'll kiss you willingly." I tel him and then I get my first kiss, it was lovely, he pressed his warm body to mine and whispers in my ear. "I love you May" And we kiss.
