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Sammy's POV
I wake up feeling sick. I need to vomit badly.
I jump out of bed and rush to the toilet. Luckily I made it in time. Mum must hear me because she comes rushing in.
"Oh Sammy", she says and then quickly leaves. She comes back with a towel and some tablets, seconds later.
"I'm sorry I didn't tell you earlier", mum says quietly.
"You shouldn't be apologizing", I say quietly as I wipe vomit from around my mouth.
Katniss' POV
"You shouldn't be apologizing."
"Yes I should, you were right; I should have told you earlier", I say shaking my head.
"Mum, I understand why you didn't tell me, I just didn't think it through properly. I was angry", Sammy says. "I'm sorry."
I smile and say, "I would hug you right now if you didn't just vomit."
Sammy smiles and says, "Sorry."
I help Sammy clean up and after a while she says, "You do know I'm not sick…I-
"You made Haymitch give you a drink", I finish.
Sammy frowns and nods. "Don't worry; it's happened to me before too."
Sammy raises her eyebrows and says, "Really?"
"Really."
Sammy smiles and I go out of the room and go and see Peeta and Ryan.
"When will it start?" I ask Peeta; referring to who will get elected to be President.
"Any minute now", he answers with a sigh.
I sit in between Peeta and Ryan and hold Peeta's hand.
Ryan asks me, "So if Isabelle is elected, do you think she will bring back the Hunger Games?"
I look at Ryan. I haven't actually thought about that, but now since Ryan's mentioning it, I'm starting to get worried. I just try to fake smile and say to him, "Of course not."
Ryan nods but doesn't seem to agree. Sammy comes down and sits next to Ryan.
"Oh, Sammy. Your breath really stinks; have you brushed your teeth?" Ryan says scrunching up his nose and waves his hand in front of his face.
Sammy goes red and says, "Yes! I can't help it." She crosses her arms and looks at the TV.
We wait and as we do, I think about Isabelle.
I hope people aren't stupid enough to vote for Isabelle. There's something not right about her. Everything's not right about her. I'm nervous that I'm shaking my knee up and down. Peeta reaches and puts his free hand on my knee to stop it from shaking.
Effie appears on the screen with an envelope in her hand. She babbles on and on that I barely listen. I don't even notice she's announcing the top 3.
"The top 3 are…." She opens the envelope and takes a card of paper out.
"Penelope Sepur, Chris west and Isabelle Snow!" Effie reads happily.
Top 3! I look at Peeta worried but he just squeezes my hand for reassurance.
Effie gets each of them to make a speech. The first to make a speech is Chris West.
"I first like to thank the people who have voted for me to go in the top three and I hope you keep voting. I'll like to thank my family for encouraging me to take this role and I love you all." The camera shows his family smiling and blowing kisses to him. "I believe I should be President because I have new ideas like I told you about in my speech last time for Panem. I'll continue to treat every district equally. I have a lot of other things to say but I got told that we have to keep our speeches short. So congratulations to Penelope and Isabelle for getting this far and I wish you guys good luck. Thanks for voting for me and I hope you continue. Thank you."
The audience applauds and Effie announces Penelope to step forward and make her speech.
"I too congratulate Isabelle and Chris for making it this far and wish you luck. I'm not making you vote for me but I do wish you do continue to vote.
I promise that if I'll become President that I'll take responsibility, resilient and respect into my actions. Thank you to my mum for believing in every step I take. I believe that if you vote for me to be your president that I will not let you down. Yes, I know that is a big promise, but that's a promise that I will commit to. Just like what Chris said, we have to keep our speeches short. Thank you for listening."
Penelope starts to walk off the stage but suddenly trips from her heels. You can hear the audience burst into laughter as a security guard rushes to help her up. I even let out a little bit of a grin. She stands up and you can see her face go bright red from embarrassment. She is lead back to her spot but I can't help but notice her limping.
"Oh, dear", Effie says shaking her head, "That's something we won't forget."
The audience laughs a bit more. Effie waits for them to quiet down before she says, "Finally, I'd like to welcome Isabelle Snow, to the stage."
Great, just what I wanted. I really want to hear her fake speech that she needs to make out at across Panem. Totally.
I can't believe people even voted for her, hopefully people will vote for Chris or Penelope. I really don't care which one, as long as it's not Isabelle.
She walks swiftly up the stage and puts on a big, fake smile. I roll my eyes as she begins her speech.
"Just like I said in my other speech, I'll change Panem into something you never thought would happen. But of course, in a good way. I plan to be the President that you all want the President to be. I plan to lead in my grandfathers footsteps and hopefully do a better job that he ever did as President." The way she says 'hopefully do a better job that he ever did', makes me sick. The way she said it was mischievous and I don't like it. "I as well, would like to congratulate Chris and Penelope for coming this far. Thank you and I hope you vote for me so I have an opportunity to be President."
'I'll change Panem into something you never thought would happen.'
Her line lingers through my thoughts for a bit. What does she mean? Like what Ryan asked, what if the Hunger Games are brought back by her?
I'm thinking so hard that my brain hurts.
Effie comes back to the stage and smiles as she says to the camera and audience, "Well folks, there you have it. Your top 3; Penelope Sepur, Chris West and Isabelle Snow! So get your votes in and we'll be right back after this add break! And may the odds, be ever in your favor!"
The screen starts showing ads and I look at Peeta and frown.
No one has ever said, 'may the odds be ever in your favor' since the last quarter quell. I can't even believe Effie would ever say that again.
Maybe they made her say that.
"Why would she say that?" I ask Peeta. Peeta shrugs in answer and we wait in silence for Effie to appear on the screen again, while Peeta puts in a vote for Penelope.
Effie soon appears again and we can see a table with a golden envelope behind her in the distance.
"Thank you people of Panem for voting! Now as you know, there can only be one President to be elected. Well done to Penelope, Chris and Isabelle for making it this far. But now, it's time to announce who our new President will be!" Effie announces.
Effie walks over to the table to seem what takes like forever. She picks up the golden envelope and walks back to the microphone.
I notice something that I should have noticed the minute I saw her. She's wearing the exact pink wig and spring green outfit. I gasp a little but luckily Peeta and the kids are too concentrated on the TV to notice.
"The President of Panem is now declared….Isabelle Snow!"
I look down at the ground as the audience cheers. Why? Why would anyone want to risk having Isabelle Snow as our president?
I pinch my arm to see if I'm asleep. But, unfortunately, I don't wake up. This is real, this is not a dream.
Peeta pulls me into a hug. But I don't cry. She didn't announce the Hunger Games are coming back, so I shouldn't cry.
I pull away from the hug and try to get everyone's mind on something else.
"I'm going to make stew for dinner", I say getting up. Just like I thought, everyone objects.
"Mum, maybe you should get some rest; dad and us can make dinner", Sammy says.
I decide to see if they admit that they don't like my cooking by saying, "Why, don't you like my cooking?"
"No, it's just that you know what happened the last time", Ryan pipes in.
"What, the last time I made stew?" I ask acting like I'm puzzled.
Sammy and Ryan both nod their heads in agreement.
Peeta cracks up laughing and says, "In other words, you can't cook."
"I can so!" I say mucking around even though, I really can't cook.
Everyone laughs and then Ryan and Samantha start cooking with Peeta. I sit on the couch and flick on the TV.
Buttercup jumps up on my lap. I look at her and see sadness in her eyes. I rub in between her ears and sigh.
"I miss Prim too." I really do miss her. I keep thinking of how good of a mother Prim would have been if she was still alive and how good of an aunty. But all because of Gale. Gale killed Prim. I know it and then he goes and leaves to district 2. He was my best friend, and he left me.
A couple of tears fall down my cheeks but I quickly wipe them when I hear a knock on the door.
I open the door and see Haymitch standing there. I sigh and tell him to come in.
"Who is it?!" Peeta calls out.
"Haymitch!" I call back.
Haymitch and I sit on different couches and I say, "I heard you got Samantha drunk as well."
"Yeah, well she didn't exactly act like it. Not like you did", Haymitch mutters.
I roll my eyes and say, "So, what do you think about our new president?"
Haymitch sighs and says, "Everything is going to be chaos, sweetheart."
"You haven't called me sweetheart in ages, what's up?" I ask frowning.
"I haven't called you sweetheart since Samantha was born", he corrects. "That's 16 years, sweetheart."
"But seriously, something really must be bothering you if you are calling me sweetheart", I state.
"It's just-
"Dinners ready!" Ryan announces.
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