I stood with my head against the window and I stared blankly out into the plaza. A loud knock was heard at the door and suddenly my family rushed in and literally tackled me.
"Dravin… Oh God…" Dad said to me as he hugged me tightly. I wouldn't cry, I refused to cry.
"You know what to do when you get in that arena Dravin… unleash hell." He said to me grasping shoulders.
"Dad… there are twenty four of us… four or five of them are going to be lethal…" I said shaking and then he said, "No more lethal than you are… go out there and show them what District Twelve means." He hugged me again and then my mother hugged me tightly.
As my mother let's me go I hugged Eriswen tightly. "Eris I'm so sorry…" I said stroking her hair.
"Promise me… you'll win?" She asked in a quiet voice.
I stopped in my sentence and then nodded. "For you… I'll win." And suddenly the peacekeepers came in.
"Time's up!" One of them said roughly pulling them out of the room and I watched as they left. I felt cold and empty. Effie soon came and got us and soon we were on the train.
I looked around and ran my hand over the wood. "It feels so nice…" I thought to myself and soon we were shown to our rooms.
I silently memorized everything and wished that I had father's guitar here now. I sat on the bed and felt the sheets, they felt much nicer than my bed at home. I sighed and flopped back on the bed waiting for Effie to come.
"Oh Dravin!" Effie's high pitched voiced trilled and she knocked on the door. I went to the door and I followed Effie down the corridor into the dining car. I stared at the food and then also stared at Lukis who was sitting opposite to me. Starting to eat, I took little small bites right now I really didn't have the appetite. As we were finishing Haymitch staggered in and I caught his eyes again.
"Well if it isn't the girl who stepped for her sister? Brave little thing she is indeed." He said drunkenly and then he suddenly slumped on the ground and started to vomit. Lukis cringed and Effie started going off again about how disgusted she was about Haymitch. I was the only one who actually got down and helped him. As he failed trying to rise up, I sighed heavily and worked past the smell of his vomit and the fact that he probably wouldn't remember this tomorrow and I got him up, Lukis still stared at me and I said, "Effie where is his compartment?"
"I'll show you!" She said stepping over the vomit gingerly and then she led me to his compartment. For a girl my height I was pretty strong.
"Come on Haymitch let's get you cleaned up and into bed." I said gently as I took him into the bathroom and I got him into the bathtub turning the shower on and then I worked his shirt off as gently as I could without disrupting his slight daze. I rubbed his face clean with a washcloth and then poured water over his chest to clean the vomit off. He groaned slightly as the warm water trickled down and I sighed before I said, "Wait here." Going over into his room and getting him a fresh change of nightclothes.
"Alright up we get." I said putting one of his arms around my shoulders and I helped him out of the tub where he lay against the cabinet and I said, "Haymitch I'm not going to help you like I'm your mother." Standing firmly before him.
He groaned and got changed. I soon helped him over to the bed and I tucked him in. "Sleep well." I said quietly as I shut the door and instantly went to my room to take a shower and get into bed.
As I stood beneath the shower I felt the warm water seep down my back and I groaned slightly as I started to relax. I soon shut the shower off, toweled myself dry and got in a soft white nightgown before lying down on the bed and slowly drifting off into sleep.