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Soft tears fell from Annie's striking green eyes and fell over her cheeks like morning dew on a pedal. At the age of twelve she sat on the cold sad under the largest the pier. Inches from her feet lay the shallow water that beat against her toes every few minutes.
"Annie," She heard in the distance, she knew that Finnick was the one calling her and the fear in his voice because she had run away. Well ran away isn't really the right term. She was not in the house when the others awoke, Better.
Finnick's feet patted against the sand as he ran around frantically. Then something caught his gaze, a light brown French braid that swayed in the early morning sea breeze. A white sundress that she had worn so many times before and her white strapped sandals sitting next to her as she stared into the abyss.
All he could do was sigh as he moved to sit next to her and wrapped his right arm around her shoulders and she curled into his shoulder like she always did.
"I am scared Finnick," she said making the boy two years her senior sigh. Finnick was no longer the lengthy eight year old boy whom Annie had met that first day on the ocean. He had gotten taller but instead of staying in his awkward state he grew muscles from fishing his onetime strong features blended more into his face and his bright red hair turned copper as years passed.
Every one other than Annie saw the boy as strikingly handsome, which he was. But Annie saw him more as just Finnick, the Finnick who would ridicule her when she beat out all of the boys in swimming races. The Finnick who would push her from the fishing boat given the chance just to hear her laugh. The Finnick who spent hours sitting across from her tying nets before school, the Finnick got too much pleasure out of teasing at Annie's expense.
"Be careful or you will spend the rest of your life being scared Anna Banana." He said with a chuckle running his free hand threw his hair.
"Don't laugh at me Odair or I swear." She began
"Hey that rhymes, Anne do another one." He said like some school boy resulting in a punch from Annie in the chest.
"Oh is Cresta fighting," He said resulting in another punch in the chest before Finnick flipped her around wrapping his arms around her ribcage pinning her arms down as he went then he stood up and began to spin around haphazardly as Annie screamed in protest but giggles broke up the screams like always.
It was a few moments before they heard the call of Mayor Baynella, Finnick then sat Annie down and grabbed Annie's Arm pulling her toward the reaping. Annie only slowing down for a second to slip into her shoes then hopping while pulling them over her ankles, if it weren't for the arms of Finnick Odair he would have fallen a few dozen times.
They were inches away from the gates when they heard Yule Herringbone, the blue colored unicorn horned district four escorts as he welcomed the growing district.
"Good Morning District Four," He said in his overly cheery way but it didn't receive much response from the district.
Despite the fact district four was a carrier district it was not as openly accepted as districts one and two, most people didn't volunteer unless they thought the chosen tribute didn't have a chance.
"Happy Hunger Games," He said again overly cheery about sending children to their death. Finnick took this chance to gaze up at the stage, where Mags victor of the twelfth hunger games sat next to the Mayor and on the other side Darius Blackthorn, and victor of the fifty third hunger games.
"Ladies First, Angel Ingram," He said and a fairly small girl stepped out from the sixteen year old section to the right of Finnick. He didn't know Angel all that well except for the fact he sometimes saw her at the fish market. She had a look in her eyes that would send shivers down any normal tributes spine. So nobody volunteered.
"Now for the boy Tributes Finnick Odair," Finnick stopped for a second sparing a glance at Annie who stood in the twelve year old girl section fighting her way to the front. He knew she hoped some one would volunteer but he knew they wouldn't. Maybe Last year they would have, maybe even last week but not now.
Why, last Wednesday Fredrick Lowe had made fun of Annie and Finnick was never a fan of anyone other than himself poking fun at His Annie Cresta, so he beat him to a pulp. Showing the entire district not only that he knew how to fight but that he was good at it. That's how he knew there was no way he was getting out of this one. He stepped up to the stage and shook hands with Angel before being ushered into the justice building.
After his mother, father, and brother all said goodbye he saw a blur of white before Annie crashed into his arms.
"I knew something bad was going to happen. I knew it, Finnick I just knew it." She sobbed into his powder blue button down dress shirt.
"Annie please don't cry." He said trying to console her to no avail.
"You have to come home Finnick you have to," She pleaded threw broken breaths.
"Annie I will try but there are," He began before Annie pushed her finger to his lips.
"You have to come home, Finnick." Annie said once again before a peacekeeper appeared in the door way. Annie kissed his nose and left with the peacekeeper. Finnick didn't know why but the one kiss almost made Finnick's heart stop. He had had the slightest of crushes on the girl for a while but never ever thought the feeling could or could be reciprocated he didn't dawn on it.
As the train moved over the water Finnick stared aimlessly at the water below the roaring train as it rippled peacefully. He knew that some ripples he see would grow and turn in to waves and others would settle without so much as seeing dry land.
Then he knew there would be some who when the waves hit would run away not wanting to be smothered by the waters force and others who would take the wave in stride, he told himself he had to be the second. He needed to ride the wave until it deposited him safely back on the beach of district four where he belonged.
"Finnick, come eat." Mags said pulling Finnick from his previous state of oblivion to the fact he was being gawked at by Allison Wright as if he were a talking animal. He just shot a smile in her direction, making her swoon, and halfway pay attention to the rest of Yule Herringbone's agenda for the hunger games.
He tried to act like he didn't mind however. Instead he awaited arrival using the mindset 'The faster I get there the faster we start the games the faster I win, the faster I get back to Annie.'
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