chapter 2- nightmares
"Katniss" a whispering voice says at the end of my bed.
"Yes Primmy"
"I had a bad dream. Can I sleep in your bed?"
"Sure"
Prim snuggles into my side seeking my warmth. She rests her golden head on my shoulder. Her thin arms wrapping around my waist as she falls into a dreamless sleep. I close my eyes and hope to keep my nightmares at bay for the sake of Prim who doesn't need my screams waking her up.
I have had nightmares since I was 7 when my dad died. I dreamt about him exploding in the mines. Then when mum married David I had even worse nightmares. I have more nightmares now than ever. the Hunger Games. Killing innocent children.
He raped me when mum was working and Lily, Daisy and Rose were all at school and Freesia, Prim, April, Roxanne, Timmy and Cate were in the yard. I was 8. Two weeks after mum married him. And he raped me. I was the last one he touched though. He didn't touch anyone other than Lily, Daisy, Rose and me. We were his favourite toys.
I won't forget how he got drunk and beat Roxanne so badly she had internal bleeding and eventually died from her injuries. We buried her in the meadow next to baby Emily who was miscarried because David kicked mum in the stomach so the last baby of dads would die.
Timmy and Cate were the cutest little twins that mum had had next to Prim and Freesia. They both were found dead in our only bathroom. They both had been abused and stabbed several times and left to bleed out. On my 9th birthday I walked into the bathroom and found them lying in the bathtub dead and bloody. They were only 3. Roxanne was 4.
All gone in 2 years. Mum was so distraught. She had miscarried 5 times. She was punished 3/5times because they were little boys. I feel bad for mum. Loosing 8 kids.
"Kitty?"
"Yea Sia?"
"Can April and I sleep in your bed with you and Primmy?"
"Of course little ones. Jump in"
Sia and April both snuggle into me and my blankets.
I look at the clock and see that it's only ten. God can this night go on any longer?