I wake up feeling the person under me slowly moving me off them, I sit up and look at them realising its Gale, I fell asleep on him, and had no nightmares… strange.
He looks at me a gentle whispers "Hey, go back to sleep, I need to go work but I'll be back soon" I believe him and feel myself fall into unconsciousness once again…
I'm running and running but not getting any closer to Prim, she's standing their shouting my name, I need to get there, I need to get their in time, I'm shouting her name, telling her I'm coming, I'm nearly there, but I'm not, I'm running as fast as I can and not getting any closer suddenly she disappears and I'm alone, she's gone, I've lost her. I'm shouting for her to come back and I hear her calling my name, but the voice changes it's not Prim, it's Gales Mum and Vic, his brother. Where are they…
I sit up and look around and see Hazelle and Vic looking at me with worried eyes "Where's Prim?" I ask, I see their eyes widen as I remember. I hesitate before asking my next question "Where's Gale?"
"He's at work, I can take you there" Vic offers, I look at him and smile gently making him grin and jump up, "I'll get dressed, and you should too" he runs out the room as I turn my attention to Hazelle
"Want me to find you some clothes to wear, you're still wearing the dress from yesterday" she asks with a smile, I follow her after blushing with embarrassment.
This time I convince her not to dress me so girly, I wear black leggings matched with a loose grey top which just about covers my bum, I ask her constantly if I should be wearing more and she just shrugs it off saying its how everyone dresses here.
Walking with Vic started quietly, it was only when I took his hand, not wanting to lose him that he began blabbering away,
"So are you going to move to District 2?" he asks
"I don't know, I haven't thought that far a head" I inform him
"I know! You can wait until after you and Gale get married and then buy a house together. I bet Gale can buy a huge house, he's in a really good job, you know, he is a Supervisor and has his own office. You can probably have your own rooms too. I have to share with Rory because we have a 4 bedroom house, Gale has his own room, I share with Rory, Mum has her own room too and Posy get her own room aswell. Rory keeps asking why he has to share, he thinks that me and Posy should share but Mum says no because Posy is a girl and needs her own room. Although I don't mind, I like sharing a room, it means there's two people to tidy it not only one. When you and Gale get married and buy a big house can I have my own room there, so then I can come and visit you all the time. Oooh when you have children, can I baby sit? I love children, and I know they will love me. How many children do you think you will have? When I grow up I want to have a really big family with lots and lots of children, wouldn't that be great. I'm really glad you came; Mum says I can stay off school for a little bit while you visit! Maybe if you live here I won't have to ever go to school, I don't really see the point in school it's so boring, I don't need to go anymore, I am 10 years old and I already know everything I need to know. You never guess but they don't have mines here! I'm really glad because now Gale doesn't have to go into the mines and he won't die like Daddy did. I don't really remember him, I was 4 when he died, I think. Do you have nightmares a lot? I've never seen you with so much emotion in your eyes, it was like Gale too. I remember him crying and Mum having to calm him down, he was crying about you and Prim, I know he blamed himself over her death. But I didn't understand it, he was on the ground when the bombs were realised so how could he drop them, it doesn't make sense. He seemed fine the next day, Rory said he was wearing a mask but he wasn't, then he told me he was hiding his emotions which I guess was true because he doesn't seem to express himself that much. He still plays with us, we had a water fight last week on Sunday and he soaked Rory and me and Posy without getting a drop on himself, so we ganged up on him, and we got him soaked too, maybe we can have a water fight later, if we do can I be on your team, I bet your be brilliant…" he blabbered on, I stopped him after about 10 minutes but it felt like hours
"Vic, you've asked me about 20 questions! Since when did you learn to talk constantly?" I asked
He looked up at me and blushed "Sorry, I'm just so excited for you to be here!" he exclaimed
"Did you notice that while you were talking everyone was looking and pointing at me?" I lean down and whisper
He stops and looks at me and answers simply "You are the mockingjay!"
"There's so many building! How long until we get there?" I ask
"Not long, it's just around that corner" he says and I look and see the corner about 80 meters in front of us, it takes us a further 10 minutes to get to the lobby of where Gale works, it's huge, the building is around 40 stories high!
Vic pulls me along to the front desk "Hello Mel!" he says happily "Me and Katniss would like to see Gale please" he asks
Mel looks up at him and smiles and then at me, she looks surprised but quickly hides it "Ofcorse, though shouldn't you be in school?"
"I've got some time off while Katniss is visit, I think it might only be today though as its Friday. Is Gale in his office?"
"Well that's good. Should be, you know where to go, have fun and don't cause too much trouble. Pleasure meeting you Katniss Everdeen"
I smile in response as I'm pulled into an elevator "Katniss, do you want to press the button?" Vic asks causing everyone to stand there and not press the floor they want
"Err… sure" I reach over and look at Vic
"32" he says, I press it and it lights up, I'm just about to pull away when somebody else says a number followed by everyone else, I press them all watching them light up before standing back next to Vic and taking his hand once more, I've never been good at crowds. Before each person leaves they shake my hand, thank me and tell me a little story, the most common one was to tell me how many children they had, their ages and show me a photograph of them. I'd always smile and say something like, 'they have your eyes' or 'you must be proud' or even once 'she's so cute, I'd love to meet her one day'
When we finally reached the floor and got out we had to walk down a long corridor, I was stopped and spoken to many times before finally getting to Gales office. His office was giant, it was bigger then my house in the seam… which is now gone. I wonder around, fascinated that his achieved so much. Suddenly it occurs to me
"Where's Gale?" I ask Vic he looks at me just realising his not here and walks to Gales desk
"Oh, he's on a casual meeting, I think it's called a lunch meeting, it's where some supervisor and/or managers get together and talk about normal things, it so they can get to know each other to make everyone in the building friends and it makes it easier to communicate. Come on, they won't mind us joining, Rory and I do it all the time" he says and takes my hand guiding me to the room without waiting for an answer. We go back into the elevator and go down two floors to floor 30, and have to wait down another long corridor, I was stopped several times again, but didn't mind as much, they are all very positive about it.
Finally we seem to have reached our destination when I smell food and Vic pokes his head around the door frame, I hear a very masculine voice say
"Hello there Vic, care to join us?"
"Can I bring a friend?" he asks squeaking a tad in excitement on 'friend'
"Ofcorse you can, so what's your little friends' name?" the same man asks
I feel myself get pulled in as Vic says my name however everyone goes quiet and just stares at me, Gale is already walking up to me a slightly worried expression on his face. I simply smile at everyone which causes most of them to grin widely at me, my smile becomes slightly bigger at there happy faces.
When Gale does reach me he whispers into my ear "Are you OK?" although I'm sure everyone in the room heard seeing as they're still silent, I give him a simple nod and meet his eyes.
Our eye contact was broken when we both swung our heads to the talking person, "So Katniss, would you like something to eat? A sandwich?" she offered
I nodded my head "Yes please"
Vic and I sat on opposite sides of Gales as we ate, conversations had now risen between people and I was mainly answering questions. Although I kept catching eyes with one of the men that just stared at me, I couldn't tell what his emotion was but he hadn't spoken to me, I was feeling a bit awkward.
"Oh I am so sorry!" the women next to me exclaimed making me look at her confused face towards her "It must be really awkward sitting here with the father of the person that tried to kill you in the hunger games"
I looked back at him and noticed his eyes… I remember where I've seen them before, Clove. That was Cloves father. I instantly look down at my hands, my left is intertwined with Gales and I see my knuckles going white as my grip becomes stronger out of fear.
Authors' Note:
Thank you to all that read and all that review :D
