The boy looked sadly at me as he toyed with his food, "How can they do that to us?" he stammered. I stared at him for a moment and replied," It would appear that they can do anything they want to us, what did you get?" The girl sniffled and said," I had a man and two boys about my age" I looked at her and said "two birthday presents huh!" "Y-y-yess" she stammered "they were real gentle with me 'cause they had never done it before but that man hurt me, I thought he was going to rip me apart." With that, she started quietly sobbing again.
The boy tried to comfort her but she just put her head down and sobbed louder, I reached over and squeezed her hand gently which seemed to calm her a little. "How 'bout you?" I looked at the boy who's face started to grow red, "two men" he said very softly "and a woman." I nodded in agreement "same as I had" the girl stopped sniffling and looked up at me "you had a woman?" I slowly nodded "actually after those two pigs that raped me she brought me out of the state of shock I was in" both stared at me for a moment and went back to picking at their food. "Did any of you hear if anyone was hurt or beaten up?" they shook their heads indicating a no, and with that we continued to eat our food in silence.
I finished my meal, bid them goodbye, and headed back to my room. I considered checking on Peeta so headed for his room, I knocked on his door but received no reply; I started to back away from the door when I thought I heard something inside. "Peeta! Peeta are you in there?" Slowly the door opened and Peeta stood behind it his face ashen. "Peeta what did they do to you?" I tried to approach him but he blocked the door and wouldn't let me pass. "Please let me come in Peeta, we should talk about this!"
He slowly opened the door I looked at him and noticed that he looked like he had been crying,"Peeta" I cried as I moved to embrace him. Peeta backed away as my arms tried to close around him; he stopped to allow me to bury my face in his chest sobbing at his condition.
We both moved to the bed and sat down on the edge looking each other over brushing each other's hair with our fingers. Peeta looked me up and down and slowly said, "what did they do to you Katniss?"I Sniffled and sobbed, "they raped me Peeta, a man and a boy; I think all the tributes were raped."
Very quietly, he said, "it was two men and a woman for me, Katniss I'm so ashamed why did they do this to us? Isn't it enough that they put us in a game to watch us die?" With that, he hung his head in shame. I comforted him some more by rubbing his back and shoulders but he just sat there with his head resting in the palms of his hands.
"did you hear anything about the others?" Without removing his head from his hands, Peeta mumbled, "I heard they really worked Glimmer and Clove over pretty good." I thought for a moment and said, "well I don't like seeing what they did to us happen to anybody, but maybe that will knock some of that arrogance out of them, might give us a slight advantage." With that, I leaned over and gently kissed him on the side of his face. "You gonna be all right?" I asked him quietly, "Yeah! I've got to focus on tomorrow," Peeta abruptly looked up at me and said "Katniss I don't know how or when but I'm gonna kill me a bunch of these people, somebody's going to die."
End of Chapter 7
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