A/N Sorry, I've been celebrating my birthday, which was yesterday, I finally got a mocking-jay pin, also, I'm in a writing mood now, i'm sorry for being there, but I had to direct my classes Romeo and Juliet play, design four web pages for technology, which in not even half done with, and Eoct testing started, i have biology and math this week, ugh, I'll have to pay someone to help me with math, anyways, read the story.
"She took the knife right from the table." Thresh laughs in his baritone voice. Chaff reaches across the table to punch me in the arm, "I'm proud of you kid." He assures me. I smile with my glazy brown eyes nodding softly. We sit at the table chewing on whatever food is in our reaching distance. I can take on sip of any drink without having it refilled on the spot. I am past full but I can't stop eating. Grease falls down my chin as I stuff more of some animal called pig into my mouth. "I had fun in the ropes course." I tell everyone at the table. Seeder smiles softly. "As long as you learned something."
"Oh yes I really did, it was so fun." I say sipping on something called coca cola. "We were getting you sponsors all day." Seeder says as Ecal walks into the room wearing yet another one of her ridiculous garments. "Oh yeas! They just love Thresh here, the sure do adore you big fella." She says lying her hands on Thresh's shoulders.
The table grows silent as Ecal sits big eyes keep on her face as she loads her plate, I don't even notice my cup being refilled with whatever juice I'd picked out. I look down at my plate, starring down at my food. I feel slightly nauseous. If stealing people knives was all I could do in that arena, I was in big, big, big, trouble. I wipe my mouth finding Thresh's face. "May I please go up to my room?" I ask in a soft sweet voice. Seeder nods once, turning to look at Chaff, I jump up from the table walking away quickly. I enter a long narrow corridor lost instantly. I walk slowly trying to find my room, a slick pearl door sits at the end of the hallway, and the number two is carved into it. I slowly walk towards it curious about what this is, I open the door finding a closed in sliver room, only capable of fitting one or two people. I turn away from it walking back out, when I reach the door I find Thresh waiting in the dim light, his eyes are the only thing visible in the dark, they smile softly as I imagine mines should be doing about now, "don't fret what Ecal says, she's not smart like the rest of us." He starts.
I nod, "Oh yes." I giggle softly. "In fact, I think you just might be better than me, there's nothing I can do and you can manage yourself." Thresh says. "Maybe the arena will have vegetation like district eleven, we'll know what's real and what's poisonous off bat." Thresh says taking a seat near the doorway. I plop down on the carpet. "Thresh." I start in a voice I can't believe is mine. I sound like a small child speaking up to an adult. I clear my throat, pushing a lock of my thick hair behind my ears. I close my eyes softly. "Do you actually think I'm going to live?" I ask. Thresh shakes his head. 'But I know you will go far in this Rue, you're way smarter than any of those Careers, even me." He says.
"I refuse to kill someone." I tell him. "How can I survive without killing someone?" I ask. Thresh leans forward, his eyes locking I on mines. "Listen, let's make a deal, well meet up after the bloodbath, I'll make a signal and you just follow it, and when it gets down to us, Well I'll send you on home." He says in a shaky voice I'm not used to hearing from this hulk of a character. I shake my head. "You can survive for me and you Thresh, one of us has to try, and I'm afraid I couldn't live knowing I owed my life to a dead person, especially not my closest friend I had in the games." I tell him softly. "My life won't be under anyone's hands, I'd rather I go out with self-mutilation than anything else, now I can't say I will be able to protect you, but I'll die trying, that's an oath." He says. I now have tears going down my face, I hug Thresh, something I'd never seen myself doing, I feel him tense up at this, and he slowly pats my back. I cry into his collar, trying to keep myself tame. Thresh pushes me back. "I'm sorry." He says in a quick voice, he jumps up, turning away from me, I am left sitting in the hall as thresh walk away in quick long strides. I feel my heart thumb in my chest, hurting my rib cage, I blink softly, trying to understand what I'd done wrong.