DISTRICT 7
CASEY
9

I open my eyes when I smell bacon. The sweet aroma drifts over my bed from my alarm clock. Great its fake. I throw the alarm clock at the wall. I look to completely forget where I am. Where is Shelley's bed? Where is my family?
No. You aren't in district 7 anymore. Pull yourself together. I stop the drip of one single tear with my finger. The arena flows back in my brain. Connor's dead. I am dead inside.
I pull the covers closer to my face. A buzzing goes off. Blake's face is on the camera screen over my bed. "Don't let Carleigh know I am proposing to her tonight in the gardens. Your job is to lead her to the gardens level 73. Trust me. I know I can trust you to make this perfect." His face flashed off. The gardens.
I ran like lightning to the gardens. Flowers bloom on the button. I tap it thousands of times. Cloth bundles up under my arm. White silk draping from the tallest trees will be beautiful.
The gardens blossomed and grew in front of my eyes. Gold and silver arches. Perfect. I began working. Thorns pierced my hands as I hung roses from the silk. Blood coiled around my hands. I stifled a scream and wiped it kn my black shorts. Must hang to ignore the pain. I curl the remaining silk around the trees that are left. I stare at my work. Beautiful. I should do this more often it relieves the stress.
Blake walks in without Carleigh. I am puzzled. "Sleeping." He said. "I knew I could count on you. This is perfect."
"Thank you. If only I could decorate everything like your wedding and baby showers..." Blake heaves an enormous sigh. "You are having kids, right?!" I ask positively disturbed at the thought of no little Blake's running around Clintasta.
"Well... I think Carleigh wants them. But to be honest, I am terrified of the idea. All of the throwing up and screaming. I don't even know how to father a little me. She would be a great mother though-"
"Sounds like you are having a battle with yourself. Why wont you give it a shot for Carleigh's sake?" I adjust the ribbon on the trees to where they all match.
"Your right I should! But I am to afraid I'll just do something wrong." He says clearly upset with himself.
Blake nods as one of the flowers on his right turns silver with his touch. "Who all do you want at the proposal?" I ask trying to break the silence. It is hard enough when you are mental to deal with the silences people give you.
"Just Carleigh. You and Claire can start planning the wedding I guess. Casey I can tell you are board go now and don't worry about me." Blake says as his eyes motion to the door.
I run to Claire's room to excited to speak. Carleigh is eating something in the kitchen next to Claire. I sit down with them. "Hi!" Carleigh says. My mind goes fuzzy and I relapse. I can only feel my body thud to the ground. Then it is memories of Connor's wedding ring he was going to give to me, of my family being tortured because of the choices I made. My voice rings out as I start screaming.