Here's chapter 10 everyone! Hope you like it!
disclaimer: I don't own the Hunger Games. If I did pigs would be flying and chickens would have teeth.
p.s. I'm adding a disclaimer just for the fun of it! :3
My sister just keeps surprising me, doesn't she? Every time I think she's turning left she veers to the right. Tym was nibbling nervously on some mint leaves and nearly choked himself. Delphi was sipping some water and spewed it all over my sister. Keeping her eyes on Zev, she wipes herself with her sleeve and waits for his answer.
"Why would I need you?" His sneer is back. Pity: he was actually starting to look cute.
"Because we're three against one and you've got no weapons. We can find food and all you know is how to hunt down helpless tributes." This shuts him up. How she can keep calm is beyond me.
He curls up into a ball, defensively. He's like a cowaring dog. He rips out some grass angrily, shruggs and then says: "Well I haven't got anything better to do."
My sister laughs. I do too, a little. The situation isn't funny. It's because I can't believe how strange it is to see this boy, Zev, act so normaly, when a day ago he was cutting up a young boy from three with a huge smile on his face. Then I realise: He may have been smiling and laughing, but his eyes were showing pain, fear and quite frankly, despair.
"So it's a deal?" she offers him her hand. And no backstabbing, I think.
"Yeah. Whatever." He shakes it. My sister transforms from a serious lady to a satisfied, smiling girl.
"Alright then. Let's set up camp: the sun's almost gone."
They spend what's left of the sun's light building a small shelter with branches and grass. My sister gives Zev the blanket and he settles in a tree, right above the three of them. Delphi, tym and my sister snuggle up in the sleeping bag, in their little shelter. It's a good thing the sleeping bag is big. With their silence comes a flood of nocturnal noises. A couple of criquets, a distant owl even the far away howl of a wolf. Delphi's and Tym's heads are on my sisters shoulders, resting on her chest like I so often do when I try to fall asleep.
"Asterae, I'm scared. What if the tribute with the bow comes after us? Or what if the ghost come to haunt us? What if-" My sister cuts her off.
"Look at the sky. See those three stars that make a straight line? It's Orion's belt. See? There's his head, his arms and legs and even his bow." As she speaks, she points to the sky to help Delphi find the stars she's talking about. "His belt points to Sirius, the dog star and the brightest one in the night sky. Isn't it beautiful?"
It is. She always told me stories about the stars when I was younger. We'd lie down in the grass at night and watch the sky until our mother called us inside.
Delphi looks at the belt, at Sirius with amazement. The cameras go to the sky, probably so the audience can see for themselves. As Delphi, Tym and even Zev look at the star, my sister starts to sing. I don't remember this song very well. It's a love story about a man and a woman who only get to see each other once a year. The words are sad but she sings them softly, happily. It's like she's telling me "even if I leave, we'll see each other again".
"Look!" My sister points to a tiny spect of green light floating around Delphi's ear. A firefly. More and more appear and hover over them. They're like star fallen from the sky. Delphi and Tym let out a couple of "ooohs" and "aaahs". It's breathtakingly beautiful. One lands on a blade of overgrown grass. And it catches on fire instantly.
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