Moms screaming her terrified scream, her nightmare scream. I hear it every time mom has a nightmare. When I was about seven, my mom woke up from a nightmare screaming, "Prim, Prim, Prim!" I remember scrambling out of bed and running to her room, crying, and saying,
"Mommy it's ok! Mommy I'm right here I'm all right! Mommy!" I used to think she was mad at me, for some dumb reason.
Until she explained whom she had nightmares about I had an aunt who was killed in the rebellion that made all the districts free. Her name was Primrose, a.k.a Prim.
Bombs that hit the Capitol burned Prim alive. She was helping the wounded when she died. She was only thirteen.
My dad's brothers are dead, too. Died the same way my aunt did, but somewhere else (Mom won't tell me where). I have no aunts or uncles. Except for Aunt Johanna (In district seven) and Aunt Annie (In district four), but they aren't my re-
"Prim?" Pete's voice interrupts my thoughts. Pete was holding on tight to my arm. "Mommy." Pete sounded like he was going to cry. "It's okay, Pete." I say soothingly, "Everything's going to be all right."
No it's not, I thought, Mommy's screaming right now, and she's all the way on the fourth floor. Huh. I haven't called mom "mommy" since I was six. I shake my head.
I wait five minutes. Ten. Twenty. No mom steps out of the elevator. I hear someone screaming things they're not supposed to say. My mom comes out of the elevator, hands behind her back, fighting two security guards.
"I didn't do anything to My Gale!" My mom closes her mouth, a terrified and confused look in her eyes. One of the security guards, who are tall and skinny with a goatee, looks at his partner, who is very short and doesn't look like he ever eats and has a balding head.
"Last time I checked, your husbands name is Peeta. Are you in love with this Gale? He came to visit your husband. You couldn't divorce your husband so you had your boyfriend do the work?" He says.
My mom frantically shakes her head. "No! I love Gale! Peeta's my best friend! At least, he used to be before he tried to kill My Gale!" Tears come to my mom's eyes when she realized her mistake. I gaped at her. "No, Prim, please. You know I love your father! You and Pete!" She says.
I hesitated. Mom did love dad. Or at least used to, they've been fighting a lot this past week, over money, or food; everything set mom or dad off. I looked around frantically, looking for a way to escape. I glance at Pete, who looked scared.
My poor little brother has to go through all this. "Little lady, has your mommy and daddy been fighting lately?" Balding asks. When I don't answer, he asks me again. I spy an emergency exit and dash off just as Goatee and Balding started for me. Pete calls out to me. Pete. PETE! I can't believe I forgot about my own little brother!
I need help, I realized. I needed Lamina, or Laurel. No, I thought, I need Tiffany. Even though we're pretty much complete opposites, we understand each other. I gasp as I ran out into the cold autumn air.
Gale is coming out of the woods, about a thousand feet away. I hurry to Tiffany's house. By the time I get there, I go to her room window. She's sleeping. I pound on it. "Tiffany!" I hiss. Tiffany makes a tiny squeak sound that I guess counts as a snore for her.
"Tiffany, your in big trouble!" I say. "But I didn't do anything!" She yells, wide awake. From the screen, I see Tiffany throw off her covers. She looks mad. Really mad. "Just kidding, Tiffany." I say.
Tiffany growls at me. "Tiffany? What's wrong?" Mrs. Abernathy asks as she burst into the room. "Tiffany?" Mitch asks behind her. I duck into the bush. "I'm okay, mom, just had a nightmare." Tiffany says.
"What was it about?" Mrs. Abernathy wanted to know. "A cake that ate my pie." Tiffany says seriously. Mrs. Abernathy shakes her head. I held back a giggle. "Your just like your father, always thinking about food." Mrs. Abernathy muttered as she walked out.
"Tiffany," I say as soon as Mrs. Abernathy was gone, "I need your help."
Katniss' POVHow can I be so stupid? I can't believe that I got myself into this mess. It all started after the cops who were visiting friends in the hospital heard me scream…
"So, Mrs. Mellark, you're saying your husband was abducted by this Gale person?" Officer Lyle Begat asks me. I nod vigorously. His partner, Officer Ted Dells, who is becoming bald, wrote this down.
"Do you have proof?" Officer Dells asks. "The only thing I know is that my husband, Gale, is gone!" I yell. It takes me a few seconds to figure out what I just said. "On no." I whisper as Officer Dells and Begat come towards me.
The next thing I remember is telling Prim I love her and Pete and Peeta after I make yet another foolish mistake. Then her running, then the trip to the police station, where they question me and where I finally convinced them I had nothing to do with Peeta's disappearance.
"But you everything you said implied that you were in love with Gale!" Officer Begat insists. I shake my head and say, "I don't love Gale. I used to; but not anymore."
Officer Dells raised an eyebrow. "Really? Tell me about it." So I did. I told him about the rebellion, how I had to choose between Gale and Peeta, and how I realized that I didn't need Gale's fire.
I had fire of my own. And I told them Peeta was the sunshine that shines down on me. And I told them this. "To me, Gale's a weed in a field of dandelions. To me, Peeta is a dandelion in a field of weeds."
After I said that, they let me go. They also gave me Pete back; they threatened to put him in foster care if I don't tell them the truth. "Hiya Pete. Where's your sister?" I ask Pete as we walk into the brisk autumn air.
"Prim." Pete's lip was trembling. "It's okay." I said soothingly, "Prim's going to come home." When I get into the house, I call out. No Prim.
Where's my little girl? I walk into the kitchen, just as the phone rang. "Hello?" I answer. "Hi, Mrs. Mellark!" Lamina's cheerful voice sang. "Lamina, is Prim at your house?" I ask quickly.
"No, but I'm calling to ask her if she can come over, but I guess she's not there. Maybe she went to Laurel's house and saw she wasn't there, because Laurel's at my house, and she's probably walking home right now." Lamina says.
"Well, I haven't seen her in over an hour. If she comes home, I'll call you." I say.
"Okay Mrs. Mellark. Bye!"
"Bye." I hung up. I went to sleep with Pete next to me. He was scared today; I guess of because what had happened. Almost right away I had a nightmare.
Pete and I were on one side and Peeta and Prim on another, on flat earth. We started running towards each other, but something keeps pulling us back.
That keeps happening until an earthquake hits. Instantly a huge crack came between us, and Peeta and Prim, who are running towards us, fall in, screaming. "Peeta! Prim!" I shouted.
Pete ran towards the sound of Prim's screams. I caught him just as he was going to fall in. My grip on him wasn't strong enough. His screams will torture me forever. I'm alone now. Until a crack opens up and I fall in, into a pool of emptiness, a pool of silence.
Then the screams start. Peeta's tortured and strangled. Prim's, loud and piercing. Pete's, a wail of terror and pain.
I woke up screaming. The nightmares never end.
Sorry it's been awhile, my internet was out.