Nearin' the end. This 'ill be a short chapter.

The wind stirred. Adrianna's hair blew in and out of her face. Her clothes were too big for her and blew too. She looked around. She was home, but everything was gray like an old black and white movie. She was standing in the corner of a broken wall where she'd lived her whole life. She looked at the ground for a small minute. Then, her head flew up and she ran.

Hollux.

If she was home, he wasn't.

No one was outside, but when she got to his house, it was packed. She heard screaming and crying. "Hamma! Where is Hamma?" She could tell it was Hollux's mother. "She needs to be here! She needs to watch her brother!" Adrianna stepped inside and saw the hologram TV showing Gamile gripping the poison arrows. "No! Hollux!" Adrianna blinked and the room was empty. The TV was frozen. She walked out and back to her corner where she noticed a small house with its door wide open.

"Shh. Shh. It's alright. Everything will be okay." It was a woman in, perhaps, her thirties speaking. She was watching her own hologram TV while holding a weeping bundle in her arms. Hamma.

"Wha' about you?" Hamma whimpered. She was in a pretty pink birthday dress. "How are you watching this?" The woman looked at the TV. Adrianna was sitting next to Hollux as he told her he loved her for the first and last time. "My brother's gone isn't he? He's not coming home to me is he?"

"I'm sorry, Hamma," the woman cradled her.

"What about yours? Your Adrianna?" Adrianna's eyes widened. The woman... She... looked like her. "You've had the chance to tell her for years now and never did."

"I know. I should have. Now she'll come home and might never forgive me. I wish I could go back in time. I wish I could have kept her."

"But your husband was a meanie. It wasn't your fault."

"No, it was. I could have fought for her and didn't. I can't believe I just let him put my baby girl out on the streets when she was so little."

"But she's lasted. She's survived all this time on her own."

"Not entirely," the woman said. "If it weren't for your brother, Hollux, that one man that tried to beat her would have succeeded. He's the one that had been watching out for her."

"The winner of the annual forty-fifth Hunger Games is Adrianna from District 12," Caesar Flickerman announced. She turned it off.

"A-A-Adri's coming home? Bu-But Hollu i-isn't?" Hamma cried. She buried her face in the woman's shoulder. Then, suddenly as if in a trance, she stood up and stared right at Adrianna. Her feet wriggled on the wood floor. "Adri never knew you, her own mama. She never knew Hollu till now. Now, she won't be able to live without him." Adrianna stared right at her. Their eyes never moved from each other. "Hollu loved her. He watched her every day since he met her. I remember how much mama used to say she was an awful person. Hollu never listened."

"He loved my girl till the end," the woman said. "I'm going to tell her. She needs to come back to something. Hollux would have wanted me to if he ever knew. I've been watching her all her life just as he had after all."

The gray faded to a bright white. Adrianna looked around. Tears were streaming down her face now. "Hey, Adrianna." She turned around and saw Hollux standing a few feet behind her. He wore his Hunger Games clothes with the bloody sleeve where Gamile hurt him. She wanted to run to him but couldn't move.

"What happened?" she asked.

"You won, just like I said," he answered.

"B-but you-"

"No, Adri. I'm not coming back."

"But you have to!"

"I'm not. I'm sorry. If I had only been stronger..." He looked down.

"H-Hollux-"

"I'm sorry, Adrianna. You gotta wake up now."

"What are you talking about?"

"Bye, Adri."

"Wait, Hollux."

"Wake up!"

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