Hey guys so here is chapter number thirteen.
In this chapter you guys will see how Annie is doing after her attack and how she feeling about her and Finnick's kiss. You guys will even meet the Avox that has the info on what really happen to Pia again and of course Annie's and Mason's interviews.
And by the way THANKS to everyone who reviewed this story. It means so much to me that you guys like this story.
Disclaimer: I don't own the hunger games.
Annie Belle (Annie) Point of view
(The Next Day)
The second my eyes fly open in the morning, a sudden pain hits my head. The pain is so bad that as I try to sit up on my bed, I fall back instantly. I groan as I put a hand on my head. The pain was unbearable, my head feels like it's been hit with a bat over and over again but I wasn't hit with a bat over and over again.
I was attacked by Clay.
As the memories from last night return to me, I can feel my eyes fill up with tears. Last night was supposed to be a night filled with smiles and laughter and instead it turned into tears and shouts. We were all so excited that Mason and I got great scores in are private training session that I let my guard down. I let myself smile and have fun in a place that only cause pain and tears.
I should have never celebrated with everyone; I should have gone off and found the Avox that has the info on Pia. I should have never left my room in the middle of the night to go to the roof. I should have never let that boy dragged me to where the rest of the boys were drinking. I should have never let Clay pushed me around like that. I should have done everything so differently. And one of those things that I should have done differently was tell Finnick the truth about Clay bothering me, the first day of training. Maybe if I had told him the truth the first time he asked me maybe things would be different right now.
Thinking about Finnick brought goosebumps up my arms. He didn't just save me last night but he also kissed me. When he kissed me, I thought I had died and went to heaven and he and I were the only ones there. Once we broke off the kiss all I wanted to do was grab him again and kiss him like there was no tomorrow. And I still do.
The idea of kissing Finnick again brought butterflies into my stomach. I quickly shake the idea out of my head; I can't let myself feel anything for that kiss even if that kiss was like two missing pieces of a puzzle that finally came together and melted into one another. It not like I don't want to feel something for the kiss because that's all I want to do, but that kiss wasn't with just any guy, it was Finnick. And let's face it; Finnick can have anyone on this planet if he wanted to, so why on earth would he pick me. The girl that hated him for years or the girl that is about to go off to her death.
No he wouldn't pick me not now, not ever. What happened last night was a mistake; we were both caught in the moment. That kiss shouldn't have happen and it never will again.
I bite my lip as I rise from my bed and into a sitting position. As I take in a deep breath, a pain hits me from the left side of my ribs. I put my hand where the pain is and as I do, I cry out in pain.
As I cry out in pain, I see that I had woken up Mason who was sleeping in a chair next to me. He's up from the chair in seconds looking around the room like a mad man looking for any signs of danger. Once he sees there no danger in the room he turns to me with a look of worry in his eyes.
"What the matter Annie Belle?" He says to me as he sits down on the bed next to me.
I open my mouth but no words come out inside tears come down my face. It hurts to even talk. Mason saw this and he's eyes full with sadness and pity. I could tell that he hated seeing me like this. He has always protected me as much as he could while we grow up. And I know that it was killing him, not being able to have protected me from Clay.
Mason has always thought of me like his little sister, even though I was three months older than him. While growing up with my Father and Jason miles away from me, it was easy for boys to hit on me. I would tell the boys to go away but they just thought I was playing hard to get which I wasn't.
One time this boy from my Math class thought it would be funny to slap my butt but before he even had a chance to come close to my butt, Mason punched him right in his face. After that day on, Mason became my personal bodyguard but to be honest he really didn't need to after that, the boys all heard that the kid he punched nose was so broken that it toke four months to heal so the boys got the message to stay away.
"It's alright, Annie Belle. I get it." Mason says with a sad smile. He gets up from the bed and goes over to a table across the room and grabs a bottle of water and pills. He comes back to my bed and gives me the bottle of water and the two small pills.
"Here take this; the doctor said you had to take this to make the pain go away. He said it would take about half an hour to make the pain go away." Mason says.
I nod my head and take the pills with a slip of water. I hand Mason the bottle of water to him once I'm done and he puts it on the table next to me.
I look around to found that Mags wasn't in here with me. I feel suddenly sadness come over to me at the thought of that. I wanted Mags in here with me too. I wanted to feel her warm arms around me. And here loving voice in my ears telling me that everything was going to be okay.
Mason saw that I was looking around the room for Mags and said "Mags had to leave to talk to Snow about what happen last night and Finnick has to leave because he had arrangements to do but they both said they would be back to check on you later. I thought they would be back before you woke up but I guess it too late now."
"T...They don't have to check on me. They most have better things to do then check on me." I say while my voice cracks.
"Annie Belle everyone's worry sick about you. We all want to be near you to make sure your okay. All night long we have been taking turns watching you sleep…..all except Finnick. He stayed the whole night with you. I mean he even slept in the same bed as you. He didn't even what to go when Sophia came in to get him for some arrangements; Sophia had to go get a Peacekeeper to get him out of here." Mason says.
I stare at him in shock, Finnick slept in the same bed all night long. Sophia even had to get a Peacekeeper to get him out of here. What Mason is saying is crazy. Finnick would never do those things.
There's a knock on the door and Lighting comes walking in with a worry look on his face. Once he sees me, I see a look of pain in his eyes but it gone in a second.
"Mason, it time for you to go to your room. I need to be with Annie for now." Lighting says.
Mason opens his mouth to protest but Lighting says "She's in good hand with me. Trust me; I won't let anyone hurt her." As he says this, I truly believe him. The look on his face says his not playing around.
Mason nods his hand, and then kisses my forehead. He gets up from the bed and then leaves. Once the doors close behind him Lighting comes over to the bed and holds out his hand for me. I take it and he gently pulls me up from the bed. I was about to fall but he catches me and carries me to where a long mirror is hanging on the wall. I close my eyes not wanting to see, what a mess I was.
"Annie Belle, open your eyes." Lighting says to me as he puts me on the ground.
I shake my head. I don't want to look at myself I know that I must look like a rag doll.
"Annie Belle, open your eyes. And look at yourself, not for me but for yourself." Lighting says.
I open my eyes and tears come down my face like a river. The girl in front of me looks nothing like me. She looks like a zombie. She has bruises and cuts going up and down her arms and legs. She even has blood in her hair. As I look closely to her face I notice that it really was me.
Lighting wipes my tears away and grabs my head gently makes me look at him in the eyes.
"You see that girl in front of you. That's not you. She may look like you but she's not you. The girl in front of you is weak and fragile. And you are far from weak and fragile. You are strong and a fighter just like Pia was. I want you to remember that for when you see Clay tonight. I want you to hold your head up high and I want you to smile at that bastard like if last night never even happen." Lighting says.
"How can I hold my head up high and smile at him, if I look like this?" I say with tears still coming down my face.
"You let your prep team and I worry about that, all you have to do is my head up high, smile at him, and show that bastard and the Captol who their dealing with." He wipes the rest of my tears away just as my prep team walks into the room.
Lighting smiles at me and then says "I'm going to get Annie Belle dress and by the time I come back she better look like a super star."
Once he leaves my prep teams pull me into a hug. And start crying right in front of me but soon they wipe the tears away from their eyes and get down to work.
(Hours Later)
I stand in front of the long mirror in a beautiful long green dress that had small gold and silver designs in the top and middle of the dress. My hair is loose and has curls at the bottom and I have silver high heels on.
I smile a little as I spin in the dress. I look nothing like the girl this morning. I had no bruises or cuts on my arms or legs. I have zero blood in my hair anymore. My prep team did an amazing job; they worked on me for hours without even taking a break. I thought they were going to have to take my skin off and replace it with new one but instead all they did was rub a lot of special ointment on me that only toke five hours to make bruises and cuts go away.
For my hair they said I was missing some pieces of my hair so they had to put some hair extensions on me. They said that in a couple of days all my hair would be back with some other special ointment they put in my hair. They said that when it's all back my hair that the extensions would fall out by them self but I'm not worry about my hair growing back because I'm sure I'll be died by this time tomorrow.
The bruises may be gone but the soreness is still there. But it's not that bad as it was this morning. The some of the pain went away after a while of taking the pills that the doctor gives me.
As I stand in front of the long mirror, I try to put Pia's necklace around my neck. I had to take it off so that my prep team could put the special ointment on me. I was so busy try with the necklace that I didn't even hear the door open behind me.
I feel two small hands help me put the necklace on me. I spin around and come face to face with the Axon that has information on Pia.
"Thank you but you didn't have to do that."I say to her.
She smiles at me and mouths to me "You're welcome."
I stare at her in wonder. Why was she here? She has been avoiding me since that night in my bedroom. She even ran away from me when she saw me in the hallway or finds a way not to talk to me.
"You know you never told me your name." I tell her.
"My name is Avery Rose but you can call me Avery." Avery says.
"You have a beautiful name." I say while smile at her.
Avery's smile grows while she mouths "Thank you it was my Mother's name."
She looks at me from bottom and up then mouths "You look just like her."
Once she says this I know who she was talking about. Did I really look just like Pia? Everyone says it but I don't see it. Pia had darker green eyes then I and she had small dimples. Her hair was even a bit shorter than mine.
"I'm never going to know what happen to my sister before I die, am I." I say as my eyes fill with tears. Avery's eyes fill with pity as she looks at me in the eyes.
"I'm sorry I…." I cut her off by saying "Pia won't want me to know. Yeah you told me that already but what right do you have to tell me that? YOU BARELY KNEW HER."
"Annie Belle, I knew your sister more than you think." Avery mouths to me.
"Oh really, would you like to tell me how?" I say with such anger that it shocks me.
"The reason I know your sister so well was because…." Avery look like it hurt her to say it.
"Because…" I say.
"We used to work together back in District Four Annie Belle." Avery mouths.
I stand there in shock. How on earth would Pia and Avery worked together? Pia had never been to the Captol before she got reaped and she sure as hell never worked at any place in District Four, she always had to be home to watch Jason and I.
"How on earth would you two…." I was cut off by her putting her finger to my lips.
"Shhhh, the Peacekeeper might hear you and if they do it's the end for the both of us. You need to sit down and listen very closely. It's a very long and painful story that you already know don't end with a happy ending." Avery mouths to me as she makes me sit on the couch in my bedroom. She goes and locks the door before coming to sit next to me.
"Annie Belle, you must remember that what I say in here must never leave this place. It could be dangers not just to you and me but to everyone you love. Do you understand?" She mouths to me.
I nod my head.
"Good, now let me start from the very beginning. Do you remember learning about the Rebellion at school?"Avery mouths.
I nod my head. The Rebellion was about 70 years ago and was what some people like to call "The Dark Days" because of some many deaths and disasters that happen. It was when districts thirteen rebelled against the Capitol and convinced most of the other districts to join them. After many battles Districts Thirteen was obliterated by the Capitol, as an example to the other Districts of what the Capitol can do. After the Capitol gain control over all the other Districts again, the Capitol created the Hunger Games as a punishment for the Rebellion.
"Well in District four and many other places in Panem there are still people who disagree with the way Snow is ruling Panem and are taking action about it. Your sister and I were one of those people." Avery mouths.
"What….that's…not true, my sister wasn't…" I couldn't even finish the sentence because I'm in shock. I knew Pia hated Snow and hated the way he was ruling Panem but I never thought she would go as far as joining the rebels.
"Yes Annie Belle, Pia and I were rebels." Avery mouths.
"H...h...how is that even possible since the Capitol made sure that nobody would ever rebel against the Capitol again. They even obliterated District thirteen to make sure of that." I whisper.
Avery shakes her head and mouths "The Capitol never really obliterated District Thirteen. They made a deal with them, so that they can live underground but only if they had no contact anywhere else and just played along."
"Why would the Capitol do that?" I whisper.
"The Capitol did it because they needed the Rebellion to end. Each day, more Districts would turn their backs on the Capitol and because of that they were getting no supplies which mean they weren't getting fresh fish from District four, coal from District twelve, or wood from District seven. Without the Districts the Capitol would fall."
I look at her in shock. There was still a District Thirteen. How was this even possible? And how on earth did Pia get mixed up with this mess.
"How on earth did Pia get into this mess?" I ask.
"You really have no idea do you." Avery mouths.
I shake my head.
"Pia wasn't the only rebel in your family. Your Mother was a rebel too Annie Belle." Avery mouths.
No this can be happing. Pia wasn't just the only rebel in my family but also my Mother too. It can't be true my Mother believe in peace. She hated wars and violence.
"T…that can't… be true…" I whisper.
"It true Annie Belle, your Mother and the Odair were the leaders of the rebels in District Four." Avery mouths.
"Wait did you just say the Odair as in Finnick's Mom and Dad." I say in even more shock.
She nods her head.
"Next are you going to say Mags, Finnick, and my Father too?" I say sarcastically.
The look she gives me says it all.
"Oh My God!" I say a little too loud.
Avery puts a finger on my lip and mouths "Shhhh".
"Sorry" I whisper.
"Anyways, Pia joined because your Mother needed someone she could have trusted." Avery mouths.
"Trusted with what?" I ask.
"With getting information from Snow's office." Avery mouths.
"How would Pia be able to get into Snow's office if…" I say but stop because the answer already hit me.
"Pia being reaped wasn't an accident. Was it?" I say.
"No it wasn't, your Mother had the reaping ball slips replace with only Pia's names." Avery mouths.
How could my Mother do that? Pia was her daughter and she put her in danger by replacing all the names with Pia's. No matter how badly she needed someone she trusted to get the information from Snow's office.
"Don't think bad about your Mother, she didn't make Pia do it. Pia did it because she knew your Mother couldn't trust anyone but her with this task. Pia knew what she was risking and she did it anyway because she wanted you and your brother to have a better future."Avery mouths.
"Yeah, and look where that got her." I say coldly.
"Don't think badly about her….." I cut her off by saying "It doesn't matter what I think about her right now. Just tell me what kind of information she needed from Snow's office?"
"I don't know, only Pia and your Mother knew what she was looking for. And she never did find it, the Peacekeepers found her in Snow's office while she was looking for it. Once the caught her, they figured out that she was a rebel but they couldn't kill her there or make her an Avox because it was the day before all the tributes where going of the arena. So they sent her off to the arena, and made sure she never came out of there alive."
"That why people don't talk about her…." I was cut off by someone knocking on the door.
Avery and I both jump off the couch, scared to death. We both hold in are breath till we hear Mason call out my name.
"Annie, what's taking you so long? Mags and Finnick even went off to their seats because the interviews are soon going to start." Mason yelled.
"I'll be out right now, just calming myself down before we go." I yell out as I turn to look at Avery.
"Go to my bathroom, and hide their till I'm gone so that they don't think you where in here with me." I whisper to her.
She nods her head and starts walking to the bathroom but I stop her by grabbing her arm gently and saying "Thank you."
She smiles at me then she starts walking to the bathroom again. Once she closes the bathroom door, I run as fast as I can in my heels to the door.
Once I open Mason say "What toke you so long?"
"I'm a girl, what do you except?" I say then I walk out of the room.
Mason and I walk to where Sophia is waiting for us. When she sees me her face turns red.
"If I had time to yell at you right now I would." Sophia says as she pushes Mason and me into the elevator.
As we're in the elevator, I can't help but feel frightened. This is the first time I going to see Clay since he attacked me last night. Only a monster would do the things he did to me. And if Finnick would have come when he did, I might be died right now.
I know I'm going to die when I go to the arena no matter but before I die I want to say my goodbyes to Mags, Mason, Avery, and Finnick. And if Clay killed my last night I'll never gotten the chance to say it to them.
As the doors of the elevator start to open I feel a kiss on my cheek and hear Mason say in my ear "Don't worry, I won't let him hurt you again. He's first going to have to kill me." As I look at Mason, I feel my fears go away because I know he never let Clay hurt me again.
As I walk out the elevator, my eyes land right away on Clay. He's back was turn on me and he was talking to the other career tributes. My fear comes back again, and I feel like if the air as been sucked out of me. As if he can feel me staring at him, he turns around and look right into my eyes. We both stay like this for a while. I don't know what to do. Should I confront him or should I ignore him?
As I stare at him I notice his cuts and buries are all gone but one. I guess his prep team left it to make it look like he got in a fight with a tribute. He looks tried and most of all he looks sore.
I feel Mason grab my hand and as he does, I feel such a strength enter my body. And I look at Clay right into the eyes with my head up high and do what Lighting told me to do. I smile at him and wave at him just as a nine Peacekeepers come into the room.
I turn to where the Peacekeepers are talking to us and I look at him from the corner of my eyes to find a shock look on his face. He's mouth was even a little bit open. I can't help but smirk a little.
The bastard thought I won't come back but I came back swinging.
(10 Minutes Later)
I sit in a chair next to Mason with a fake smile on my face, as we listen to Caesar interviewing Emma (Clay's district partner). She was trying to act all flirty and sexy but to be honest all it did was make her look like a whore. Her stylists must have told her to act this way. I'm so glad that Lighting told me just to be a sweetheart on stage. He said that people will like me without even trying that hard.
After three minutes, a buzzer goes off, and Caesar tells Emma that he wishes her luck in the games. The crowd goes wild as she gets up and blows them kiss.
Caesar calls Clay next for his interview, as he walk over there he winks at some of the girls in the crowd. The girls in the crowd go crazy they start jumping up and down while yelling out he's name. It takes me all of my strength not to throw up. As Clay tries to act like a man-whore on stage, I have to look away. Just looking at him brings back bad memories that I don't want to remember.
I look out to the crowd and look for Mags. Once I find her my fake smile goes away and a real one appears on my face. She sees me looking at her and blows me a kiss. We always do this, one of us blows the other a kiss and the other catches the kiss but being on stage with all of Panem watching makes it imposable for me to act like I catch the kiss.
As I look away from Mags and catch the eyes of Finnick. I hadn't seen him since we kissed last night. I was trying to avoid him as much as I could today and with my prep team working on me all day, I didn't need to try to avoid him. It not like I'm going to avoid him forever, because before I go to the arena I want to say bye but want do I say to him when it comes time to talk to him. Should I say thanks for saving me last night and by the way can we forget that we ever kiss?
I hear the buzzer go off but I don't take my eyes off of Finnick, and he doesn't take his off mine. Neither of us wants to look away but I know that if I keep look at him, I'm just going to want to kiss him again and no matter how badly I want to kiss him. I can't.
I look away from him and back at Caesar who was now interviewing the girl from district three. The girl was acting like a fake Barbie girl. She was twirling her hair and laughing at Caesar jokes. Once the buzzer goes off, her district partner goes over to Caesar. They talk for a while but then he does something stupid, he says a joke about the Capitol. And then the crowd goes silence, it wasn't till Caesar laughs a fake laugh that he gets a few laughs.
After the buzzer goes off it my turn, I didn't feel nervous like some people are. Standing in front of crowds and singing on stage really did help me for moments like this.
I walk over to Caesar, slowly but not too slow. When I'm in front of him he smiles at me and pulls me into a hug and gives me a kiss on the cheek. I smile back at him as we sit down in the couch.
"Wow Annie Belle, you look stunning. Doesn't she everyone?" Caesar asks the crowd, and when he does they all go crazy.
"So Annie Belle, what do you think about your dress?" Caesar asks me.
"I think it amazing. Lighting did such a great job on my dress. I couldn't have asked for a better stylist and a more amazing person to be around while being in this beautiful place." I say sweetly.
The crowd cheers when I say this.
"That so great to hear; now let's talk about your score in your private training session, you got a ten! Wow how does that make you feel?" Caesar asks.
"I don't like to brag but it feels amazing, however I have to say all of us tributes tried are hardest and we all did great."I say.
"Well Annie Belle, we all want to know how does it feel to be the first girl tribute to be mentored by Finnick and what makes you so special to make him chose you as his tribute?" When Caesar says this, the crowd goes so wild that I think they might break the stage.
"It's an honor to be the first girl tribute to be mentored by Finnick, and to be honest theirs nothing special about me it just that Finnick and I grow up together." I say.
"Since you and Finnick grow up together, is there any dirty on him you can share with us?" Caesar says and of course the crowd goes wild again.
"I have a ton of dirty on him." I look over at Finnick for a second to find him with an amused look on his face. "But I don't want to make him look like a fool on nation TV."
"Go ahead sweetheart, you got nothing on me." I hear Finnick yell.
I turn to look at him and say "Well if you think so then why the hell not. I mean that summer when you broke an arm while trying to jump off a tree to be like superman will defiantly not make you look like a fool on nation TV."
Once I say this whole crowd a start laughing, even Caesar joins them. As I look at Finnick I can see a little smile on his face as he shakes his head a little. I smile as I turn back to Caesar.
As the crowd laughter dies down, I hear someone say "Why do you look so familiar Annie?"
Caesar says a hard smile as he turns to me and says "Yes why do you look so familiar Annie Belle?"
I can see the fear in his eyes as he asks me this but he doesn't have to be afraid because I know the truth now and I know that to get out of this mess is to lie.
I look to a where Snow is sitting on his balcony and look right in his eyes as I say "Well you know all us district four people. We all look like twins."
I can see a bit of anger in his eyes as if he knows I know. And I can't help but smile a bit.
The crowd boos as the buzzer goes off. They start yelling out my name and asking for more time with me.
"Well that's all the time we have. I wish you luck in the hunger games." Caesar says a bit more relax.
"Thank you." I say as stand up and he kiss me on the cheek.
As I walk back to my chair, I walk by Mason who is going to Caesar. I whisper to him "Good luck."
As Caesar interviews Mason, I can tell the crowd likes him just as much as they liked me. Mason smiles at the girls and answers the questions while joking around.
After Mason interview is over, everything feels like a blur. One second I'm sitting in a chair and the next I'm on my floor with my prep team, Lighting, Sophia, and Mason smiling at how well we did. Lighting even tells me how pride he is of me for being strong while being near Clay.
As I hear the doors of the elevator open, I feel my heart stop. I can tell right away that its Finnick and Mags. I don't know what to do. I want to run away so that I don't have to talk to Finnick. On stage it felt so easy talking to him because I knew he won't bring up the kiss but now, that a different story.
I turn around just as Mags pulls me into a hug. She kiss my cheek and says to me "You were amazing Annie. You killed it out there." I smile at her as I say "Thanks".
I can see Finnick behind her and he was looking at me. As Mags walks away to go tell Mason how amazing he did, Finnick comes up to me.
"You did great and you look beautiful." Finnick says.
"Thank you." I say as I look down at the floor.
"Annie, we need….." Finnick whispers to me but get cut off by Sophia yelling out that dinner start in an hour.
Before Finnick can talk to me again I yell out "I'm going to take a shower, I'll see you all at dinner."
After I say this Finnick glares at me as I walk pass him and down the hall. Once I reach my room, I can help but feel relief that I got away from Finnick. I didn't want to face him yet because what will I say to him? And most importantly, what will he say to me?
I take off my dress and heels, as I walk into the bathroom. Once in the bathroom, I jump into the shower. After a while of being in the shower I hear a knock on my bedroom door.
I get out of the shower and put a robe on as I walk out to my bedroom.
"Wait a second." I yell as I go to my closet and pull out a red shirt and shorts, I put them on as fast as I can. As I put my hair into a mess bun as I open the door of my bedroom.
As I look into the green eyes of Finnick, I can't help but hate myself for not asking who was at the door before opening it.
"Can I come in?" Finnick asks me.
Before I can say no, he pushes pass me and into my bedroom.
I close the door as slowly as I can just not to face Finnick but after its close I relies that I have to face he now or never.
I turn around and find Finnick on my bed watching my every move.
"So Finnick are you here to yell at me because of what I said in the interviews…" I say but get cut off by Finnick says "Annie you know why I'm here and you know that's not it."
"I really don't know why you're here." I say while trying to act like I really didn't know.
"Really you're going to act like you haven't been avoiding me." Finnick says.
"I haven't been avoiding you. I just have been busy, if you haven't notice." I say.
"Don't lie, Annie. You have been avoiding me. Sure you been busy but you weren't busy when you came in from the interviews. Are you avoiding me because we kiss Annie?" Finnick says.
"Finnick…us kissing was a mistake. We were both caught in the moment, and didn't know what we're doing…." I was cut off again by Finnick saying "You think us kissing was a mistake. You're joking right?"
"I just think…" I don't even have a chance because in less than a second I'm backed into the door of my bedroom and Finnick blocking my way.
"Annie, you know what a mistake, not kissing you years ago. You know when we were little I had the biggest crush on you and I always wanted to kiss you. Hell, I still have dreams of me kissing you. So don't you ever think what we did was a mistake." Finnick says while running his finger into his hair in frustration.
Did Finnick just tell me he had a crush on me? And did he just tell me he dreams of kissing me? Is it me or is the world going crazy?
"Finnick, you just said it yourself, you had a crush when you were little and that was it. You thought you still had feeling for me but you don't, all you felt last night was pity for me." I say.
"You're wrong. Yeah I felt bad for you about what Clay did to you but when I kissed you I forgot everything that happen just a couple of minutes before. When I kissed you, it was like you and I were the only people on this earth. I never felt something like that in my life before." Finnick says.
"Finnick…" I was cut off again by Finnick saying "And sure I had the biggest crush on you when I was little but what I feel for you now is so much more than a crush. I started falling for you years ago when you came to my house after I just gotten back from the game. Do you remember what you said to me, because I do? I remember me telling you that I was a murderer and you telling me that I wasn't that I was just a victim. Did you know you we're the first person to give me a spark of hope?"
I was about to open my mouth but then Finnick kept on ramping on "Did you know that I started falling for you even more, when I saw you running out of Mags house and pick up a bird that had fallen out of a tree and broke its wing. You most have not seen me watching you from my porch but I sure saw you. I saw how you brought the bird into the house and toke care of the bird till it was all better and it could finally fly off. I remember how the day you let it go, you had tears in your eyes because you we're going to miss that bird. What I feel for you now isn't a crush; I don't know what it is to be honest. I can't say its love because I never been in love before and I don't know how that feels but the way I feel about you is something I can't let go of. And it kills me that the day before you go off to the arena is the day I tell you the way I feel but if I didn't tell you now, I may never get a chance again."
I stand there in shock, thy Finnick Odair just told me what he felt for me was more than a crush and that he had been falling for me for years. I can't believe it; he can have any girl he wants. And the girl he wants is me. Is this a joke or am I dreaming?
"Finnick…even if you do feel that way about me…we could never be together, I'm off to the arena in the morning and I'm not coming back." I say while looking into his green eyes.
Finnick closes the space between us and leans into my ear and whispers "Then let's make this night last."
Before I even know it, Finnick lips are on my lips.
AN:
So we you guys finally found out what really happen to Pia. I know some of you thought she was alive and an Avox but sorry guys she's not. Pia's really is died!
So were you guys shock to find out that she was a rebel and the Annie's Mom, Dad and the Odair we're also rebels? I know my friend May was shock when she read it.
This chapter has to be my favorite so far in this story, not just because everyone found out what happen to Pia but also because how strong Annie was in this chapter. When she saw Clay after he attacked her she didn't run away and act scared. She held her head up high and smile at him like if what he did to her was nothing.
When I was writing that song I was listing to all those songs about women standing strong and they really did help me while writing this chapter.
Spoilers:
In the next chapter you guys will see Annie's and Mason's first day in the arena and a very emotional goodbye scene with Finnick and Annie.
You guys can find Annie's dress on my profile :J