Finnick's parents had stopped watching the games a while ago. I convinced my parents to let me stay with the Odairs until the games were over because Marina was in no shape to do anything. My mother disagreed, but my father was ok with it. He was glad I was helping his friends.
Marina would check on Finnick every once in a while, asking me about it. I promised I would tell her if anything important happened. Not including him killing anybody, She didn't need to see, or know that.
I had started going to school again, but there were TV's in almost every room, and the games were always on. I had to look stronger when I was in public though… it was hard. I watched him as he got almost eaten by mutant fish. I watched Serena die, and Finnick in pain. I saw him kill the two, defenseless boys with his brand, new trident.
When the last eight remained, a camera crew got to our district. They conducted interviews with a bunch of people who were close to Finnick. They interviewed his parents, though Marina didn't do much talking, and then they came looking for me. I didn't really feel like talking to the Capitol about the Finnick they thought they knew and liked, because that was not my Finnick. My Finnick was only murdering children because the Capitol was forcing him to.
I did the interview anyway, because if they didn't question me, they'd ask another person, and nobody knew him as well as I did. The interview lasted a whole hour, and it was the worst hour of my life. The lady asked me a lot of questions.
"Do you know Finnick very well? Are you best friends? Are you his girlfriend? Do you think Finnick is attractive? Do you think he has a chance of winning? What would you tell Finnick right now if he could see you?" she asked, in her strange Capitol accent.
"Yes, yes, no, yes, yes, and if he could see me, he would be out of the arena, and I would tell it to him in person." I answered. The woman was not amused by my short answers. After a while, I gave in, and answered the questions with more details, but I was still very resentful. Fortunately, the Capitol woman didn't seem to have a clue of what sarcasm and irony were, so I didn't get in trouble.
They left after that, and I was left to keep watching the games. I watched him in the cave, as it almost crushed him, and I watched him rolling down the slope. I saw the boy and girl from six die, and I nearly cried when Finnick asked him to close his eyes. Though a lot of people might not have noticed how much it really pained Finnick to kill those kids, I could see it. I knew he was trying to be tough… he needed to be, but I hated it.
"Just get back home, Finn… everything will be alright… you need to get back," I whispered, as he turned away from the camera and cleaned his bloody trident.
There was only seven people left; the three careers, Finn, and three boys from the outlying districts. They had only survived because they had been hiding in an underground bunker in the grassy filed, and nobody had found them. One of them was very weak and starving, and I knew he wouldn't last very much.