The next few may take longer… I finally got City of Lost Souls! Hey, a girl has to read too
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Anastasia
Daniel was avoiding me.
Don't get me wrong I'm happy he is finally talking to his dad. In fact I'm over-joyed! But the next day he tried not to talk to me either. Which made me long for him more.
I really wanted to go out and see District 4. So I dragged myself out of bed and saw my roommate; Sonya was actually awake.
"Oh my god! You're awake! What woke you? Did I miss an earthquake or something?"
"Ha-ha. Very funny." Sonya said sarcastically. "Actually I was plotting how to wake you up."
I stopped laughing and stood up "You know District 4 right?" When Sonya nodded I said "Since Daniel is avoiding me, you should show me around."
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Instead of my plan of just me and Sonya going. Nick and Finnick were coming.
I wonder if he knew that I liked Daniel, did they talk about it when they went fishing yesterday? Or did they fish in silence. Is that what fishers do? Sit there all day and what the ocean. To me, that didn't really sound that fun.
I anxiously tried to wait when Sonya and Finnick showed us around. They were bickering to where to show us first.
"… no we should show them sea caves around here. There only a few minutes away." Finnick argued.
"Uh…" Sonya began "Sorry to tell you this, but me and Daniel were exploring them one day, and they uh… we kind of somehow made them crumble."
"What?" Finnick said shocked. "Why did no one tell me! How did you guys manage to do that?"
"Probably because you didn't bring it up. It's not a question you'd normally ask sir." Sonya said.
I grinned, Sonya has been calling Finnick Sir or Mr. It cracked me up each time. She claimed innocently it's because he was old and all she wanted to do was respect the 'war veteran', but I knew perfectly well she was doing it to annoy him.
We ended up doing what Sonya 'suggested'- she took us into the city.
It was so different the District 12. This place was all beautiful blue skies, yellow sun, sandy beaches, and a nice cool ocean. The place smelled like sea salt, low tide and fish. To some people they would hate the smell of it. But I do, if I could one day live here. I would.
The town square was busy. In District 12, the town scare was where most people met off to socialize, but in District 4, the transformed it into a market. People banged into me as we walked through it. They yelled at us, asking if we had something to trade. I checked my pockets; all I had was a shell I found on the beach earlier on and pocket lint.
We kept on walking and someone bumped me hard. I staggered and almost fell, but someone grabbed my arm and kept me steady.
"I never knew people were so mean, that's not what I remember." Finnick said while helping me up.
"Thanks." I muttered.
We kept on walking and caught up with Sonya and Nick. She looked at us "You know what we should do? Just to piss Daniel off? We should go fishing without him, he'll hate that."
Finnick looked at me and Sonya, he didn't seem confused "Now where is our dear sweet Daniel today?"
"Avoiding Anastasia." Sonya said and I blushed.
"Ahh…" Finnick continued "He'll come back. It took me a little while to say the words to Annie."
What did he mean by that? The words? I love you? In fact. I think… I think I loved him. Usually I didn't throw around that word. The only people I ever said it to were family. But I think I loved. I loved everything about him- his stubbornness, his eyes, his sarcastic self, the way that he actually looked at me when we were talking. Right in the eyes.
Finnick and Sonya seemed to be bickering again, now it was for which place we should go fishing. Nick gave me an amused look and whispered "I think they're becoming such good friends."
We ended up going where Finnick said we should go; because it was closer. We sat down on the sea shore.
"I don't really trust you with the hooks, so I'll make them." Finnick said pulling strings and hooks. He quickly made one for me, Nick, Sonya and himself.
Finnick and Sonya skillfully started to fish. Nick tried to do the same, it took him a few times, but he managed to do a better job than me.
Giving up, I walked into the water.
"You're going to scare off the fish!" Sonya yelled through the wind that was starting to come through, whipping our hair around.
"Well… you could scare the fish by yelling so loud." Finnick said with a lazy smile.
I went back to the beach and said "Well, it's obvious I suck… so I'm going to go back okay?"
They waved be goodbye as I tried to find my way back.
Somehow I managed to find my way back to the town square, I pushed my way through the crowd. I was almost out but someone grabbed my shoulder.
Daniel.