Hey everyone! :D Horrible week! Just terrible! (I hurt my ankle :( , leave reviews? :D That would make me feel better.) :D Thank you for reading, for the reviews and for everything else! :D This chapter is un-Beta-ed so, any mistakes are mine. Okay, I'll let you get to the new chapter!
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*~KelsNicole~*
(Cupcake-sorry! :( I've had the name picked out for a few months and I'm really set on it. I hope that you like the name that was chosen!)
(TeamGaleSoIGetPeeta, *love the name!* ;) OH. MY. GOD. You better not faint! :D Hehe, sorry if I make you faint or anything. I hope that you like the update)
-Small thing, I jumped forward a bit-you'll see how far I mean...
When I wake up I feel a little sick. Could it be something that I ate? Probably not. Slowly, I sit up and my stomach lurches. I hunch over and puke all over the floor. Just by looking at it, I can tell that it's last nights dinner...great. Shaking my head a little, I stand up and walk out of our room to the bathroom. I fall to my knees in front of the toilet and let myself puke. Everything comes up, at least that's what it feels like. My stomach is churning and it feels better when I puke. I hold onto my stomach and feel tears fall down my face. What's happening? Oh...morning sickness. Why haven't I had it this often? Where's Rory?
Rory...he must have left early for work and now I'm here, alone. My hand rubs my stomach and I feel the baby kick, its been kicking more lately. I've only got about one more month to go and then our baby will be here. As it comes closer and closer, I get more nervous. What will our baby be like? A girl or boy? But I don't have enough time to ponder on these questions, because there's an explosion from outside, that shakes the house. I stand up and keep my hands on my stomach as I walk out of the bathroom. When I get downstairs, I see that smoke and dust are filling the air, but not here...where the mines are. People still work in the mines, but they aren't forced to anymore. My mind goes back to when I was a little girl, back to the day that everything changed. We lost our father and mother, but I also lost my sister in a way. She was never the same. Katniss always tried to be strong and invincible, in some ways that has hurt her.
"Daddy..." the words flow out of my mouth and I can't stop them. When I was little, I cried about just about everything and I still do-sometimes, but not around Rory. Tears start to pour down my face as I think about that day. Katniss came and got me from my class room. I thought...I thought that he would come out at any moment. "Why did you have to leave us? We needed you..."
I walk outside and head out of Victors Village, behind the crowd. A hand grabs mine and when I look over I see Katniss. She looks like she's about to cry, probably about the same thing that I was. The kids run in front of us and Katniss pulls me along like she did when I was little.
The alarm blares and I stare straight ahead, with my hands folded on my desk. She promised that she'd come. I sit up as straight as I can and I try to stay in my seat. Where is she? Doesn't it seem like she should be here by now? All that I can hear is the blare of the alarm, but there's nothing that I can do. Right at that moment Katniss appears outside of my class room and I jump up out of my seat. Quickly, I run outside and she takes my hand. We run off after everyone else, towards the mines.
We run up to where they have it roped off and I see mommy. She's gripping onto the rope and she doesn't look at either of us. I stare at the mines and I think about when daddy will come out, he's going to come out. He has to. It's that simple, isn't it? He won't leave us, he can't. Daddy loves us.
Katniss ends up sitting on the ground and staring straight at the mines. People are being pulled out, but none of them are my daddy. Darkness starts to fall and I feel sleepy. I look down at her and say, "Katniss, daddy's going to come up." My sister stares up at me. I sit down beside her and I watch as a blanket is being wrapped around her shoulders. We stare at each other and I see that she's loosing hope, she can't loose hope.. I lay down on her and keep my hope close to my heart. Daddy will come back, everyone will see that I was right. "Will you wake me when he's here?"
I feel Katniss nod her head and I fall asleep. My dreams are full of nightmares, with little light in them. This is the first nightmare that I've had in a while, but all of them end with not dad. All of them end in everyone's death and it scares me. I cannot loose everyone.
My eyes go to the rope that is in front of the mines, keeping everyone back. This is far too familiar for me. What is happening? That is when I see someone standing in front of the mines, her long black hair flows in the wind, her brown eyes look black and her outfit is from the Capitol. She stands there, smiling as if nothing is wrong and I want to slap her for it. I know that whatever happened here, was her fault, I just know it.
"Hello! I am the new President of Panem!" Her voice is too cheery, her lips are in a wide smile and she looks far too happy. She walks around in front of us, as everyone processes this information. What happened to Paylor? Everyone starts to whisper, which does not please her. "I am Anemone Iris Snow..."
Everyone gasp and I feel Katniss's grip tighten on me. This makes the woman laugh, the way that everyone reacts to her. She smiles and waves, as though she is the most beloved person in all of Panem. I want her to be gone, like her father-she has to die.
"Now, we are just making a few changes and I believe that my father was wrong in many ways. The Hunger Games, a horrible, horrible thing." She smiles at everyone. "I am on your side and I am here to be the best President that I can be. Remember, everything is better-"
"You'll die, just like your father did!" screeches Katniss, and everyone stares at her. Her eyes are wild and I know what she sees. She sees her worst fear, her children being taken away from her. Something that should never happen and that we hoped never would. "You're just as sick as he is! Are you drinking the poison too?"
The woman just smiles at everyone and out walks Peacekeepers. We can see their faces and I gasp when I see three of the faces. Peeta, Gale and Rory...my Rory...
Hm...I think that this is really going to spice up the story. :D Haha! Sorry for that, but I'm just going with what's in my head right now. What did all of you think? Now, I saw it differently in my head, but I changed the last bit because it was supposed to be a little more...worse? Now, for the first person who can tell me why I used the name Anemone Iris, you'll get a sneak peek next week! (If you don't have an account leave it in a review and send me an e-mail.) :D Thank you for reading and please leave a review!
