Mindy sat alone in her room to wait for her ride, she jumped up when she heard a door open and shut. It was one of the guards giving her parents and her brother a chance to talk with her before letting her go to the capitol.
She was trained to fight in today's hunger games. When she volunteered, the first person who came up to Mindy was Rishi. He ran towards her to give a hug.
Rishi shouted, "Mindy, you don't have to do this!"
Mindy placed Rishi's hands that were on her shoulders off of her and they dropped down to his knees.
"Rishi, you're my little brother. It's my job as your older sister to make sure that you don't get hurt.",scolded Mindy.
Mindy looked up to her mom and dad.
"Rishi, Mindy has a point.",reasoned Mindy's mom, Sonu softly.
Rishi turned his head around to what his mother said, then, he looked Mindy so without saying anything else. He gave Mindy a pat on the shoulder,
"Good luck Mindy.", he turned away to walk out of the room.
"Uh..be safe.",said Sonu.
She left too with Rishi. Mindy was alone with her father, Tarun. Mindy walked up to her father she said
"Protect them as much as you can dad , I'm counting on you.",said Mindy.
Tarun began to nod in response towards his daughter. Before leaving Mindy waved goodbye, trying to smile, while on the inside, she wondered why would someone create something that would put many people's lives at risk? It was truly heartbreaking knowing that these are people killing other people. Will she become a murderer in the arena as well? Or a survivor?
A few minutes later Mindy,Effie and Danny were all in a carriage. Their train to the capitol was ready. Effie was going on and on about her makeup,hair and other things that bored Mindy to death. Mindy was looking out of the window, seeing all the people from her district looking at her in the train. They raised their hands up, showing symbolism of their three fingers as a way of saying goodbye. Then, she looked over at Danny who also was trying to distract himself by looking out into the window. Mindy could already tell that Danny wasn't interested into having a conversation. So without knowing trying something else could distract her from Effie's chattering, Mindy turned back to the window. They were leaving the exit gates from district 12 and on their way to the train that leads them to the capitol.
