I put on the blue dress that all bride maids have to wear and braid my hair, ignoring the flats my mother had kept for me, instead wearing my hunting boots. I walk around the house once more, taking everything in for the last time. The broken mirrior, the rickety table, the sink, everything. This will be my last day in this house, in the Seam. I pick up few of my most prized possesions and hold them close- my dad's plant book and his hunting jacket. How could she do this? I ask myself over and over again. I get it that Dad is gone and unlike me she can not see him and that I was the one who yelled at her for not coming out of her depressiong earlier but marrying the baker? That no one told her to do. Mrs. Mellark had died a few weeks ago and was popularly known as the district witch but still.
" Your mother is taking the right decision, you know." Dad said
I turned around to face him and buried my face in his shoulder. He wore a grey shirt and brown pants, for the first time since he died, I had seen him out of hhis mining clothes. My Dad died in a mining accident eleven years back but somehow I can still see him. He then explained to me that he is now a ghost and something his holding him from going to where ever the dead go, and that being a mediator I can see him but no one else can.
"Katniss, are you done?" myy little sister Prim asks
" Yes little duck" I say as I wave dad goodbye.
I refused to look at the baker or my mother the entire ceremony. I could see the ghosts of my grandprarents smilling and laughing. As soon as the marriage was sealed I ran away to the woods. I could not care less that I will miss the reception but I could not stand another second with Rye and Wheat my new brothers. The woods were my safe santuary but they were also filled with ghosts. Most of them had been meditated away by me and the rest never bothered me. I sighed as I saw the ghoost of the boy who had been killed by the Capitol ran past me. At least there were less ghosts here than in the district. I turned at the slight crunching of leaves exepecting another ghost but all I saw was a fat rabbit and my arrow soon made way through it's eye. I figured it would be dark soon and left.
I almost reached my house when I remembered that the bakery iis now my house. I traded the few animals I had in the hob and saved a squirrel for Mr Mell- I mean Dad and went to my new home.
On my way I saw a nine year old girl crying under a tree. Onlly the pale blue aura around her, showed that she was a ghost but other than that she was just a nobody. I wanted badly to walk past but she reminded me so strongly of Prim that I just had to walk up to her and sit down next to her.
"Hi" I said softly
At first she looked around to see if there was somone else I was talking to but then stammered " Y- You ca-can see me?"
"Yep and now let uus talk real fast. Hoe did you die sweetheart?" I know it seems cruel but I had to go in for the straight punch.
"Starvation" came the reply
"Oh"
"Why am I still here? Why can I not go and be with Tim and Mom and Dad?"
"Because you have some unfinished bussinness"
"Oh? Do you think it can be the borrowed pencil I never returned?"
That shocked me, a child still in this hell of a world because she did not return a pencil?
"Maybe"
"Please return it to Thom Underwood"
"OK" and then I went with her to her house, retrived the pencil and went to the Seam and gave it to Ria, Thom's sister saying it was his and I had taken it from the little girl he had given it to. The little girl who had been standing next to me all this while just puffed and disappeared and I felt happy for her.
I walked home and entered through the back door. I smiled at everyone and Mom showed me my room, Prim had her own and Rye and Wheat had their own rooms adjacent to each other and my Mom took the bakers room.
I entered my room and there on the window sill I saw a guy with sea green eyes and raven hair sitting on the window sill. He had a pale blue aura around him as if he had been born from the sea itself.
I scroweld at him and closed my room door to talk with him once and for all.