ok I'm really sorry about not being on in forever. ok i don't own anything and a special shout out to obsessedchick44 since their comment about the hypocrisy of Snows punishments is what i centered the essays around.

Clove's pov

I've spent nearly every waking minute preparing for this fight. Well, every moment I could spare that is, but with classes, detention, the extra classes to be able to graduate with Cato and the mopping snow was forcing us to do, the extra training time was often from midnight till the early hours of the morning. I also traded my knives for weights during the scheduled training in school. I must admit I miss my knives, a lot. Detention was fine I just use the time to study, now mopping, that was tiring but hey I'll take the workout and arm muscles it gave me. The best part was Cato got mopping and Glimmer got garbage, so every night I got to spend time goofing around with Cato and laughing as we hear Glimmer squeal about the smell of the garbage and how she absolutely will not touch that until Johanna smacks her upside the head and tells her to quite being a baby. On one occasion Johanna came to clean up hung over and irritable and when Glimmer started whining Johanna grabbed her by the throat and told her and I quote "I have a god damn headache and if I hear so much as one word from you about the garbage I'll take it and shove it down your throat so I never have to hear your squeaky voice again understood?" Ya we had to send Gale to go get her for that one. But it was great, Glimmer hasn't said a word at clean up this week. She has also worked 3 times harder than last week, but that's mainly because we can't go home until it's done and Gale and Johanna simply sit in the corner talking amongst themselves. But now I have to sit here unable to procrastinate any longer on this stupid essay, as of right now I have only one sentence. So far I have come up with,

Parents and teachers will have you believe that violence is not the answer and normally it's not but when met with violence first you must return with violence or you'll get hurt.

Personally I believe that my beginning beats Johanna's, who has informed me that her intro is,

This essay is bullshit and I'm not writing this because it would all be lies. This school teaches me how to fight and every problem I've ever faced could be fixed with violence. Therefore this essay is pointless because violence is the answer and I have better things to do than write this essay, so screw it and screw your hypocritical morals.

She then informed me that she will be copy and pasting that paragraph until she's up to 12 pages. I just laughed because either she'll fix it or Snow will make her redo it when she hands it in. But really what does Snow expect? We go to aa school where we learn to fight, each one of us have been beaten up, all of us have beat someone up, Snow hosts the Hunger Games contest for goodness sakes. So I don't get the point but whatever, he probably wants to frame them and get a great principle award or something, pretend he's steering us in the right direction or something. I sigh and return my attention back to the computer.

Pain is a strange thing that can only be understood by the person on the receiving end. It is simpler to dish out pain than it is to receive it. Therefore pain must be felt on both ends for conflicts involving pain to be resolved. This is not always the case. Well although it is the simplest way to resolve conflicts involving pain it is not the absolute final option. There is always the option relieve someone else of the pain. When you intentionally or unintentionally harm someone emotionally or physically you owe it to them to relieve them of the pain you have caused them. It could take an apology or an act that makes you even to relieve them of this pain you have caused them is the only way to settle the waters and it makes sure that it does not come to violence. Violence tends to make both sides angrier and just adds up to what else you have against the person. Violence is not the answer because when you hit someone they hit back and it's a never ending cycle. Violence plus violence just equals more blood instead of a solution, it…..

And then I stop. Realising what I have written I reread it. I had just explained why no matter how many times I fight Glimmer neither of us ever wins. It never truly makes me feel better. Sure as my fist connects with her face I feel a bit better because it wipes that smug smirk off her face and she sure as hell deserves it but that relief never lasts. Every time I see her I'm angry and slightly afraid. We can never stop fighting and it sucks. It takes up so much energy to always be angry. So I decide then and there that I am going to forgive her. Everything that has happened in my past I'm going to let it go. Sure if she hit me first I'll still fight back and I'm going to beat her so bad in the fight that's coming up because no forgiveness is worth losing my spot in the games. I sigh and for the first time in forever I feel like a giant weight has been lifted from my shoulders. And with that thought I settle down and write all 12 pages of my essay.

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