Chapter 5! Here it is, hope you like it.
I wake up the day of the reaping, and I'm about to burst into tears. I walk into the room to see my parents and Rhoda and Rhoda's parents sitting at the table, and I do burst into tears. They take me into their arms and I sob, and sob until I'm all worn out. Everyone knows about the Hunger Games now, and I haven't told any of my classmates, I was reaped. It's a total surprise to my classmates.
I go to put on my dress and I look at myself in the mirror, and I start sobbing again. I sit down on my bed and hold my head in my hands for, what seems like a long time, until my mother comes in and tells me it's time to go. I go to the center of town, where there is a big picture of the new president pasted on the stage behind Effie. Effie is smiling but I can see the pain in her eyes, as she has known me since I was little. Good afternoon, and Welcome to the 105 Annual Hunger Games, and may the odds ever be in your favor! Ladies first, she says as she draws my name out of the bucket and says "Primrose Mellark." My classmates gasp, and a lot of them are crying. I walk up slowly, and when I reach the stage, Effie mouths to me "I'm so sorry." "Now for the gentleman," Effie pulls Haustiff's name out of the bucket and says "Haustiff Hawthorne," and again my classmates gasp.
When we get backstage my parents and Rhoda are waiting for me. Rhoda starts sobbing and for a minute we just stand there hugging each other. She pulls away and looks at me and shakes her head. "Now, hun, you are the most brave girl, I've ever met, and you will win this thing, in a pair or alone. You will survive. I love you too much, to let you go." She leaves crying again. My parents come in, and sit down with me. "We love you so much, and you have to make it out for us and your little sister." Effie comes in and says "Times up!" and hugs me and my parents for a long time. When they leave I hear them saying, "Two winning? Their just playing the same trick they pulled on us."
A train pulls up and me and Haustiff step aboard. The train is fancy, but it's hard to like a train, transporting you to your death. "Prim, I just want you to know, that when I asked you to help me ask out Rhoda, I really wanted to ask out you." Haustiff says. "Well, it's a little late now, isn't it? You were a jerk to me, and now you're asking me to forgive you right before my death? I say angrily. "We could win together." He tries to put his hand on my shoulder but I pull away. "Your father watched my mother and dad in that arena. They're fooling us and you know it, you're just too stupid to admit it." I knew that was harsh, but I was having a tough day, and I really just wanted it to end, so I got up and went to my room and locked the door.
2 hours later, Effie calls us for dinner, and we silently eat. The food is good like my mother told me it was, but I can't focus. Effie repeatedly tries to start a conversation, and so does Haustiff and I repeatedly end it. Effie sighs, "Prim, you are just like your mother." I excuse myself and lock myself in my room, and bury myself under the covers. For a while, I just let myself sob again. They said I could do it, but who am I kidding? I'll never win, with or without Haustiff, and my poor baby sister will have lost two siblings.
Someone knocks at my door, and I'm not sure who so I just answer it. Great, it's Haustiff, just the person I wanted to see. "Listen, Haustiff, when I said that stuff back there, I didn't mean it, I just had a lot on my mind-," and he doesn't let me finish. "Prim, you were right; it was a pretty stupid thing to believe. "But-," And then he kissed me, I think as a kind way to shut up.