I wake up with sweat dripping from my body. My sheet cover is all over the bed. I am sitting up in bed breathing deeply trying to catch my breath. The nightmares are getting worse. Instead of them just waking me up screaming, I am not screaming in my sleep. I can only hope no one heard me. I hear my door handle turn. I look over to see my door open slightly. The room is so dark I can't see their face, but the light in the hallway gives me a glimpse of their blond hair. It's not Finnick's hair, so I can only think of one other person who has that coloured hair.
"Katniss?" He whispers to me.
"I'm sorry," I let out a breath, "did I wake you?" I ask him.
"No, I was already awake." He says as he closes the door behind him. I see's his outlining make his way over to my bed. I lean over to my bed-side table and turn on the lap that stood on it. The light makes my eyes sting for a couple of seconds as they get used to the light. Peeta comes and sits on my bed. He is wearing a silver-white coloured top with a pair of blue pj trousers. "What happened?" He asked in a quiet voice with a hint of concern in it.
"It was just a nightmare, it was nothing." I say quickly.
"It didn't sound like nothing." He say looking right at me. I look away embarrassed. "its okay, I get them too." I look up to see he's looking down with a sad look on his face. I wanna ask what he dreams about, but worried it might make him worse so I don't. "Are you okay now?" I nod. He gives me a smile and stands up from the bed. "Okay, goodnight." He is about to open the door but I stop him.
"Peeta wait." I call to him. He turns and faces me. "How do you do it? Get through your nightmares, I mean." I ask him slightly embarrassed to do so. He gives me a sad smile.
"That's the problem, I don't. I guess I just lean how to deal with them and soon realise its not real." I nod to him and lay back down, before turning of my lamp. He then walks out of the door and closes it softly behind him.
If only my nightmares never really did happen.
I open my eyes to find daylight coming through the windows. I look over to the table next to my bed and look at the clock. It reads 8:29. I yawn and stretch my arms above my head. I close my eyes and suddenly remember the events of last night. I am suddenly overcome with anxiety. What if Peeta doesn't want to see me any more? What if I ruined my friendship with him last night because of my stupid nightmares? No I cant let my thoughts get to me like this!
I swing my legs over the side of the bed and make my way over to the drawers. I pull out some jeans and a plain black t-shirt. I get undressed of my night clothes and dressed into my fresh ones. I grab my hair-brush out of my bag and give my hair a quick brush. Once all the knots are out I walk over to the chair in the corner that had my clothes from yesterday on and grab my hoodie. I put my arms through the sleeves and do the zip up as I walk out of the door.
As I make my way into the canteen I don't see Johanna, Finnick, Annie or Peeta anywhere. I walk over to the queue and pick up a tray, while still looking out form them. My turn comes quick. I look to see what food they have for breakfast. I see that I can either have some cereal or a hot meal. I pick the hot meal. I walk over to the lady and see what I can have. I can either have a bacon-sandwich or cheese on toast. I go to say that I want a cheese on toast but a voice stops me.
"She will have a bacon-sandwich with no sauce." I look over to see Johanna standing behind me, picking what I eat again. She winks at me. The lady picks up the sandwich and places it on my tray. "You get used to what to eat and what to not eat soon enough." She say as she walks down the next choice of food. Peas or beans? Beans did me good yesterday so I pick them up and put them on my tray. "Your learning." Johanna says with a smirk on her face. I give her a little smile.
"So, do you just know, or have tried all the food here?" I ask her as I pick up a glass of water. She copies my movement.
"Second answer." I she says as she leads me away from the queue line. We dodge in between tables an till we come across a table Finnick and Annie were sitting at. Finnick sees us walk over and waves to us. Annie is leaning on his side trying to make herself small. We sit down opposite them. I really want to see if Annie is okay but I am too afraid to ask.
"What's wrong with here?" Johanna asks putting her spoon full of cereal in her mouth. I guess I didn't need to ask then.
"She had a nightmare last night. Its really shaken her up." Finnick says rubbing her arm. I feel bad for her as I know what its like to experience nightmares as bad as hers.
"Where's Peeta?"Johanna asks looking around. Finnick shrugs.
"No clue. Properly slept in." Finnick guessed.
"Who properly slept in?" We all turn to see Peeta standing at the end on the table. He is not holding a tray.
"Speak of the devil." Johanna say, "We all thought you might have slept in."
"I nearly did." Peeta says sitting next to Finnick. I suddenly feel bad, thinking I'm the reason he nearly overslept.
"How did you sleep on your first night here Brainless?" Johanna asked me. Why does she keep on calling me 'Brainless again'? Oh right because that is what she called me where we met yesterday. I go to tell her what happened last night but I feel slightly embarrassed having to say what happened.
"All right I guess." I say quietly, taking a bite out of my sandwich. I quickly look over at Peeta who is staring at me.
"We need to start the dance soon guys." Finnick says grabbing my and everyone's attention. "You know the sooner we start the sooner its over. And we all know what will happen if we don't go by the rules." At that moment I saw a gaze of panic in each of their eyes. What is it about Headmaster Snow that panics them?
"Your right. Should we head to the dance studio after breakfast?" Peeta says to us. Everyone nods except me as I don't really mind. Finnick then asks Annie if she was feeling up to going to the dance studio. I see her give a slow nod. I carry on eating my breakfast but only eat the rest of the sandwich and leave the beans. We then all head over to the dance studio. On the way their I keep on wondering what the lessons are like here. I walk up to Johanna who is in front of us.
"Hey Johanna?" She turns and looks at me. "What are the lessons like around here? Like are there any lessons really at all?"
"Well, this school is really different to normal schools. We wake up, get our breakfast and then we get a choice of either: staying in our rooms for 90 minutes, going to a lesson of either maths, English, science, cooking or art, or go and rehears for something in either the dance studio or theatre. The its therapy session time. The its back to our rooms for 90 minutes, rehearing for something, or we go to either: dance, PE, music, fashion or swimming. The dinner and bed. Happens everyday non-stop." By the end of her explaining she sounds a little pissed off. I'm guessing having to do the same routine everyday kind of sucks.
We soon enter the dance studio where we all go and sit down on the cold hard floor. Annie walks over to the wall where there was some paper suck to it. She brings the paper over to us. "Here are a list of songs we can chose to perform to." She says putting the she on the floor for all of us to see.
"They're not even being nice to us. They've put the songs into categories into which once we are allowed to use if we're in either groups, duets or solo." Johanna said sounding annoyed. I bet they all are. I look down at the list to see which once are on their. I only recognise a couple of songs.
"What songs should we do as a group then?" Finnick asked.
"Good question." Peeta said looking at the list. I then see his eyes stop and is looking at one of the songs. I look down at the list too see if I could guess what song he was looking at. I then see one song that catches my eye. The name of the song is-
"Could all students please report to the theatre as Headmaster Snow has an announcement. I repeat, can all students please report to the theatre. Headmaster Snow has an announcement." A voice said in the walls. We all look up as we listened to the speakers. What could Snow need to talk to us about?
"What could Snow want to talk to us about?" Peeta said reading my mind.
"Only one way to find out. Lets go." Finnick said as he stood up. We all followed his lead and walked out of the studio and to the theatre.