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"Posy!" called out an all too familiar voice. Great, just what I needed.
"Hey! Slow Down!" he called out again. After knowing me his entire life, he should know I don't slow down for anyone, especially him. Too bad he can run faster than me. That's just the beginning of a LONG list of things that in can't stand about my little brother Tyler.
"What?" I shouted behind my back, not bothering to turn around and look at him. On a normal day, people would give us curious glances, even if this was a typical type of conversation for us. But, today at least, the square was totally abandoned. Population, two.
"I need to show you something," he said in a much lower voice than initially used, certainly much more serious.
"What?" I ask, not bothering to lower my voice any. I'm sure dad could hear us in the bakery.
"Shhhh!" I roll my eyes at this. "Dad can't know about this." he whispers again. I finally understand. I take his hands, and tap it twice with my index finger on my other hand. It was a secret code that we had made up long ago. That was the first time that Tyler can remember ever seeing dad cry. He was four, and I was six, practically seven. We were out, skipping through the meadow, I had always wanted to go into the woods. Why weren't we allowed, it seemed to be safe enough, mom went there almost every day. What could be so bad about it? Dad was pointing something in the distance out to Tyler that I didn't pay much attention to, so I snuck out and headed towards the woods. I had just made it to the tree line when I heard a slight buzzing noise, I looked up and there was a mass of grey hanging in a tree. It looked really ugly, but there was a shiny little bug crawling inside of it.
"Posy!" came the most panicked voice I have yet to hear. My dad came rushing in and he saw the nest right off. He froze, his eyes glazed over, becoming almost grey. It honestly scared me, more than any nightmare could.
"Daddy?" I asked quietly, almost too scared to breathe. He never responded.
"Dad?" I tried a little bit louder, still not getting any response, he just stared at the nest with the faraway look in his eyes. "Daddy!" I screamed. Tyler was right behind me now, whispering out to Dad the entire time. He looked at me for a second, with tears brimming in his eyes.
"They're dead." He stated, whispering at first.
"Dad?" I asked, back to a whispering, meek voice.
"They're dead," he now spoke in a normal voice, tears streaking down his face. "I watched them die, innocent kids, I watched them die!" he shouted. He had grabbed my wrist and was shaking me.
"Dad please!" I begged, he was scaring me, "Let me go, just let me go!" I wrenched myself away from him, and ran, as far as I could into the woods. I came to a group of rocks, hid between two of them, and curled up there, crying.
I didn't want a repeat of it. I hid in the woods all day until mom found me. She held me, and carried me home. She promised he would teach me how to hunt, how to simply be out in the woods. Tyler came in and slept in my bed with me, as I tried to explain what had happened to Dad.
"Posy, I'm scared," Tyler had sniffled.
"I know" I whispered, burying myself further into the blankets, I took his hand in the same gesture then as I did now.
I knew where Tyler was coming from, no matter how hard I try to bury the memory; it still comes up sometimes, often in my nightmares. I silently made my way into the forest, despite the light drizzle. Reaching the sanctuary, behind the tree line, I felt like I could finally breathe. No mom's headaches and no dad's outburst. And best of all no, Finn acting weird, and romantic towards me. I was still really confused by that one. Thankfully, Tyler shows up silently to the rocks, the same ones that I hid in on that day, to break me out of my thoughts. He went the other way, towards the house so dad wouldn't get suspicious. He carried a sack that more than likely once held flour.
He settled in silently, not saying a word to me as he reached in and pulled out a book, but not just any book, the same one that had caused mom to cry once she found me reading it. The one from so long ago.
"So," I ask, "what about it?" it felt wrong to read it, yet I still felt drawn to it.
"I found our grandparents." He stated, unusually silent. We had been wandering about them for a while, and last time we were out here, it was the topic of our conversation. Mom and Dad never talked about them, except for Grandma Everdeen, who always seems to be so busy. I knew Dad's parents were used to own the bakery, but he never talked about them when I asked, and for all I knew, dad was an only child. Tyler flipped open to a page that held a picture of a man that looked a lot like mom. I knew that this was Grandpa Everdeen.
"What happened to him?" I whispered timidly, honestly scared to ask. I don't know how I could act ignorant to the fact I knew something as important as this, especially around mom.
"Here, you read it Posy." Said Tyler, handing me the book. Six pages after the picture, it held stories and descriptions all about grandpa, the last one was how he died. A mining accident, not the war that we learn about in school, the one that mom always keeps home when there are lectures and guest speakers about it. He died before the war, almost thirty-five years ago. What I couldn't get over was a mining accident, I knew that District 12 was different before the war, but I didn't know just how different.
"What about Dad's parents?" I ask in such a quiet voice, I'm shocked that I can hear Tyler's reply, let alone the fact he could have heard me.
"Why don't we just ask?" because it felt wrong, I didn't want a repeat of when I was seven. I didn't want to hurt mom and dad. I was scared to know, but one thing that I can't be in front of my little brother is scared.
"I don't know," I sighed, pinching the bridge of my noise, "it just feels wrong somehow…"
"Oh so, snooping into their stuff isn't wrong?" Tyler asks, putting an edge to his voice to let me know he's serious.
"Hey! " I protest, "I'm not the one that took the book."
"Well i don't want to read anymore!" he whines in a manner that would have made him blush with embarrassment if it ever happened in public, god forbid it ever happened in front of Cyndi. That would have practically killed him. Back to the subject, I really didn't want to read anymore either.
"Ok kid, you put it back." I said as I slid off the rock, ready to head back home and start dinner, it was already starting to get dark, and the weather didn't help the visibility.
"I got it, it's your turn!" he protested.
"Should have thought of that before you took it! It's not like I forced you to do get it!" i didn't force him, I just threatened to invite Cyndi over for dinner on a night when "uncle" Haymitch came over. Blackmail isn't force. Besides, he deserves it for telling Dad all about Fin, and then inviting Fin over to help in the bakery. Fin, I'll have to face him one day, just not today, there's something else I had to do now. Something I had been dreading to do since I first found the book. I had to ask mom about it.
A/N: Yo, sorry for the cliffieish ending. I know it sucks, and I'm really bad at updating, I will update ASAP, please vote on my poll of what fanfiction I should do next, I have two ideas that I REALLY like, but don't have time for both (I'll probably do so anyways but I would like the input to see if anyone has other suggestions) so thank you sooo much for reading, I apologize again for the really bad updating please review! And please check out my Maximum Ride songfic, it would mean a lot, and I will send you your very own Peeta if you review any of my stories! XD