Inside The Walls
Chapter 2
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I stand there staring at Tonks, was she serious? Was it actually me being called up? Surely she just read it out wrong or maybe I'm dreaming and I'm going to wake up any second. I realised it was real when one of the peacekeepers grabbed my arm and dragged me forward. I think I probably would have looked like a zombie, just standing there staring at absolutely nothing at all.
The peacekeepers lead me onto the stage and leave me standing next to Tonks, I glance across at the boy called Peeta. He looks very calm considering he has pretty much just been given a death sentence, then I look down at Ron, his eyes are full of tears. Ron, crying? Never! I have never in my life seen him cry, I turn away as I know if I keep looking I would break down and start screaming. I can feel my mother is watching me but I don't have the courage to look anywhere near her.
'Well then everyone." Tonks says making me come back to Earth. 'Please give a very warm cheer to our tributes for district 8!' She claps her hands loudly but no one in the crowd follows. 'See you all next year, and to Peeta Mellark and Hermione Granger, May the odds be ever in your favour.' She smiles and walks off stage, before I have a chance to move the peacekeepers have grabbed Peeta and I and are escorting us off to the house where all the tributes go.
Tonks walks into the room still beaming at us both, I sit away from the others as I really would just like to be left alone to process what's just happened to me. 'Welcome Peeta and Hermione, I'm Tonks and over the next two weeks we're going to become great great friends I'm sure of it.' She held out her hand to Peeta, he shook it and then to me and I shook it. 'You two don't realise how lucky you really are, she continues. I'm sure many of the districts kids would die to have all the food and attention you two are going to get!' Peeta and I look at each other and roll our eyes, I would have thought Tonks would have realised that nobody would want to enter this, two weeks of food then you die. Who wants that? 'Now, I must go and find your mentor, where has he got to? This is ridiculous.' Tonks stands up and walks out of the room leaving just Peeta and I. Peeta gets up off of the chair and wanders around the room.
'How are you so calm?' I ask trying to make some kind of conversation start. Peeta turns around and looks at me. 'No point having a sook about it, we're already here, the only way to get out of it is to get killed before the games, if I did that the Ministry would kill my family and I wouldn't even get to enjoy the food Tonks says is so great.' He sounds like he is joking but looks ever so serious, I don't know how to respond so I put my head down and decide not to make anymore conversation. Peeta stops walking around the room and sits down, we both sit in silence for about 10 minutes until Tonks walks into the room with a very familiar face behind her. I'd recognised Sirius from anywhere, he had won the Hunger Games 10 years ago. He has been the only winner from District 8 ever. Unfortunately after his win he didn't want to stay friends with all of the rest of the town, instead he locked himself away in his house in the victors' village and drank to the point where he passed out every night.
'Miss Granger, Mr Mellark, this is Mr Sirius Black; he'll be your mentor for the games. I'm not going to stick around, I'll meet you all on the train.' Tonks smiles and leaves the room. Sirius walks over to us and sits down on the chair in front of me. 'So you two are my newest bunch of animals, I say that because I have no faith in either of you. You'll probably be dead before the games have properly started, especially as there's a twist this year…' He takes a bottle of whisky out of his jacket pocket and drinks what's left in there. Great I have an alcoholic as a mentor.