Authors Note:
Yeah I know this one is short but whatever.
Chapter 3: So alone
They take me from the Justice Building and put me on a train. Joseph and I sit next to each other looking down thinking of home. When Joseph starts to talk it startles me. "So we had better get to know each other if we are the only friends we have for the next two weeks." No I don't think so if I am going to die I don't want I don't want to have to do anything with him. I don't want myself to affect all of the people I meet. "Yeah" I respond. "So your Evanjaline Everdeen" "yeah but you can just call me Eve and your Joseph Nighton." "You can just call me Joe."
Great I am getting to know a practical enemy here. Oh well. I guess my last two weeks in civilization should be a happy two weeks. We start to talk about home and what we love about it. Before I know it I keep on rambling on about my family and a tear falls down my face. "It's my birthday tomorrow" I tell Joe him clinging to my every word. "It was fourteen years ago tomorrow that my mother died" It takes a while for Joes mind to get it. Then his face shows "That means you had your second birthday on the day your mother died" It is one of the facts of the Everdeen family. It is a very ironic cruelty. "Yes my family never does anything for my birthday after what happened. It just made us closer together though." At that moment I didn't notice but I burst, all my emotions coming out at one moment.
I could feel my ace get stained with tears. Joe trying to calm me down. At that moment I decided. I am Evanjaline Everdeen. I am sixteen. I am in the Hunger Games and I am going to try as hard as I can to defy the capitol even if it kills me. I then stop crying very suddenly for Joe to comprehend. "Are you with me?" I ask "ummm… yeah" I can see doubt in his eyes. "Then can you help me?" "yeah" " I want to destroy the Capitol"