Please enjoy my little fangirl rant at the end of this chapter! If you don't like Josh Hutcherson, than don't read the rant. It's bout him :] Anyways enjoy this chapter! I can't tell you if something big happens here since I'm writing this before the actual chapter, still deciding if the big kicker should come in this chapter or the next. Oh just decided, it'll end this chapter. Don't cha love cliffhangers? I know I do! Enjoy!

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-Rachel:

I knock lightly on the Hawthorne's front door. Than cross my fingers and hope someone will answer. The door opens slightly, I see Rory's head peek out, his eyes widen when he sees me. I crouch down and tousle his black hair a bit.

"Hi Rory, is Gale here?" I ask with a smile. Rory eyes me carefully; apparently the whole family knows why Gale was punished. He just nods slowly. "Can I talk to him, I'd, I'd really like to see him, to explain a few things." I ask.

"I'll be back, stay outside" Rory tells me, I just nod and lean against their house as Rory goes in to ask Gale if I can talk to him. I'm there for quite a while, just waiting, I'm about to give up when the door opens again. Rory looks up at me, he smiles at me. "Come on" he says as he takes my hand, I let him lead me through the house. I'm lead to Gale's bedroom, he's in his bed still, his torso is bandaged. I sit in a chair by him and wait till Rory leaves, which leaves Gale and I alone in his room.

"Hey, I need to explain something." I tell him.

"Shoot" he shrugs, he's probably already convinced himself I'm going to lie to him.

"I didn't know they were going to hurt you, not until after it happened. I didn't mean for it to happen. I mean, I knew speaking against the Capital in front of the cameras wouldn't do me any good, but I didn't think that they would hurt people back home."

"What! You spoke against the Capital! On camera! We were told it was because- ugh never mind, it doesn't matter now. What did you say?" there's that light in his eyes that I've seen in the woods before. It's there whenever he talks about rebelling against the Capital. Gale's a rebel, a born rebel.

"I said they weren't fair, said how the Games do nothing good, I accused them of murdering those kids in there."

Gale's eyes are ablaze now, a wide smile on his face. "And it's all my fault you were whipped." I finish.

"Rachel-I'd let myself get whipped a thousand more times if it's because some people heard a victor speak out against the Capital" he laughs.

"Soooo we're friends?" I ask

"Ya"

"Okay good, cause I don't think I'm friends with Katniss after I threatened to slit her throat in the woods." I say it quickly.

"You what?" He asks in shock.

"Don't worry she's fine, it was her fault. Bye Gale!" I get up quickly as I see anger come over his face. I make a bee-line for the door, than I walk home, just to find Haymitch over the table. Drunk.

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It's been four whole months since I've seen Finnick, it seems like forever. But Peeta helps me when I'm sad, I go and visit him. Well, I go and visit him every day. But there's something else that's been helping me get through my crappy life now. Alcohol. I mean, I don't get drunk or anything, not much. But it's just, when something won't get out of my mind, the liquor makes it go away. I understand why my father drinks now. He doesn't know I've started, but he has been suspecting someone has been stealing from us.

That's what I'm doing now. Drinking. Haymitch is at the Hob. Drinking. So I'm alone at home, once again. Drinking. I tilt up the bottle as Finnick comes to my mind, I know this thought will make me nothing but depressed. It burns going down my throat, the white liquor burns my throat so I focus on that pain. Not on Finnick. I like it, how it makes me forget. What I don't like is thinking how soon this will just be coming right back out of my system, just the way it got down too. To get that thought out, I drink more.

I hear the door open and shove the bottle into a drawer, I'll clean it later. Haymitch walks in.

"Hi Haymitch!" I greet him.

"Hey, ready for the Capital thing?" he asks. Capital thing? Um, no.

"Oh yeah, when is it?" I ask. Haymitch goes and turns on the television, "Now"

I go and sit next to him on the couch. One good thing, since Haymitch smells of liquor, he won't notice if I do. Soon President Snow is on screen. He holds a rolodex in front of him.

"Hello Panem! As you know, we sadly didn't have a victor this year, but our ancestors planned for everything, so they ruled that, if there ever isn't a victor, we will have an alternate Game. An extra Hunger Games to be played when the victor tour would be."

What! No, not another Games, I can't go back there so soon, I can't go back to that hotel every night. Extra kids can't be reaped. I'm sobbing into my hands when Snow continues. Haymitch rubs my back.

"But we have a twist for each, that is what we find out tonight!" he booms, I hear the Capital citizens who are present cheer him on. I look up and watch his hand reach and take out a card. I feel my face wash white as I read a single word on the card before he turns it so the people watching from home can't read it.

It said victors.

Fangirl rant: OH MY GOD I LOVE JOSH HUTCHERSON! AHHHHHHHHH I WATCHED HIS INTERVIEW ON ELLEN AND WHEN THEY ANNOUNCED HIS NAME I DIDN'T REALIZE I WAS CHEERING AND CLAPPING UNTIL MY BROTHER TOLD ME TO SHUT UP! .GOD. I LOVE THAT BOY SO MUCH! AND THE OTHER DAY I WATCHED ANOTHER INTERVIEW AND HE SAID HE DOESN'T HAVE A GIRLFRIEND RIGHT NOW, I COULDN'T HELP CHEERING TO THAT TOO! MOST OF MY FRIENDS ARE REALIZING MY LITTLE OBSESSION AFTER I WAS LIKE YEAH HIS BIRTHDAY IS OCTOBER 12TH HE'S FROM UNION KENTUCKY, HE WAS HOMESCHOOLED, HE HAS TWO DOGS, HE PLAYS BASKETBALL, ANDDDDDDD I SHOWED MY FRIEND ALL FORTY PICTURES I HAVE OF HIM ON MY IPOD! OHHHHHH JOSH I LOVE YOU! Just had to get that out of me XD. Oh sorry this was so short, I was in a rush and wanted to get it up. But the next chapter is going to be really long, I promise :D