Member
Father had to go to a mayor's meeting once a month. He hated it. District 1 and 2's mayors always looked down their noses at him. All the other districts thought that they were better off than him, he could hear them gossiping about him. Sometimes he told me funny stories about the other Districts; his favourite one was about the Capitol representative who spoke like she had a tennis ball crammed in her mouth. He was a member of this elite group of people, but nobody lets him show his potential. He's just the "raggedy" man from District 12.
Amen
Dear Lord,
I don't know if you're listening right now, you must get a lot of people like me. But if you are listening, please could you help my mother? She used to have a sister, but she died before I was born. She never told me how, but I think it was the games. Now Mother always has headaches and she has to stay in bed all day. Its three years until I have to be entered into the reaping, but it's getting worse and my first reaping might be too much. Don't take her way from me,
Amen.
Dying
He's dying. That brute stabbed him and now he's bleeding to death. He's dragged himself to the edge of the river and has made a futile to stop the bleeding. His hands are frantically pulling at his trouser leg and he's pawing at the wound, wincing as his fingers brush against the raw flesh. This will kill him, but he has to die if Katniss is going to come home. It's an impossible situation, I don't want either one of them to die, but one of them has to. Peeta reaches gingerly into the mud and smears his face slowly.
Gale
I liked to sit by my window when I couldn't sleep. I'd stay there all night usually. Some nights, I would catch a glimpse of Gale. He would meet Katniss by the boundary and then go hunting. If I looked hard enough, I could sometimes see his smile. But then Katniss left, and Gale held Prim back at the reaping and let her sister go. He wasn't at school the next day; someone said they had seen him going to the meadow. He was hunting, by himself. I can still see him from my window, but he doesn't smile anymore.
Evidently
Peeta and Katniss had won. They had their own houses in the victor's district. But they were avoiding each other. I thought they were supposed to be in love; they are the star crossed lovers of District 12. I asked Katniss about it at school one day, but she just looked at me and said, "I'd rather not talk about it." Gale isn't talking to her much either, it might just be because of his new job in the mines, but he seems colder towards Katniss as well. I thought that everything would stay the same as before, evidently not.
A/N: Tadaaa! Another chapter up! This is "revision" for my english exam tomorrow, writing to explain, inform or describe :P Now I just have to revise poems from other cultures! Woohoo! Please review x