hey guys so let me enlighten you on some percussion terminology! we use Windex to make out drums shiny for a football game or performances. we also call our directors by just their last name, no Mr. or Mrs. when we "tape up" we re-tape our sticks. a tenor drums are the marching drums that have multiple drums per person. and we have harnesses to hold up our drums. also the chapter is kinda depressing i will also do one for Katniss and maybe Cato to explain some stuff. enjoy!

i do not own the hunger games. i just like 'em

_Finnick's Story_

I had to get out of there. I was suffocating. I would show up at school with bruises and cuts all over my body. Every day I would come home to my mom passed out with a needle in her arm while my baby sister cried with fresh wounds on her body from my dad. Or what's left of him. That shell of a man pushed the last straw when I caught him trying to molest my sister. Thank god for me just turning 18. I knocked him out and told Quinn to pack her stuff; we were never going back there.

I'm not proud of what I have to do for money. Every eye on me: every hand. I would sell my body for the Capitol Club just to keep my sister alive. To see her smile is enough motivation to seduce many women who need to get away from their life. I get paid by the capitol and by the ladies and sometime men but it just means another day for her to wonder about without a care in the world.

If it weren't for drumline I probably wouldn't be able to go on with a smile on my face. I mean I love Quinn to pieces but, I can't tell her what's actually going on. She didn't even know what dad was doing! It's not like I could say "hey our dad tried to rape you and I work at a strip club and sleep with strangers just so we could live." Kat, Jojo, Cato, Clove, and Marvel have all helped me through this. They understand if I need to sleep instead of practice. They understand if I just need someone to tell me if it's all right and make me feel better.

I live in the apartment next to Cato. Mrs. Johnston helps watch Quinn if I have "late" nights and helps with the cooking and cleaning and even with my college applications. I doubt I'm even going to go. I can't leave Quinn. Mrs. J told me she would take care of her for me until I'm out of college but I can't ask her for that. It's too much but, I don't think she'll take no for an answer.

Quinn and Prim are the same age. Both just got into high school and are pretty popular. Quinn has tan skin, sea green eyes, and copper hair like me while Prim has creamy skin, with bight blue eyes, and blond hair; nothing like Katniss. But I'm thankful for them being best friends it helps me keep a close eye on them if Kat and I have to stay after school and practice then they'll wait for us and talk to each other and Rue. Rue is one of the drumline's freshmen and she's talented with the Marimba. You think that Glimmer would get the Xylophone solo and all the lead parts with being older and more experienced but, Rue got them and plays them better the Glimmer could.

I love being in drumline. I love all the rush you get when you perform well and you win then, you walk off the field and throw up. But you always have someone hold back your hair and you do the same for them: bonding moment, Right?

I learned that drumline will always be my second family and I love them to death.

woo! drumline! okay so how did you guys like this? any questions? please review! if you do you get metal fist bumps!

-1deadlygame