Joby POV:
My eyes were in total shock as I sat in the living room of my house. I nearly went into a coma, is what Katniss said. Katniss is my mentor and neighbor since only four houses in Victor Village is occupied.
I wake up in my bed upstairs, a glass of tea on my table next to my bed. I'm sure Katniss made it for me. I get up and put on a shirt and walk downstairs. I see Peeta and Katniss at the table in the kitchen and the old Haymitch in the rocking chair. Peeta and Katniss murmur in low voices trying not to wake Haymitch. I walk up to them and ask where Kairi is, considering that's their daughter.
"She's at home sleeping" since tomorrow is the reapings and I'm already in them no matter what. I nod and go outside to the warm spring air. It will be summer soon, but I'm sure I won't be able to feel or see it ever again after tomorrow.
I walk into the Mellark household and slowly open the door to the house. I look around and see everything is the same. A old Buttercup lays in corner in a cat bed to stay warm. I smile because that is Katniss's sister's cat who survived the rebellion, but sadly Prim didn't. I wish I would have gotten to see Prim. I shake the thought away and go upstairs. I knock on Kairi's door and hear her voice "Come in."
I walk in and see her smile. I give a faint smile and she knows something is wrong. "What's wrong?" She askes.
I give a sigh and quietly say "I'm going back into the Arena."
She nearly faints and starts to cry at the same time. I get over to her before she falls off the bed. I slowly get her to calm down, but it takes ten minutes to do it. I look at her with soft eyes
"Kairi I'm going to be fine ok? Your parents are my mentors, they've been through two games. They brought me back once and they can do it again." She gives a me a small nod and a kiss on the cheek.
"I know it's a little late in the afternoon, but do you want to go get something to eat?" I ask with a reassuring smile.
She smiles and gets out of the bed. I go downstairs and start to make us some noodles and bake a little bread, but not as good as Peeta's bread, which is amazing. She finally comes downstairs wearing a forest green tanktop and some light blue skinny jeans. She walks over to the table and sits down.
"Why do you take so long?" I ask with a laugh. She frowns at first, by she slowly starts to laugh. We at slowly because we think this is going to be the last meal with each other at the table. Katniss and Peeta come home and we all sit down in the living room the Games are in a week and a half and I'm in them.
I wake up in the floor in Kairi's room. A blanket under me, so I'm not sleeping on the wood floor. Kairi wasn't in her bed, so I assumed she was downstairs, getting ready for the reapings. I go downstairs to see that Katniss and Kairi are in the kitchen. Katniss was doing Kairi's hair the way Katniss's mother used to do with her's. I smile and sit at the table a few minutes. Katniss reminds me, that I need to go home and get ready. I tell Kairi, I'll walk with them to the town square where the reapings are held.
I go home quickly and get ready as fast. I know that I'm going to my doom as I walk to Kairi's house, but maybe not. "I am stronger and faster than before."