"Well what is it?" Maple asked yawning. She was easily the crabbiest person ever in the morning. I tried to tame my hair and Maple swatted my hand away. I guess my hair wouldn't get tamed.
"I'll tell you over breakfast." He said.
"So you woke us up for that?" Maple asked angrily, pounding a fist on her air mattress.
"It's fine. We'll be down in ten minutes." I said grabbing some clothes for the day and marching to the bathroom so Maple could change in my room.
I walked downstairs and made breakfast for us. It wasn't anything special, but dad would have been proud that I didn't burn it.
"So what are we going to do about the diaries?" Maple asked slightly less crabby.
"Where are they?" Finnick asked.
"In my closet." I responded sitting on the bar stools.
We dug into our cereal.
"So why do you think Haymitch was so upset about us watching the History Network?" Maple asked.
"There had to be something that he didn't want us to see on there." I answered.
"Do you think there is any replaying or any recordings?" Finnick asked running a hand through his bronze hair.
"I can check, but I don't think so." I answered turning on the TV at a super quiet level. I channel surfed until I saw something that look remotely like the two seconds I remembered.
"It's on! We're only like ten minutes into it, but I think it was just an introduction." I said somewhat excitedly.
"Will we have time to finish?" Maple asked.
"Sure, on days where mom and dad don't work, they sleep late. So we may have a lot of time to finish this." I said.
We all got settled on the floor with our backs against the couch. It was really boring, unsuspecting history documentation. Maple fell asleep and Finnick just put his head on my shoulder. I was the only one at least alert.
"What are you doing?" Devin asked coming downstairs.
"Watching a history documentation about the birds and the bees." I said as he went red and ran out of the room. He was so much like mom; she is such a pansy about certain stuff that it makes me and dad laugh.
And then there were guns and everything.
Finnick jumped awake like someone was shooting at the house. Maple groaned. She forced her eyelids opened and we watched different places get bombed and wrecked. Districts 1, 2, 3, and 4 were the first ones to get wrecked. And then, 13, 12, and 11. But they worked themselves deeper into Panem until they hit the middle.
And then there was a new thing called the Hunger Games. They never elaborated on what these 'Hunger Games' were, though. They sounded sort of sketchy, though.
"What are the Hunger Games?" I asked.
"Do I look like I know, Luna?" Maple sighed, yawning. Why is she always so crabby? It's not like I woke her up from a much-needed eight hours of sleep. It's only been about an hour since she fell asleep in the first place.
"No, it was a general question though. One you didn't necessarily have to answer. Although, I didn't really expect that you would answer. I thought you were asleep still. But the chance that you were listening was very high, when in consideration you really-." I said boring her back to sleep.
"You have a gift of boring people to sleep." Finnick said.
"I know, I use it on Devin all the time. I also know how to clear a room really well, too." I said grinning.
"So for the Games, they don't sound very fun. Because the word 'Hunger' is in the title. Does that mean the players starve?" Finnick said making a really good conclusion.
"Yeah, you're right. But what does that have to do with us?" I asked.
We watched for about 15 more minutes before Devin came down again. In the short time, the show got really graphic and I ducked my head behind Finnick's shoulder and shut my eyes. I tasted pennies in my mouth and tried to shake the images.
"You're good. It's mostly over now." Finnick said as I nodded and we watched for a bit longer.
"Dad said you have to let me watch my morning television shows now." Devin said.
"You woke mom and dad?" I demanded.
"No, only dad. And besides, Willow is still asleep." Devin said.
"Oh, well. We'll just record our history documentary and watch the rest of it later." Finnick said leading us upstairs. Devin went red and then I remembered that to him, we were watching inappropriate stuff.
Finnick stopped at the very top of the stairs and I kept walking. Unfortunately, I walked into him and he almost forced me down the stairs.
He grabbed my hands as I almost fell and gave me a jerk. I crashed into him and he smiled.
"What just happened?" Maple asked.
"Nothing, but if we're up here we can work on the books." I said.
"Right, I think I know who C.S. is." Finnick said shocking me.
"Tell us once we get inside." I said.
Once Maple and Finnick bounced on my bed, I shut the door.
"Well?" I asked Finnick.
"Coriolanus Snow. He was the president of the Districts a long time ago. Like when Aunt Katniss was our ages, he was president." Finnick said.
"How do you know so much?" I asked.
"I listened to the history document. I guess you didn't, then?" Finnick asked.
"No, not necessarily. I was a bit preoccupied with Devin." I said.
I picked up a diary and it was flaming hot!
"Ow!" I said biting my mouth so no one would hear me.
"What?" Maple asked.
"It's warm. Really warm." I said.
"Should we cool it down with something?" Finnick asked.
We tried water, but it was still the same temperature. And then Finnick had his thinking face on. I think I could hear the gears grinding.
"So what if, this Snow person wanted to be in control of someone's blood?" Finnick asked.
"What do you mean?" I asked.
"Well this is his diary. And his series of diaries, right? Well what if he needs a donation to open a book?" Finnick suggested.
"So the ex-president wants someone's blood?" I asked.
"Well to an extent." Finnick said.
"Who wants to be a donor?" Maple asked.
"I will." I offered.
"Are you sure you want to?" Maple asked as I nodded and grabbed a pair of scissors from my dresser.
I shut my eyes and slice open my palm. It was over before I could even think about it, but every time I curled my fingers into my palm or stretched it hurt. And then, I opened the diary.
"It's empty." Maple said, disappointed.
I know it's not as good as the last couple, but it gets better and better. Believe me, I'm on Chapter 18 now in a Microsoft word doc and it's getting better and better. You're about to discover secrets about Finnick, Maple, and Luna that you wouldn't even think of.
I'm really stressed out right now, so I don't know if I'll be updating this week, but we'll see...
What do you think is going to happen next? And to who? Maple hasn't had anything really bad happen to her yet *hint hint*. Thoughts?
-GirlonFire
Thanks for reading!