A/N : Sorry it took long to update, school is crazy. On the bright side I finally finished Frankenstein for English .. it was a very interesting book. Oh well, here is chapter three! Enjoy!"

Disclaimer : I really own nothing.

Chapter 3

When evening came that night I couldn't bring my self to eat my dinner instead my father and I sat at the table alone, in silence. I pushed around the green peas with my fork until one rolled off my plate and onto the table. My father sighed and looked up at me.

"Margret, are you going to finish your dinner?" He asked and I cringed, I hated my full name.

I looked up at my father and then started to eat, even though we were special and get shipments from the Capitol, it was still hard to eat full meals. I finished my dinner then crossed my hands over my lap and looked up.

"Perfect." He said grabbing my plate and bringing it to the wash tub. "I have a few important phone calls to make so I would like you to keep the noise down." He says as he scrubs his plate.

"Not like I would have anybody to be loud with anyways." I muttered, I know I'm acting like a child, I just can't help it.

"Hm?" He asked, looking over at me.

I just shook my head as if to say nothing and turned towards the door.

"I need air." I said as I slipped out of the front door. The air outside had cooled down quite a bit and if the wind blew it was a bit chilly, but it wasn't anything I couldn't handle. I walked around the town and it was completely deserted. Everybody would be inside celebrating that their child was not the one most likely going to die in the next two weeks, every family in District Twelve was celebrating, except for two. The Mellark's and Everdeen's are most likely shut up in their small houses holding on to the dear hope that Peeta and Katniss may return, only one of them could even if it was possible. District Twelve hasn't had a victor since my aunts games.

That was Twenty-four years ago.

I strolled around the town and I kicked a stone with my black shoes on, they don't really look like shoes, more like slippers but I liked them. The sun was setting over the hills that you could see and the sky was a light pink-orange. In the distance I could hear birds chirping happily. I decided to take a walk through the Seam again just so I could go to the meadow.

The meadow was a spot just where the fence of District Twelve ended and it was my second most favourite place in the world, my first is in my fathers library of course. The Seam was so empty for this time of night, usually they're little children playing with some sticks or stones or maybe even a ball that one could bargain off of a seller for. Tonight there was nobody around. I walked into the high grass of the meadow and the wind blew, the grass made a rustling sound. I walked up to the fence and paused, I listened for the faint buzzing noise that mean't the electric fence was on, but I heard nothing. My father likes to think the fence is always on, or maybe he knows it isn't and just doesn't want to tell me in fear that I may be caught on the other side of the district.

I raised my fingers to chain fence and placed them on the cold metal. I braced myself for a shock that didn't come, the wind blew again and this time my hair flew into my face and I see a pink flash go before my eyes. I see my bow flying through one of the holes in the fence and I drop my hands, that was my last piece of ribbon.

I shrugged it off and turned back towards the Seam, I could feel a pair of eyes on me and I knew who's they were.

I looked right at her and she looked away instantly, she was pumping water into a jug but she kept looking up at me.

I walked over to Prim and placed my hands on the pump.

"You look tired, here, let me do it for a bit." She smiled at me graciously then dropped her hands, wiping them on her dress.

"This was usually Katniss' job, but I think I am able to take it over." She says sadly, I give her a small smiles.

"You were doing great!" I said and she giggled a bit.

"Your name is Madge right?" She asked and I nodded, "Katniss has never really said anything about you, it was usually Gale." She said.

I raised an eyebrow, "Gale, as in Gale Hawthorne?"

"That very one." She nods.

"Well, I hope he said very nice things about me then." I said pumping harder, and she giggled, I stopped and looked up. "What you mean he doesn't?" I gasped placing a hand over my chest and she shakes her head, her braids slapping the sides on her head.

"Well, that Gale Hawthorne, is really something then." I say

"Why?" She perks up.

"Don't you know he's madly in love with me?" I half whisper half say, this causes her to giggle again.

"Really because last time I heard him say anything about you was the you were the biggest bra-"

"That's enough." I heard a voice come from behind me. Prim looks down at her toes and I turn around. Gale was standing their with his arms crossed, and well he didn't look to happy with me.

"Gale." I choked out, "I was just helping Prim get some-"

"Yeah, I really don't care Undersee, Prim you know you aren't supposed to be out this late, you're lucky I am the one who found you not a peacekeeper, get that pale of water and get back to your mother, I'll send Rory over in a bit." He said to her and she nodded, picking up the bucket of water she started skipping away, she turned around to wave at me and I gave her a smile and waved back.

"What do you think you're doing?" He sneers at me.

"I was just helping a little girl with some water." I crossed my hands over my chest. "What are you doing?"

"Well I was coming out to go hunt-shopping when I heard giggles." He changed his wording very fast.

"I was just helping out."

"She doesn't need your help." He snaps at me.

"A little girl shouldn't have to push that iron pump all by herself, she needed help."

"It builds her character Undersee, something you lack."

"Oh I lack character?" I snort, "Real funny."

"Go home Madge, you don't belong here." The softness in his voice pained me. He knows how the stations work around here and if anyone either then Seam people ever saw me out here, I would be dead meat. I obliged to him, I wouldn't want to anger him anymore than I already have. I don't understand what his problem was. As I'm walking away, I heard footsteps fun after me.

"Hey and Undersee?" Gale calls and I turn around.

"Yes Hawthorne?"

"Next time, don't flatter yourself to much." He winks and gives me a cocky smiles. I feel my cheeks redden at the embarrassment of he had over heard what I had said to Prim.

I stalked over towards the town and back into my house. Like my father said he was upstairs and the house was completely silent, so silent you could probably hear a pin drop.

I shuffled up the stairs and I heard a small cough coming from my mothers room, I open the door just a crack and I look in to see her eyes staring at the ceiling. I walk in and sit down beside her on the wooden stool we keep beside her bed. I take her hand in mine and I just sit their as I watch her stare at nothing. It didn't take her long for the next morphling dose to kick in and she was asleep again.

Sometimes I try to remember when she was alright, with no head aches but I can't seem to bring up a memory of it. I release her hand and walk slowly out of her room. I stop at my father's study to listen in to what he was talking about.

"There are no talk of rebels in my district, I can assure you that... There have been no reported attempts.. please sir just calm down." I step back into the wall and stare at the door. Talks of rebels? As in a rebellion? Against the Capitol? The last time that had happened 74 years ago, we ended up with the worst thing that could possibly exist. It would never happen again.

I shake my head to re compose myself and I walk down the hall to my bedroom, I'm not sure how late it is or even how tired I really am but I strip off my dress and slip under the covers in my under clothes. I close my eyes and I wait for sleep to take me over.