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Rose's POV
"ROSE! Wake up! We're here!" Ethan shouted in my ear which promptly caused me to roll off the couch that I was sleeping on. So I did what any good big sister would do I smacked him on the back of his head then went to find my parents and Haymitch.
I found them walking to towards the exit laughing at 'their crazy kids' as they like to call us. Ethan followed behind me grumbling about how his head hurts now. I just snickered under my breath and kept walking forward. When we stepped off the train we saw a woman with brown hair and sea-green eyes waving us over. When we reached her she pulled mom, dad and Haymitch into a huge bear hug.
"You must be Rose and Ethan I haven't seen the two of you since Ethan was a new born and Rose was just a little two year old toddler! Look at how you've grown!" She then pulled us both into bone-crushing hug.
"It's good to see you again, Annie," mom said smiling.
"Well you guys were the last to arrive. Everyone else is already at the house," Annie said leading us over to a huge van she must have rented to hold everyone plus our luggage. We all piled in and drove off.
"Annie, who else is here?" dad inquired.
"Oh well you guys of course, Johanna and her daughter, Lea and the Hawthorns," at the mention of the Hawthorns mom and dad both stiffened. I wonder what their problem is. Oh well I'll find out sooner or later.
We finally arrived at what must be where District 4's Victor's Houses even though there weren't many left after the rebellion. It was way bigger than what we had back home. We stopped at a huge two story, pure white house right by the beach. We stepped inside and were met with the booming of like a thousand voices talking at once.
"We're back!" Annie yelled, surprisingly, above all the noise.
All the noise stopped at once and everyone assembled in the hallway where we were still standing with all of our suitcases. That's when chaos broke out again, all the adults rushed to greet each other and all us kids stood to the side watching amusedly.
"Hey I'm Finnick Jr. but everyone just calls me Finn and you must be Rose and Ethan," a guy with golden bronze hair said and then he started introducing everyone else. "That," he said pointing to a short girl with brown hair, "is Lea Mason. And over there," now he pointed at a boy and girl who were obviously siblings. The boy had black hair and grey eyes. He looked like he could belong in the Seam but I've never seen him before. His sister also had grey eyes but with blonde hair sort of like Ethan. "They are Kyle and Courtney Hawthorn."
"Hey," I said timidly.
"Well before you guys came we were just liming in the game room so do you guys want to join us?" Finn asked.
"Sure."
Finn led us up a few stairs then into a gigantic room with a flat screen TV that took up a whole side of one wall and various games set up all around the room. I saw a pool table, Ping-Pong table and pin ball machine! Courtney and Ethan headed over towards the pin ball machine. They seemed to have hit it off already. The rest of us sat on the leather couches in front of the TV and started talking.
"Hey Rose, how old are you?" Lea asked.
"15," I replied.
"Me too," Lea said
"Well, I'll be 16 tomorrow," Finn said leaning back on the couch.
"We know!" Kyle said hitting Finn with a pillow which started an all-out pillow war between Finn and Kyle while Lea and I watched and giggled. When they finally settled down they both of them were laughing uncontrollably too.
"Well I'm already 16 so," at which point Kyle stuck out his tongue at Finn.
Suddenly a bright blue light appeared but as fast as it appeared it disappeared leaving a pile of three books with a note on top. We all cautiously approached the books, even Ethan and Courtney who took a break from flirting to come join us.
Finn grabbed the note and read,
Dear Victor's kids,
We have decided to send you these books so that you can learn more about the Hunger Games and the Rebellion which your parents participated. So happy reading.
P.S. Don't tell your parents about these books
Sincerely,
Us.
"Ok…" Finn started, "I guess we should read the books."
"I'll start," I said. I grabbed the first book, " The Hunger Games…"
