A/n I wanted to put all the games in one chapter, but I felt like it would be way too much information, so I broke it up in two. I'll try and put the next chapter up tomorrow, but I have plans, so I might have to do it the next day. This chapter is like really boring, cause it's a bunch of stuff you know, but I had to put it in… but I hope you like the story so far!:)
I feel like I'm doing something evil, like unthinkably bad. I knew if my mother knew I was watching this she would personally shoot an arrow through my head.
When they call mom and dad's names they come riding in on a chariot. Mom and Dad where wearing matching black suits. I didn't get it at first, though they both look stunning. They both looked nervous and holding on to each other strongly.
Mom gives a kiss to the crowd, and all of a sudden their black suits rise up in flames. I get their outfits now, they both looked so perfect. Katniss Everdeen, the girl who was on fire. Mom looked flawless; a smile on her face so big, I couldn't believe it was her. Several times dad would look over his shoulder at her with love in his eyes. I wonder if they were in love yet. It was almost embarrassing how little I knew about this, but that's ok, because I'm about to find out. Every single detail,
After the chariot rides were the most famous part of the Hunger Games, the interviews, where everything you say counts. I watch all the other tributes get interviewed and the first one called from district 12 is Katniss Everdeen. She is wearing a beautiful dress, and she is acting like someone I have never met before, but she wins over the crowd with her humor and twirling in her dress. It shocked me to see my mom like this, exactly my age. Looking exactly like me, but acting nothing like herself. I wonder if mom was like this before the games, and if the games had done this to her, or if it was just one big show for the audience?
Caesar Flickerman, the announcer, can really make the tributes look good, no matter whom it is. He asked mom about volunteering for her sister, Prim. I've heard about Prim, my aunt. She died before I was born, but mom was constantly making sure I knew who she was, and what she meant to mom. My middle name was Primrose, Mom couldn't handle to have my first name be Prim, just like Will, and his middle name was Finnick, another Friend of mom and dads who died.
I can tell her how it upsets her to talk about Prim. "Her name is Prim, she's just twelve. And I love her more than anything." The city circle was silent. I can believe her, that she loves Prim more than anything. "What did she say to you? After the reaping?" Caesar asks. Mom swallows "She asked me to try really hard to win" The audience is frozen, clinging on to every word she says. I feel tears forming in my eyes. I wipe them away quick, I'm getting too into this I say inside my head, but then I realize this isn't some scripted show, this is real.
Then the announcer is called Peeta Mellark. Looks Buff and handsome in the suit he is wearing. Caesar and he start a small talk conversation, like no one is watching. Why is dad so easily being himself when mom fakes everything? Though he mom fakes everything, they're both equally charming.
Caesar asks dad if he had a girlfriend back home, dad hesitates and then gives an unconvincing head shake. "Handsome lad like you, there must be some special girl. Come on, what's her name?" says Caesar. Dad sighs, I am so intensely watching the screen that I am going to break it with the power in my eyes.
"Well there is this one girl, I've had a crush on ever since I can remember but I'm pretty sure she didn't know I was alive until the reaping." The crowd 'aw's' understanding how that feels. "She has another fellow?" Caesars asked. Dad shrugs, saying that a lot of boys liked her. I wish he would just tell the audience. I am dying to know, and I'm sitting on the edge of my seat.
"So here's what you do, you win, you go home, she can't turn you down then, eh?" no matter how hopeful that sounded, it didn't satisfy dad. He tells Caesar it wouldn't work in his case. What case! I want to scream. "Why ever not?" he asked interested. Dad blushes, red as a tomato. He begins to stammer out.
"Because…because…She came here with me. " I gasp, so loud I'm afraid I've woken Haymitch and ruined everything. But I'm happy to see Haymitch is still a sleep on the couch next to me, snoring quietly. I sigh, relieved. Why am I so shocked, I knew the way dad looked at her in the chariot rides, he was in love with her, I just didn't expect dad to say it so blatantly. The camera immediately flashes to mom's face. Her mouth half open in shock.
For once I see a part of mom in the city Circle, a real part. The same look she had shown to Gale earlier, she is blushing harder than dad, and it's unmistakable. Dad is saying how she didn't know anything about his feelings until now, but I was too busy watching the camera pan on Katniss Everdeen's face in shock
After the interviews it shows all the tributes lined up in a semi-circle in an arena, waiting for the announcer to yell "Ladies and Gentlemen, let the Seventy fourth Hunger Games begin!" When they are waiting, the camera flashes to mom, who has her eyes on something in the cornucopia, it shows the big horn, she has her eyes on a bow. Of course she would need a bow. It goes back to mom, but quickly goes to dad since she is looking at him as If reading mom's mind, he shakes his head, telling her that she won't make it if she runs to the bow
When the announcer yells that the games had begun I clutch a pillow. I'm nervous even though I know they make it out alive.