I know, I'm horrible! I have so many ideas planned for the future but I sort of lost inspiration, but now I'm back! I'm so sorry!
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Finnick Odair
"What?" I demanded. We weren't 'in love' not yet.
"Damn it Finnick!" She shoved me, her hands hit my chest hard, making me stumble, but she wasn't strong enough to knock me down. She put her hand over her mouth and shook her head. For a few minutes she wouldn't look at me. Finally she spoke "It's getting late."
Johanna wanted me to leave. "I guess I'll see you later." I said flatly. "Please…" I broke off.
"Don't worry." She said "I won't tell. Annie seems like a good kid. She's been through so much shit like the rest of us, she needs some happiness in her life."
I numbly nodded and walked back to the train station, not knowing what to say to Johanna.
Once I got back into my room I half expected Annie to be waiting in my room. To my surprise she wasn't which worried me. I knew she was mad but I didn't know how to make it up to her.
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I tried to talk to Annie multiple times, but she wouldn't speak to me. My nights on the train were spent alone in my room and curled up into a ball or tying knots. Annie would speak, but not to me. Throughout her Victory Tour she would do a speech, talk to the other victors but never utter a word to me. Finally one night she came to me, it was the night of traveling to District 2. We skipped District 4 because the victors home District was last one, the one with the biggest celebration.
A small knock came from the door, it almost sounded… defeated. Like that was like what she felt. I slowly walked to the door and opened it. Annie stood there in a nightgown with wide shining eyes. I didn't even say anything, I just opened my arms and she ran into them. Her foot kicked the door shut and she looked up to me "I was so-,"
"Shh!" I whispered "Don't worry, I'm sorry too."
That night we just sat on my bed and pretended our future wasn't bad, we pretended we were never in the Hunger Games. We just met on night at a bonfire and well… bonded (which made Annie and I snicker). Somehow we would find each other in random places: the beach, the market, just walking to school.
It hadn't been that long, but I had missed her. I didn't like Annie and I fighting, I liked everything about her. Her smile, her eyes, her skin, her laugh, her crazy brown hair, her long fingers, and I loved the way she stared out into the sun as long as she could, even though I warned her that it could hurt her eyes. The littlest things she did made her unique. It made her Annie.
"Why did you… you know, ignore me for the past few celebrations?" I asked. I was sort of distracted: Annie was playing with my hair, her long fingers massaged my scalp.
"I guess it just kind of hit me. That this is kind of doomed. Us, I mean. Whenever you're gone I just like to think your visiting someone. Not girls, but like a long lost friend or something."
It was selfish of me to keep Annie. She should be having the time of her life and not with a used and abused victor. She could leave and I would be devastated because the first time since my games I had felt like that. Happy, loved, determined were something's I haven't felt for a long time. I was fascinated by Annie and her ability to make people become kinder.
"You can leave any time you want. I won't be mad."
"Why would I want to leave you?" Annie asked and pulled me close. She yawned "I'm not going anywhere. So get used to it."
I smiled. "You're getting tired. Go to bed."
She nodded and rolled over. Annie slept weird, with her face pushed into the pillow. Sometimes I was afraid she'd like suffocate herself of something, thankfully that never happened. I couldn't sleep so I snuck out of bed and took a shower. I had learn that there was a nozzle that could make the water hit the ground hard and mad a lot of sound, or very quietly. I chose the quieter one. I sat in there for a long time, the water was almost on the highest it could go and it came down onto my shoulders. It was so hot steam was everywhere. I softly sang an old fishermen song that I knew as a kid.
Finally I turned off the water and stretched, feeling tired finally. I opened the shower door and saw an unusual sight.
Annie.
I gasped and turned around. As quickly as I could I found a towel and wrapped it around my torso.
"Oh so now you're nervous to prance around naked." She joked. She was sitting on the counter in the bathroom by the porcelain sink. Was she half asleep? Why the hell was she in the bathroom!?
"I thought you were asleep." Was all I could say.
"I was." Annie nodded. "Then I noticed you in the shower. I was… uh… I was going to join you. But I chickened out. I was about to leave, but you got out of the shower."
"Why were you going to come in the shower-," I broke off when I realized. "Oh… Annie…"
"I know." She said. "It was stupid, you never would have wanted to anyways."
"It's not that Annie. It's just… I can't… not yet anyways."
She nodded like she understood. "Oh. Okay…" she nodded awkwardly and tore her eyes away from me and looked at the door. "I guess I'll just leave…"
"Wait!" I almost yelled. "Uh… will you still sleep with me in my bed tonight? For the past week I have been sleeping alone. I don't have nightmares when I'm with you."
"Okay." Annie nodded slowly and wouldn't look me in the eyes. "That's like me too. When I'm with you I feel same. I feel like I could go back into the games if you were by my sides and we both could win."
"You're never going back into the games though. That's a promise."
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To 'Imdd': I defiantly agree with Fannie being one of like the most awesomeness couples ever! I giggle each time I see 'Fannie'. Also I have seen the Second Quarter Quell! It's awesome and I love the guy who plays Haymitch in that: James Gaisford. Mhhh…
I hope this chapter isn't like awkward or anything, or stupid…