The 74th Hunger Games
"When are you coming back to live in District Four again?" I ask Finnick as we sit watching the 74th Hunger Games. Both our tributes are dead, as we've had to watch for the last three years, the only plus side to the games is seeing Finnick. The madness is growing worse. I hear voices, I laugh uncontrollably and they only stop with Finnick. I do visit him in the Capitol occasionally but not for long. I have to live with the constant fear of Snow killing everyone I care about and there's also the fact that Finnick's out all day, his body being sold which makes me feel rather uncomfortable.
"People are starting to forget me, who can blame them I'm twenty three now, not a little boy. So I expect only a few more years. You can still visit." he says his arm around me.
"I can't. You know I hate it here. Please come back soon, I'm barely hanging on. Some days I come so close to it Finn, it's like there's nothing to live for. I don't see the point. I'm so alone." I say shaking at the thoughts that cross my mind so many times.
"Hang on Annie. For me, I don't know what I'd so if anything ever happened to you." he says looking at me but I'm just watching the trumpets sounding. An announcement is made and the boy wants the girl to kill him, they know that only one of them can survive.
He takes of the bandage and the blood comes gushing out. I'm frozen with fear, however many games I've watched and how many deaths I myself have witnessed it still leaves the cold feeling running down my spine. They're just children. I see them holding up Nightlock berries and counting down from three. "No. No. No. No. No." I start repeating, putting my hands over my ears. They'll be no Victor at all. But they stop, they spit the berries out and I am relieved. Snow's not going to like it though! What will happen to them?