Chapter 4: before the train ride
"Lynn would you care to explain to me why you thought it would be a good idea to slap me across the face right before I went up on stage?" Clove asked me you could hear the impatice that I was ever so familiar with. "You said it the word we never say." I say to her as I walk closer and closing the door behind me. "NO NOT THE WORD WE DONT SAY, IT'S THE WORD YOU DONT SAY!" she says starting to rise her voice "which by the way you have never told me why." She says now getting calmer and taking a seat in the chair in front of me almost as she is waiting for an explanation. "You never asked." I say shrugging my shoulders. "Well I am now, why don't you ever say promised?" "I just don't believe in them, they always disappoint." "How would you know you never make them?" "Maybe because I don't want to disappoint" "so that means if I promise I will come back from the games I am just going to disappoint you by not coming back?" "No, I think you have a very good chance but remember I have lived in the capitol pretty much my whole life, my father is snow, and my Godfather is the head game maker, and trust me no matter how good you are doing in the games whether you are killing tributes off and they are dropping like flies, they can and will do anything to make it even more thrilling and bone chilling they will throw things at you that you didn't even know could be made, and then all of a sudden you are knocking on deaths door and sweetheart deaths always answers its door." "Great peep talk" Clove said with a roll of her eyes. "Listen I have seen 100reds of tributes and only a slim number of victors have I seen and actually liked and even fewer that I had bet I would have won. So tell me what you are asking for her because I have no idea." "you know how I feel about you, you're like my sister so yes I wish you would give me a better peep talk and would have support and enthusiasm, also like you said you have lived in the Capitol most of your life so you should understand what this means to me, since I am a career!" she starting to raise her voice again but this time it was faster and more sharp. "I know-" I say in a bit of a whisper. I clear my throat and continue "I'm coming with you and Cato." "What no you aren't you can't." She says her eyes filling with confusion as to why I would say such a thing. "yes I am and so is Cayden my dad invited me back to the capitol and said I could bring a friend, at first I was going to ask you but then we found out you and Cato had to volunteer so I asked Cayden and he said yes, we will be there through it all just not in the arena and I may or may not be in the control room sometimes but if I am I cannot play favorites but I can chose who I don't want to kill off." As soon as I finish the last part she walks over and hugs me. She hugs me for the first time in 3 years of training together, hanging out together, even laughing and playing pranks or comforting when something goes wrong it's the first time she has ever hugged me and I like it she is the 3rd person who has ever hugged me and the last time was when I around 3 days ago from Cayden but those just feel natural its so natural that when we don't hug it feels weird. I never thought about it much but while some kids say I had the best childhood I say I must have had close to one of the worst. I mean like I never had been able to hangout with other kids or go to regular school or even have friends around my age all of them were peacekeepers and maids and people who worked for my family and the rest of the Capitol and districts. I hug back and we stay like that till a peacekeeper comes to bring me out and she gives me one last glance before she disappears from my view and the doors shut. I realize that I am being escorted to the train...
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