I head back into District 4 trying desperately to hide myself from the crowds of people. I manage to get by without any rotten food in my face, which is good. I get home and head straight upstairs to my room. I walk over to the window and look outside. My gaze shifts to the wall where I wrote my goals for fixing my life.
All of them have a check mark printed next to them. Now, I have an entire summer to do whatever I want until next reaping.
"Did you see that?" Daniel says as he comes in my room, followed by Noah and his new girlfriend, Jessica. Jessica and him have actually been dating for a long time, 2 years.
"What?" I ask them, not really in the mood to talk. I don't want to be rude and tell them to leave though.
"Peeta and Katniss both won! Isn't that illegal? I mean, what were they thinking when they let them both win?" He exclaims, obviously excited at the previous events and what they will bring. Me, not so much.
"I guess it's better to have two victors than no victor. Plus, then everyone would be on their case about forcing the star crossed lovers to fight to the death." I say, finding myself fighting on the Capitol's side. I tend to stay far, far away from them and their opinions on life.
"Yeah, but there have been other lovers in the arena. And the Capitol didn't let them live." Daniel brings up. It is true and you can see them scattered every 10 years or so often. The rare cases when two tributes seem to find love in the arena.
"It is easier to keep your love a secret than go bragging it to the entire world. It also helps when you have Peeta's looks and Katniss' love for her little sister." I explain. I really hope that I don't have to go back to the Capitol again to perform my duties. I hope Peeta will for me. That will never happen though, because Peeta and Katniss are the Capitol's hot couple.
Noah stands in the background of all of this, just holding Jessica's hand. When a silent moment comes, he drops to one knee and tries to pull something out of his pocket. Of course, him being Noah, he can't get it out so he has to change his position to pull out the small black box. I know what is going to happen almost immediately, but Daniel still remains clueless.
"Jessica Kama, I love you so much, and will you marry me?" Noah asks as he opens the black box to show a silver ring. Jessica starts crying and I know that I should feel happy for them, but all I can thing about is how my boring summer has just been ruined. We don't like to wait around for weddings, so the wedding will probably be within two months or so.
I miss the entire rest of Jessica's reaction because I am too busy watching Daniel. He is really confused at first, and then he finally makes sense of it all. I then realize that Noah proposed to Jessica in my bedroom. Odd.
We make our way down the stairs and Jessica is still crying. We head outside and Noah and Jessica leave to go tell their parents. I sigh, loud enough for Daniel to hear.
"And with that, we just got plans for every single rest of the day for two months." I say.
"You know, we will get to be the best men." He tries to bring up a good point.
"Yeah, but now we have to deal with wedding planning, marriage problems, and eventually child problems."
"We really are going to hate this." I say. Across the street, Annie comes out of her house and walks over to our location on my porch.
"What is all the shouting about?" She asks as she takes a seat next to me on the bench.
"Noah and Jessica are getting married." I explain. She smiles.
"How fun. When I was in the second grade, Jessica and I would spend hours planning our wedding day. I bet I still have the plans somewhere." She remembers. Jessica and Annie are best friends.
"That would be really helpful because we have taken the role upon ourselves of wedding planner." Daniel tells Annie.
"We have?" I ask him, unaware of my new position.
"Well, I am, and I am not doing this alone."
So much for my boring summer.
The contest is still going on! Just review this chapter and put your answer in the review, if you know it. All rules are on last chapter. Here is your question:
We all know that Finnick is amazing with a trident. What is another skill that Finnick has in the arena?