Part 13
I pass Peeta on my way back. "Great job Prim!" He says as I walk by. "Good luck!" I say, and walk back where I came from. Effie told me to come back here, but she isn't here. Neither is Haymitch. I turn the corner to a hallway and find a lot of rooms, all marked with numbers up to 12. I suppose that this is where we go, just walk in the room with our district number and probably find Haymitch or Effie. But when I turn the door knob of the door marked 12, I don't find a green colored lady or a drunken skink. I find screens. A lot of TV screens. At first, I'm not sure what I'm looking at. Everything looks so foreign at first, than it hits me. It's district 12! It's the square, the Justice Building, Victor's Village, the town shops. And the Seam. I see the Seam with the few working light bulbs, smoking chimney's, light from the windows, and my house. My old, broken up house with gutters bench and wood missing. The wire pen where Lady gets milked, and the tree that Buttercup loves to climb and stalk birds. I can even hear the sound of the night creatures that I always listened to as I fell asleep at night. I miss those sounds. I close my eyes an imagine I am in my bedroom, getting ready to get into bed, when I am interrupted. I long scream coming from a girl. Then, I see a small figure run out of my house and down the street. Turning here and there, cutting through back yards, until it finally stops under a street light that works and I make out Katniss. She catches her breath and runs toward Gale's house. Then I see two figures run from Gale's house into the direction of the woods. Why are they going to the woods not only this late, but during the interviews. This type of thing is mandatory, until I think of how long I have been in here. Maybe the interviews are over. I hear the door behind me start to open and panic. I run behind the door just as someone from the Capitol opens it. He walks straight the screen without bothering to make sure the door closes. I know I shouldn't be in here, so I whip around the door and let it fall shut. I walk down the hallway as fast as I can to make sure I don't draw any attention to myself. I get out just in time to see Effie and Haymitch show up with Peeta. Effie is looking worried until she sees me. "Where have you been!?" She all but screams at me. "We have been searching everywhere for you! You were told to come back here!" She says again. "Effie, I did, but no one was here. So I thought I was in the wrong place so I went searching for you. I'm sorry." She looks at me like she is actually a little sorry for yelling and freaking out at me. "Well, I guess it really doesn't matter now. But let's get back up to the pent house shall we?" And she gives me a smile. One that says she is not only sorry, but that I actually mean something to her. Like, she might actually miss me if I get killed in the arena. I can't see this being true considering this is something she looks forward to every year. This event is what she lives for. Yet, she seems almost upset that I was chosen. And in some weird way, it upsets me. I haven't realized how much Effie and Haymitch mean to me, considering I may never see them again. How much I am going to miss them when I get into the arena. How much they will miss me, if I die.