I'm having a great time, except that I hate sand. It's weird, considering my username and my favorite district. But, I'm weird like that, and who besides me cares what I like and don't like?
Disclaimer: I don't own the Hunger Games. I just own a hunger games T-shirt, a board game, four posters, a calendar, a tribute training shirt, a mockingjay shirt, and 5 notebooks.
Maddie is already in the elevator, and she tells me she checked on floor 2, and Oliver had told her that Anna went up there five minutes ago. Her dark, wavy is held back with a seashell clip. I have to get a clip like that. Oh well, I can definitely get one once I'm a victor. We walk into the garden and find Anna sitting on a bench. We sit on either side of her.
"Hey, guys. So, tell us about Marlin, Victoria." "Okay, but first, Maddie and I want to know what's up between you and Oliver," Anna pales and tries to get up, but Maddie and I sat on either side of her for a reason. She grumbles and sits back down.
"Fine, I'll tell you. Oliver and I used to be sparring buddies. We were best friends. When the academy threw parties and dances, we always went together. We trained and ate lunch together every day. I never thought we would be in the same games. I'm only sixteen, so I didn't think I would win the trials back home, but I was the only girl that used long-range weapons, besides the one that broke her arm a week before the trials, so I won. And he did, too.
"He knows I have enough skill to win the games, and I know he does too. If I didn't volunteer at the reaping, who knows what the training center would have done to me and my family. I only volunteered this year because I had to. Oliver thinks it's great that we're here together. An ally he can trust, you know? Someone he knows won't betray him. But what if we're in the final two together? I don't want to kill him. He's my best friend." She sniffles, tears in her eyes.
"I'm sure that he's thought about the same thing, but if he thinks it's great that both of you are here for the same games when you both have a good chance of winning, then he's not your best friend," says Maddie. Anna wipes her eyes and nods. "Do you have a boyfriend back home, Maddie?" I ask. "Yeah, his name is Sterling," she says. She's doesn't sound like she wants to talk about it, so I don't push her.
"Tell us about Marlin now, Victoria," Anna says. "Call me ViVi. Victoria is a such a mouthful.""Okay, ViVi, tell us about Marlin now." "Okay," I say, clearing my throat, "Marlin is my boyfriend. Well, now he's my fiancé. As you know, he gave me my necklace instead of an engagement ring."
"What were you doing when he proposed to you?" Maddie asks. "I was braiding my sisters' hair. And Marlin came to my house on his moped and walked into the room, waving like a princess. That's why I had to sit down in training. It reminded me of him." Maddie nods.
"Then he asked if he could talk to me in private. So we went into my room. And he said 'Okay. This is your last reaping, so I don't have to worry about you dying in the games anymore. I didn't want to ask you before today just in case something went wrong and you got reaped. What if you had died? All I'd be left with are memories of you. After today, you're safe and I don't have to worry about losing you.'
"Then he paused, but all of a sudden he looked up and asked me to marry him. I was stunned, so I asked him to give me some time to think about it. The chosen volunteer got attacked by a shark the night before the reaping, so I really wasn't safe like he thought I was. Man, I miss him so much." I'm crying by now. "When I got reaped, he started crying. I know that makes it sounds like he's a wimp, but to me it just means that he really cares about me. That's why I got so much attention at the reaping.
"During the goodbyes, he didn't come in at first, and I was so worried that he wasn't coming to visit me. I think he was afraid of getting too attached to and then having to watch me die. But I'm not planning on dying. He came in really late, only after I told somebody to go and tell him that if he didn't visit me and I came home after I won that I'd dump him. Then he proposed officially and he gave me the necklace. I told him to plan a July wedding." I hide my head in my knees so they can't see the tears rolling down my cheeks. Anna pats me on the back.
"Talk about motivation to win. If it makes you feel any better, I promise I won't kill you," Maddie says. "Me, too," Anna quips. "Thanks. Can I call you Maddie?" "Sure you can, ViVi!" she replies. We get back on the elevator again. I get off first, of course. I walk to my room to change into pajamas and go to sleep.
I have one of the strangest dreams I have ever had. A flaming mockingjay carrying a narrow in its beak is being bludgeoned to death by someone who looks like Oliver, but with blonde hair and dark blue eyes, while a girl that look like Anna, but with green eyes and black hair. The. It switches to Marlin singing to me and playing a piano, which is of because the real Marlin doesn't even play the piano. Finally, my head gets back on track and I dream on sitting in the beach while Coral and Pearl play in the water.
R&R, please?