The Hunger Games: What If Katniss Never Existed?

Chapter 10

As they pushed me onto the platform I stumbled and fell face down on the floor. Behind me I heard the snickers of the peacekeepers as a pair or steady arms helped me up, it was Gale. I thanked him and started walking forward, the peacekeepers having to jog I keep up with me. As the crowd parts in front of me I was looking for four familiar faces, four faces that I could not see. When we made it to the doors of the train I finally got to see them, huddled together with pain and agony stretched tight across their faces. Tears dribbled down their faces as mom and dad held and Angelica and Gabe. My heart broke in two as they all saw me and I grabbed me necklace to show them that I would do whatever it takes to win. My family nodded and my parents faces turned it I anger as they saw the peacekeepers and I saw my dad start to walk forward. my mom grabbed his arm and held him back. Suddenly I felt a drop on my hand, a drop that came from my face. It wasn't a tear, it was blood. A thick drop if blood had fallen and I rose my hand to my nose to find a nose bleed from falling. I think that's what made my dad so mad, the blood on my face that only would be there because of peacekeepers. Effie chose just that time to come out and whisper to the peacekeepers. I don't know what she said but I know it was about me. The peacekeepers nodded and released my arm. I sighed in happiness an slowly rubbed circulation back into it. A peacekeeper darted forward and grabbed my other arm and I hissed in anger. He whispered to me, "you are not a cat so do not act like one." I whispered back, "you are an evil clown faced pawn, start to admit to what very one here knows." His face flushed in anger and I could tell because his mask was crooked and exposed his neck. Roughly he threw me forward as I heard gasps and angry shouts of protest in the crowds just before the doors shut closed.