Everlark • the perfect ever after

Chapter 10 KATNISS

I guess this is what it looks like when you die. At first you don't realize it's happening until the deep pain in your chest suddenly stops. I guess, after, you pretend to breath but it's only a reflex. Still I don't get why I can still see around me? I see Peeta and some people running into the room. Peeta's eyes are not filled with anger anymore, but the opposite. He is crying, very faintly, but still crying. His eyes become glossy and small. He gets up, shacks his head and rubs the tears from his eyes. He runs out of sight. For I am dead, I do not go after him. I guess he goes out the front door.

I stay down, many people over me. What next? I guess I don't know. I just stay here and wait for nature to take is tole so I can fully be gone. But nothing happens! I stay endlessly on the ground. Is this what death is?

One lady leaves my side and heads to the other room. She comes back with a red hot bar of metal. What would she need that for? As she advances towards me when I realized why she has it. She wants to try to awaken me with it.

Oh no. She will be very disappointed when she sees I'm dead. She gets so close to me I guess I pretend to feel the warmth for the bar of metal, but odiously I wouldn't feel any kind of pain or warmth as I am dead. She comes down with the red hot tip and-

Pain, pain, pain. I look down at my forearm. She has placed the red hot piece of the metal bar on my skin. Before I now it I'm punching her in the face and sitting up to clench my arm.

I'm not dead.

The pain is excruciating. I take my firmly griped hand off my forearm to take a look at the burn. It's really bad. I only see it for a split second before I hastily put my hand over it again, but what I see is horrific. There is one small spot on my skin that is boiling. You can see the few bubbles on my skin trying so settle and heal but it's no use. After a few seconds it stops boiling and sets to a new kind of terrible. My skin groups up in the middle of the burn stretching the skin around it and making all of that skin white as snow. It's Almost surreal.

Even though I'm not dead, Peeta did try to kill me, and that is a grudge I will never get over.