Late Primrose in the evening light

Chapter 3

My heart is beating.I can hear it.

I remember the Dark Days. I remember the past Hunger Games. I remember the mine explosion. The time I almost starved to death with my mother not responding to me. The time i was trying to heal someone, But it didn't work, so I watched them die inmy hands. The times I've seen other people enter to fight and never come back.

So many lives have been lost.

And now mine.

This all flashes through me in one moment.This can't be happening, I'm only twelve! That one slip made me a competitor.My heart is beatingharder, I can feel it. My palms are sweating. My whole body is sweating. My mind is foggy.'Did she really just call me name? ' I think. I can't understand anything. But somehow, I walk to the middle and start to make my way to the stage, with peace keepers trailing behind me. I can hear people disapproving that a twelve-year-old has to go in The Hunger Games.What brings me to my senses is a loud shout.I reconize the voice."Katniss" I think. I know exactly what she is going to do.She is going to volunteer, then fight to the death in who knows where. She will have a chance, to come out alive that is, but if she doesn't.....I don't know, i just know that I'll have to watch her struggle to stay alive, almost die, I need to watch all of it.I just can't let that happen.

"I volunteer" Scream Katniss. she comes up and pushes me behind her." I volunteer as tribute!" she says. It's then I realize that I am crying."No, Katniss you can't go, I need you!" I try to tell her in my mind. "No Katniss." But I said it in only a whisper. I wipe away my falling tears, stand straight and scream loud and clear "No! I volunteer as tribute, and since I was the original tribute I have the right, I demand it! And if you don't let me go, I will kill myself and you will be held responsible!" I say, pointing to the woman who always anounces the tributes. Prim, what happened to you? I know this is not who I really am. I am usually not in the mood for voilence or the killing of people. But I say that so strong and maybe like a little rebel that she says that I will be the tribute. I still can't believe that I said that. I am usually such a caring and sweet person, that's exactly what I have been. I was never that mean.I even threatened to kill myself. Wow, just wow.

The lady is still hesitating to let me go in the Hunger Games, but she quickly takes out and looks in a tiny pocket book of hers with the Panem seal on it, which, I'm guessing is the rules for the Hunger Games.She then puts it away, and announces that I am the tribute.

Once Katniss finds her voice, she tries to tell the lady that I can't go in the Hunger Games. "No, Prim, you can't do this! Prim, no!" she tells me. Peacekeepers have to tug her away while she tries to resist. Sometimes, I get a little irritated of how people always treats me like a little kid so I try to act confident and not depressed while I walk up on stage, ignoreing the gasps from people and a twelve-year-old.I face the audience, although I feel like crying out a pool and screaming at the top of my lungs.

"Who was that other girl that was trying to volunteer for you?" The speakers question snaps me to attention. "That was Katniss Everdeen, and she is my older sister." I say confidently, beacause I am proud to call her my sister. "Wouldn't want her stealing all the glory, would you? Well, for now let's move on to the boys, shall we?" she says, making her way to the other bowl with the boys name in it. I shiver as I remember how many slips Gale has got in there. She then picks a slip, and walks over to the microphone. In a loud clear voice, she reads out "Peeta Mellark".

A blond boy, fairly handsom, walks up on stage. I believe he is a bakers son. I glance at Katniss and see recognition flicker across her face as she watches the boy walk up on the stage.She must have seen him somewhere.The speaker says " Our tributes from district 12, Primrose Everdeen and Peeta Mellark.Well, come on you two, shake hands" in her squeky Capitol voice.Peeta gives me a reasurin squeze. And then we are taken to the Justice Building.

Here is where I will say my goodbyes to my loved ones, probably for the last time.

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