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A couple of days ago I talked with everyone about getting strawberries and today is that day. It is a beautiful but sweltering day outside and there isn't a cloud in the sky. Everyone is sitting around the house sweating because it is so hot outside. I pick up a bucket and put a book in the bucket so I can spend some alone time in the woods.
"I'm leaving to go pick strawberries, is there anything else that we need while I'm in the woods?" I ask everyone,
"Could you check how close the katniss plants are to being ready? And also pick some more blackberries too?" Barb Azure asks,
"Yeah I can. Is it ok if I put them in the same bucket?" I ask Barb Azure,
"Yeah that's fine we can organize them when you get back." Barb Azure says,
"Ok, well I'll see you in a couple of hours." I say walking out the door and walking towards the woods. There is a Katniss patch near the lake but there is also a Katniss patch closer to us and it is kinda near where the strawberries are which is good. I won't have to do as much walking. I like walking by myself it gives me time to think about everything without anyone talking to me and I get to speak to myself out loud which is super nice also. I walk past the rock and tree that Lucy Gray usually plays her guitar on. I can almost picture her and hear her voice on the rock and I can see myself sitting there looking at her and listening to all of her songs that she has come up with. Seeing the rock makes me sad so I walk past it quickly. The Hunger Games officially started as of yesterday and now is when I am really scared. I am scared that my sister will never come back and I will never see her ever again and I don't want that to happen. We were supposed to protect each other until we couldn't anymore. Even though I couldn't get reaped this year. It is my last year before I do get put into the names. I'm scared for next year. What if I get reaped? What if I die? That scares me. Mayor Lipp already hates us I wouldn't be surprised if I get picked next year for the reaping. I probably won't but what if I do that will be awful.
By the time I stop overthinking I have made it to the patch of Katniss. I pull up one of the flowers and I look at the roots. It's not even close to being ready to eat yet. We will probably have to give it another month or so before we can start eating the roots. That's not a good thing because we could really start using these right about now. Since we aren't performing at the hob we have really been struggling more than usual to get food so most of the time meals consist of a single piece of bread and some goats milk from Shamus and sometimes berries. Berries have been more usual now since it is something we can get from the woods easily since they are in season.
I walk away from the Katniss patch and I walk towards where the strawberries should be. There are usually a lot of strawberries around this one spot in the woods and I know exactly how to get to that one spot in the woods. I keep walking until I find the strawberries. I take my book out of my bucket and I start to pick the strawberries. Since I don't have anyone else with me it might take a little time before I have enough strawberries to move on and pick some blackberries.
After about an hour and a half the bucket is full with strawberries so I pick up the bucket and my book and I start walking towards where the blackberry bushes are. The sun is coming through the trees a little but being in the woods is giving me shade and it isn't as hot here as it is in the open. Once I get to the blackberry bushes I start to pick them too. This time it takes me a bit longer since I am getting bored of picking berries. Usually when I come to pick berries with Maude Ivory or CC we make it a game of how fast we can pick the berries, but right now I am picking them by myself and it is starting to get boring and I don't want to do it anymore. I just want to sit against a nearby tree and read my book. Even though I have read this book before I want to read it again. Tam Amber says next time we have extra to take to the hob we can get a new book for me since last time I went to the hob I wasn't able to get a new book. I decide to start and sing a song to pass time.
Puff, the magic dragon lived by the sea
And frolicked in the autumn mist in a land called Honah Lee
Little Jackie Paper loved that rascal Puff
And brought him strings, and sealing wax, and other fancy stuff
Oh, Puff, the magic dragon lived by the sea
And frolicked in the autumn mist, in a land called Honah Lee
Puff, the magic dragon, lived by the sea
And frolicked in the autumn mist, in a land called Honah Lee
Together they would travel on a boat with billowed sail
Jackie kept a lookout perched on Puff's gigantic tail
Noble kings and princes would bow whenever they came
Pirate ships would lower their flags when Puff roared out his name
Oh, Puff, the magic dragon lived by the sea
And frolicked in the autumn mist, in a land called Honah Lee
Puff, the magic dragon, lived by the sea
And frolicked in the autumn mist, in a land called Honah Lee
A dragon lives forever, but not so little boys
Painted wings and giant's rings make way for other toys
One gray night it happened, Jackie Paper came no more
And Puff, that mighty dragon, he ceased his fearless roar
His head was bent in sorrow, green scales fell like rain
Puff no longer went to play along the cherry lane
Without his lifelong friend, Puff could not be brave
So Puff, that mighty dragon, sadly slipped into his cave
Oh, Puff, the magic dragon lived by the sea
And frolicked in the autumn mist, in a land called Honah Lee
Puff, the magic dragon, lived by the sea
And frolicked in the autumn mist, in a land called Honah Lee
I sing that over and over until the bucket is full and I can finally read my book for a little bit. This time I am reading Snow White and the seven dwarves. It's a good book and I enjoy reading it a lot. Although it is a bit weird with the dwarves and everything I still enjoy reading the story of the evil stepmother who wanted to kill Snow White and how she actually got away from the evil stepmother. About halfway through my book I start feeling something wet. There is no cloud in the sky so why am I wet? That is when I realize when I look up there are big gray clouds over and it starts to rain even harder. The bad thing is I am at least an hour away from home so this will definitely be a nice walk back. I quickly pick up the bucket of strawberries and blackberries and I start to make the walk back to the house. Each second I walk I get more and more wet and with more time that goes by the cooler it gets and that means I am starting to get cold. I am only a 15 minute walk back and I am already shivering from being cold. The rain really cooled down everything so it isn't sweltering hot anymore I am just wet and cold right now. I would really like to be back at the house where there is a roof so I won't get wet.
About 45 minutes into the walk my teeth are chattering and my hands are blue from being so cold. I have always gotten cold easier than other people so it's nothing new for my hands to turn blue or for even my feet or lips to turn blue I just get cold super easily and that is how it always is so when it gets cold we always make sure i have enough layers but I wasn't expecting it to rain today so I didn't bring anything else with me except my bucket and my book. Once I get back to the house I am about ready to start crying from being so cold. I would really like a warm bath but I know that will never happen. As I walk in the front door.
"Oh thank god we thought something happened to you while you were out in the rain. Why don't you go change out of your wet clothes." Barb Azure says, and I nod and go and get some new clothes to put on that aren't wet. Once I get dressed into something dry we all sit on the floor sorting the berries into blackberries and strawberries. That takes a good amount of time since the bucket is so big. Once we sort them out we put them in two separate buckets so we don't have to sort them again. I still shiver as we are doing that.
"Are you cold Briar Rose?" Maude Ivory asks,
"Y-yeah I am," I say shivering.
"Ok let's get you upstairs to the loft we don't want you catching a cold. I'll throw every blanket we have on you so you can stay warm." Barb Azure says,
"O-ok," I say standing up while shivering and I climb up the ladder to the loft. Once I get up there I immediately go to my cot pulling my thin blanket over myself. That's when Barb Azure comes up and pulls everyone else's blanket off of their cots and put them on me so I can stay warm and not get a cold. I pull Cuppy close to my chest and Barb Azure brushes some extra strands of hair out of my face. The motion of someone rubbing my head or brushing their fingers through my hair it makes me feel super sleepy. My eyes start close as I try and not go to sleep but I end up falling asleep pretty soon after closing my eyes
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Colorful Flowers
FanfictionBriar Rose Baird is the younger sister of Lucy Gray Baird, come and follow Briar Rose throughout The Hunger Games and after to see what happens and find her way through.....
