sugar cubes-Finnick odair

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"Nate what are you doing?"

I questioned him while he was sitting alone in the grass back facing me murmuring something I couldn't hear. "I'm going to kill you, might as well get it over with since your gonna die in that arena" he says Cooley slowly getting up with a long sword in his hand "what?" I asked puzzled "Nate what are you doing?"

"You deserve it, you said you wanted to die anyways." I horrified of what I just heard came out of my best friends mouth, then I suddenly look up to him sprinting at me with an evil smirk covering his face. I didn't have enough to time react and he pinned me to the ground. "Hope to see you in hell." He says grinning wildly lifting the sword above his head and...

I woke up startled.

'Nate would never do that, right?' I looked up to the clock to see that it was 2 am. I wouldn't be able to fall back asleep just yet so I decided to go for a walk around the place to see if the food from earlier was still there. I head to the closet slipping on a sweater and making my way to the elevator. As I check to see what levels there are I see there's a roof and decide to see if it was any good. As I make my way onto the roof I snuggle into the small sweater that I brought that brings little to no warmth. I decide to just stand quietly on the other side of the roof looking up at the stars.

I sit there looking up at the peaceful stars dreaming about what would happen if I lived but quickly shut that thought down. There's now way I'm going to win.

I stand up and start to walk to the elevator deciding it was too cold to stay. I go into my room and lay in my bed trying to figure out how to fall asleep when the thought of death is on my mind.

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as the days pass I realize that the training rankings are happening tomorrow and I'm really nervous. I know I'm good at throwing knives but it's not very shocking just average. Enough to kill a bird or rabbit but a human? Guess we'll find out. As I slowly head off to bed from the long day at the training center I get a weird feeling but brush it off. I go to lay in bed and fall asleep almost immediately from how tired I was from training.

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I seem to wake up at district 6 I'm in my house and my family is there but they seemed perked up and happy today. 'That's odd' I think "well good morning sweetie." Says my mom sweetly, she turns around to have a nice but weird smile resting on her face as if it was always there. I can see that my brother, dad and Nate are there also but they are to busy stuffing their faces full with food. And that's when I see it, the food, it's rotten covered with maggots and small bugs as I realize what's happening it starts, "we wanted your death to come sooner, like a live broadcast but right in front of our eyes." My dad says "it's not like your going to survive the games" as they slowly start to come creeping up to me, Nate with his sword dad and mom with knife and my brother atlas with a huge butcher knife. "You're worthless! Worthless I should have never had you!" My mom screams "Bet you'll be the first tribute dead in that arena! Dead!" "Your going to die as pithy of as your sister!" They all scream at me.

I jolt awake and realize I have tears streaming down my face. I don't want to stay here right now, this room is suffocating. I decide to go into the kitchen and get a glass of water and some tissues.

I quickly calm Myself down and realize how exhausted I am from just being in this foreign place. 

I'm wide awake, I can't sleep even though I have to, tomorrow we're doing the tribute scores and it's ok if I don't get low but I want to at least get a 8. I know I'm worth something and I'll put up a fight. As I walk into the room with all the other tributes waiting it looks like I'm the last one so the announcer finally tells district 1 boy to go. As I sit down next to Matthew I notice how many young children are here. It looks like there's around 4 12 year olds that got picked this year including Matthew.