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✿》41 - Gratefulness Day《✿

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It's Gratefulness Day. Lucy Gray has told me about Gratefulness Day before the war. They would have all this food on the table and fruit and everything we didn't have after the war. She said they weren't rich but the adults in the Covey always tried to save up money for a nice Gratefulness Day meal. Right now I'm laying in bed. Today is the day I think I am going to tell Lucy Gray what happened when I got kidnapped. Although it is a holiday, I am ready today and I think if I don't do it today I won't do it at all. I'll probably do it after we eat and after we take our family photo. I don't want to take a family photo because this is not my family. The Covey is my family. Well obviously Lucy Gray is my family, but it still wouldn't be a family photo. I look at the dress that is hung up for me to wear. It is navy blue with light blue and white flowers. It has a ribbon around the waist and it has short sleeves. I have white stockings and blue matching shoes with the dress. I also have a light blue cardigan to go with it. I don't have to get out of bed yet since we aren't really doing anything today but I expect someone to come in and say it is time to wake up. I look over and see Bean in my beanbag. She looks up because she hears my sheets rubbing against each other. Her tail starts to wag and she gets out of the beanbag walking up the ramp to my bed. She walks over to me and starts to lick my face. I giggle a bit and I pet Bean. She does that for a while until she starts to calm down and she lays next to me. I smile and keep petting her as she closes her eyes to go back to sleep. Dogs sleep a lot during the day especially puppies. Puppies sleep from 18-19 hours a day which is most of the day. Once Bean grows up she will sleep about 11 hours during the day.

School is starting to get easy. Everything just comes easy to me. I've already caught up on all the history of Panem and I have already caught up in math for grade 3, which technically I should be in grade 8, but I should catch up quickly with how fast I am going in school with Fauna. Science I am already caught up with grade 8 science. I am actually learning academy level science, which some of it is cool, but some of it is boring. Like physics, it's boring it's just about motion and stuff like that which just doesn't interest me at all. I like biology though, I get to learn about life and stuff like that. I have always known that I am smart. I learned how to read when I was 4 which was way earlier than anyone else in the Covey learned how to read. I didn't start talking for a while, which made Lucy Gray worried, but after I learned how to read and write. I started talking not long after I learned how to read and write. I don't remember what was going on in my head during that time, but I think I turned out just fine. I've started reading a bit about autism and it is common for people with autism to start talking later than other kids. Most of the information is from older books, but it is useful.

I hear a knock on the door and Lucy Gray walks into my room. She smiles at me and Bean starts to wag her tail

"Happy Gratefulness Day, Briar Rose!" Lucy Gray says

"Happy Gratefulness Day" I say to Lucy Gray

"The photographer should be here soon" Lucy Gray says

"I thought we were taking photos after eating" I say to Lucy Gray

"No we're taking them before" Lucy Gray says

"Oh" I say to Lucy Gray

"Come on let's get dressed. Aunt Tigris is going to do your hair" Lucy Gray says

I nod and get out of bed and I put Bean on the ground. I take the dress off the hook and I get the stockings and I get dressed into the dress. I slip on my shoes and I look at Lucy Gray

"You look beautiful" Lucy Gray says

Today I am not going to try and not mention the Covey out loud the whole day. I miss them everyday, but this is Gratefulness Day in the Capitol and everyone is going to be at the table and they think that we are family. I don't consider them family, but I can't say that. Coriolanus will get mad at me for saying that. I don't get what he has against the Covey, and I am sick and tired of not being able to see them. Sooner or later I am going to explode and yell at him about not being able to go home and see my actual family