Not This Time (Hunger Games)

Chapter three~ Scarlette

Scarlette

  What happened and where am I? These are the first things that pop into my head when I wake up. I look around the room; I am lying on a red velvet couch with peace keepers guarding the door to the room. The room I am in looks like it is made of silver. The walls are a dull gray colour, but they shine like diamonds. I look around one more time, and then I remember what happened, I had volunteered for the Hunger Games. So I must be in the Hope Building.

  I remember Sugar Sweet complimenting me on how brave I must be (suuure, like I of all people am brave!), and then everything gets fuzzy. I think I must have fainted.

   The peace keepers realize I’m awake. They come over and check on me. They are talking, but I’m not listening. I am thinking about where Kyle is. Some questions I ask myself are: Will he save me or will I save him? Will we join the career tributes?  Do I have any chance of winning? I really don’t have answers to any of these questions…

  And it’s killing me! I am the kind of person who has to know everything. I can’t sit around and wait for answers; I have to get them myself! So, even though the Peace Keeper is still talking to me, I get up and go towards the door. I guess I’m not supposed to do that though, because one peace keeper grabs the back of my dress and hauls me back to the couch. I give him the hardest glare I can manage, which is hard because I am just realizing the full impact of my actions, I, Scarlette Sparks, is going to be in the hunger games and mostly likely die, along with my best friend. Life’s Great, isn’t it?

  I’m still trying to block out most of the Peace Keeper’s talking, but he’s yelling so loud now, I decide to listen. I guess he can sense when I’m listening because he stops yelling. Now gently as he can (which is not gentle at all) he tells me “You have volunteered for the Hunger Games, Almost 2 minutes after you got on stage you fainted, immediately you were carried into the justice building. That’s where you are now” of course I already know that. I’m not dumb like Peace Keepers! But I pretend to listen any way.

  Finally, when it looks like he is done talking I ask him “Where is Kyle Dixon who got chosen for the Hunger Games?” of course when I FINALLY get to ask my question they ignore me! How ignorant. I decide this is not the time to get fussy and start complaining, so I sit and wait. It is only about one minute before I see my mother come through the doors.

  The Peace Keepers leave the room, but I’m guessing they are right outside the door and will be listing to every word we say. But I guess my mother doesn’t know that because as soon as they leave the room she is hugging me while bawling her face off. I’m not really sure what to do, so I just hug her back. I tell her I have a chance of surviving, but she says I probably won’t (nice mother, right?). She just has to remind me that it’s a Quarter Quell and there will be 1% maybe a 2% chance of me winning. I’m just about to say “I love you” when the peace keepers march in and tell her to get out. She hugs me one last time then leaves. I’m going to miss her. But truthfully, I think she needs me more than I need her, which is why I’m going to win this thing! I am going to WIN the horrible, treacherous Hunger Games for my mother! But what can I do about Kyle then? Only one person can win these games!

  I thought that was it, but then I see someone else coming through the door, I let out a little gasp of shock when I see his face. He looks REALLY shy. I bet he is. But it’s good that he was able to get up enough nerve to come in here! But when he says this I really am shocked! “Scarlette, I want to say this before you go, and it’s really hard for me to get out, but… but… I might… I might just… just happen… I might just happen to… to… Scarlette, I really like you” his cheeks turned so red they looked like the tomato soup my mom used to make! Then his face turned normal as he tried to act all cool and said “Well, I had to say it onetime or another didn’t I? I mean, I don’t want you going in that awful arena without knowing that!”

   I think my cheeks are about as red as the tomato soup now! “Devin, I can’t talk about my feelings right now! I promise I will try to come back and talk about this, I mean… I promise I won’t die.” He looks like he is starting to get uncomfortable with all the talk of dying and such.

  But I do have to tell him one more thing I might regret later on “And Devin, before you leave, what I just promised you, that was a lie. I’m kind of going to do anything I can to keep Kyle alive, do you know what I mean? Kyle is my best friend, and I would die for him. I just want you to know that I… I… don’t think you should waste your time on me.” And with that the Peace Keepers come in and drag him out, didn’t look so hard for them to do, he was as limp as one of my old toy dolls.  I think I might have even saw a little wet spot on his cheek.

  Okay, I definitely regret that already. Now I broke his heart, and I most likely won’t be coming back to fix it.          

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AN: Eew this is Way too short! Sorry ): I have a funny story of how we got the names for the guys.... So my friend Kiera and I put a few names in a hat and they were supposed to be names of people that we didn't know, but I was being a dork and put in the name Noah, who was one of her friends. She pulled it out of the hat somehow, and she freaked. So I agreed to have to guy characters and let her choose one, and Devin came up because he's this guy everyone thinks I like for some reason aha. Any ways.. oh crap that wasn't funny at all.... oops. So a really good song is Wings by Macklemore!

Tootdaloo! (aka bye) ;)