The 26th

Chapter 5

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Chapter 5

I woke up in the morning to everyone around the table eating. Rode was talking to his mentor but I didn’t want to eat. Today was another day of training.

We went down and we started at one of the stations, camoflauge. Rode and I both sucked a painting and found ourselves laughing at how badly we painted our arms to look like trees.

After we were finished with the training, we went to get our diets checked. I was the very last in line so I told Rode to go upstairs without me and id meet him up there. Turn out I gained ½ pound of muscle. Right when I got out the door someone grabbed me.

It was Demetria. She grabbed me and pinned me against the wall. She constricted my airway and I could hardly breath.

“How dare you do it!”

“Do what!” I croaked.

“You took the knife I wanted!”

Just then what must have been 20 peacekeepers busted through the door and pried her off of me. When they finally got her off they told me to go back to the room immediately.

As I walked to the elevator I started crying and by the time I got to the penthouse I was sobbing so hard you could hear me from a mile away.

Right when I got through the door Rode rushed in and saw me crying. I ran to my room and a few seconds later Rode came in and gave me a hug.

“What’s wrong?” He asked.

“Demetrio attacked me.” I sobbed, pausing each word to take a breath.

“Its okay.” He said very nicely. “She just wants to find something to be mad at you for.”

I smiled, not even my own mother would be this nice. I told him I was going to go wash my face and id meet him in the sitting room to talk about the private sessions with the gamemakers.

I washed my face, dried, and allowed myself 3 minutes to think before he got suspicious. Oh, my gosh, I think I’m in love. He’s so nice and mom always told me I need to look for someone who makes me happy, and he does. My 3 minutes were up so I walked into the sitting room. I sat down on the couch, turned on the news, and asked an avox if she could bring me a bowl of something to eat. In District 5 we never have specific choices because we usually had one thing to eat and that was bread.

He came in a minute later and we sat and disscused what to do.

“Well, I don’t think a slingshot will even be enough to get a grade.” I said, laughing.

“I know I’m going to use a spear.” He said.

“I guess I’m going to throw a knife.” I said.

“Do you know what Demetria does?” He asked.

“She specializes in hand to hand combat.”

“Scary.” He said with a flinch.

I got up to get a drink and he followed.

“I was wondering maybe, you wanted to watch another game tonight?”

He said.

“If your asking me on a date, yes, but that’s kind of funny, that the movie is people actually killing each other.” I said, actually really excited in my mind.

“Yea, well, at least one of us is going to die by 2 weeks, so we don’t have much time.”

“Your room or mine?”

“Mine.” He said.

I decided to go to the gym so I got a tank top and sweatpants on and walked out the door. I went down 6 fights on the elevator. The gym is on the -1st floor. I’m not used to all of these floors, underground and above, back a home we had 1. The first.

When I got there everyone stared at me. Usually the people who are at the gym have to gain more than 5 pounds. I had to gain the least besides Demetria. I used the weight machine and as my arms were about to fall off, I started thinking, will I be upset when he dies or will he be upset when I die. Probably.

I went upstairs just in time for dinner. I took my normal seat next to Marina.

“Umm, Marina. Is there anyway they could redo the reaping so Rode wouldn’t have to do it.”

“Ugg, I knew this would happen. You two are inseparable.” I blushed. “But, No, you cant change what happened unless they die and well they might anyway.”

“But I don’t want him to die.” I said, pleadingly

“You cant change the past. That’s the consequences of falling in love.”

I got silent and ate my food. Dried fish, peas, and this stuff they call candied yams. It was delicious.

I met up with Rode after dinner and he told me to meet him in his room at 8 o’clock.

I went to my room and sat there for a while and then I thought about the future.

I loved this boy and he was going to die. Great. Finally, in my life, I come out of my anti-social covering and the it was destroyed.

At a quarter to 8, I got dresses in my comfy pajamas. I waited for 15 minutes and then I walked over. He was setting up the tape.

“Am I too early?” I whispered and obviously startled him.

“No, no, come in.” He said.

As he got the tape playing, I sat on the little couch in the middle of the room.

He come to sit down and the two announcers came on the screen.

“Welcome to the 2nd Hunger Games!” They said. I flinched at ’Hunger Games’.

I watched as one after another was killed. Then I saw her, my great aunt. My mother had told me that she died in here but she had never gone into much detail. I hoped I wasn’t too brutal.

She was sitting under a bush and someone from District 2 found her. She had caused a lot of trouble for them. They pulled her out from under the bush and she started screaming.

“I cant watch it!” I screamed and I put my face in the cushions.

He grabbed my hand and I heard her scream really loud. I started crying. Now, get this straight, I’m not some whiney girl that turns to every boy to protect her. I was actually, truly, crying.

He told me it was over and I got up. He saw the tears in my eyes and grabbed both of my hands.

“Its okay, Its okay. That’s not going to happen to you.”

“But what if it does. We have no idea what happen. The games could be over in 1 minute for all we know. I just want to go to bed.”

“Okay, I’m sorry.”

“Its not your fault, it’s the capitols.” I said, with a smirk.

I ran to my room and started crying so hard I could barely breath. I heard a knock on the door.

“Who is it?” I asked, trying to cover up my voice.

“Its Rode, let me talk to you.”

“Okay, come in.”

“I know its hard to think that one of us will be dead by 2 weeks, but I will do everything in my power to make sure that’s not you.”

“No, you cant do that. You have brothers and sisters, and a mom and a dad. I only have a mom.”

“But your life is so much more precious than mine. Now get some sleep. Ill see you tomorrow.”

I nodded. When he left the room, I thought at least I have one person who loves me.