Holding on ( A hunger games story)

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Ok! So the deadline is over and I am happy to announce that some people actually responded! You all did a good job, sadly no one got it right! So I do have one reward to hand out today and that goes to..

The first award goes to: Heyyay for being the first person to respond.

It seems like forever but in all reality in has only been a day since I adopted Cair. Techinally she doesn't belong to me yet but Gale and I are trying to get the papers signed. I offered to take her to school the next day and she agreed to the ride. We were on our way when she started to ask questions that I didn't really have answers too.

"What should I call you?"

"What?" I asked puzzled.

"Well your my teacher, but your also the person thats adopting me. So what should I call you?"

"What do you want to call me?" I asked her.

"Ummm Ms. Everdeen." She said after thinking a moment.
"That's fine by me!"

"Ok!"

The rest of the ride was silent, and that was ok. When we pulled up I watched her walk into school with her friends, laughing and talking normally. Sometimes I forgot that there had ever been a war, this was one of those times,

I climbed out of my car and walked inside to set up the first video. Just the thought of it sent shivers up my spine, I pulled my coat closer around me. It didn't help. As I was walking I thought of how scared I was. I mean, I had seen the hunger games my whole life. I had been in the hunger games and fought and killed. But the fact that I was about too walk through every single game, many before my time, was horrifing.

Suddenly I stopped, right there in the middle of the hallway and put my hand up against the wall. I placed my other hand over my heart in a failing attempt to steady my rising heartbeat. I'm about to watch kids die again, most of them died before I was ever even born! This is so hard! Soon I was able to regain composure and continue my walk to my classroom, but my heart was still pounding and I could still hear it after I opened the door.

By the time I had gotten the video set up all the kids were sitting in there silent. The thing with this district is it was one of the ones that celebrated the games, so it will be a bit harder to convince people to completly change their life style, and this is a big change. But its a good one.

" Good morning class. As I am sure you are all aware of, we will be starting the first day of the first games today. After the war, the school board that was left voted in new members to join and when that was done, one of the first things they did together was decide the curriclum. They agreed upon that each 12th grade history class would spend almost the whole year watching all the hunger games. This will be used for at least 1,000 years in order to remind everyone that the games are not well, games. They are an awful and brutal way to kill people. Everyone please remember that we are in a classroom and we will act ordely while watching these."

I took a breath and looked at all the class as they expressed a range of emotions. Varying from frightened to scared to almost curious and excited.

" The games will take all year to complete, you are not allowed for summer break until they are all finished. Each video includes the reaping, a quick glimpse at the parade, the full interviews, the tributes scores and the entire games. We are not turning this into a game, we are not voting on tribtues. Ok? Are we clear? Good. Lets begin." I said all of this with a straight face but deep inside of me that girl that volennteered for her sister was coming back and putting me on the border line of breaking down and crying.