Holding on ( A hunger games story)

The Capitol Games

 The next few weeks were hard because I wasn't allowed to tell anyone or talk to anyone about it besides Gale. There were few people throughout the district that knew, but it wasn't hard to pick who they were. You could see the fear in their eyes as they looked around frantically waiting for a peacekeeper that would never come. The games were over for us, but it sure didn't feel that way.

   After the war and I was able to get on with my life I started to feel guilt as I regretted my decision. We were all asked whether or not we wanted to have on final games, except this time with capitol children. I voted yes. I wish I wouldn't have. I made a lot of bad choices in my life, starting a war was not one of them. I know that for a fact. If the war would not have started I would be a worried mother, it constant stress of my kids going into the games. I wouldn't be with Gale, because I would still be faking my love with Peeta. Everything would be different and it sickens me that because I made one choice, the choice to be the mockingjay, everything would have been differenent. Stupid Captiol.

    The only reason that I was told about these new games was for the most obvious reason. I was selected as a mentor. Gale showed me the list of mentors, there are honestly not many victors left, so they improvised and selected popular names to be mentors. Gale's name was picked, I can say that I am not suprised.

  I don't really want to be a mentor but I don't have a choice, I also have to convince everyone in the districts to "vote" for a tribute. I don't have a choice in that either. The other mentors can't be any more happy than I am. I have to look at that list again.

Mentor 1: Katniss Everdeen

Mentor 2: Peeta Mellark

Mentor 3: Haymitch Abernathy

Mentor 4: Gale Hawthorne

Mentor 5: Annie Odair

Mentor 6: Johanna Mason

Mentor 7: Enobaria

After that I didn't regognize most of the names

Mentor 8: Catherine Chaser

Mentor 9: Sereniea Mars

Mentor 10: Monica Read

Mentor 11: Faith Firm

After that I kind of gave up trying to figure out who these people were. I would meet them soon enough anyways. The capitol was aware that my absense at school would be hard because not many people want to take my job right now. So they set up a system that I only have to be there before the parade, before and after the interviews and all through the training. During the games, I will be teaching at the school during the day but we are watching the games in the classroom anyway so I can watch from there and also send "gifts" from the classroom. At night a helicopter will pick me up and take me to the capitol within minutes, its all so very.... not what I want to be doing with my life.

The day after that we started the games was pretty hard, we got a lot of heartache. We got to know the characters and then it was time for the games...

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I heard the cannon go off and almost took off running and then remebered where I was and took off a breath. The camera showed that the arena was split in four sections, one for each season. The tributes in the winter season were literrly shaking from the cold and they had only been in there 30 seconds. The ones from the winter were panting and sweating horribly, if you were smart you would stay out of those sections. The spring and fall people looked comftorable and I couldn't help but think that the capitol was being unfair by putting some kids in the worst sections, but nothing about the games was fair. The kids in the Winter immediatly took off towards the cornicopia and so did the summer people, but the spring and fall just stood there looking uncertain.