Chapter 1 - The Fire
[Katniss' POV]
Today I am marrying the love of my life. Peeta Mellark.
[One Week Earlier]
[Peeta's POV]
Wow. Five years ago today, I was hijacked by the Capitol. "Hijacked" means that they injected me with a certain venom of the tracker jacker bee, and made me be extremely afraid of the love of my life, Katniss Everdeen. But, today is the day that I am going to propose to her. If she says no, I will be crushed. If she says yes, then I will have her. Katniss Everdeen. I mean Katniss Everdeen Mellark.
[Katniss' POV]
As I trudge through the forest, I hear the mockingjays. I stop hunting and whistle Rue's four-tune whistle. They all repeat the melody back to me, and I am reminded that I am lucky to be alive. The mockingjays also remind me of Prim. I blink and a tear rolls down my face, not of sadness, but of happiness because I know that she would love to have seen Panem with The Hunger Games. Okay, more hunting, or Peeta and I won't have any dinner tonight. I see a herd of deer, and notice a small growling noise. I turn around to nine hungry wolves. I only have seven arrows left. They circle me as I load my first arrow. I aim at the biggest one and take it down. I begin running, and my archery is still very good. I hit every wolf in the eye. But there is one more wolf left. I have no more arrows. The nasty thing lunges at me, but I am to fast and it misses me by a fraction of an inch. I run back five feet, retreive the arrow from a dead wolf , and hit the last one. But then I notice something. They aren't just ordinary wolves. They are the wolf mutts from my very first Hunger Games. I see the blonde one with green eyes. Glimmer. Or the tiny dark one with brown eyes. Rue. The last one is blonde. This isn't a mutt anymore. Her blue eyes glow in the sun. She wears the dress she wore to her first Reaping. It's my little sister with an arrow in her arm. I shot her.
