The Hunger Games - Second Quarter

5

The next morning was a bit of a rush, I woke up late and was quickly rushed into the dressing cart. I was dressed into a white dress that had long sleeves but was cut out at the shoulders which were paired with black heels, my make up was a Smokey eye and my hair was curled and put into a waterfall braid the similar to the I had in the games, and my nails were painted a bright pink.

"Here she is our little fighter. " Katniss says.

"Yeah screw the whole girl on fire thing, this ones a fighter." Haymitch laughs.

I give him a smirk, yeah i'm a fighter but I'm also the Girl On Fire.

"Here are your cards." Effie says handing me a card with words written on them.

"Were supposed to read these?" I ask.

"Yes." She says handing one to Gale who had just walked out of a dressing cart.

"Now we have to get going were already running late."

I followed Effie out of the train into a big brick building.

"Dont do anything stupid." Effie warns us as we walk up steps.

"You'll do great." Katniss says as I open the doors to the stage, Gale behind me. We walk onto the stage and the crowd claps.

"Hello." Gale speaks into the microphone. "District 11, family's of the fallen tributes. "

"My name is..uhm.. Elsa Everdeen and I was a victor of the 74th annual Hunger Games. " I stutter to get out, it was so scary standing there while these people stare at you thinking that was the person who won not my son or daughter.

"And i'm Gale Hawthorne. " Gale says.

"We honor the families who have lost their child without Rue or Thresh Myself and Elsa wouldnt be here today, and thats why we want to give the families some of our earnings every month till death." Gale says into the mic he was looking down while he said it and completely avoided saying what was on those Que cards. "Thank you."

"Wait." I say looking up from the ground and walking to the mic. "I just.. I want to say, thank you to the families, Thresh could've killed me but he showed remorse and spared my life because I didn't leave Rue when she needed me, he also saved me. Rue, was a beautiful amazing girl she deserved way more then what she got she deserved to live a full life, I see her anywhere I go, in my house when i can hear my sister play the flute because she told me how much she loved music, in the forest when I can hear the sound of mocking jays, and anywhere else, without Rue I would have died from the Tracker Jacker stings but she saved me and I still dont know why, so thank you I honor you and wish you the very best of luck i'm sorry." I could see the tears in most the peoples of District 11's eyes.

"Lets go." Gale says quietly and starts to walk with me off the stage but an older man sings the melody that I sung in the arena and puts his three fingers in the air. I hear a snap of the peace keepers whips and they push their way through the crowd to the man.

"No." I whisper. They take him to the stage and pull out a gun.

"No!" I scream as Haymitch, Gale, Cinna, Peeta, Katniss, even Effie try to pull me into the back. "No!"

Boom.

That was the last thing I heard before I saw the man go limp on yhe ground in front of the whole District.

"Shh Elsa." Katniss says soothing my hair.

"Help me get through this." I cry to her.

"It dosent end here." Haymitch says.

"What?" I ask.

"You never stop going to these things, you're mentors now and you will remain mentors until the next victor is from District 12, by that time you'll probably be dead we dont have a very good winning rate you know." He says.

I groan. "I just want to go home."

"Lets go back to the train." Gale says.

I look out the window as the peace keepers take the body somewhere.

"Okay." I nod.

Sorry for the long wait of an update I've been busy with other stories hah sorry i'll try my best to update more often