Prim Everdeens P.O.V (The Hunger Games)

Chapter 3

Once the cheese is finished, Katniss comes into the Kitchen. She looks at us and then she sits at the table. "Are we going to that Funeral?" I ask mother breifly and she nods. She puts a bit of fish on a plate and adds some vegtables and potatos on it too. I sit next to Katniss. Mother places the food down on the table and makes up another plate. She places the next one infront of me. Then she creates another, and she places that one at the spare seat. she eats that one herself while I and Katniss eat ours too. Mother finishes just after us and she props the plates in the sink, she lets them soak. 

I pull on my black skirt that I've had since Fathers funeral and then a black jumper which is a little streched. I place on my black straped shoes and then I look over to Katniss. Shes got black on too. just some trousers that are dirty and faded. Mother comes in with her funeral outfit from someone elses a few years back. We all sit at the table and wait silently for 7pm to come when the man, His name is tony, should arrive. Theres a sudden knock at the door and we all jump. i rush over to it and answer it. He comes in as i say so and I walk him down to the room where his wife lays. Mother cleaned her body up earlier and she is now out of her wraps. Mother joins me and She shakes hands with Tony. "Here we are" Mother says, opening the door. All that lies over the body of Tonys wife is a thin cloth, to keep the flies out. He steps forwards as Mother takes the cloth off her head and folds it at her stomach. He begins to cry slowly and then says, " thank you Mrs Everdeen, for all you have done, That is her" 

Mother and I slowly wrap her up in the same cloth as he didn't want her wraped like some sort of Mummy. He picks her up in his arms and carrys her out the house. we all walk behind him, then we meet with his Daughter, (maybe his Niece?) and we carry on to his house. He stops here for a moment, leaving his wife leaned up a fallen tree. He comes back with some dresses, shoes and some drawings.He hands them to his daughter/ niece and we all walk up to the Meadow. We climb the fence, passing over the body from us to Tony and we all gaver around a hole, already dug. Theres two men here, with shovels in the hands. "Thanks Boys" Tony says to them with a nod, his eyes are puffy red and his cheeks stained with tear lines. Her lowers her body into the hole and then lays the 3 dresses around her- a white wedding dress, a blue thrilly thing and a green suit dress- then he adds the shoes which match the dresses- some white shoes, some aqua shoes and then some green flat brogues- He puts a drawing of someone in her hands. Its the little girls portrait. I stand by mother and Katniss. Tony is holding the little girls shoulders. "Mommys in heaven now darling" Tony says, pointing to the sky. I look up to where his finger points. 

"I know Daddy" She whispers, crying into her dads stomach. She must be a little younger than me. I look round to her and then step to the hole, i look down and place a Rose down on her, I put it in her arms and then Tony nods in thank you sort of way. He then puts in another drawing of the Meadow. Its beautiful and coloured and I seem to be thinking why he would want to put them down in a hole. then i remember that they were important to the woman in the hole. "Thank You Mrs Everdeen" Tony says, then he looks to the two men standing infront of the hole. The begin to put the soil back into the hole and were all soon puffy red eyed and have tear lines. We all do the three finger salute to the grave and then Tony places a largish stone at the head of it, (the end where her head was). 

We all end up in tonys house, talking about things that have happened since the Rebelions. "here look a this News Paper" Tony says passing it to me. I read the headline 'REBELIONS ARE OVER' and then I look up to tony, " How did you get these?" I ask him, curiously. "My Dad, he was there...He left this house to me." Mother looks up silently and sips her tea. Katniss is drinking her tea too. I drink mine just to blend with them and then were all drinking at the same time. Tony decides to tell us about his Daughter, whos gone off to bed. 

"She was an accident" He begins, " Me and my wife didn't want a child.We didn't want to have to suffer the pain of every Reaping...What happens if she got picked?" I stare at him and remember tomorrow is the next Reaping! I then begin to panic. "Shes only 10 still but in 2 years...she could be up there, on that stage, with that horrid lady Effie Trinket, who smiles funny. She could have her name read off that paper!" He begins to cry then and then he smashes a glass off the floor and Mother decides its time to go.