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CHAPTER FORTY!
040. happy birthday

 || ZERO ||❝let me show you what it's like to always feel, feel, like you're not good enough foranything that's real

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|| ZERO ||
❝let me show you
what it's like to
always feel, feel,
like you're not
good enough for
anything that's
real.❞

➳➳

LILLIAN TITAN COULDN'T help but think that she'd had far too much peace since she's arrived at District 13.

It wasn't like it was obvious to the young girl, or that she spent her free time trying to get rid of the long breaks of silence and loneliness instead of getting lost in it, but she certainly noticed how quiet it always was when she looked back at what she'd done in the day. She noted that most of the time, she was left to read in the corner of a room- or she was in school learning to write as the teacher scolded anybody that whispered to the person sitting beside them. And when she finally was with people, anyone but Finnick and Primrose talked like she wasn't there at all, or like she'd barely learnt to speak.

Before, when she was left on her own for hours on end in District Five she would've had countless things to do. Lillian remembered all the colourful pens and pencils she used to draw with; when she felt a little alone she used to meet up with Tahini who lived two blocks down from the Victor's village and run around the centre of town like it was somewhere else. Once, she even remembered Lorna joining the two girls as they tried to cook a recipe they found stuck on Evelyn's fridge the day before, and sent Tahini back to her family with enough food to last a whole week.

It was typical for young girls to be loud, and yet, Lillian couldn't remember the last time she's actually said a word without being asked a question first.

True, she was only just 10, but she felt as if she could help a little more than just working on her history reading. If she wanted to, Lillian thought she could convince her sister to come back from the Capitol, and she though she could help convince Tahini to come to Thirteen to see her at least one last time. But nobody let her try- Finnick only looked at her with a mixture of terror and pride, before telling her that she couldn't actually bring her sister home.

Maybe she couldn't; she often remembered the times Lorna promised her that she would never leave her alone, and suddenly wanted to throw her book against the wall. She was a liar- she'd lied before when Lillian asked her to play and she said she was too busy- but the girl never thought she's lie to her about that. They were family.

Lillian wouldn't be stupid enough to believe a thing her sister promised her again.

Infact, it became increasingly hard to ignore her doubt about all the many things Lorna had told her over the last two years. Unlike Remy- who she remembered being the most honest and gentle in the family- Lorna wasn't ever happy to see her come home after they moved into their current home; she barely even smiled towards her sister in the months after her visit to the Capitol, and Lillian never failed to notice.

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