Before the Epilogue

Chapter 19

I stand in the wing waiting for Caesar to introduce me.

The guards behind me are talking quietly but I can't hear.

Caesar is trying to quite down the crowd but there are too many people and whatever it is they're talking about... it must be really interesting.

Caesar turns his head and sees me standing in the wing. He puts his hand to his ear and a confused look crosses over his face. Caesar waves at the guards.

I turn around and see that the guards have their hand pressed to their ear and they both have a confused look on their face.

"What's going on?" I ask.

"Go get him!" the skinny guard demands the fat guard.

The fat guard scurries off.

"Go get who?" I ask.

Silence.

"Go get who!?!" I shout.

The fat guard comes running back up the stairs panting.

"Where is he!" The skinny guard shouts at the fat guard.

"He won't come," the fat guard says out of breath.

"What do you mean he won't come?!?!"

"He's sitting in the corner and pounding the floor."

"Were his eyes still black?"

"Yes... they looked lifeless."

"Who else is down there?"

"Haymitch, Johanna, Enobaria, Beetee, Gale, Effie, and a few other people who I don't the names of."

Before I know it, I'm spring down the stairs and making my way towards Peeta.

"Don't come by me!" Peeta demands.

I stop dead in my tracks.