Mentor - Peeta Mellark

Chapter 5 - The Mentor's talk

15/04/2019

I awake from my nap in my room on the train by a knock on the door. I was exhausted from all of the things that had happened today. A familiar pink ahired woman walks in. It's Effie, "Darling, the tributes are waiting for you." Only then I notice the train is moving. Katniss and Peeta must have arrived when I was sleeping.

I give her a bright smile,"Of course Effie, I'm coming right away." She perks up,"Ah, wonderful, let's go. I told Haymitch to come too. But you know him, he's...." I follow Effie out of the room but her rant dies away in the back of my mind. I just woke up woman, I really don't need this enthusiastic banter.

We arrive in the cart where Katniss and Peeta are waiting. They're sitting in two armchairs in the heavily decorated cabin. Haymitch does not seem to have arrived yet. He's probably somewhere walking around drunk. Effie also notices he's not there yet,"I'm going to look for Haymitch." She announces.

I go take a seat in the armchair opposite of Peeta's. I cross my legs and put both of my arms on the armrests of the chair. Peeta looks at me with a curious look and Katniss just looks down at her feet. I smile at Peeta and he looks away quickly. I take a deep breath," So, you are the two lucky ones this year." Katniss looks up and gives me her famous blank stare. Peeta gives me a strange look,"How exactly are we lucky? We're going to die and we have to kill innocent kids."

To be fair I was quite surprised by that reply. Not the 'we're going to die' part, that's very predictable. No, it was the part where he said they were going to have to kill innocent kids. Most tributes don't see them as innocent, they see them as an enemy. But nonetheless I had to reply with a sassy remark," That was a joke Bread boy, you are going to have to get used to those." He lifts his eyebrow but he doesn't dare to say anything else.

Then the silence is broken by Katniss, "Are you going to mentor us, Alexis?" I nod, "That is my job isn't it? Telling you two about my worst experiences so you can get better." They don't say anything. "I will mentor you when Haymitch arrives, don't worry Catnip," I tell her. But honestly I don't really know how I'm going to do that.

And a few minutes of silence later Haymitch actually arrives in a drunken state. I knew he would have drunk something but I at least hoped he wasn't this drunk. He looks at Peeta and Katniss and sighs,"congratulations." He walks over to the table with refreshments and picks out a bottle with some kind of liquid. He looks inside the apparently empty ice bucket,"Where is the ice?" I give him a stern look. Is he really going to start this now?

"I..I don't know," Peeta manages to stutter out. Haymitch slams the lid back on top of the bucket and Peeta nervously shifts in his seat. I whisper shout to Haymitch,"Haymitch come sit, now...please?" It might seem strange but when he is drunk he needs that kind of treatment. Haymitch nods and wobbles over to the chair next to me before he sits down with a loud thump.

Peeta apparently takes that as a good moment to ask," So uhm.. " he coughs, "when do we start?" I chuckle, small heads up for Peeta: you need to have a lot of patience with Haymitch.

Haymitch quickly answers. "No, ow" he waves around his arms, " not so eager, most of you aren't in such a hurry." But Peeta doesn't want to give up so easily. "Yeah, I wanna know what the plan is you're our mentor and Alexis said.." Haymitch quickly cuts him off, "Mentor?" "Yeah, our mentor you're supposed to get us sponsors and give us advice," Peeta says sounding quite annoyed.

"Oh okay, embrace the probability of your imminent death," Haymitch said in a casual way. I would've laughed if he didn't say it to Katniss, but this was too important. He continued with a slight smile on his face, "You know in your heart that there is nothing I can do to save you."

Katniss interfered," So why are you here then?" She looked at me, " And why are you here Alexis? You're not exactly helping either." I shuffle in my seat. She's right about that but I just don't really know what to say in this situation. It's my first time mentoring and I rely on Haymitch just as much as they do. But I don't say a thing. Haymitch does however,"The refreshments," he lifts up his glass.

Peeta goes to try and take away his glass but I quickly stop him. "That might not be such a good idea if you want him to like you." Then Haymitch stands up," I'm going to finish this in my room." He slaps Peeta's shoulder and walks out the door.

"He's gonna come around," Peeta says with a determined look," I'm gonna go talk to him." I don't protest because I'm not really in the mood to go talk to Haymitch right now. Besides, I really need to talk to Katniss in private and this gives me the perfect occasion.

I move to the seat next to her where Peeta originally sat. "Catnip," I pause, "I just wanted to tell you that I think that what you did was really brave." She looks up to me," You know I didn't have a choice Lex, she's my little sister, I couldn't let her die." Of course I know that, she loves Prim more than anything. " Yes Kat, and you know that I meant what I said earlier?" She nods," I do remember, I promised Prim the same, that I would win I mean." She pauses," I don't know how I possibly can. Gale said I have to use my bow. But these are people, not animals. " I try to reassure her," I will help you Catnip, I'm your mentor. " I don't want to say anything about the killing people part. She can kill any animal without a second thought. And I'm not saying that's good, but it's a way for her family survive. Killing a person however, an innocent child. I know I can't do it, not anymore at least. I still have nightmares from the one time I had to.

A sly smile appears on my face," And I'm not just going to let my brother's girl die." She looks at me with a strange look, kind of like 'are you serious right now'. Okay it might not be the best moment to joke around but laughing make the bad thoughts go away. And after all, it's a part of my mental list.

I sigh and stand up from my seat. "I'm going to check on Haymitch and Breadboy," I pat Katniss' shoulder and leave the room.

First I go check in the bar cart, but they're not there. Then I decide to go to Haymitch's room. I knock on the door and hear someone say, "Come in." I enter the room and see a strange taferel.

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Oooh cliffhamger what did she see? So I decided I'm going to update this book at least once a week.
So I was wondering if any of you happen to like Harry Potter? I live for it haha, tell me in the comments. Don't forget to like!!