A Four Note Friendship ~ A Hunger Games Fanfiction - ON HOLD

Part 5 - Training - Rue's P.O.V

I wake up to Magenta rapping on my door telling me to get up.

“It’s going to be a big, big, big day!” she said.

It feels like a dream/nightmare so I go back to sleep hoping I’ll wake up back home in District 11. 

When I wake up again I’m at home in my bed, I guess today must be the reaping and it was just a nightmare. I get out of bed and get dressed in my reaping outfit, I walk into the kitchen and I see my father cooking breakfast.

We didn’t have any breakfast in the nightmare, well that must be because it was just a dream.

“Good morning, father!” I say but I hope I don’t bother him.

“Oh, Rue!” He’s crying. The only time I’ve ever seen him cry was when I was reaped in my dream. “I’m so worried that you could be reaped! I had this dream where you were reaped! Oh, I hope it doesn’t actually happen!”

He’s being a bit hysterical but as I’m only twelve I guess I understand why he’s worried about me. It’s 11 ‘o clock so the reaping begins in an hour.

“Father? I’m going to go and wake the girls up.” I tell him. I leave the room and go to their room. I have a separate room than the other girls. When Caroline was born I got this room because there wasn’t enough room for all of us in there so I got my own room.

“Girls, it’s time to wake up! The reaping is in an hour.” I say trying to wake them but they tell me to leave them alone. I try to wake Caroline, when she opens her eyes she gasps.

“YOU’RE ALIVE!” She yells. I shush her.

“Why are you yelling? Of course I’m alive!” I tell her.

“I had this dream last night, you were reaped and I was sure you were going to die! I was so scared for you!” Caroline tells me, she’s started to cry now. I’m telling her to calm down, that I’m fine but she won’t stop crying.

“Okay girls. Now it’s time to wake up now! It’s my first reaping and I’m really nervous so I don’t need all of you refusing to wake up and crying!” I tell them, I feel like I’m their mother. They’re just staring at me. “Get dressed now and come downstairs for breakfast!” I say and walk out of the room.

I’m tired of never being listened too! I may only be twelve but I’m still the oldest! I walk into the kitchen and father has prepared breakfast, some bread made out of the tessarae grain and some meat the butcher must have given him.

“Mmmm, that smells really good!” I say. He stares at me questioningly, he’s asking me where the girls are so I shake my head and roll my eyes. Father just sighs. We sit down at the dinner table and start eating.

It’s the girls’ fault, I told them to get dressed and come into the kitchen right away! A few minutes later they arrive.

“You’re late!” I say but then I see that they’ve been crying. I am so annoyed with these girls! After the girls have finished eating we all leave for the square together.

I go and sign in and my father and the girls go and stand in the crowd of families. I walk towards the twelve year old girls and find Petra, Chloe and Amy.

“Hey, guys.” I say. They’re glaring at me. I’m not sure what I did. “What’s wrong guys?” I ask them.

“You know what you did! You were really mean to us!” Petra says and they walk away. I stand alone waiting for Magenta. While Magenta and the mayor are talking I’m looking around at everyone but whenever I meet someone’s eyes they just glare at me. Magenta is walking to the bowl with the names of the girls. She’s picked a name.