Rose on Fire

Chapter 8

(Gale POV)

I wake up knowing that Annie is in the Capitiol, she must've caught an early hovercraft ride. I know that she's having a rough time raising Fin on her own. She has troubles living without Finnick, that's why I look after her now. I look over to my bedside table with the alarm clock on it, 8:46 it reads. I love Annie, but I know she will never love me back as much as she loves Finnick.

I get out of bed just in boxers. I look out of the window to see Annie's house right next to mine her house dark, and empty. I love Annie, I do, but I also love Johanna, with a personality similar to mine. I fell in love with Johanna the second I saw her when I got her out of the Capitol, she was pale, starving, and covered in infected wounds when I found her, but just looking into her forest green eyes I knew I loved her. But Annie needed me more.

Annie kind of liked me, but she refused to believe she loved me because she only thought of Finnick 98% of the day. Johanna still has to have therapy classes, she takes them in district 7, it's been a year and a half since the war ended so she should almost be done with all of her therapy. Once she's done with her classes she will be free to move to any district, I hope she moves to district 2 where I'm at.

I decide to go to work early today as a peacekeeper, but the peacekeepers after the war have changed, we just make sure nobody kills anybody else or steals, and just make sure people are safe that's all. Nothing really happens anyways so I just kind over sit around, and watch people walk around all day. I just hope Annie has a safe trip to the Capitol.