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

Part 6 - Further Training - Emmett's P.O.V

I hear a knock on my door and then Azure is yelling for me to wake up.

He doesn't sound very happy. "Wake up!" His knuckles rap on the door many more times before I finally drag myself out of the bed.

"I'm up! I'm up!" I shout back to signal that he can go away now.

I look back at the bed to see that within the night I had thrown the duvet half way across the room. I make my bed again and find that I am now missing a pillow.

I search around the room for it and finally find it hanging of the wardrobe door handle.

"You awake?!" Esmerelda is at the door now, she sounds just as miserable as Azure had been.

"Yes... i just need to get dressed. I'll be at breakfast in a minute..." Although I am techically up I feel half asleep and could easily fall back into bed at any minute.

"Okay... Just don't go falling back to sleep... I know what you're like and I need to talk to you about something..."

I am about to shout back asking what it was when I hear the sound of her feet shuffle away down the hall.

I begin to get dressed in our training outfits again and my mind flashes back to the last training session; in particular, Rue. I can't help thinking about how there is something different about her than most of the other tributes.

Maybe it's just the fact that she seems so innocent and helpless, but then I remember just how fast she can climb and realise that she's not as helpless as she may look.

I think about what it could be as I make my way to the breakfast table. 

When I get there I see Es talking with Beetee and Azure while Wiress eats her breakfast at the slowest pace I have ever seen. She seems to be too interested with something that is just beyond her nose to eat as I can see that she keeps on crossing her eyes to get a proper look.

I sit down next to Seriya who doesn't seem to be eating much either.

The only peple who I can see enjoying the food are Yyuna, Mial and Kiella who seem to be stuffing their faces full of bread rolls and various porridges with odd colours that I have never seen before.

I pick up a bowl of lilac cloloured porridge with what looks like grated chocolate on the top and grabbing a spoon, begin to eat it. It tastes surprisingly nice for the fact that it is purple but I am soon interupted as Esmerelda begins to speak.

"Em, I need to ask you something...".

"Okay. well do you wan't to go back to my room then?" I try to hint on whether it is something that Azure and the team need to know.

"No. It's okay. I have already told them. I just wanted to know about what you said last night in the elevator... You said that we should ally with the tributes from district 11..."

I inturrupt quickly, "You mean Thresh and Rue?"

"Well yes. They're from District 11 aren't they?!" I can tell that she is getting annoyed now. "It's just that... You seem to be getting on a little too well with that weakling..."

I suddenly felt an urge to shout out that Rue wasn't weak!

That she was undoubtebly strong with the things she could do and that she would probably last longer than me, but Azure cuts in before I can release the build up of anger.

"It's not that we don't want you learning things... we just don't want you to get attached to people and seem weaker for it..."

I had had enough.