I'm Glad You're With me {Everthorne}

Chapter 2 - Goodbye

Gale

I'm taken away to this room. I guess now I say goodbye to my family possibly forever. A peace keeper pushes my family in the room. I really don’t understand why they are called ‘peace keepers’ they are not peaceful.

Posy runs into my arms. Followed by everyone else. Just one big group hug.

“Please come home” I hear Posy say.

“I’ll try Posy” I sooth “I’ll try”

“You can do it Gale you know how to hunt. You’ll have Katniss.” Says Rory

Eventually the peace keeper comes to take them away from me.

“Come home Gale” Posy screams as she is being dragged out of the room.

The next guest comes in. It’s Peeta.

“Gale. Thank you so much how can I repay you.” He rushes

“Just keep mine and Katniss’  family feed and well.”

“Will do.” He walks for the door “Oh, and good luck.” He walks out.

I’m pushed out the door, and to the car. As I towards Katniss door she is also pushed out of the room. I never Realisedit until now but she looks beautiful in that dress. My eyes move to what's in her hands. A plastic container. What’s it full of? We walk to the car that will take us to the train station. It’s a short ride but I can’t help think. Only one of us comes out alive. She hasn’t talked to me at all since the reaping. A big fight is coming.

I’ve never been in a car before, I’ve never been in a train before. You can’t travel between districts. As soon as the train starts to move Katniss and I excuse go to our own room. The wardrobe filled with cloths. I take a quick shower, the showers are pretty hi-tech here. Get changed into a simple black shirt and jeans.

Effie collects us for dinner. I sit across the table from Katniss, who’s still not talking to me. She’s wearing a Mocking Jay pin. I’ve always liked them. Little rebel birds. Cross breed between JabberJay and Mocking Bird. Mocking Jay were originally created to spy on the rebels in the districts, but they breed with blue jays and now they just copy humming and singing.

“Where’s Haymitch” Effie asks

“Last I saw him he said he’s gonna take a nap” I answered.

“Well it has been an exhausting day” Says Effie. Is she..relived about Haymitch’s absence...I can’t blame her.

Thick carrot soup, green salad, lamb chops, mashed potatoes, cheese and fruit and a chocolate cake. That is what we had for dinner. Effie kept telling us to save room, because there’s more to come. More how can you get more than this.

“At least you have table manners” Effie says “The last pair ate everything with their hands like a couple of savages. It upset my digestion” Effie Cringed

The last pair were from the seam, never seen this much food, never had enough food. Yeah Effie i’m sure the first thing on their mind was table manners. Katniss makes a point of eating the rest of the meal with her hands and wipes her fingers on the table cloth, Effie purses her lips tightly.

I’m struggling to keep this food down. Looking over at Katniss  can tell she is too. We never at food this rich. We can hold down Greasy Sae’s mixture of mice meat, pig entails and tree bark, winter specialty, but not this.

We move to another compartment to watch the recap of the repeanings. One by one the reaped go up, one by one the volunteers go up, well not so much volunteers. Watching the faces of people you will have to kill or will kill you, isn’t too pleasant.

A huge boy from 2, a fox faced girl from 5, a boy with a crippled foot from 10,  and, most terrifying of all, a 12 year old girl from 11 who reminds me of Prim. No one takes her place. No 12 year old should have though the Hunger Games. It just isn’t fair.

Lastly our district. Prim name is being called. Katniss running forward, there is desperation in her voice, but once again i can’t help but notice how beautiful she looks in that dress. I’m pulling Prim away now. The silent solute for Katniss.

I can’t move, i’m frozen, i’ve zoned out. I come out of my state Haymich is drunk and pointing at the camra. After that I zone out again, I can't take this.

“He was drunk” I say “Every year his drunk.”

“Everyday” Katniss smirks.

“Yes” hissed Effie “How odd you two find it amusing that your mentor is drunk. He is your life line for the games. He advises you, lines up your sponsors and dictates. Haymitch can be the difference between life and death for you.”

At that moment Haymitch staggers into the compartment “I miss dinner” He slurs and vomits all over the floor.

“So laugh away.” Effie hops into her and leaves the room.

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Thanks for reading my story. Please read my others. It'll make me smile so much. 

It's hot today so my give an f level was like 2 out of 100 so this took a while. 

Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, happy Kwanzaa. And happy new year.

 Deditacted to Dautlesswhojay because before I met her I had no one to obsess over things with.