Break The Rules But Be Smart About It: The Second Quarter quell

chapter eleven

Chapter 11

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The following day, Penelope is snuggled into a miniature ball. She seems to be traumatized... I had never seen someone go so insane during the games and so early. Her eyes are always bugging around, and her hair has fallen out little by little. When she moves forwards, and backward hair falls to the ground. Penelope repeats over and over again, "my name is Penelope Marie, my ally is Haymitch, I killed Lukah, and Carson. I have four watches. I am in the second quarter quell, and I dont know the time".... Her voice has raged from all different volumes throughout the night. Her seat has soaked her shirt, and her legs seem to be greasy, and her hair is still soaked. Her tears have become the worse of her throughout the past hours. She repeats several times after that, "i have murdred four people, haymitch I murdered fur people." Sometimes she would scream at me saying this, or sometimes she would say it in a hallow way. Every time I don't respond, but eventually, she moves from her ball, and she comes to me. I carry her in my arms. Her usual self wouldn't want that, but frankly, that is her only choice. I brush my fingers through her hair, and I rub her back as she digs her face into my chest. Often she screams, or she cries, but I can see the pain in her eyes with both.

It is early in the morning, and the morning dew has rested upon our foreheads, and so has the snow been sitting on our heads.

I play with Penelope's curls attempting to calm her down, but they do absolutely no good. Penelope rocks backward and forward, but I stop trying to calm her down, but she fights back several times. Shell takes a nap but then wakes up with a nightmare and soon, with her screams, will frighten all the birds around out, and all you can hear is Penelope planting and the flapping of birds wings. Penelope's thumb crosses the face of Lukah's watch, and she says as her voice breaks, "i killed him haymitch" I don't reply, "i killed him, and I killed three more people haymitch" she rocks backward and forwards.. her voice breaks and her eyes become cherry red. I say to Her, "penelope come"... she gets close to me, and she lays her head on my chest, and within five seconds, she falls asleep. She hasn't had a long-lasting sleep, she has taken naps, but she eventually wakes up within 10 minutes.

With all this, seeing Penelope in pain and being in pain...the sight of The snow sits on the branches of the evergreen, and some fall, and the birds sing. An oddly good morning.

Too good to be true. Tick top tip-top, the sounds of my fifteen watches make. Soon the jabber jays make the same noise imitation the watches, and they taunt me. White jabber jays circle around the area we are in. Penelope can't hear it, but the little noise annoys me and promote anger to come out of my emotions. They taunt me. They drive me insane. I keep Penelope in my arms, and milliseconds later, Penelope wakes up in a gasp. "I killed Lukah," I reply. "Penelope," she replies, "thats it, I cant stay here," I reply "we have to pack," she says, "after we pack I'm leaving," still catching her breath. She looks at me, and I can see the danger in her eyes and confusion in Them. She looks at me while I am still sitting down, and she says, "i killed a part of me to be with you haymitch" I reply, "penelope," she says, "no haymitch I killed Carson so you could live! I vowed to myself never to kill, and I killed Carson, to be with you," I reply "not nesersaraly to be with me you were just being protective," she replies as I stand up, "well I shouldn't have!" I reply, "you know what Penelope if you thought that Carson would stay up with you all night and deal with your pettiness your wrong sweetie" she looks at me with her arms crossed and her watch in her hand. She says, "no," I reply, "well looks like the odds are in my favor then" I grab my backpack in a rush and turn back to her and say, "are you coming or are you waiting for Carson and Lukah to resurrect" she rolls. Her eyes and she picks her things up and walks in the back of me. Her feet kick each step of snow she steps in. The snow becomes thicker, less heavenly. We walk for miles without saying a word, both of us wondering who will break the alliance first. I want to, but then Penelope would die automatically because she can't deal with pain. I would kill myself for leaving her, but.... This whole thing is about killing, so it eventually has to happen.