The Hunger Games

Chapter 9:

Ugh! Today is training day. I linger as I get ready. I head down the stairs to see everyone eating breakfast.

“Did u get your beauty rest sweetheart?” Hamitch asked.

“Took me a while to recover from seeing Margo die several times in the arena”, I say.

Haymitch seems slightly sorry he said anything, and Peeta quickly changes the subject.

“So”, he said.” What training area should we start off with today?”

“Definitely not the knot tying station it reminds me of Finnick. Probably not the fishhook making station: too much of Mags” I say.

“Yeah I agree, and I can’t do the camouflage station;too much of the morphlings” he said.

“Well what about the dagger throwing station?” Hamitch asked.

“Too much of Chaff” Peeta says.

“Well then”,says Hamitch” What about the fire making station?”

“Too much of Wiress” I say.

“Well y’all are a piece of work then” Hamitch says.

I laugh. “I guess we do sound pretty week.”

“What if we ignored the stations” said Peeta.”We could tell them the things we learned while we were in the games.”

I agreed. I thought it was a good plan, and I won’t be haunted by dead tributes.

We went to the training arena and did just that. We told them how to survive mutts.

That night while I was sleeping a sea green eyed man, with bronze hair entered my dream. I can see the mutts ripping him limb from limb as he yells out “Katniss help, help me!” I give up on going to sleep, and thought about poor little Annie.(his wife if you have not watched the movie or read the books)

I stayed in the same position all night long,until I heard a knock on my door.

I opened it up to find Peeta. He told me it was already ten o’ clock, and that training had already started.

When we arrived it was 10:30. The tributes wee sitting neatly around the place where we told them the mutt story yesterday.

Today we helped them understand which berries and roots are editable. I happened to still have the family book with me so I took it out and showed it to the teens.

They asked who drew all the pictures, and I told them Peeta did it when I hurt my tailbone, and was in bed rest for a week. I told them how he baked bread for me each day, and came over to draw them for me.

They seemed happy. I think they like knowing about me and Peeta’s past.

So I told them about the night we couldn’t sleep on the train to take us to the 75th games. That we curled up on the couch and watched Hamitch’s old game without asking his permission.

The next story I told them about was the day we got off before the interviews, and how we had a picnic on the roof. I also told them how I laid in his lap, while he practiced his knot tying in my hair.

They laughed, and were enjoying this a lot. I think even Peeta was liking me talking about the past.

It got down to the last day of training, and we told them bye. We will get to see them at the interviews for a little bit, but that was it before the games.

Me and Peeta were excited because tomorrow we have the day off again before the interviews, the next day. This helped me fall asleep fast.

Epilogue:

I woke up to find I was in my bed. Wait that whole thing was a dream!? It was night out still, and that was the worst nightmare I had ever had. The nightmare about Rue’s sister being reaped, and the games starting back up again.

I quickly walk out of my room, through the hall, and walk outside. I went to the house next to mine; it was Peeta’s house. I walked through his hall until I got to his room. I knocked, and he said,” Come In.”

I got in the bed, and rested my head on his heart. I’ve laid in this very spot a lot of nights in the arena. It makes me feel safe.

“You love me real or not real” he says as he begins to rub my shoulders.

“Real” I say, and fall quickly back to sleep.

authors notes: Because of this annoying app not letting me write more than 9 chapters I had to end it here.Although I might start another account so I can add on. If I start this account you can reach it at werdsmith.com/katOdaire2

On my other account disregard the epilogue. I’m going to continue this story, and it will not be a dream.

I ended this like the ending of the third movie if you have not seen it. The scene right before their kids.

I hope you guys enjoyed this!