Four days pass, District Seven is next.
"I can't do it, Reed." I say while putting my long hair into a braided bun.
She secures the locket around my neck.
"Faith, make their families glad you won."
I nod.
An hour later and I am standing in front of Maple and Barker's families and the rest of their district. I adjust the microphone.
"Maple and Barker were amazing. Not only amazing team mates, but amazing friends as well." I say, but pause because I might cry.
I take a deep breath and continue to recite the speech I wrote and memorized.
"Barker didn't deserve such a horrible death, nobody does, but at least he and Maple shared his last moment together."
I scratch my hand.
"And Maple, I know if I lived here in seven we would've been best friends. She had enough strength and courage for the whole alliance. Her death was my fault, I am so sorry."
I sigh and look at her family, her two little brothers and her mom.
"I could go on and on about these two and the never ending debt I have for them. Please forgive me for standing by and watching your children die."
Barker's mother bursts into tears. I stand there helplessly, staring into the crowd.
"They did love each other, they still do." I pause. "I still do too."
I walk off the stage slowly, but unsteadily.
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The 62nd Annual Hunger Games
Fanfiction{All rights go to Suzanne Collins} Faith is your average fifteen year old girl from district ten. Her bright spirit belongs to her family, at least up until the reapings for the sixty-second annual hunger games. The odds may not be exactly in her fa...
