*The Hunger games idea belongs to Suzanne Collins I'm just adding on to her books and characters*
(A/N please note that for the cast I am lowering their ages to the ages in the story or raising the ages to match the story. They will look like they did at about the age of the characters. Enjoy ~Kara)
Mom woke up screaming again. she doesn't know I'm awake but as she looks down at me while I pretend to sleep she starts to cry. in the morning I promise myself, in the morning I will ask but for the moment with my little brothers warm body and soothing rhythmic breathing beside me i start t drift off to sleep.
I wake to the smell of something cooking in the kitchen and my brother bouncing up and down on the bed trying (like he does every morning) to wake me up. playfully I push him to the floor. Surprised at my sudden alertness he stares up at me wondering if i was in one of my bad moods. (no one likes to be around me in one of my bad moods so I try to make it obvious if I'm in one or not)
"Got ya!" I say laughing down at him. a smile spreads across his face.
"No I knew you were going to do that!"
"Oh ya right."
"I did!"
"Whatever" I say rolling my eyes.
From downstairs mom calls out "Breakfast!" then all you can hear is me and Raif racing down the stairs.
"Hey slow down you two you'll run a hole in the stares if you keep racing like that." Dad says in his serious voice but i know he is just messing because there is that little gleam in his eye as he says the words.
"Em do you want bacon with your eggs?" Mom asks from the kitchen
"Sure Mom. oops I mean yes please Mom"
Mom gives me a smile. I look exactly like my mom (dark hair and all) all except for my bright blue eyes mom and dad say i act like her too. Raif on the other hand with his blond hair is the exact opposite he looks like dad except for his gray eyes. Raif acts like dad.
I walk into the kitchen to help mom. "Can we go to the woods today?" I say in a whisper "please mom I don't have school and I really need some time alone with you." I say with the image of me and mom hunting and when we take a break asking her why she wakes up screaming.
Mom seeing the expression on my face says "Fine but only for a few hours."
"OK!" I say as I rush to the table to eat as fast as I can today is the day I think to myself today I will finally know why mom wakes up screaming and dad clenches the back of a chair once in awhile and asks if something is real or fake today i will not be put off.
'WOODS' I know she is mouthing to him but I don't care today because I know I will finally get my answer.
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An hour or two later Mom and I sit on the rock ledge where Mom and her best friend/hunting partner used to sit when they were kids. "Alright what is it you want to ask me and don't you dare Emily Rue tell me nothing because you and I both know somethings on your mind."
"Ok but first do you PROMISE to tell me the truth?"
Mother sighed and said "I promise"
"Ok why do you wake up screaming in the middle of the night and sometimes dad clenches the back of the chair and asks if something is real or not? Oh and I want the full story."
Mom sighed again like she knew that had been coming and had been dreading it. "Ok" she finally said and began to explain about the hunger games and a little before but when she got to the part of the reaping something went 'CRASH' like someone running as fast as they can and tripping over a fallen tree.
"What was that?" Mom and i say in unison and go to check it out.
It turns out it was a person who had done just what it sounded like.
"Catnip?" it said looking up at me then my Mom
"Gale?" Mom asked the question like she wanted it to be him and yet she didn't
"Yes its me and we need to get our family's to 13 NOW"
"Why?" Mom asked sounding worried
"I'll explain on the way pack your things and meet me at our old place!"
Mom didn't even say ok just grabbed my arm and took off through the woods and back to the house and called "Peeta?! get your things we need to get to 13 NOW!"
"Why?" he called in the same tone Mom had used with Gale
"I don't know but Gale came to find me in the woods and told me that we had to get to 13"
"Kids pack your things we are leaving!" Dad shouted
We all packed our clothes and pj's and the things we love the most (including Rosie my cat) and left the house to meet Gale in the woods.
When we got there, there was a hovercraft with a latter Dad pushed me and Raif forward so we grabbed on intending to climb but a current froze us in place. I could feel myself panicking and knew that if mom didn't know about the current she would to but she seemed to know about it.
Gale, and a woman sat at one table. Two boys at another the oldest looked just like Gale and looked like he was my age (12-13) and the other looked to be Raifs age (8-9).
I looked out the window to see district 12 vanishing. I knew that i would not be returning home for a long time if ever. I was now calling it the end. But at the same time I knew it was a beginning too. The beginning of answers the beginning of possibly, I thought looking over at the boy my age, a new friendship.
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The 76 Hunger Games (Watty Awards)
Fanfiction(Warning! IF YOU HAVE NOT READ ALL THREE HUNGER GAMES BOOKS DO NOT READ THIS STORY) Emily Rue Mellark is a 12 year old girl who knows that her parents have had a tough past but dosnt know what happend in their past. she is determined to hear the who...
