Elinore Mellark

Gabe

" He is only nine ," she screamed " He's to young !"
"Katniss he will get through Sage did."
I peer around the corner looking at my parents still holding my teddy bear Aunt Effie gave me , this if not the first time I have seen them like this. They wake up in the night screaming and tossing and turning lately it's gotten so bad they have to sleep in different beds. They tell me it's just bad dreams and shoo me off to bed I hear my farther saying over and over again " Katniss I'm here I'm here it's okay it's okay the kids are up stairs."
" Wait where's Prim ?"
"Katniss ..."
" Where is the cat, I need that fur ball it's the only thing left of her."
" Buttercup is in Eli's room" Then the thump of her coming into my room and peeling Buttercup of me and the pitter patter of me following her back to her bed.
" Mommy, Daddy are you okay," I say as I round the corner. My father looks at me and glances at my mother as if to say ' should we tell her?' And she nods
" Peeta you tell her your better at this stuff "
" Okay " he says " Elinore honey Gabe has the plaque and he might not live. "
" I know" I lay flat on my back on the floor my hair spreads out and close my eyes. " I am extremely smart four year old." My mother comes and sits me up and says
" Elinore we are going to go live with Auntie Effie and Uncle Haymitch now okay?"
" Okay," I say " I love Auntie Effie and Uncle Haymitch there funny!"
I tip toe up stairs and fall asleep.
I wake with a start, the sound of my father screaming for my mother that has Occurred once in my whole life... when the plaque killed
Francis, my fathers best friend. Me and my mother rush to he doorway at the exact same time. There lay poor shriveled Gabe. Dead. The plaque has killed my brother.