"I swear I saw a different person up there" Theo comments when I walk past him.
"My acting worked, yay!" I say cheerfully turning to him before rolling my eyes and turning back around to sit down. So I could watch the rest of the interviews.
Roland chuckles and gets ready to go onto the stage.
"Let's bring out, the male tribute of district 10, Roland Friedgo!"
Roland moved onto the stage. He really was into character, you could tell he was embarrassed by the way he held himself. He was walking, slowly and carefully to chairs and he looked like he was avoiding the looks of everyone in the audience.
"Roland! How are we?" Caesar says with gentleness in his voice obviously noticing Roland's nervousness.
"I- um" Roland starts and looked between …show more content…
I might even die tomorrow.
I turn silent when we reach our apartment in the building.
I did say thanks to Baxtin and Aurora's praise, but the rest of the time, I was thinking.
It's all crashing down on me now. The hunger games and what will happen if I go in there.
I might not even survive and see my family again. I'll never see my Sister and Brother again. I'll never see their faces that look so like mine and I'll never see my father. The father that took care of me and my siblings after mother had died, the father who taught me how to butcher, the father that tucked me in at night and read me a story to sleep.
I might never see them again.
I can feel my heart clench and sadden through dinner because of these thoughts.
I try to be happy but the thoughts keep on coming back.
I'll never see Tyler and Mollie again. I'll never smell their warm and welcoming smell of their home again. I won't ever feel the comfort and safety of our small conversations in the stables. I'll never go horse racing with Tyler again and feel the glory of always winning against him. I won't even have tickle fights with him in the hay stacks again. I might not even having the normal girl talks between Mollie and me. I could never see her smile again and I might never read a book to her
"My acting worked, yay!" I say cheerfully turning to him before rolling my eyes and turning back around to sit down. So I could watch the rest of the interviews.
Roland chuckles and gets ready to go onto the stage.
"Let's bring out, the male tribute of district 10, Roland Friedgo!"
Roland moved onto the stage. He really was into character, you could tell he was embarrassed by the way he held himself. He was walking, slowly and carefully to chairs and he looked like he was avoiding the looks of everyone in the audience.
"Roland! How are we?" Caesar says with gentleness in his voice obviously noticing Roland's nervousness.
"I- um" Roland starts and looked between …show more content…
I might even die tomorrow.
I turn silent when we reach our apartment in the building.
I did say thanks to Baxtin and Aurora's praise, but the rest of the time, I was thinking.
It's all crashing down on me now. The hunger games and what will happen if I go in there.
I might not even survive and see my family again. I'll never see my Sister and Brother again. I'll never see their faces that look so like mine and I'll never see my father. The father that took care of me and my siblings after mother had died, the father who taught me how to butcher, the father that tucked me in at night and read me a story to sleep.
I might never see them again.
I can feel my heart clench and sadden through dinner because of these thoughts.
I try to be happy but the thoughts keep on coming back.
I'll never see Tyler and Mollie again. I'll never smell their warm and welcoming smell of their home again. I won't ever feel the comfort and safety of our small conversations in the stables. I'll never go horse racing with Tyler again and feel the glory of always winning against him. I won't even have tickle fights with him in the hay stacks again. I might not even having the normal girl talks between Mollie and me. I could never see her smile again and I might never read a book to her