peeta/katniss | in my veins | the hunger games

Rue spun the bottle and returned to her asiento quickly.

And it landed on…

Haymitch.

Everyone looked between him and Rue.

Haymitch hiccupped.

"Ahh… Truth o dare?" Rue asked, not certain on what she'll ask him to do o say.

Haymitch hiccupped again, still very much drunk. "I like cactuses. They look funny."

Silence.

"Okay," Rue said, confused. "Ahh, this wasn't my pregunta though."

"Did tu ever try to hug a cactus?"

Beetee nodded his head importantly. "It's not a nice feeling."

"No. No, it is not," Haymitch agreed solemnly.

Rue scratched her head. "Ahh, Haymitch, sir, can you, please, just… pick truth...

Xi Omega, Arthur Connell, Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark looked over the whole Alpha Shade Army the smell of rotten corpses filled the air, Xi looked down at the lobo Ninja, they had only meet twice before both times in Jasper National Park with Humphrey, Kate, Lilly, Garth, Fire, Water and the Doctor, Xi never found out who the lobo Ninja was, now was his chance “Hello lobo Ninja” he dicho “Long time no see, still no idea on your identity, still guesting” he dicho “Well tu will have to keep guesting, Alpha Shades, kill them” dicho the lobo Ninja and in a segundo of hearing that...

I spend the rest of the reaping día locked in my room, huddled in a ball, trying not to think of Peeta and the painful, dreadful days to come. My mother never tries to talk to me o intrude on me; she must know how I feel, because she loves Peeta too.
When it's suppertime, all she does is crack my door open and slip the plate of comida onto my bedside mesa, tabla and run back out. I don't eat much of the pescado o green beans, just pick microscopic pieces of the comida off and play with it, bored.
When the lights go out and noises cease, I whimper softly into my pillow. Could it really have been this afternoon...