stars in the sky; sidney
May 25, 2020 22:03:57 GMT -5
Post by charade on May 25, 2020 22:03:57 GMT -5
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i s a b e l l e .
I love my sister, she's the best.
She's cooler than any other girl that I have ever met.
She had the greatest band, she had the greatest guy.
She's good at everything and doesn't even try.
I watch everybody. There’s not much else for me to do when we’re not training. Nobody’s my age. But probably I like watching Elizabeth the most. Elizabeth looks sad when she thinks no one is looking. When she’s not being cool in front of everyone. Like, she walks around like a statue except when she doesn’t. I don’t know how she does it. Sometimes she’ll look really happy but then her face goes through a blender and she looks so mad that she could cut off someone’s head.
That doesn’t happen very often in the reruns but when it does its scary. I think Mr.Strauss thinks it’s cool and wants us to think it’s cool too. But I don’t think I’d like looking at my body from the ground. I bet chopping off heads doesn’t scare Elizabeth. She doesn’t seem like anything bothers her. Well, maybe she’s bothered when the adults don’t approve. I bet I could learn a lot from her. She’s one of the old kids, but not old like the adults. She doesn’t have any grey hair, but I think Octavia has one or two.
I would never tell Mrs. Strauss that though, I think she might eat me.
I got adopted almost three years ago, when that tiny dope from eleven won the games. I was nine. The adults say that all of them victors from the lower districts were lucky and the careers in their games were idiots. I think they’re right. Training is hard and a lot of those poor people don’t even have places to train. I bet the careers in those games were dumb cause they didn’t keep their focus. I know that’s the most important thing. Elizabeth always seems focused. Even when she’s not doing anything. Like right now she’s getting a weapon to smack a dummy around with.
An actual dummy, not a dummy like Meredith.
So I follow her and try to copy the way she’s walking. It’s really hard though. I think it’s because her hips are way bigger than mine. I watch her for a few minutes before grabbing a sword off the rack and whacking the dummy next to hers. It’s hard and I need to hold the hilt with both hands to swing it right and it’s only a machete. Good thing Mr.Strauss isn’t here right now. He’d tell me my form is off or something but I don’t know because I’m just trying to copy Elizabeth’s stance.
"HUA!" I say, smacking the dummies arm as hard as I can.
Oh-oh. It bounced off and I let go. Good thing it didn't spin into Elizabeth.
"Oops."