All Mothers Need Help {Alice}

She shows up, and makes my life better. I thank her with a hug after she occupies Clove with Candy and Riley with toy cars. I am exhausted. I lay down on the sofa and let my eyes close for only ten seconds, but then I fall asleep, not even thinking about how I left Rosella alone with two children.

I dream of the Hunger Games. Clove is now grown up, and she is eighteen. It is the 74th Hunger Games, and she is competing. She makes it to the top 7, but gets killed by a stupid District 11 boy, it scares me, the thought. I wale up crying.

I notice Rosella is sitting across from me, with tea. She made me some too. Oh, Rosella, what would I do without her? I smile, and apologize for falling asleep. I take the tea, and let it slide down my throat, warm, sugary. Nice.

I notice she got both of children to sleep. Wow. She must be an angel, that must be it. I look at her and . She is so sweet.

"He is great! Jasik is hunting right now I think."

Knock Knock. Someone knocks at the door of Rosella's house. We both go to look out the window. What we see reminds me of the time when I was in the woods. . . . .

~Flashback
Zoe's feelings hadn't changed,still trust-less,loveless,etc. . . . . . .She walked right to the fence of District 9 and climbed over it.She landed on the other side of the fence and started walking.Usually when she climbed the fence,she had her bow to hunt,but today was different,she was bow-less today,just taking a nice little happy stroll in woods where if she was found she would be brutally murdered.So yea,she took her hunting knife,as a precaution,and started into the woods.She had walked at least five miles before she sat on a big boulder and relaxed for awhile.She just laid her head on a patch of moss on the boulder when she heard a twig snap.She instinctively pulled behind her back for an arrow,but no,she forgot she was on a happy stroll and all she had was a knife.When the figure of a girl in a white jacket and white uniform appeared,Zoe panicked,she knew that the white uniform represented Peace Keepers,and she knew she was going to be killed.She took out her knife and ducked down on the boulder,trying to hide herself as best as she could.The Peace Keeper kept walking,until she stopped,looked around,and when she looked at the boulder,her eyes met Zoe's,and the unknown Peace Keeper pulled out her gun,and fired,Zoe dodged right,and ran.She got two steps towards the end of the boulder until the Peace Keeper fired again,this time,she felt the bullet just skim her shoulder,the Peace Keeper had good aim.Zoe realized that if she jumped off the boulder,she would get nothing but a bullet in her forehead.So she got a good grip on the blade of her knife,and waited for the woman to fire her gun again.She didn't have to wait long before the woman ran for the boulder and started climbing.Zoe chucked a rock at the woman which struck her in the cheek putting a gash on her face and causing her to fall.Then Zoe prepared to attack again,but before she could pick up another rock,the woman chucked the same rock Zoe had hit her with at Zoe,giving her a deep cut on the forehead.She felt blood run down her forehead into her eyes,and she couldn't see.She wiped the blood out of her eyes and chucked her knife full force at the woman.Zoe immediately heard a sickening sticking sound,and looked at the Peace Keeper woman,whom now had a knife protruding from her skull."Luck shot",Zoe thought to herself.She took out the knife,wiped it clean,and dragged the lifeless woman's body into a pond and let it sink out of sight.Zoe ran home immediately and when she entered through the door Katherine saw her and screamed,Zoe explained what had happened,that she was a murderer,and Katherine fixed her up,wrapped up her head,and gave her pain medication.Zoe laid down,exhausted.Of only she had had her bow,the woman would have been dead quickly and Zoe wouldn't have taken these life-threatening injuries.But only one thought remained in her head for hours-The Hunger Games wouldn't be to hard.

Because what we see outside of Rosella's door, is a Peacekeeper.