falling from cloud nine // death

These people seemed like they'd been awake since the crack of dawn. I felt kinda guilty, sleeping in all the time when people went out to work. For the last week Mother had to force me to wake up, and Rose and Father always went out on trips together. It was like everyone else in my family had their priorities sorted out except me. I still wasn't sure if I wanted to be a Career or not. It's a bit late for that, isn't it? My parents had already been mad when I refused to volunteer for the Games. I could never win. I'm not smart or strong enough. True, I was in good shape from training, but I still hadn't mastered anything.

Everyone else had one thing they were good at - my skills were spread out everywhere, so I was a little bit good at everything...that made things extremely difficult. I just needed to be good at one thing...but nope.

"You wanna buy some fish?" someone called out. I looked up and saw a boy's eyes trained on me. Oh. Well this would be awkward. Not only because I was generally awkward, but because he was attractive. And it was no secret that when it came to boys I was the most awkward girl in the world. But this was just shopping. It should be fine.

I headed over to the stall and looked at the options that were available. I saw a fish that looked kinda like what my family would like. Rose knew all the names of fish because Father taught her, but it just went through one ear and out the other with me. I hesitantly pointed at it. "C-Can I have that one?" Way to go.

It's official. I'm an idiot.

tagged: (sail/death) words: (cba) outfit: (cba)
notes: up to you what she chose

I didn't usually talk to people much when I went down to buy fish at the market. I often kept my head down, and only spoke to specify what I was buying. (Usually I had to remember exactly what my parents wanted me to buy, or I'd face the consequences.) At least they don't beat me like some kids I know. I'd seen a child get slapped the other week and it was horrific.

Anyway, I had to focus on this. I didn't want to make a fool of myself in front of this boy. I just needed to...I don't know, get out of here? To avoid embarrassment? Or should I actually attempt to talk to him? I wasn't sure, but for now I was buying this fish.

"Absolutely," he said, and began to slap the fish down on the butcher's paper. "Name's Sail by the way. Will that be all?" Of course. Names like Sail, Ocean, River, they were pretty common in District 4. Many people named their children water-related names - I had a water-related last name too.

"Oh, yes. And I'm Irene. Nice to meet you."

tagged: (sail/death) words: (cba) outfit: (cba)
notes: sorry for the wait and terrible post!