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a mini ninety-four reunion | P & L Dec 29, 2023 17:43:25 GMT -5

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Post by MATTIO on Dec 29, 2023 17:43:25 GMT -5

The ball bounces in Peter's direction. He was on the wing today. Hold the line, send the ball in. The grass was kind to him, which was rare in District Eleven where the patches of grass were always being uplifted and replanted. He flicked the ball further down the line, cutting in once he found himself with enough space. One of the athletes in class, Carson, waved him in from the box. Peter turned with the inside of his foot and crossed the ball into the box.

Up… up… and…

The striker barely lifted his feet to connect with the ball. It grazed the top of Carson's head, flipping his once-parted hair the other way. Carson waves in Peter's direction. "DUDE! What the fuck?!" One thing Peter learned quickly when opting for sports at recess was that the athletic kids tried way harder than they needed to. "Who even let Peter in?"

He shrugged them off. Everyone always said that patience is the best thing someone can possess, but Peter didn't think so. At least not in all cases, anyway. Some people don't deserve it. Peter jogged off to the sideline and took a seat on the bleachers instead. Here, he could point out mistakes from the likes of Carson and not get any shit back for it.

"Hey! Louie Krane!" He waved the boy over from the fences. Maybe someone who gets Peter would be more preferable to hang out with at recess. "Whatcha up to?"

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a mini ninety-four reunion | P & L Dec 30, 2023 6:36:59 GMT -5

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Post by ☢️ on Dec 30, 2023 6:36:59 GMT -5

Louie K.

Everyone is surprised that Louie Krane showed up at school today. He keeps being reminded of that and after the seventh reminder, from a teacher, he has decided that recess will not be recess for him. It will be home time.

The only reason he is here is because his father gave him a gut-wrenching persuasive lecture on how he is going to amount to nothing if he neglects his studies. The only place he will end up is in the slums of District Eleven which is just the next street from where they live already. He passes that place every day, that is not somewhere he can call home. But this morning he has decided it is not just school that is going to help him avoid that place.

There is a fence around every part of Louie’s life, and he always finds a way through it. Just like the one that surrounds the grounds of the school.

The school has him marked down as a flight risk, he can’t just march out of the front doors. While all the try-hards kick around a ball on the field, Louie inspects the fence line for his great escape. There is a perfect gap, where the metal wire fencing has frayed over time. He is small, he can fit through that.

But someone’s already spotted him, alarm bells sound in his head and he nearly bolts but it’s just Peter, sitting on the bleachers waving at him. ”Peter!” Louie replies as he drags himself away from his exit and towards the boy that’s calling.

”Can you see that hole in the fence?” He asks the other, making sure he doesn’t get himself too comfortable on the bleachers before the recess bell rings. ”Do you think someone could fit through it?”

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a mini ninety-four reunion | P & L Dec 30, 2023 18:32:30 GMT -5

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Post by MATTIO on Dec 30, 2023 18:32:30 GMT -5

Peter leaned back on the flimsy bleachers as Louie approached from the other side of the yard. They didn't talk often, the two of them, especially since they were one grade apart, but the camaraderie between Peter losing his sibling and Louie losing his sister left them with more things in common than something like the year they were born could provide.

The bleacher sank when Louie made his way onto it. He was restless, Peter could tell by the way the boy never quite relaxed into the seat. "Can you see that hole in the fence?" He squinted in the direction Louie came, a tattered chickenwire fence half uprooted from the bottom. "Do you think someone could fit through it?"

Uh oh. One day back at school and it appeared Krane was already trying to leave. Peter sized it up anyway. Even from a distance, it looked manageable for someone of his or Louie's size bend through. The squirrels and foxes of the district must have been getting lazier and lazier, not wanting to crouch through the hole they burrowed.

Peter nodded as the reality of what Louie asked him settled in. "Are you asking if you can fit through that hole? Or if I can fit through it?" The latter would certainly take a page out of Ulysses's book, skipping school to do who knows what. And honestly… he was okay with that if it was the case. The day was almost over, anyway. Maybe the teachers would assume he got hurt trying to live up to the sweaty tryhards at recess.

"Either way, probably."

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a mini ninety-four reunion | P & L Dec 31, 2023 6:51:45 GMT -5

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Post by ☢️ on Dec 31, 2023 6:51:45 GMT -5

Louie K.

Another lecture of his dad’s agenda was making friends, desirable friends and definitely not the ones that Louie has picked for himself from orchard farm where he also picks things for himself…Ever since Elise died, his parents think befriending all of the left behind siblings of the games will ’do him good’ because they can all be merry and trauma bond. So, is he meant to knock on every Izar’s door in the District with his beaming teary eyes and ask to be their friends? No way.

Peter is cool though, despite the trauma bonding they both share. Okay so there is something special about their siblings sharing a train ride to and from the Capitol. And he is nothing like the big heads on the pitch who seem like the only other option available. They’ve not spent much time together but today he can change that.

And that hole in the fence that he can’t keep his eyes off of, ”Both of us.” Louie says as his butt is already getting numb sitting on the fading plastic seat. ”You go first and I’ll follow? You know, just to test our little theory…” He is already jumping back onto the turf without checking to see if Peter is willing to do this. He’ll do it alone if he must, it has never stopped him before.

”Come on dude, one afternoon out won’t harm. Especially for you, your record is cleaner than mine. I’ll take the heat!”