pinky promise | georgie [98th]

Georgie Cham.

It is time to wake up Georgie!

During the time since hearing her dad speak her name to sitting alone in an empty room of the Justice Building that she has never explored before, she is not even sure what has happened. Has it been an hour? A good recent chunk of her life is suddenly unrememberable. Reaping day amnesia – that last word she learnt at school.

Except she is asleep still. That is why she can’t remember. It is how her dreams work. Just fragments of a story that she must quickly puzzle together when she wakes. Well, she doesn’t want to remember this dream.

Your alarm will go off soon!

The plastic seat she sits on doesn’t feel very dreamlike. It feels so sticky in this heatwave, the whole room is so stuffy. Even the sweat she rubs from her brow feels so real on the back of her hand. Someone else needs to wake Georgie up.

That someone else comes bursting through the door. He is not wearing his suit jacket anymore, not even his waistcoat. Just the white shirt with crumpled rolled up sleeves and the first three buttons undone. Her father is balding but the sweat on the little hair on his head makes him look like a frenzied crazy.

”We don’t really die in the games do we? You never died. You came back. I can come back…” Georgie is still sat upright in her chair, even as her dad wraps his arms around her. She is not the type to start with a hello or how are you. It is always best to get straight to the point.

”Of course! I will make sure that they bring you back!” Georgie’s heart rate is raised. It is getting faster and faster, even her breaths are hard to fight for.

”Dad you’re soo sweaty!” Georgie pulls away from his grip. ”If you can bring me back. Can you bring back all of the people you sent away?”

”It is not your job to worry about them.” Her dad stands over the table now, resting both of his arms on the surface. ”Uncle Teddy has promised to look after you. Promise me that you will behave and listen to him!”

Georgie stretches her neck, looking up at the ceiling as she considers the promise that her dad has offered her. ”I’m so happy Uncle Teddy got the job, the other one couldn’t even bring his sister home.” She has never liked Flynn, especially when he threatened to experiment on Tortoise that one time. ”I promise. Only if you promise to behave while I am away and to listen to all of the people that live here!”

Georgie offers out an extended pinky and her dad seals the promise.

Then she drops a whole list of instructions on how to tend to Tortoise. She doesn’t trust that he will follow any of them, it is why she has always reminded the maid of how to look after the little shelled beast.

Her dad dives in for another hug as his time with his daughter in this room is coming to an end. Georgie hopes for just one second that he will squeeze her hard enough for her to finally wake up. But she is wide awake. Her dreams are never this wicked.