Fellowship with a friend {Arrows}

Fellowship with a friend {Arrows} Nov 2, 2014 10:31:13 GMT -5

Post by Knuckles on Nov 2, 2014 10:31:13 GMT -5

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Has it really been over a year since my life changed forever? Since I made the promise to May that I would protect June no matter what? It feels like all the time in the world has flown by without stopping long enough for us to mourn her loss completely. Her death will never be forgotten especially by her family. I can't imagine what June must be going through. Every year the games carry on, and it has to be a constant reminder of the death of her sister. I've always been an only child, but I know I that June is one of my best friends in the entire world. Never once has she judged me for something I can't control. I can't help the way my leg formed while I was inside my mother. It's not my fault, and she accepted that. She understood when nobody else would.

I clench the jacket in my hands drawing it tighter around my body. My feet drag against the ground as I move through the leaves heading nowhere in particular. My mother hasn't been one who understands me especially since I've became friends with June. She said I was spending too much time with her and not enough time with my family. Father isn't even in the picture anymore, and I fully believe that my mother should be proud I've escaped from her grasps at home and found someone to hang out with, but she doesn't understand. I'm tired of her telling me how to live my life. If she had her way, I would never leave the house except on the reaping days when it was required, and I can't have that. Staring outside the windows as people my age travel by isn't something I want, so I take whatever chance I have to escape. If only for a few minutes.

It's not until I see her house I realize what I want to do. Hanging out with my friend, my only friend, is one of the best things in the entire world. I'm don't have to be alone when I'm with her. At first, I stand there staring wondering if she's even home, or if she wants to come out and play in the leaves and forget about the hard lives we live. I know I only have one way of finding out, but somewhere deep inside my body something tells me to just go on. It's been a bit since we last talked, and I don't want to be on her bad side, but I want her to be happy. Her happiness means more to me than anything in the world. We could easily shovel the leaves together and jump inside of them like I did when I was a child. Sometimes I wonder if she's up to it or not, but I only have one way of finding out. I place a large grin on my face as I walk towards her house.

Step by step I look around. Someone might get the wrong idea if they see me right now, but I don't care. I made a promise, and it's a promise that I plan on keeping no matter what. I can't break it. I try moving my bad foot as much as I can, but it's lame. All it wants to do is drag across the ground. Normally my cheeks burn bright red with every step I take, but this time I feel confident. I don't have to worry about what other's say because I am a person. I have feelings. I am a human being, and if other human beings want to make fun of me, so be it. The closer I get to the house the harder my heart beats. My chest muscles tighten around my chest with every little step I take making it hard to breathe. I don't know why I feel like this when I'm around her. It's a feeling I've never felt before. When I reach her door I knock hoping she's the one who answers.

Fellowship with a friend {Arrows} Nov 17, 2014 18:50:45 GMT -5

Post by Arrows on Nov 17, 2014 18:50:45 GMT -5

~*~JUNE RHODES~*~

    More than a year ago everything had happened. June's world had been twisted and knotted in so many ways as life demanded her and her sisters at its cruel will. At first everything in the world seemed to be filled with endless light and eternal happiness as she found herself reunited with her sisters. Then the Capitol struck its cold hand across the Rhodes sisters once more, only this time it dealt a fatal blow. June and April had to watch in peril and sorrow as May was taken off to compete in a land of never ending sun. A land where heat kills all who dare enters its grueling mouth of horrors. A land where the bright light of May Rhodes was silenced forever deep within a mine by the knife of a dashing district eight boy. It was then as he blood fell and splattered the world in its scarlet color that June had fallen to the floors of pain and the whips of the Capitol. That was the day when all hope of a happy life seemed to be vanquished from her existence.

    However, she was able to be saved from the darkness engulfing her by two strong saviors who she still owes everything to today. The first was her beloved other sister April. When May died and the world seemed to sway in every direction she kept a steady foot for both June and herself. At first she thought it was because April wasn't sad about May's death, but after some time she simply realized she was trying to be strong for both of them and keep them going. Luckily for her April was able to adopt her under her guardianship and finally they became a family again. For a while June missed the presence of May in their small home but slowly as time ticked on she grew use to the new world. It wasn't that she forgot May, in fact she still thinks of her everyday, it was just simply that she knew she needed to be strong like April in order to carry on.

    Her other savior was her knight in shiny armor as the fairy tales would call him. Sammy Gustav had been friends with June from even before the reaping that claimed her sister. However, instead of leaving her while she pained he embraced her and sheltered her. He spoke kind words to her and gave her all the support and friendliness he could muster up. Without him being one of her solid two bases of support she would never have been able to reach where she was now. Where exactly that is would be that even though she misses May some days she just focuses on remembering the memories and happiness they shared together. She also has come to terms with the fact that no matter what she does she can never bring May back and that was just that. A cruel lesson but one that will serve her well for the rest of her time alive. How long would that be? She wasn't sure, all she knew is now with Sammy and April she had reasons to live again.

    In fact June was just rising out of her and April's small double bed still dressed in her wrinkled white bed gown when she heard a soft knock on the door. Curious she hastily made her way over to the small worn wooded door and unlocked its latches. Then with a swift pull she opened the door opened to face the visitor. A smile instantly swept across her face as her light blue eyes rested gently on the defined body of no other than Mr. Sammy Gustav himself. Her cheeks suddenly lit up with color as she realized what she was wearing and how awful her hair must look. "Oh, ummm hi Sammy! I will be out in just a second just wait here." She said quickly shutting the door and racing to the bedroom. She made no waste in changing into a nice grey shirt, jeans, a warm purple sweater, and black boots. With her heart pounding with excitement about what her and Sammy would do today she brushed her hair then darted out the door and knocked slightly into Sammy. Color flooded her cheeks again as she apologized profusely for running into him. Only then as the door shut behind her did she grin sneakily and say excitedly to him, "So what's the plan for today?"