Chapter 2

I know exactly how Kat is feeling at the beginning of chapter 2. I vaguely felt that sensation, too, and I know the characters aren't even real! As the scene of the community honoring her with their rarely used goodbye hand gesture, I felt the imminent threat of tears rolling down my cheeks in the middle of class. Haymitch's drunken performance reduces the chance, but when Kat recalls those months after her father's death; her family's need, Peeta's kindness, the bread, and finally, the dandelion; those omnipresent tears finally fell. Oh, Katniss! What's going to happen to you?!