Sharp Objects

chapter seventeen

Stepping out into clearing, right in front of her, the flames do doubt illustrating my face " how nice to meet you. I'm clove."

The girl squeals suddenly, and tries to scramble away,but I bring my foot down hard on hers, and she winces in pain, silent tears poring down he face. "Name?" I say sweety. She takes her blonde curls out of her face.

"Eden." Her voice is shaky, and her whole body seems to tremble under my sly and intimidating gaze . She takes my fake smile as it should be taken: Don't trust this girl.

"Eden?" I continue, my voice as falsely sweet as honey " that's a lovely name!" I turn my fake smile into a real one, a sly and as cunning as a fox. "It's too bad that you won't hear it again. Guys!" I shout behind me.

I hear footsteps before I see them. Cato walks towards us both, sword drawn, gleaming in the light of the fire. Marvel appears from the trees behind Eden, his spear gripped in his right hand, glimmer and zafira take up positions on eden's other side. and peeta stands on the corner, also holding a spear, guarding her escape we have her surrounded: there is no way she can get away.

She pleads and screams out for help, but none arrives. And we give her no mercy."cato?" I say, looking up towards him. He takes my hint.

"Happily." And with that, the sword pieces eden's stomach. She let's out a blood-curdling scream, before collapsing towards the ground. Dead.

The minute the body hits the floor, glimmer bursts out in giggles. "Well, that was easy. Tribute with no weapons. Pretty good!"

" twelve down,eleven to go!" Shouts cato, and he is answered with a shower of appreciation cheers. I lead the way out of the clearing, still laughing, as I can't help it.

"Did you see the look on her face?" I shout.

"Priceless!" Marvel replies from behind me,also laughing. I turn around to see glimmer and zafira still giggling like little girls at the back. But there is no sign of cato and peeta. They're probably at the end of the group, and we just can't see them because of the abundance of trees in this place.

And then I hear a voice at the back. "Shouldn't we have heard a cannon by now?" It's Glimmer. And she's right. If Eden Is dead, then why hasn't there been a cannon.

"She's dead,I killed her myself, you all saw didn't you?" Cato, definitely,and he seems pretty annoyed.

" then where's is the cannon?" I shout stopping on my path and causing Marvel to nearly to crash into me.

"Glimmer and clove have a point cato." Says Marvel " if she's dead we would of heard a cannon and a hovercraft by now."

"I told you, she's dead, I killed her!" Shouts cato angrily.

"Someone should go back and make sure." Says zafira.

"Yeah, we don't want to have to kill her twice." I agree, twirling my knife absent mindedly around my right hand.

"Guys! I said, she's dead!" Roars cato again. Argument starts, as soon enough,everyone is shouting at everyone in menacing voices full of loathing.it really makes me wonder how long this alliance is going to last. Glimmer and Marvel seem to hate each other, and cato seems to hate everyone. I don't say anything, I have no point in the argument, just in case somebody decides to take a disliking to me . Then I'll be dead for sure.

"We're wasting time here!" shouts someone over all the others. It's peeta, right at the back. Cato glares at him with eyes full of hatred.  " I'll go back and finish her,and then we go back to camp." He sets off back through the trees.

He gets out of earshot, and then glimmer starts whispering. "Shouldn't we kill him now?"  She whines " it's not like he's of any use to us."

Yeah coming from the girl who couldn't hit a thing,even if she tries her absolute hardest.

"No, he's are best chance of finding her. We can't lose that chance." Says cato, smirking through the darkness. I can see him through the trees,illuminated by zafira's flashlight.

"You think all that star cross lovers stuff was real? You think she bought it?" I say, shaking my head and fighting the urge not to laugh. That was a plan. And she's in on it, no doubt about it.

"She might have. She seems pretty simple minded to me." Says zafira.

"Yeah, every time I think of her spinning around in that dress, I want to puke!" Says glimmer, wrinkling her nose.

Funny that,that's exactly what I thought when you were spinning around in your dress.

Then I hear the rustling in the bushes, as soon enough, peeta appears from them." She wasn't dead,but she is now." He says. Cato sneers at him,but he walks of anyway. Everyone follows, back towards camp. But I hang back. And I keep cato with me. I'm determined to make him see the truth: that there is more to fire girl then meets the eye.much,much more. "Your wrong." I say folding my arms over my chest. 'What about?" Says cato, standing there impatiently.

You're wrong about fire girl. She didn't buy into that romantic stuff. It was a plan,and she was in on it." I say angrily.

" what are you saying? You think that she planned the star cross lovers thing? That's it's not real, for her either?" He replies, confusion plaguing his face.

" that's exactly what I mean cato. That girl is no weakling. It's easy to tell. Where do you think that farm 11 came from? She didn't exactly bribe the gamemakers with cookies,did she? She has a weapon. A weapon that she's dangerous with." I say sternly.

" but we don't have a clue what it is, or do we?" Asks cato. I have to fight not run away at his idiocy. " of course we don't know what it is! Otherwise we might might have a chance of killing her! But one thing we do know, is that what ever that weapon is,she hasn't got it."

How do you know that?" Asks cato.

" the only weapon she has is one of my knives!" I shout, pointing to the empty space on my vest and mently cursing myself for being so stupid at the bloodbath battle. " I saw her going into the woods armed with one of my knives. And there's no way she can throw, otherwise she would of tried to get the knives before me. Which means that she has no weapon, at least,not the one that she is dangerous with."

"So why didn't she try and get it at the cornucopia then?" Shouts cato exasperatedly.

" because whatever her weapon is,right now,it belongs to us."