I barely sleep for 1/2 an hour before I wake to the sound of the Capitol anthem. So max decided to stay with the classics. I sit up and wriggle like a caterpillar to the mouth of the cave with Bonnie.
The Capitol seal shows and then fades and is replaced by the face of the boy from 3. Then it move onto the girl from 7 and then both the district 9 tributes. Then it shows the career killed tributes, the boy from 6, the boy from 7, both from 8 and the girl from 10. The next face makes my chest pump and my heart beat. Harriet's smile etches into my mind like a knife and when I go back in, and lie down, I can't get to sleep. I toss and turn and eventually get up again and tell Bonnie I'll take over watch shift.
I sit at the mouth of the cave with a dagger in my hand and stare up at the stars. They still shine through clear and they look almost the same as the ones back home. The cool metal of the dagger feels strange in my hand and I feel like putting it down. I place it on the floor beside me and suddenly realize I am starving. I look back at Bonnie but she is fast asleep so I don't wake her to ask. I grab some cheese and munch on it while is sit. The whole in my stomach isn't filled but at least it's something.
I sit there for a while looking at the stars and then suddenly I smell smoke. The game makers wouldn't start a fire this early after the bloodbath, would they?
Then I realize its not a game makers fire but simply a tribute, a way aways, who is cooking some dinner.
How stupid. They were going to get themselves killed just sitting there waiting for the careers to come and get them.
Sure enough, after a few minutes, the shouting and laughing of the careers reaches my ears. I watch as the person scrambles away from the fire, panicked. The person heads towards our cave with a limp and I think about sliding back in an leaving them out there but my heart gets the better of me. As they get closer I whisper at them. They spot me in the dark an I gesture for them to come in. The quickly do so and just in time because the careers have reached their fire. They shout angrily and someone orders to scout the area.
They do so and Georgiana comes awfully close to our cave but doesn't spot it. We shrink into the shadows and in the end, they stop looking.
"They must have left before we even came." I hear the boy from district 4 say.
Juliet gives out an ear piercing scream and the next second, a cannon go's off.
"Juliet, why did you...." Soren's voice trails off.
"I needed to kill someone, and he was annoying me." She replies and they start hiking back to their camp.
I let out my breath and turn and look at the tribute I saved. It's a girl with brown or black hair down her back and dusty hazel eyes, but I can't see any of her other features in the dark. I think it's the girl from 3 but I can't be sure. She studies me and let's out a sigh.
"I didn't want to alliance. It's just harder when they get killed."
I smile.
"I don't plan on getting killed anytime soon. What's your name?"
"Zara. And you're Primrose. Who are they?" She says, gesturing to the others.
"That's Bonnie and the little ones Daisy. The boy's called Percy and just survived Ditty, although they'll be looking for him now they know he's alive."
Suddenly, Daisy stirs. She starts gasping for air and tossing and turning in her sleep. Then she starts saying things, and crying.. I think I catch the name Rue and mum and I even think I catch Primrose. A nightmare. I go over to her and wake her. Tears stream down he face.
"Mum... Rue...." She sobs.
"Shh. It was just a nightmare. Only a dream."
"But you were there too and it was night and there was another girl with you as well and even Soren. And I watched Juliet scar your faces. Even Soren's and then ditty came along and told her to hurry up and kill you and then I woke." She sobs.
"It's only a dream." I whisper.
She starts to calm down and stop crying, and then notices Zara.
"It's the girl from my dream!" She says.
"Oh, Daisy, this is Zara."
Suddenly, Bonnie wakes.
"Who's Zara?" She says, sitting up. She spots her and glares over at me. The sun is already starting to crawl into the sky.
"Prim, lets go for a walk. You guys stay here. We'll be back before Percy's awake."
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"Why did you let her in?" She asks.
"I had to! The careers were after her and if they had found her I'd have killed myself. Well, not literally but, yeah."
"What? There were careers near the cave!"
"Yes, and if I hadn't had let her in they'd have looked for her until they found it! What's so bad about her anyway?"
She sighs.
"Nothing, I suppose."
"Aright. Lets go back to the cave before Percy wakes up."
With that, we walk back. We walk past the ashes of the fire and Bonnie looks at all the shoe prints in the fresh mud. When we get back to the cave, Percy is still asleep and Daisy and Zara are deep in conversation.
Now the sun I giving a small tint of light, I can see that she has pale skin and dirty blonde hair, as well as a scar with a bit of dried blood on it on her left cheek. She seems to have a swollen ankle.
"Come on, lets have some breakfast. Do you have any food?" Bonnie says to Zara.
"Yes. I pushed it under a bush when I heard the careers. It's probably still there."
We go out and back to the fire. Zara starts searching through bushed so we do the same. Zara shouts.
"Found it." She pulls out an orange pack and a lighter.
We head back to the cave and she pulls the pack open and spills the contents on the floor. Inside is some dry beef & crackers, as well as a piece of rope and an apple.
"You don't have any water! You must be dehydrated." Bonnie exclaims and passes her a bottle. She takes it thankfully and gulps it down in two seconds flat.
"Sorry." She says, passing it back.
"Don't be. We still have 3 more and we just need to find a place to refill it."
We eat a breakfast of dried neat and fruit and as we're eating, Percy stirs. His eyes flutter open and he sits up.
"Percy!" I cry and hug him. "I'm so glad you're alright!"
He hugs me back for a second and then we pull apart awquardly.
"I'm fine, but how are you. Who's dead? Where's Harriet?" He looks around an suddenly I realize he must not have seen Juliet throw it, because he was too busy fighting Ditty. I look into his blue eyes an they fill with fear.
"Prim. Where Harriet?" He says, an edge of fear in his voice.
The tears I had been holding back over Harriet's death come streaming out and I fall into him. I sob into his jacket and he cries as well, stroking my hair. The others leave the cave, leaving us alone. My sobbing slows and soon I'm just leaning on his shoulder, tear stains running down my cheeks. I am entirely unprepared for what happens next.
Percy pulls his arm around me, and I look up and into his eyes. The sadness in them is unmistakable but there I also something else.
With no warning, he leans in and his lips press against mine. A tingling sensation runs through me and his lips are cool on mine. His warm chest touches mine and warmth in circles me. Sparks seem to fly and I lose myself. It was the kiss of my dreams and I wished it would never end, but it does. We pull apart and suddenly, all is different.
In the small period of what seemed like 2 hours but was actually only 5 seconds, all feelings I had for Percy had changed. Once again, I lean my head against his shoulder, thoughts whirring through my head. None of them make sense except 2.
1. I no longer thought of Percy in friend-like ways
And
2. I was not going to let him, or any of the others die.
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There you have it. A little bit of love, another alliance, a nightmare involving Soren and the question on all our minds is, how did Daisy dream of Zara if she had never even met her? Was the dream dreamt to come true?
Anyway, please vote and comment what your favorite part of the chapter was! Whether it was Zara, the kiss, the last line ect. Also comment what death you'd want Juliet or ditty or crunch to have. I may use your ideas, if they're good, so be creative!
Thanks a bunch,
Xela732
P.S. my friend practically begged me to do this (ok maybe that's not entirely true, she asked and I said maybe)
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