Chapter One
Rue's POV
The sea breeze that brushed Rue's face was pleasant, and the rock of the boat was relaxing…but not everybody thought so.
"Ugh…when…urgh…is this thing…going to stop tilting?" groaned Clove, grabbing the handrail. Her face was tinged with green.
"Shouldn't be much longer," her boyfriend Cato said from the wheel.
"Where's Katniss?" Rue's best friend, Prim, asked from her deck chair beside Rue.
"Below decks," Johanna replied. She gave a wicked grin. "With Peeta."
"Ugh." Prim made a face. "I won't check in."
"Where's Thresh?" Rue asked. Thresh was Rue's cousin and after escaping the Hunger Games, he'd stuck to her side like glue for the first couple of days. Clove shrugged, but voice behind Prim said, "He's below decks, working on the engine."
Rue whirled to face Finch, whom Katniss had nicknamed Foxface.
"Guys, land ho!" yelled Cato.
"Don't swear in front of the children!" Johanna exclaimed with mock horror.
Cato scowled. "That's what you're supposed to say on a boat," he said.
Clove straightened and yelled abruptly, "Not it!"
Catching on quickly, Rue and Prim both yelled, "Not it!" Cato, Johanna, and Finch looked at them as if they'd gone mad.
"Not what?" asked Finch.
"We're not going to get Katniss and Peeta," Rue explained.
After that, a chorus of 'not it's' burst from the rest of them, but in the end, Cato lost out and went to retrieve Katniss and Peeta.
