Chapter 2

Gale and I both whispered to each other to see if we should run but we agreed that it would make more trouble and we should stay put until someone saves us. He was inches away. My feet were tingling, I wanted to run away so bad. Suddenly, he stops there are gasps from behind him. The square is turning red when he falls to the ground and all of the people surrounding me and I discover that an arrow has landed in his head. Gale glances at me. I know what he is thinking.

Earlier when we were hunting, I was about to shoot, a bird chirped, I let go and the arrow flung into the sky. I hadn't seen it come back, neither had Gale. That was my arrow. I had killed a peacekeeper. Not put one in an apothecary, I killed one. The president is screaming. The peacekeepers are closing in on me. I find a small gap in the side of the circle of witnesses. I run. Gale follows. We stop at the dome.

Neither of us knows what to do. We see a hole. That must be where the peacekeepers get in. We sprint, everyone follows. We stop again. We can't get through the door but there is a scanner. I find a peacekeeper's glove and put it on the scanner the door automatically opens and we run through we keep going. We don't have to tell each other where we are going or where to go, we both go to the same place. The bakery. We go about half a mile until we find our next obstacle. Another wall of peacekeepers stands before us.

We look at each other. The peacekeepers are slowly walking towards us each with a Taser in hand. We look around like crazy people. My eyes are getting blurry. People are coming at us from all sides with pitchforks and torches. I turn around. Gale is missing. I panic. I finally find a small house that has an open door. I run towards it. This must be an old apothecary. There are shelves in all directions holding medicines, herbs, aloes, and bandages. There is a dingy bed and a sink. I see an old wooden door that must lead to some kind of basement. I enter the door to see if there are any weapons I could use in the basement. Instead I find a cat with a water and food bowl. It is very dark but there isn't anything close to a lamp for light. I pick up an old match from the floor and rub it against the old wood walls to make a mini candle. I walk around the room holding the match and find Gale curled up in a corner with his hands in front of his face.

"Gale," I say calmly. "Don't worry; it's just me, Katniss."

"Katniss, we need to find a way out of here." He sounds demanding yet relieved.

"I know I was hoping maybe we could find some weapons."

We started to search the whole building, every room. I give up after 5 rooms but Gale continues to search. After an hour I try to find Gale because I get worried. I find him in the last possible room he could look in, with no weapons.

"You didn't find anything." I say softly.

"I guess we have to just wait it out" he says in a monotone.

"Okay, but we need food, we caught nothing on the hunting trip except the small squirrel that fell in the cold stream and got buried under the rocks." I reply.

After about 4 and a half hours of waiting in the room in the basement farthest away to the door, we get up and walk to the door. As we walk out the door, all we find is the square in ashes and nothing but ashes in sight.