The trance I was in began to wear off. All I knew was that I was dirty, hungry, thirsty, and needed to take care of myself. It must have been almost three days. The pain in my stomach temporarily subsided because there was absolutely nothing inside of it. I tried to get up, but it was difficult. My feet trembled and I could barely see. When I rubbed my eyes I saw why the place I had been at seemed untouched, it was victor's village. I guess Capitol people would need to stay here and there was no such thing as hotels in dist.12. There was no district 12.

I had to keep moving and search for survivors. I'm not sure how I made it but I seemed to be ensconced in a little ditch there was a large piece of wood that must have protected me from debris. I was extremely lucky and I could not have been the only one. I'll start with the outlying parts or what used to be the seam. The inner part of the city had been pretty well demolished. I remember the terrible rain and snow and sometimes wind storms we would get as a child but I have never seen this vast amount of detruction before. I was appauled and thouroughly sickened by the stench so much that I lifted my sweater collar and tried not to inhale the smoke and dead body fumes.

First off I needed food so stepping into Peeta's old house I grabbed some bread and cookies. There wa cans on the shelf and bags of dry food in the cubbards. It was quite the jack pot. Even being one of the wealthy people in town there was no comparison to a victor. So I stuffed everything into a leather backpack and found a new set of clothes that must have belonged to Mrs. Mellark. The rag of a dress that I had on was not going to do. The smoldering rocks and ash marred it to the point it wasn't salvageable so I though pants would do good and a nice pair of leather lace up shoes. I grabbed the backpack flung it over my shoulder and tucked my nose into the blouse. I closed my eyes as I passed my school and my friends houses.

From the looks of the place there would be no survivors that stayed. Then I saw it, a figure in the distance around the entrance to the mines. I ran closer trying no tto trip on the wreckage of the torn up road.

"Hello?!" I called as loud as I could. My voice was raspy and hard to use after crying and not using it.

"Hey! You ther! Are you okay? HELLO CAN YOU HEAR ME!" Then the figure turned towards my direction. They saw me or he saw me. The figure was starting to come closer and I realized that indeed it was masculine. I kept running at a steady pace and they picked up a jog.

"Hey, Madge? Is that you?" He called I recognized the voice and I matched a face.

"Bristel, how did you make it?!" I said he was less than what a block would be away.

"Oh my god Madge!" He said he grasped me and I held on he smelled terribly like smoke and so did I. He was probably looking for people longer than I have It had only been an hour and then I ran into him. It was a blessing to see a familiar face. Being part of the team in the mines with Gale we hung out after school a few times.

"How did you?..."I asked but then he interrupted. "I was one of the guys who got out until the entrance was blocked. But then the bombs came…Our guys we started going with the crowd but I stayed behind trying to find my sister and when I got to my house I just tried to avoid them…"

He trailed off and he looked off into the distance. I had to look up at him he was easily a head taller than me, but I was short. He looked so much like Gale and the entire seam. Then I said, " I was trying to get my mom when we were knocked over and it just all happened so fast I can barely remember. I just started looking today. You're the only one so far. Do you think there are a lot of others out there?"

"Probably,' he said, "The people that are here either escaped already when it was happening or is injured. We should look but we can't for to o long. The capitol could be here anytime to take footage or something it's not safe and I don't think they wanted survivors.

" That's a good idea you must be starving here have something to eat I have plenty of food." He started to eat like he had never seen food and that's how I was. He asked where I got it and said that we would need to take a lot of supplies and he heard everyone screaming and he heard they were headed for dist.13. If it does exist we should go there. And I agreed.

I felt so weak next to him his shoulders were broad and muscular and is hands were scared and tough but not ugly. My hands looked as if they had never seen daylight pale like the rest of me and frail looking.; I could not be frail in a situation like this nI will need o grow up in this new world. I will have not change myself. I don't know how it will happen but I have Bristel which will get me out of here. I looked into his hazel eyes and said, "Bristel, I am so happy I found someone, so happy I found you I don't know what I would've done like this thank you for helping me through this." The full content of the past events hit me and my eyes began to water. I was sure that all my tears were used up but I began to shed more. I must have had an effect on Bristel too because he said , " I know it's hard and I miss everyone so hard but we have to be strong right now if we both aren't strong I we won't be able to survive in this cruel place." He scotted closer to me and offered a friendly hand and I accepted it.

(So what did you think I started off slow what do you think off a Madge Bristel Romance or should they find someone else I just write what comes to the keyboard and enjoy the ride!)