One, two, three, stop. One, two, three, stop. This is what I repeat to myself as I creep through the forest. Three steps and then stop.

I'm looking around for Katniss and Peeta, for I'm running low on food. I haven't killed anyone yet and I'm not looking for a fight. Just food. No contact involved. Just stealing.

Only 6 left. I have a chance. If I can just survive long enough to outlast the others. If it came down to it, I would kill like anyone else. Just not Cato, the big strong boy from District 2. I would wait him out. And not Thresh from 11 either. Anyone else I can kill if I want to.

I think about my mother back home. So anxious that her little girl might win. And I think of everyone else in the District, hopeful that maybe 5 will have a Victor this year. I can't let them down, I tell myself. I can't.

I look around the forest. Big, tall trees I couldn't have ever dreamed of seeing. The perfect hiding spot. The perfect escape.

The dirt floor hides my tracks and the soft pine needles don't crunch when I step on them. Everything looks so beautiful. The birds sing in the trees. Why is this beautiful place such a horror?

Squirrels rush across the ground. One, two, three, stop. I tell myself again.

I wonder who blew up The Careers supplies. Bad for me and the Careers, since they were my food source. Good for everyone else.

I flashback to the beginning of the games. I remember Clauva's- my mentor- voice in my head saying 'Now remember. Don't stop. Just run. Do this and you'll be fine.' This has worked for me so far.

I pray that if there is a God, please let me survive this awful, awful dilemma. Miracles happen, right?

I hear rustling. A boy. I see his face through the trees. Peeta.

He seems to be gathering some sort of berry and I see a piece of cheese. He lays down the berries next to the cheese and walks down towards the river.

Now's my chance.

I scamper out so silently, take a small piece of the cheese, and about 5 berries. Score! I think to myself.

I run back out just as Peeta enters the clearing. I climb up a nearby tree and start to nibble on the cheese and allow myself one berry.

Katniss comes back and starts saying something about the missing cheese. I don't really hear much because my eyes are going cloudy. I do hear her say that those berries were poisonous and would kill you in an instant.

I gasp. I gulp. I try to get the berries out of my throat. But it's too late.

I can feel myself swaying and my eyes getting cloudier. So this is the end, I think to myself. At least it wasn't painful.

I feel myself fall out of the tree onto the ground. And the last thing I ever hear on this Earth is the canon, signifying my death.