Day Four and Five

I wake up to the smell of smoke. I shoot up and look around to see smoke rising over the trees. I can see I am safe from it. I decide to lay back down and I think of home. I wonder what mum would be like, would she be freaking out? What about Jacob my little brother?

I feel tears spring to my eyes so I get up and look for something to occupy myself with. I decide to go back to the lake and as I look across to the Cornucopia I find that the careers have piled up everything into one pile.

Mounds of dirt surround the pile and I know exactly what they have done. They have planted the mines around it. That must be the reason they have the district three boy, he will soon be killed off though.

I drink my canteen dry before filling it back up. I can only see the district three boy waiting, the careers must be out on the hunt. I can see the smoke has gotton thicker, I would hate to be the one caught up in that.

I decide that I need some meat so I start hunting down some animals.

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By the end of the day I have only caught a rabbit. I eat it raw because I can't cook them without attracting attention. I almost vomit as I take a bite out of the tough meat. I had skinned them and washed it before eating it and still with all the blood of it makes me feel ill.

I force myself to keep it down and after a long hour or so I have eaten all the rabbit. I drink some more water and I notice that the careers still aren't at camp.

After drinking I go back to the wheat field and fall back to sleep.

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I wake up to two cannons going off. I can't help but wonder who they are. Maybe it was Rue, it could be. If not then she has gone far. I can't help but think of what it would be like if it came down to both of us. I wouldn't be able to kill her, I would have to kill myself and she would win, which I would be fine with.

I smile before getting up and walking around. I decide to walk around the forest for a while. I walk quietly, trying not to create too much noise.

I find some bushes with some berries on. I go over and I recognize them as nightlock, the berry of death. "It would be so easy" I whisper to myself. One bite and I will die. It saves me getting killed by some career. Dont do it, you could win this a voice says in my head. "I could win" I say out loud.

I decide to leave the berries alone and look around some more. Where I am the forest gets more dense and soon I am having to slash through the vines with my sword. As I am walking I burst through some bushes and the next thing I know is I am falling.

I look around so see me falling down a hill. Branches open cuts on me and I hit my head a couple of times. When I stop, black dots fill my eye sight and before I know what is happening darkness comes.

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A/N: As you may have seen, these chapters are short. I am sorry for that but I hope you enjoy them.