Chapter 4

The Truth

Will sits back in the chair as he is remembering.

I remember the first day i got off the ship i was sitting on a pile of tires looking for my father nervously i couldnt see him, i began to get scared then once they began to hand out food i seen him lying on the ground i thought he was dead but he was close to it, i held him in my arms till he died i wept long after, He was killed for a can of catfood he was handed, That was only the beginning. when i was 16 my

childhood friend Trip needed help i didnt know why he ran in my shack scared, i mean really scared i had no idea what was happening. then he started to try and explain but he was so freaked out he was only speaking in broken sentances he kept sayin "MNU...KILLING...HELP...STOP..THEM" I didnt know what to do, finnaly when he calmed down he told me when alot of the prawns started to rebel because they set

up curfews, lowered the amount of ration we get so we needed to start hunting but only within District 13's walls which it is very decolate there is hardly any life in these walls, what do they expect us to hunt. So at that point when the riots started MNU came in and started shooting all of the prawns that didnt obey. I never was a fighter and never want to be, but when my closest friend comes to me for help i was

willing to fight because of the things he told me i needed to get out of there so i wasnt tempted to kill the guards. So thats when i tried the lottery again but this time you couldnt have a criminal record to try and get citizenship this was the first time they did it this way which made alot of the others mad but I understood why. Only me and 7 other prawns got in. My best friend,My brother Trip couldnt go with me i didnt understand he didnt have a criminal record it didnt make any since.

Once i got my apartment settled i vowed to help Trip so i needed to get him out of District 13 and Fast...

The 2nd week of citizenship was the week I decided i was going to get him out,This was the first thing i have ever done against MNU I never had anything against them until what they had done. When i reached Trip's shack he was suprised to see me I've NEVER seen him this scared nor suprised what he didnt know was that i actully knew a way out suprisingly.

I never knew it would come in handy until i was looking for parts to fix my shack from the last blizzard i found a very weak rusted area in a fence that should break easily but never thought much about it. When we got to the fence my heart dropped when i saw they had replaced the fences last week,I thought for sure all hope was lost.

I ended up staying the night there for 3 weeks trying to think of ways to get Trip out. On the third week it was a Thursday when i saw a group of other prawns huddled turns out they were wanting to escape as well i was so grateful. Turns out they had preparing since the last lottery to get out the same one i got out on.

They had wire cutters they made from bits of rusty broken metals rubber from tires wrapped around the handles to stop them from getting shocked from the electric fence that surrounded the entire camp.That night we snuck out of our shacks regrouped and made our way to a fence wall that was far from the watch towers and very dark. When the very bright colored prawn beside me got the cutters and tried to cut through the wires he cut them but the minute he did it an alarm went off.

We hid insantly we sat in the dark for hours, but we didnt trip the alarm turns out another group were planing on escaping the same one prawn finished cutting the fence the leader of the group told us to keep moving he needed to get something i didnt think any think of it until the light shined on us I was shocked we had been caught the basterd bretrayed us. I instantly grabbed Trip's arm and pulled him my way we started to run towards a couple of trees in the distance the brightly colored prawn was right behind us not missing a step.

I have never been more scared in my life. We didnt stop running until we made it to the trees right before we were in the trees we heard a single gunshot we thought to ourselves he missed until the bright colored prawn hit the ground we heard the shot before it hit him we didnt have time to mourn we kept running until we were deep in the forest it was very dark and beutiful the only light was the moon light...