The next day, I snuggled up next to Peeta. He kissed me, and his minty breath filled my nose up. "What did you think of our costumes?" he asked.
"Well, I am really hoping that Snow thinks the average citizen won't be able to find the real meaning in that costume."
"There was another meaning to that costume?" He says in a high voice.
"Exactly." I laugh. Gale comes in briefly, but when he sees us kissing, he leaves. I tear away from Peeta and run after Gale. It hurts me to see the pained expression on Peeta's face, but I don't want to loose Gale. It sounds stupid and mean, but I could loose Gale, but Peeta would still be there for me. Gale isn't as forgiving,
"All you do is kiss the baker. What do you think, he will give you free bread? What else do you see in him?" Gale yells at me. "I have just been waiting back here for years, waiting for you to look at me, and then a bread boy comes, and you fall head over heals for him?" He just shakes his head.
All night, I toss and turn. I can't get any sleep, and that is something I will need if I am to do well in this Treasure Hunt. I wake up from one hour of sleep, being pulled to the ground by Haymitch. "BIG DAY! THE ONE DAY I DON'T GET DRUNK, YOU GO AND SLEEP IN!"
I don't want any breakfast, but because there will be no sponsors or help of any kind during The Treasure Hunt, I know that I need to get all the food I can hold, in case we don't have any bows and arrows for me to shoot something.
They give us our assigned uniforms of the games, which Cinna says will most likely be underwater or in zero gravity. He puts the mockingjay pin over my heart, loads me onto the metal plate, and after sixty seconds of excruciating waiting, the gong rings, and water floods everywhere. Cinna was right,,,the whole thing will be underwater. I reach out for Peeta and we swim to one of the small houses we see on the bottom. Surprisingly, the houses are normal gravity, and we can eat and drink in them, talk and move without our suits. The only problem is, there are only two houses, and some careers will want them soon enough, and because there is no cornacopia, we have no weapons to fight with, and they would win in brute force. I notice a small piece of paper with a few words on it. I pick it up. "Peeta, look, it is the first clue!"
It reads:
'If you have come to a safe house, you must be of strong mind, which is why you are getting this clue. The green eel's cave is what you seek.'
"Well, now we know one thing, we have to get to the green eel's cave. Simple enough."
A few seconds too late we see the evil glare of a career peaking through the window, that just heard everything we said, and has a gun. BAAAAAAAM.