A/N: Sorry I didn't update! I have been writing my Annie fanfic and forgot to update this one. I can't believe we're already up to Chapter Ten! I will update maybe on Monday or Tuesday. For now, if you enjoyed this, leave a review and if you think I deserve it, follow me or my story so you'll get notified whenever it updates. Hope you like this :P
"Prim, I found you." she whispers. I've heard her voice before. I hold my knife and turn around to see the young girl I met in the training centre. "Rue!" I whisper back. "What do you have?" she whispers. I show her the items I've picked up over the few days. "What about you?" She holds out a blue backpack and takes out the contents. "Only a slingshot, a water canteen and an extra pair of socks that I use as gloves." I look down once again and I begin to rattle the tree. "Why are you shaking?" Rue asks. "I'm g-going to fall. I've never climbed a tree before." she leads me down and I almost kiss the floor. "So…Peeta and your sister. Must be close, eh?" Rue grins. "No, they're not. I don't think they've ever officially talked, only have been in the same class at school."
I hear her stomach growl. I've been lucky to find enough food. I hesitate before passing her a large chunk of rabbit meat. "Really? I've never had this much before. We barely eat meat in general." she gasps. "How are you so willing to give this much up?" I want to tell her that while Katniss' does provide meat for us, it's never enough. Once the meat went bad and I had a stomach ache for a week. Other times "game" must be traded for medical supplies, hair combs or cloth. Then there's the days when we don't get any meat at all. "It's fine. We can always get more. Right now, I seem to have an abundance of meat." I laugh. "Did you kill anyone?" she mutters. "No, but I found a boy who must've died from the smoke." I open my flask and take a few sips of the water. "You must be used to smoke. Being from the coal miner's district and all." Rue says. "I hate smoke. That's how we think my father died. Your lucky you're from a district that doesn't have to go deep underground just to provide supplies to the Capitol." Our mines are deep. When I say deep, I mean a few kilometres down. Our mines are so deep because they have existed for hundreds of years. Coal doesn't last forever. "We have to go up, though. At least I do. I get the fruit from the highest trees." Rue informs. "Do you get to keep the coal you mine?" "No. Do you get to keep the fruit you pick?" Same answer.
We tell each other about our lives. Rue is a hardworking sister who risks going into the Meadow for extra food for her family. Sounds a lot more like Katniss than me. We do have similarities, however. Rue tells me of this boy named Theo. "My sister's friend has a brother my age named Rory. I don't like him, but I kind of like it how he stares at me in school." I whisper. I hope the cameras didn't pick that up. "Where have you been hiding?" I ask. "In the trees. I've been able to get very valuable information from the Careers." she grins. "I'm surprised Peeta's been hanging around with them. His score wasn't that high, so I wonder why they teamed up with him." It all makes sense now. The scores add up. "It's because the two girls that got a seven in training are in an alliance. He's helping them find us." I mutter.