A/N - Thanks for reading! R&R! There is a poll I made: Who should Prim run away with? It is on my profile.

Chapter 8

"Rise and Shine!" a voice burns my ears. "Prim! Wake up!" A rough hand pulls the covers off of my chilled body. I peak open one eye. Johanna is standing over me, the smirk just rising on her face.

"Come on! Your parents are yelling at me!" she stomps her foot.

"Ok, why are they yelling?" My voice sounds like I ate a toad covered in feathers.

"Because apparently, because we share a room. And that gives me total power over you."

"Fine, leave so I can change." She laughs.

"Haha! NO! We do have a bathroom, you know." I roll my eyes.

"Thanks, MOM." I grab a pair of jean shorts, a brown shirt, and my swimsuit. I leap out of the bathroom. Only in the swimsuit. I am holding the other clothes.

"Wait,Wait! Where are you going?" She sound genuinely concerned.

"Bye!" I wrench open the door and take off down the hall. I can hear Johanna yelling at me she is running behind me. Luckily, I am about 25 years younger than her, so I am way faster. There is a door at the end of the hall. I open it and start climbing stairs. Knees to chest! Knees to Chest! I hear her barefoot feet hitting each metal step. I get to a landing. I open that door, throw my clothes down and leap into the clear, blue, clorine-full pool. The splash echoes in the plain room. I lurk under the water. I hear the door open. I try to calm my beating heart. The entire pool lurches, causing ripples up and down my back.

"Prim?! Where are you? Come out, come out, wherever you are?" Johanna's voice drifts across the water. I expect the train is now taking us to District 14. I hear another splash and Johanna is next to me in the water, in her undergarments.

"Found you know didn't I?" she laughs right in my face. I cock an eyebrow then dive under the water and swim out to the deep end. I push-off the wall and start swimming. I'm about halfway across the pool when I realize Johanna is right next to me.

"You know you can't hide in water right?" she smirks at me.

"I can try, can't I?" I reply, mysteriously.

"Whatever." She turns on her back and kicks her feet. I cough on the water. I find my way up to the diving board. I bounce a few times, then launch myself into the air completing one and a half turns in a flip and diving into the water.

"How was that?" I smirk.

"I can do better," Johanna replies, confident.

"Ok, then lets see it." She gets up on the diving board and jumps on the springs. She takes off into the air, landing in a painful belly flop. After I stop laughing at that atrocious attempt at a dive. I towel off and put on real clothes. Johanna steals my towel and dries herself on and puts her clothes back on. We race back down the bland halls, filling them with our laughter and smiles. A few people poke their heads out of the rooms, their hair in curlers and in nightgowns. I find that incredibly hilarious and laugh harder. We get back to the room. Finn is in there pacing around like he is fifty, rather than eight. He storms over to me and points at a single grey hair, hard to see against the contrast of his blond hair.

"You see this?! This is your fault! I have been worried sick! Why are you wet?" he says now curious, rather that enraged.

"Jo and I decided to take a little swim. Nothing to worry about." I hear a knock on the door and a frazzled looking Katniss comes in.

"Oh, Finn there you are. You can't just run away like that." She pulls him out of the room. She stops in the doorway.

"Oh how are you doing, Johanna?" She walks out of the room, not even waiting for an answer. The train manager comes in.

"We will arrive in District 14 in about a half an hour." He says.

"Thank you," Jo says, then pushes him out of the room.

I make myself busy for the next 30 minutes. I eat breakfast, change my clothes, take a shower, and by the time I'm done with all that we are in District 14. I arrive at my new house and start scrambling around for everything.A compass, a map, my hunting jacket, my bow and arrows, my throwing knives, some dried fruit and nuts. I snatched an extra pair of clothing. I grabbed a backpack and shoved everything in. I stole a purifier, that I found after searching every cabinet. I took a bottle of water and walked out of the house, water in my hand and backpack on my shoulders. District 14 was really beautiful, these huge pine trees were magnificent. I had made it to the edge of the forest and was about to crawl under the fence when I heard.

"Where are you going, Rue?"

"Yeah, where are you going?" It was Finn and Nixie. My eyes widened.

"I'm going.. going.. Hunting. That is what I'm doing." I stutter. It will not work, Finn knows me better than anyone.

"Then why is your hunting bag larger than normal?" He asks. I spin around and kneel by him.

"Look Finn, I have to tell you this. I am running away." He gasps.

"No you can't! I need you."

"Finn, try to understand, Mom and Dad both need you. I have to leave." Finn gets it, he probably won't question me any more. I turn to my golden-haired friend.

"Prim, I'm coming." she says, determined.

"You can't, either. Your mom would freak out if she lost you. You have to be there for her." Nixie hugs me and whispers, "Good bye." Finn squeezes me, as hard as he can.

"Good by Primrose Rue."

"Goodbye Finnick Cinna."

I turn to leave. I put three fingers up in salute, like Katniss did for Rue. Then, I disappear into the forest.

A/N - Ok, so she will start alone, but you can still vote fro who you want her to meet up with. Hopefully I will write again before school starts. Sorry that it is rushed. I wanted to get her into the forest. Thanks for reading!