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In the early morning, I woke up to find that everyone was gone. I thought that maybe they decided to go hunting or searching for another backpack.

I stifled a yawn and someone began moving the rocks. I panicked and pulled a knife out of my boot. I readied myself and saw it was just Gabe coming back.

"What's up?" I asked sighing in relief. I put my knife away.

"Nothing, we just found some animals to eat and two more backpacks." Gabe said.

"I wonder how many there are." I said quietly as Gabe led me to where everyone was sitting. It was around a freshwater pond. I drank some water and sighed in relief.

"Did you guys open the backpacks?" I asked.

"No we were waiting for Gabe to come back with you." Rye said grinning. Well almost, it didn't exactly reach his face.

"Well let's open them." I said excitedly.

We all huddled around as Sylvia opened the first one.

There was a sleeping bag, a blanket, a canteen, some fruits, and a photograph of Ceasar Flickerman.

"What?" I asked looking at the photo.

"I'm going to sleep with it under my pillow every night." I said joking around as everyone snickered.

"What's in the second one?" Cynthia asked.

"Good question." Rye said as he opened it.

There was an archery set, a few more knives, a dagger, and a sheath of arrows.

"So Cynthia, I know you've been hinting about archery. So this is yours." Rye said handing her the bow and arrows.

"Evelynn, you can have the dagger and a few knives now. But we'll split them half and half between us." I said as she nodded.

There was a twelve pack of knives this time. Rye and I took six and we split three with Sylvia and Gabe.

The first canon of the Hunger Games went off and I prayed that it was all going to be alright. It was the District 8 girl, Azalea Bollenback.

"There are only 23 of us left now." I said darkly.

"And 6 of the 23 are Careers." Rye said.

"Well there are 6 of us, too." Gabe said.

"Trey keeps trying to flirt with Lovella and it's really weird." I said changing the subject. I can't do math right now. I know there are 12 known allied groups, but I couldn't think of who else there was.

We walked back to the crater hole where I hoped that I wouldn't have to die until at least the last 8.

For dinner, we had some of the raisins and some dried pear.

Another canon went off and I poked my head out to see who it was. It was the girl from 10. Wait, the girl from 10 was Thalia Springs. I knew her!

"Make that 22." Evelynn sighed as we all kept to ourselves.

We all eventually fell asleep. My sleep was a bit restless, but I still managed to toss and turn myself into some sleep. I just didn't feel safe. It feels like someone should keep watch if someone finds us.

And then someone else started to move the boulders. I grabbed the assortment of knives. I couldn't see who was there, but if it was a Career, they would lose a head.

It was sort of a filler chapter today :/ Sorry! But either way, HAPPY ALMOST 400 VIEWS! I never imagined that my story would take me over 150, so you guys are amazing! Here is your sneak peek too:

Someone stepped on leaves or something and it gave away their place.

Out of instinct, I threw the knife at them and heard a strangled scream.

Who did she kill? Nervous? Small cliffhanger! Cliffies are so much fun to type, sorry! And this SpellCheck is really driving me CRAZY! It's the Hunger Games, not every word/name can be correctly spelt!

Anyway: Thanks again to Sungirl12 and Chucklez-Lives-On for the reviews! Chapter 10, already guys! This story is going by so quickly!