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"Can I stay here?" I ask him. I'm not in the mood to go with them. He looks at me and nods his head. "Anyone else that wants to stay?" nobody answers, Connor is about to say he will but I shake my head at him.
"Let's go hunt tributes." Cato says as he's done eating the last bread. Someone sure was hungry.
"Tom and Hannah stay here." He says. I don't want to stay here with Tom I mean no offence but I feel more comfortable with Connor and -I can't believe what I'm about to say - also Cato.
"I'm not leaving Hannah behind, she either stay here with me or come with us and someone else stays here." It's like Connor reads my mind. Well I guess we have that because we've known each other our hole life's.
Cato looks at Connor for a minute then says. "Fine, Hannah comes with us and Tom and Glimmer stay here."
"What! You can't do that, I want to hunt." Glimmer yells. "You stay here! Understood!" Cato yells at her getting in her face. She stumbles back and nods her head at him.
We're walking around for about half an hour until we hear someone run away, Cato runs after the person, soon we all are running after them. I hear Cato's sword collide with someone's skin.
"Cato!" I yell, I'm standing a few feet behind the others everyone looks at me but Cato is still buzzy killing the person in pieces. He makes the person suffer. Connor comes to me but I run and pull Cato of the person. Then the Cannon shot goes off, the girl from 5 I now see is dead.
Cato gets up. "What's wrong with you? She's dead isn't she, that makes us closer to the victory." "You made her suffer." My voice breaks while I say this.
My hand goes to the girls head and I close her eyes then I go with my thumb over her forehead making a cross. It's a sign we use in our district so she can move on. I get up tears in my eyes, I see Connor standing behind me, everyone else followed Cato again for the hunt on tributes. I run into Connor's arms.
He holds me tight but after a minute he loosens his grips and makes me look at him. "Cato is looking, we need to move." He tells me softly making sure I won't look at the girl and the hovercraft that comes above us and the girl as he guides me towards the others. They don't care if they kill someone.
I see Cato looking at me so I look down again. I know I shouldn't be disappointed but somewhere inside of me I thought he could change and not be a heartless killer.
"I have to ask Cato something. Be right back." He runs past the other towards Cato.
I feel lonely even though the others are walking in front of me I feel lonely. No one except Connor understands that it kills me to see people get killed. It's like all of them don't have a heart.
I see Cato looking at me while Connor and him talk then Connor comes back running to me. He winked at Clove while running to me. That charmer.
"I see I got a smile out of you, may I ask how?" Connor says with a dramatically accent. "You and Clove." Is all I answer him with a little smile. He smiles back at me.
"We can go hunt if you want." I look at him like he is crazy, my little smile gone now. "I mean for food." Oh, well I guess it's not bad if we take food with us.
"Ok, like home?" I ask him. At home we always make a game out of it. We tell each other where our target is and then we have to "kill" it as quickly as we can, if we didn't get it or we got it later than 10 seconds you lose and do something for the other. I remember he had to carry me to school for a week because he lost one time.
Connor smiles at me. "Ok like home, you tell me when you see a deer or a squirrel or something and I have to take it, after I have one you I tell you what to hit."
"ok." I say. I wipe my tears away and start looking up at the trees. I see a deer in front.
"A deer at 11 o'clock." He looks and sees it. "Dammit, Cato is to loud and Marvel is walking in my way."
"5 seconds left." I say serious. He looks at me then runs in front of the others and throws his spear. Miss, he missed it. "Dammit! Could you guys be any louder?"
Cato pulls his eyebrow up and keeps walking. I run to Connor while he takes his spear. We are walking in front of everyone except Cato. I see a squirrel.
"Squirrel 3trees ahead." Connor looks and sees it then throws his spear but misses again. Connor groans. "Alright you do."
My stomach turns. "no thank you." "If you do it quick it won't feel any pain." He says as he sees the pain in my face. "You know your better than me." He says trying to light the mood.
I grab my knifes and after a couple minutes Connor says. "Deer at 2 O'clock." I look and see the deer. I focus and throw two knifes at the deer. "Bullseye!" Connor yells and runs to the deer everyone else follow him. Cato looks at me because I'm standing still.
I walk to him and then he puts his arm around my shoulder and we start walking towards the deer. "Good job." He whispers in my ear. I sigh and force a smile at him. I can't be happy that I just killed a deer. I mean the poor thing also had family and I don't know maybe a life and I took it from him.
"We have food for a whole week!" Marvel yells happily. Connor looks at my smiling but then his smiles fades when he sees Cato's arm around me. I know he wants me to tell him what happened so I nod at him.
I think it's been two hours since we started hunting tributes. Joel and I are carrying the meat from the deer I killed. All the others are now looking for tributes. I hear something behind I turn around and before I know it. Joel screams and smacks to the ground.
I see a spear coming towards me I put the meat in front of my body. I feel it hitting the meat. Then before I know it the others are in front of me Cato is fighting a guy, I can't see it properly. Clove and Marvel are fighting a girl.
Connor is by my side. "You ok?" he asks me. "yeah, Joel." We both bend down and I see a spear in his stomach, it's a deadly wound.
"Hey buddy." Connor says. Joel is trying to get up and is in panic. "Joel stay down, it'll only hurt you more if you struggle." I tell him.
"I'm dying." He manages to get out. Connor and I both look down. "We're sorry Joel." Connor says to him. He tries to pull the spear out but I grab his hand.
"If you pull it out, you will be in more pain and you'll almost immediately die. I'm sorry we can't do anything." He cries. "No… I … Please don't leave me." I put the meat of me and pull him on my lap.
"I'm so sorry Joel." I stroke his back. Joel is crying "Han, sing your song it'll calm him down." Connor tells me. Then runs off to the others. I see the girl is about to break down and Cato is winning the battle with the boy.
I look at Joel and start to sing:
Just close your eyes
The sun is going down
You'll be alright
No one can hurt you now
Come morning light
You and I'll be safe and sound
Oooooooooh
I heard two canon shots, I looked at Joel and his eyes were on mine. I kept singing knowing the boy from 5 and girl from 7 are dead.
Oooooooh
Just close your eyes
You'll be alright
Come morning light
You and I'll be safe and sound
Another canon shot goes off, Joel's eyes are closed. I'm crying. I put my thumb on his forehead and make a cross. Everyone looks at Joel in my arms. Connor comes putting his hand out so I can get up. I let Joel slip of my lap and take Connor's hand.
We walk back towards the cornupcia. Glimmer is glaring at me and I can see Tom is looking for Joel. I look down a tear escapes my eye again. Connor and I put the meat at the fire and we start cooking some of it.
I feel horrible, I've never seen anything like this. Well I've seen it and it even hurt me when I was at home but this is just killing me. I don't know what to do anymore, I just want it to be over. I don't want to do anything.
A canon shot goes off, mu head goes up and I look at the forest behind me. I just hope It's not Amy or Dylan. Honestly Amy is like my best friends cousin, I care a lot for Amy. Dylan is like my brother he is 17 just like me, he could be my other twin.
Connor walks to me. "I hope they're safe." I say to him. He nods "Me to Han, me to." He sighs as. "Come on." I put my shoes off and walks towards the water letting the water against my feet. Connor comes and stands next to me.
"So wanna tell me what happened with Cato?" so I told Connor what happened with Cato.
"Come here Connor, Hannah!" Cato yells at us.
"We have to go hunt tributes again. There are too many tributes left for the second day." Cato says to all of us.
"Can I stay here?" I ask him. I'm not in the mood to go with them. He looks at me and nods his head. "Anyone else that wants to stay?" nobody answers, Connor is about to say he will but I shake my head at him.
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