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Chapter Ten

Peeta tried to keep quiet as the other tributes made their way through the woods. The less he talked or made any noise, they would forget about him being part of the unsociably group. Cato had given him a spear to protect himself and some of the food they had collected. Soon they found a place to camp, Glimmer and Marvel set up three tents while Clover had gone out to hunt for food at the river.

Peeta sat down, leaning into a tree worrying about his fate on the games. Cato had been giving him the silent treatment ever since he spared his life and decided not to kill him. Could it be Cato just cared about helping them by leading them to Katniss, he thought. Knowing Katniss she was smart enough to not be seen by the other tributes. As nightfall fell over the arena, and the sky showed them the tributes who had passed away his question about Katniss still being alive was answered.

"Lover boy, are you hungry, Clove just came back with some fish she caught at the river." Cato said. Peeta kept looking at the ground, trying to not look at the other guy. "No, thanks offering me a bite of whatever your girlfriend brought back for dinner." Cato inspected him thoroughly.

Before leaving Peeta alone to his thoughts he whispered, "She is not my girlfriend." A feeling of something burning inside his stomach, made him question his sanity. Could he be jealous of Clove, he thought. Seeing them together, laughing and making plans to kill the other tributes, snapped something inside of him. He had never killed a human being before, but Clove could always be his first after dealing with Glimmer who had never stopped throwing daggers with her eyes towards him.

The next morning they all woke up as soon as possible, they eliminated three more tributes who they caught by surprise. By nightfall they decided to keep looking for more potential victims, until they spotted smoke not far ahead of them. "Let's see how we got there all innocent setting up a fire to keep them warm," Clove said. Peeta knew Katniss wasn't that stupid, she had good survival skills, probably the only real tribute that had a chance of winning.

As they got to the tribute, he recognized her as the girl from district eight. Cato asked the others to kill her, but suddenly just as he was about to stab her he stopped. Cato turned to him. "I want to have the honor of killing her," Peeta said. Everyone stayed silent, Peeta took the sword from Cato's hands and without thinking about it he stabbed the girl right on the heart. Minutes later, the booming sound of the cannon was heard. Cato along with Clove congratulated him for showing his true alliance to the careers. Little did they know he was only doing it to gain Cato's trust once more.

He felt eyes on him, as if someone was watching them, but he could not pinpoint it exact locating, but he had a feeling it was Katniss. "We will camp over there," Cato said. As the group tried to set-up the tents Cato made his way to him. "You did great out there, I have no doubt of you. I can see you're truly one of us." Peeta said nothing, but deep inside he was glad Cato was on speaking terms with him again.

The image of Peeta killing that girl kept on replaying over and over on Gale's head. He could justify the cause of why Peeta did it, but the coldness he had seen on Peeta when he killed the girl was unrecognizable. The games were really changing Peeta to a cold blooded monster.