OMG! Can you believe it!? She's in the arena! Are you dying right now!? I AM! Please tell me to shut it ,and read on!
-Mrs. Anonymous
I run to the closest thing. A set of knives. Someone else grabs for it. The girl from 7. She falls over with a spear in her back. I freak out. I grab the knives and run. I run for the woods. I hear a cannon fire and I assume it was that girl from 7. I don't look back. Another cannon fires. I think of the people watching at home. Thousands. The cameras focusing on me running,hiding. I don't know why I run from death. It's going to catch up with me sometime. I can hide but no matter what death will come. They'll lift my body up by the aircraft, Katniss will scream and run away. She'll lay in the forest for days,until she can't cry anymore. Then all she'll want will be for her to take my place. But she'll never be able to.
I keep running. I slow a little so I don't get completely exhausted. Just keep running...Just keep running... Somehow it clears my head. All I think about is moving forward. It helps. Keep running...I pull out a knife for defense in case I cross anyone. I don't want to kill anybody,but if I have to be able to get away from people. Maybe injure them so they are disabled. But never kill. If I cross someone I will try to get away. I'm a good climber at least. Not as good as Katniss but not to bad. Which could be a good way o escape from unskillful tributes with no aim. I don't think I will come across many of those alive.
I decide to stop for a minute to rest. I can't really afford it but I don't care. I hear a branch crack to my left. I jump behind a rock holding my knife. I didn't have time to run so the second choice is hiding. Foxface is walking by. I almost pop up and say hello. But I don't. I can't have any friends in the arena. I can't give any sign of where I am at any point in time. I guess I'm not far enough from the Cornucopia or she probably wouldn't have passed me already. I decide to go different direction,after I check there are no footsteps.
I walk diagonal. Going left but forward. I'm scared to cross anyone. If I do I know that I have to run. And if I can't I have to injure them so I can. And if worst comes to worst...
I can't even think about that. I never could do it. Never. But there's always the doubt in the back of my mind that if they were hurting me or someone I love...Would you? I can say I wouldn't but it's possible I would.
It's heating up. I'm breaking a little sweat. Step...Step...Step...Boring and scary. YAY! What a wonderful mixture! I frown in a grimace. Thinking. I shouldn't be. It leads to worse thoughts. It distracts me from listening to know I'm alone. I wish Haymitch told me who Maysilee Donner is or was. Hey wait a second...
"Haymitch! Are you watching? Who is Maysille Donner? Haymitch just tell me." I say look up at the sky.
"If anybody knows who she is please try your best to get that to me." I say half smiling.
"Why'd you freak Haymitch when I found that knife under my bed. It was engraved. Maysille Donner." I continue.
"What you laughing? Ok well I will tell you my story form when I got to the capitol. All exclusive." I joke.
"I got ton the train and I had never seen so much food in my life. I ate like a pig. Is that what you do? Fatten us up before sending us to be slaughtered. Well when we got to the Capitol. Then when I got to my room I was reunited with my friend. My friend the Capitol cut the tongue out of. That night I went up to the roof when I couldn't sleep. Gale was up there to. He told me about the forcefield they put up there. If you didn't know we are basically family. Feeling guilty? He told me my sister said she loved him. I'm worried she'll kill herself if I die. Then Gale won't have either of us. I told him he could win but he said he didn't want me to die. And you wanna know a secret?"
I ask sarcastically.
"I took the stairs one level to far. I found myself going through a door at the end of the hall. I came into a room with jail cells lining the walls. A bloody bed in the middle. They branded Effie and Haymitch. Keeping them in there power by torturing them. So I gave them meds later and all that junk. Gale questioned me when I was late for breakfast. I lied. I told Effie the story of my friend dying in The Games. She almost cried!" I say with a small laugh.
Then I went to my stylist Cinna. He waxed me like a hairless cat. Made me fake. Fake and surreal. That same night I went to the roof again. I ran and jumped off the side. The field caught me. Rue from 11 saw me. We stole from the Cafeteria and ate cheese on the roof at 1 AM. We slept there. I watched the sun rise. Breakfast wasn't ready when I broke off from Rue. So I went exploring. I went into each tributes room examining them. One woke up. From 5. She's an Avox to but she still lives in her district I call he Foxface. I'll never know her name. Scared of her I jumped over the rail of the training center hanging there to hide. She could have killed me. But I dropped from the rail onto a different floor. I ran fast. Then I woke up with four strangers in my room."
"They dressed me in my tribute parade thing. That's when I made a first impression. When I got back I told Rue we couldn't be friends. I ran to my room and slide down the door. I started crying. I went to Gale's door and I fell against him when he opened it. I laid on the floor for three hours. When I stood up Gale was asleep on the ground next to me. IT killed me that he cared. I left him a note saying we shouldn't talk anymore. He barged in next morning and he wanted to help me win. I pushed him away. That's when he told me I'D NEVER BE ALONE."
"It was as bad as saying goodbye to my sister. I went back to Foxface's floor an laid on the ground down the hall from her. I was so sad. I started singing a song my sister used to sing. She started hummed along with me. I got up and ran away. Guilty yet? I went to training and it was boring. I went to the roof and sat on the force field looking out on the world. A guy named Harrison came and took me and Rue and Gale and Foxface away. We boarded a train to 12. Almost escaped. Almost. He executed Harrison and sent us back to the TC. I got a call from Peeta Mellark. HE claimed he loved my sister. I told him she loved someone else. He asked what if Gale dies. I old him he won't and I HUng up. Then I got yelled at by Haymitch for running away. Effie found out about me escaping and fainted."
"I told Haymitch all this stuff. About family and whatever stuff like that. I collapsed on the way up the stairs. Gale picked me up and took me to see our scores for training. 9. I got nine as you all know. I found a knife taped to my dresser engraved Maysille Donner. I asked Haymitch and he flipped out and took the knife. I did my interview and I woke up from a basic dream to here. Startled, scared. They had to lift me into the circle of glass. I was wobbly and still am. Scared. Sorry I talked my mouth off. I just wanted you guys to know what you did. Know whats going to happen to me. KNow I'm innocent. Know I'll do everything I can to stop the Capitol. So set me on fire and bite me."
