14

The anthem plays loudly, making it hard to hear anything else. Cato looks up watching the sky, seeing who died. I look up seeing who's alive. How many more people Katniss needs to kill before she can win. No one's dead though, same as it was that first day. But I think the firing squad was enough excitement. Katniss is moving around in that tree, what she's doing I can't see. I yawn and the others settle in. I close my eyes till I hear the familiar snoring of everyone. It's going to be a long night.

I stay awake all night, watching every move, every twitch of the Careers. Listening to every sound, every little chirp. I can see all around me, but the smoke burned my eyes. I keep looking up at Katniss and I see she's also sleeping. I know I could sleep, I really could, but I won't do it. I think of how I'm getting that bow to Katniss, how I'll get Cato alone and hurt him. I polish my knife again, even though I could eat off of it, thinking how much damage it would do to him. Not enough to kill him, I think with a sad sigh. I prod my leg with the knife to keep myself awake.

The sun rises what feels like days later. I pretend to be asleep, in case someone wakes and sees me. I hear Katniss high above and I open my eyes slightly. I hear a rustle a few tree's away, but when I look up Katniss is still in her tree. Then I hear sawing. I look closer and I see Katniss is cutting a wasp nest down. Oh, how I want to run. But that would give Katniss up, so I stay still waiting for Katniss to drop it on us. I hear it crash through the trees, and smashing on the ground closes to me. I had tucked my knife into my belt, but its cutting into my hip so I through it down and run, yelling 'to the lake!' along with a few others.

I can hear Glimmer shrieking loudly, and Odessa is nowhere to be seen. I hear Glimmer, spazzing around but I don't care. I just dive into the lake. I stay under till I cant stay under any longer. I push out from under the water, gasping for air. But it wasn't long enough; I still get stung on the side of my face. I wince and head out. Cato is in the water still, and I know what I'll do. He can see me as I run to the Cornucopia, grab a spear and run into the woods. He's following; I can hear him tromp out of the water. I think I hear Marvel, and I raise my spear ready to hit him. But when I get there I find it only Katniss her bow raised at my head. She's on the ground, over Glimmer's body.

I stop dead in my track dropping my arms. Shock must be pure on my face, I thought she was smarter. She needs to run, now. If she doesn't, Cato is tromping this way with our answer.

"What are you still doing here?" I hiss at her. The water drips off of me, but its uncomfortable. She looks so surprised and I figured out why. She thinks I've dropped the star-crossed lover thing. She thinks I hate her, as she must me. Even though I've warned her though, she doesn't move.

"Are you mad?" I prod her with the end of the spear. "Get up! Get up!" And she listens this time. She looks scared and confused, which is good. She'll move faster if she doesn't understand. I hear Cato, and I think Marvel to coming to kill me and Katniss.

"Run!" I yell and then again I scream out. "Run!" Cato's behind me now and I raise the spear turning. I can hear Katniss fumble around running as best she can. It looked like she was stung 2 or 3 times. My heads spinning, I can't see straight, and Cato has the sword at my hip.

"I won't kill you Lover boy; I'll just make your life hell." He slashes my upper leg with is sword. I feel it scrape the bone. I shriek and collapse as blood spurts out. Cato laughs and then see's Glimmer behind me. I turn get up and limp away, seeing Odessa as I go. I can't go very far, but I make it far enough away from Cato. He won't follow me, he wants me dead, but wants me to suffer more. I collapse to the ground, my leg killing me. I'm close to a stream, so even though I have no iodine, I can still drink the water. I lean over sipping it lightly, not even caring about what could be lurking in it. I take some water in my hands and pour it on my leg. I try, and I say try, to not scream. But it's hard; I can barely keep my mouth shut. It's just too hard, a small whine escapes my lips.

I decide I need to camouflage myself so no one can kill me off that easy. I don't know why I'm doing it though. My plan was protect Katniss as much as I can, then die. But something tells me I need to stay here. I take the plant the surround me and make a barrier that looks like a bush. I mix mud and the juices of the plants around me to cover my legs and hands, to hide whatever skin is showing. I lean against a tree and close my eyes, but I know sleep is impossible. But the venom, mixed with the pain, is enough to make me black out. I keep dozing in and out of consciousness. When I'm out, Katniss holds a knife to my throat, and when I'm awake the pain is over powering. I must have been going in and out for 2 days.

"Move, Peeta." I hear my mother tell me, and I move whining in pain to get a drink. It's not appetizing though, not at all. I'm not hungry either, which is good sense I have no food. I wonder if Katniss is ok. She must be, but she did have a few stings. I think of what I've missed. I remember one of the times I awoke I heard the anthem, but I blacked out again before I even looked up.

This wasn't a good day, and by my guess it wasn't getting better.

(I am amazing today. 3 chapters added? Heck yeah! I think I might get another one up too! Don't you just love me? Anyways enjoy!)~Primrose F.R. Mellark (oh and if you're wondering F- Finnick R- Rue) =D