Authors Note: Well as promised you have the next chapter :D
Back to Charley's POV
I regain consciousness and open my eyes, I'm strapped on this cold metal table, I try to move but I'm held down tightly. Suddenly a dark figure moves in the corner and comes to stand over me but I can't see him because of the dark light.
"Hello, nice sleep?" He replies
"What is this? Why is this?" I whimper,
"Hush hush my darling, hush hush" He replies putting his finger to my lips. He walks over to the side wall to switch the two switches next to one another, the lights turn on and my restraints have been taken off. I turn to sit on the edge of the table and look at the face... Lynsander, he looks me up and down and tells me to lay back on the table. I look at myself wondering why I still feel cold and realise I am sat there in my underwear, something about the way he looks at me gives me a chill so I do as he says and lay back on the cold, hard metal underneath me. He puts the restraints back on and walks over to me, prodding and poking my skin he seems to be trying to memorise every piece of my body, a few minutes later there is a stylist in front of him listening to every word Lynsander says.
"Right, I want you to add colour here, here and here and then you can..." He seems to be changing everything about me but I dare question him. The stylist gets to work and is gentle with my skin but doesn't slow his pace even for a measly second, finally he finishes up and leaves, then Lynsander walks up to me.
"Breathtaking darling, absolutely breathtaking!"
"But... What's happening... I'm so confused?!"
"Yes, you'll feel like that, those shots take it out of you... Not that I would know... So let me see, we will try and do this quickly. As soon as you left the stage we couldn't risk letting you run off so we had to shoot you there and then, the other tributes were looking for you but couldn't find you. We shot the others as well but the stylists are dealing with them at the moment."
"Why were we shot? Why aren't you going to the other tributes?" I ask worriedly,
"You'll have to wait and see for the first question but for the second, I'm not going to them because we don't know who'll win but it's very highly thought of that you will win... Basically for questions one and two... You'll see now" He replies with excitement in his voice.
Once again he flips the switch and releases me from the table, I go to get up but he pushes me back with his firm hands. Four peacekeepers come through the door and take a leg and an arm each, whilst they hold me down Lynsander walks over with another needle and jabs me in the arm. Once again I fall asleep but I sense movement around me, after a few hours I feel like I am being hoisted upwards.
I awake from my deep sleep and see that I am held up, there are two wooden posts either side of me and rope holding my arms and legs up, I look around and see three other sets of posts but nobody is there.
"Hello sunshine!" Todd shouts up,
I look down and see that they are all sat on a rock with sea water around them, the boys have swimming trunks on and Rochelle has a full swimsuit but I have black bikini on... Why can't I have a swimsuit?! I bite the rope but can't break it,
"I would untie you but I like watching you struggle..." Todd cheekily laughs and Alex looks a him like he wants to knock him out.
"Ha bloody ha!" I curse at him. I carry on trying to bite the rope but it still won't release me from its grasp so Rochelle chucks a knife but it hits the wood instead of the rope,
"This arena is just like the second one my mum went into..." I say,
"I'll give them a 10 for originality!" Todd laughs. He then jumps into the water and swims up to the wooden pole, closely followed by Alex. Alex cuts one side and Todd cuts the other, as soon as they release me I fall into the water. They wait for my head to bob up but they can't see it, I suddenly jump up on the rock by Rochelle and they look at me like they are amazed I can swim.
"My parents did teach me a thing or two!" I laugh.
We sit on the rock all day, there's no land to explore just sea water but its not salty so we drink it when we cup it in our hands. I sit by Alexander and hold him gently,
"I'm sorry I ran off..." I say
"It's okay, I know why you got annoyed... I would have done the same thing." He replies and kisses me, "Anyway you put him in his place!" He laughs,
"I heard that!" Todd moans,
"You were meant to!" Alex cackles back,
"Alright girls calm down!" Rochelle laughs, "There's enough of her to go around!"
Alex gives a look and if looks could kill she would definitely be dead.
I jump into the water and swim back to the pole, I climb up the moss, old structured bean and sit at the top.
"Guys you've got to come up here! Look!" I shout down.
"Yeah, look its the first tribute to go insane!" Todd laughs back,
"Come up here then!" I shout.
Todd is about to join me when Alex jumps in, Todd jumps in and tries to catch him up but Alex is way faster than him. Alex joins me at the top of the pole and Todd and Rochelle sit on separate ones, I point to the distance and the clouds part as if I were some type of god. The clouds part to reveal a beautiful beach up ahead and past that I can just make out a beautiful meadow.
"How do we get over there?!" Rochelle questions,
"I don't know..." Alex replies,
"Look!" I shout. I jump off of the beam and into the water, I start to swim further and further away so they all jump in after me and start to swim. I get to a large, square wooden board and hoist myself up onto it, the others join me a few minutes later and we decide to make a raft.
Suddenly the weather starts to change, the waves become rough, the sky goes black, the thunder starts to pound and the lightening crashes against the poles and rocks a couple of lengths behind us. We use the wooden planks as oars and we start to sail across the water but the storm follows us. We row as fast as we can but the storm is on our tails, then suddenly it sends a lightening bolt down onto the board that's keeping us afloat...