Part 28

I'm not sure where I am going, but I want to be active. I don't plan on killing anyone. If someone shows up I will hide and just pray they don't find me. If they do, I will be forced to shoot whoever it is. I don't want to, but I'm going to have to. I hate this place so much. I just want to go home. Home. Katniss and my mother and Gale and my pets and my friends. But one person will be missing. Peeta. If I do get home, he will be the reason why. He is the one that has gotten us sponsors I'm sure, and that's how he has his cast. If I go home without him, I will be very depressed. Especially because I have come to know him so well. "Peeta, I wish you could come home with me" I whisper to myself, and tears start rolling down my face. I wish no one else would die. I wish no one had to die in the first place. I wish we could live in a place that we have heard about in school. No hunger games, no President Snow, no starving. There is more, but those three make everything seem better. I keep walking in no particular place. The night air feels good against my hot skin. I have never seen a more peaceful night since Peeta showed me the roof. How long have we actually been in the Games? I think it has been 5 days, and only 4 tributes are left. Cato, Thresh, Peeta, and myself. The Games are going by very fast. I doubt the Game makers want anything more to happen these next few days. A chance to give people some time to bet, let the tributes heal- Physically and emotionally- and have a grand finale. They could and will do anything to draw us together and fight until the end. It's only a matter of time. I'm giving it 2 days. I keep walking and when I start to feel tired or bored, I turn to go back to the tree. When I get there, I climb up to Peeta's branch and find him awake and a little angry. "Where were you? I have been worried! For over an hour I have waited and I was about to come look for you!" He says to me. I can understand why he is mad, and I stay soft. "I'm sorry Peeta. I was really awake and I wanted to take a walk. I had my weapons and Cato is hurt. So I doubt I would have run into him. I just needed... Some alone time." I tell him and he softens up. "Okay, I'm sorry. I was just worried about you is all." I can see why that would make him worry. I did the same thing when Katniss would go hunt. "Peeta, do you know you talk in your sleep?" I know this is way off our subject, but it makes him smile a little. "I do? Really? What do I talk about?"

He asks me. I smile really big and say, "Well, at least since we have been in the arena I have heard you whisper Katniss like 6 times." His smile drops a little and he says "Oh." He looks kind of embarrassed. "Is something wrong with that?" I ask him. "Well, It's just a little. I just..." He trails off. "I think it's sweet. You two would be cute together." I tell him with a smile that seems to light up his face. "Really?" He asks me. "Really." I tell him. Now he is smiling and seems to be in a better mood. "Well, why don't we both get some sleep Prim, I will try to be quiet tonight." He tells me. I laugh, "Don't be! It's cute." We lie down on the branch and fall asleep.