rye pov
"how much longer guys" I hear thorn from behind
I look back and thorn is really struggling
we've been walking for about 10 hours straight, we need to get to 11 to see if they have been taken as well which they probably have but its our only shot" I shout back at thorn
"right lets just sit and rest now, its getting dark" gabi says walking over to this bunch of trees and getting a couple blankets out her bag
thorn collapses by the tree
"here drink this" I hand her a bottle of my water
I sit beside her and pull a blanket over the both of us
"Gabi" I look at gabi "what happens if we don't find willow"
"we will rye, we will find all of them" she says not that confidently
she starts to make a fire then lies down beside it
I watch the fire grow and the flames fly up
and that's the last thing I remember before I drift off to sleep
willow pov
we travel over night with Robbie and laura swapping to drive and stopping every so often for fuel
I sleep for almost every moment
when we reach distict 9 the sun is rising
we stop in 9 to find food and water
"this place is empty aswell" laura says quietly
"they must of evacuated all the districts" mahic says while we walk into the square
"but look at the mess" I say "it was like this in 4 as well, I doubt they were asked to leave, it looks like people fought to stay"
"do you think they had any idea what was happening" noah says picking up this trampled teddy bear off the ground
"by the looks of it, I don't think they did" I say
"our parents" Robbie says "gabi" he turns round to face us "Rye, haymich"
"thorn" mahic whispers quietly
"they are all gone" Robbie says and starts looking round him
I take in what he says and he was right, if they raided the districts they would've taken every one and not left anyone behind
we continue to find food and water
"wait!"
we all turn our heads to a house to he side of us
there is a little girl about 6/7 with her hand held out
"can I please have my teddy back"
she looks at noah hoping he does, she has got long brong hair that reaches her bottom and she is very pale and dirty and looks like she has a blow to the head
noah walks up to her and crouches so he's at her height and hands her the teddy
"where is your mum" Noah says smoothly
"she said to hide in the box and not come out till it was quiet" she points to the box and it was a very small box
"whats your name" noah tucks a piece of her hair behind her ear
"sophie" she says so quietly I'm surprised I hear her
"okay sophie, do you want to come with us" noah stands up and offers his hand "I'm noah and we are going to find your mum, and you can bring teddy too" he stands there for a moment waiting to see what sophie does
she takes noahs hand and noah looks back at us pleased
we carry on walking with noah holding sophies hand
we come to a stall that has been abandoned, full of bread, cheese and milk and a few bits of fruit
I start wrapping up the bits of bread and cheese for later while the others start picking out bits to eat now
noah pov
sophie is the cutest wee girl
there was a knife on the table of the stall so I cut up and apple for her and when she ate it it was like she hadn't eaten in days
"how long have you been here alone" I decide to ask
she stops eating her slice of apple "I was in the box for the night"
"was it not scary?" handing her another bit of apple
"yes, when I shouted for mummy to come say her bedtime story she never came and I was too scared to get out the box"
willow interrupts by handing Sophie a sandwich
sophie doesn't take it and hides behind me
"hey, its okay" I say as I take the snadwhich off willow and hand it too her "this Is willow"
I take sophies hand again and pull her infront of me
willow smiles at her and sophie smiles back "hi" sophie says softly
"hi sophie" willow replies "why don't you eat that, its very good and you will need some energy for the drive"
I hold out the sandwich in front of sohpie and she takes it
"right come on we need to get moving again" Robbie says walking towards with all our water bottles filled
and we do as he says and once again we start moving
thorn pov
I wake up to the sound of birds chirping in the trees above us
at first I have no idea where I am but then I remember
I lift my head off ryes shoulder and squint my eyes at the sun
"guys wake up we need to get a move on" I say realising we have no food or water left
no one says anything as we pack up and start walking again we just keep our thoughts to ourselfs
"look theres 11" gabi speaks up after about an hour
I lift my head and about 2 miles away are the perimeter fences
"you know if we went along the train track it would've been a lot quicker" rye says smirking
"oh shut up rye, if we went that way peacekeepers could have seen us
I laugh a little to myself watching them bicker
"come on then, what we waiting for" I say more enthusiastically and start picking up the pace
when we reach the fence we just climb through as we know they aren't on even though there are signs saying 'high voltage'
we walk in but what I saw was not what I was expecting
it was worse than 12 there were bodies on the ground that looked they have been run over and some that have been shot
"shit" I hear gabi whisper
we walk silently into the square, not a single person, the houses are destroyed some look like they have been burnt
"oi!"
all 3 of us turn around
and theres a girl looking about gabi's age standing there with a peacekeepers gun
we drop our stuff immediately and put our hands up
"don't hurt us please" I gabi shouts "we are just tying to find food and water"
the girl puts her gun down and walks towards us
"rye?" she says puzzled, I look at rye and he looks confused too
she walks closer to us and then when she does ryes face softens and smiles at her
"cara" he says
cara? whos cara
"what the hell are you doing out here" she says worrying
"looking for willow" rye says
"and Robbie and noah" gabi says
"and Mahic" I put in
"wait" she says her face crumpled up "they are dead, I watched willow die"
oh shit she doesn't know
"we have a lot to catch up on" says rye
I still have no clue who this girl is
"oh sorry, this is cara" rye says to gabi and I "cara, this is Gabi and Thorn"
"so your the famous Cara, I thought I reconized you" gabi says putting her hand out
"and your the famous Gabi" Cara says shaking her hand
"this Is thorn mahics sister" gabi says pointing at me
"hey thorn, your brother is very brave for what he did in the games" she says then stands back "right now can some one tell me why the fuck you are looking for dead people" she says laughing
rye tells her everything from start to finish, how they came here on a 'business trip' and that we found out that they were them anf they got whips for it
rye didn't miss any detail
"so willow isn't dead" cara says with a smile
"no" rye says also with a smile
"wait how do you know willow" I say puzzled
"a few years ago we were very close, we used to go to each others districts and help out, then our parents stopped us from seeing each other, or well my parents did"
"oh" is all I manage to say
"well I know a place with food and water but if I let you have it, can I join you guys, there is no one left here"
"of course" gabi "the more the merrier right" she looked at me and I smiled but it wasn't very convincing
I was just tired and thirsty, cara seems really nice
we follow here through a ruined house there was no roof
"did they set the houses on fire" Gabi says looking up to where the roof once was
"yes, they set nearly all of the houses of fire, you were lucky if you got out alive"
no one said anything we just continued to follow her
"people started to fight back, no one knew what was happening, so they started putting things on fire, the siren wailed so loud you couldn't hear your own screams" she sighed "they begin to take the children first, ripping them out f their parents arms like ripping the last page of a book out, they shot a lot of the parents who tried to get on the van with their child" we walk past a pile of bodies "people were run over by the trucks coming in, so many came in but when they left so many more people could of been put on them"
"how did escape it" rye says quietly
"I didn't, I was tying to find my brother and then I saw him get put on a van and my dad was there trying to get on to, they shot him, right there" she pointed at a point in the road "I ran to get my brother, when no one was watching I took him off the van, he is only small so I had to carry him, peacekeepers saw me and chucked us both on a van, when the closed the doors I looked round the back and the kids looked so so so scared, shivering, I managed to get the door open, when I did I turned round to get my brother but he wasn't there, he wasn't there at all it was all girls so I jumped knowing he wasn't on the van. yesterday I searched all over 11 trying to find him but there was nothing, no sign of anyone alive, no sign of my brother"
"we will find him" Gabi says "we will find hem all"
I keep my head down knowing that we might not and they might be dead, we don't know
Robbie pov
I cant stop thinking about what has happened to everyone and why they were evacuated, I look back and that wee girl, sophie, she is sound asleep on noah and so is noah, I look over to willow and mahic who are both reading a book that we found in 4
"laura you okay" I say shuffling my body to face the font
"yeh Im fine" she says quietly , she hasn't really been speaking much since 4
we reach 11 by night fall
"guys" I say turning round but all 4 of them are fast asleep
"here why don't I go see if there is any where to stay for the night and you stay here and look over them" laura says and she starts getting out the tuck
"you sure?"
"yeh I'm sure, just sort need some time on my own"
"okay, laura take this, just incase" I hand her my peacekeepers gun
"thanks" she says quietly and walks out the van
laura pov
I walk out the van and start looking round,
jeez this weapon is heavier than I thought
11 is much worse than the other districts
there is bodies everywhere and its very smokey, its like the place has been up in smoke
"shhhhh"
I move my head so fast in the direction that the noise was coming from
"who was that" I say quickly putting the gun up and shaking but I try not to show that
"please I don't want to hurt anyone" I say about crying but I push the tears back "my friends and I are just looking for shelter for the night"
when I say that that I realise how dark it has gotten and I start getting really scared and I debate shouting for Robbie or not
I turn round and start running back to the truck but 2 girls run infront me with there weapons up, I stop suddenly
"please" I start to cry "my friends are tired and need to rest"
they drop their weapons but don't let me past
I remember that willow is hurt so I use that
"one of my friends are injured and we need to sort her bandages out and we cant do that in the back of a van"
"how many of you are there" one of the girls say
"6 of us one of us is only 7 and she needs water"
"hey Gabi, they are all out the van now, rye is still getting water" another girl says running up looking at the girl on my right
"please don't hurt them" I say and they all draw their attention to me
"hey wheres our friend" Robbie comes running up with everyone else following except willow and mahic, I assume willow is to sore to move
"look we cant just trust people like that pal" I think it was gabi that said that to robbie
I see robbies face drop
"noah" he whispers
noah stands up from being at sophies level
"oh my god" I hear the girl say beside me
"gabi" I hear noah say
noah drops sophies hand and runs to gabi so fast and they hug
"ii thought I would never see you again" noah says in tears into her ear still hugging
"I'm here noah, its me" she says back
Robbie walks up slowly looking shocked
"I cant believe it" he says tearing up
noah and gabi break the hug and gabi runs into robbies arms
and this time gabi bursts out crying
"mahic" the other girl beside me says "where mahic" she says paniky
willow pov
everyone goes out to find laura and I can hardly move so I stay in the van with mahic
I hear Robbie shouting so mahic helps me out the van and we follow the voices
I see thorn standing beside laura and Robbie and someone I cant see hugging and noah is crying looking at me crying
"oh my god" I say and fall to the ground crying, I'm crying cause I'm so relived and happy we found them
I look up and smile so much and laugh that we actually found them
I stand back up
"mahic!" I hear thorn scream
mahic moves his head so fast and as soon as he sees who it is he runs towards her and picks her up
"gabi" I whisper
"gabi!" I shout
Robbie turns around and gabi is behind him
"oh my god" I say and cry some my
I put my hand to my mouth im in shock as I never thought I was ever going to see her again
she starts running to me and I just hobble along and of course we hug, just like pretty much everyone else
"I cant believe its you" I whisper
she just hugs me tighter and it hurts so much I don't care
I break the hug so suddenly "wheres rye" I say sternly
"he was getting water" someone says beside me, I look over and its cara
"cara" I sigh a sigh of relief
"hey girl" she says
"hey boyyy" I say laughing as this is how we used to introduce each other
"willow!" I hear rye scream from the end of the street
"rye!" I shout back
I run so fast
"willow I really don't think you should run" noah says as I rrun past him but I really couldn't care less what he said right now
rye runs into my arms and I don't let go
he is crying so much and I kiss him on the head
we break the hug
"your here" he hardly says "mum , dad, they-they a-a-are go-"
"shhhhhh" I say pulling him back into a hug
"we will find them, I'm here don't worry, I'm here" he looks at me in the eye
"I'm never going to leave you again"