Chapter Nine

It was a good thing Gale had strapped himself to the branch for he had tumbled off in shock. He hung motionless as he listened to the conversation.

"I say we finish her off," someone said.

"Nah. We can keep lovergirl. Its our best chance of finding him,"

"You really think he believed in all the mushy gushy love stuff?"

"Seems like a big enough idiot to be convinced,"

My teeth clinched together as I pieced things together. The Careers were using Vita to find Gale. They wanted to kill Gale. They thought Gale was a big enough idiot to be taken into all the romance nonsense. Oh how I wished to step into the screen and give Cato a nice, hard kick in the ass. The conversation died done when Vita return. The cannon boomed and Cato looked satisfied so they began to clear out.

Gale slowly climbed back onto the branch. I turned off the television, my thought blurring together, only revolving around what I just saw. I dizzily slipped under my ragged blankets and stared at the cement walls until everything went black.