"I better go apologize" I thought. I got up already dressed and grabbed my knife as I began heading out to Blooms. When I arrived I heard sobbing coming from inside. I knew what happened at the first glance at her mom crying.
She had not come home. "It's all my fault!" I say to myself silently cursing. I ran out into the woods searching in the same place we were last night. I look around until I see carved into a tree three words. "Greg will die," I read. I as fast as I can until I hear a blood curdling scream coming from the east. I run to that direction until I reach a small house.
I see Bloom above a sobbing body. "This isn't what you want," I reassure her. "Yes it is," she calls back almost insane like. I recognize her dart, it's poison from the flenna fruit. It can kill anyone almost instantly. I begin to approach her slowly when she turns the dart at me.
"Don't do it," I say. "It's better for you to die this way then by the war between the districts," she says walking closer. I dive to the ground but she gets a dart into my arm and I fade away into darkness, leaving behind the sound of Greg sobbing in pain.
"Is it over," I think. "Has my friend really killed me?" I question myself. I light appears above me and I here voices.
"He's awake!" someone yelled. My mother I suspect, rushed to the kitchen as I stirred awake. "How did I get home?" I ask about to get up but to no success as I get pushed back by my mom.
"You need to rest," replied my Mom. I got up but winced in the sudden pain. "Maybe your right," I say chuckling. After resting for a bit my mom decided I could move. Before I got up I asked a question. "Where is bloom?" I asked.
"She's OK, we found her laying a few feet into the forest," says my mom. "The thing you saw wasn't her, It was a clone," my mom spoke.
It took me a while to take those last four words in. "She could be right, after Bloom talked about the districts fighting she started acting strangely," I thought contemplating the idea. "We need to figure this out, and stop the war," I say.
"You know you will have to travel around the districts and you'll probably be executed the first second peacekeepers see you?' says my mom. "I'm willing to take that risk," I reply. I go to Bloom who has just awaken and we gather our stuff. We say our last goodbyes to our family and head into the woods to enter the new world of danger.
"So what do we do now?" I asked looking around the woods. "We head to district four," she replies full of excitement. We walked and walked day and night and as the moon began to retrieve it's throne in the sky I thought about what Bloom said. Another thing to do in my agenda and if she's right am I going to be prepared. Just look at the hunger games, we know what the capitol can do. Will they help us or will they encourage the destruction and chaos the districts are providing? Obviously they have this planned out. We're just a pawn in there game of the districts, and they're willing to sacrifice all of us to get what they want. Will we be prepared? Do just me and Bloom stand a chance in this war? The sun is about to rise, I better get some sleep.
I woke up to the smell of sizzling food. Bloom must have went hunting earlier. I got up and stretched to regain feeling in my tired body and began to join Bloom for breakfast. "So what are we having?" I asked yawning. "Well Mr. Sleeping Beauty, we are having eggs," replied Bloom jokingly.
"When did you learn to cook," I asked. "I have been cooking all my life," replies Bloom smiling. After she had said that a chick hatched from an egg. "Has any of your food been edible?" I ask laughing. "Well you should have been more specific the first time," said Bloom also laughing.
After laughing for the next ten minutes and returning the chick to it's nest along with the other eggs that recently hatched we went out hunting. "I think I here something," I said leaning closer to the bush. I lunged for the bush and when I got my hand on the animal someone spoke.
"This is my territory," said the tallest of the four. "Says who, you and your delinquent misfits?" I said laughing. "You don't know who you are do you?" spoke the leader. "No and we don't plan to," said Bloom speaking up. "You here this, these freaks think there funny," said there leader. "Nothing in comparison to your fighting," I said walking closer. The leader grabbed his knife and hit me. Luckily I had my knife armed and deflected it back at him, as he tumbled into his posse. Bloom armed some sleep darts and shot two of the five in the neck. "I don't want to hurt you," I spoke. "We see that but we want to hurt you," said the leader as he cut my arm.
I stabbed him in the side not planning on killing him but injuring him. His posse gathered him and there other sleeping members and began to look at us, fury in there eyes.
"Who are they?" I ask Bloom as we grab the rabbit and head back to camp. "I've heard rumors of them; I think they go by The Capitol Kings," "More Capitol minions huh," I say as we begin walking.
"About that cloning," I begin but Bloom stops me. "It wasn't me, well it was me but I would never do what she did" Bloom said apologetically. "I know you would never do it, you're my friend," I said. "Thank you," she spoke quietly. Before I thought about what I was doing I pulled her close to me and kissed her.
She kissed me back as we both started blushing. I held her hand as we walked down the forest to district four.
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