I can feel my heart pounding through my skin. He's dead, Rin. There's nothing you can do now but leave him!

I frantically search around the cave for something to use to defend myself, I find the two knives.

"Shit!" Is the only thing I can muster saying as I run from inside my cavern to the outside. SeeU's shocked face indicated that she had not expected me to come out alone. I sprinted away from her, away from Piko. I rub my eyes on my arm and run into a tree.

SeeU looks up the tree, and her face twists in rage.

I grin, "What's the matter, SeeU? Why can't you come up to kill me?"

Her electronic cat ears twitch, "I'm a cat! I won't be able to come back down! I'll get stuck." She pulls on a piece of her hair. "And what happened to Lover Boy?" She asked. "Did he abandon you?"

My face flushed with fury. "No! You succeeded! You killed him." Tears start running down my cheeks again.

SeeU crosses her arms under her chest. "So I killed two of the most important people in this arena?"

I nod. "Yes!"

SeeU rubs her eyes. "Eighteen down, six to go. But since I can't go up there with you, I'll go find a new victim. Cheerio!" She waves to me as if we were good friends, and not as though she wanted me dead.

I stay in the tree, and curse myself for not finding a way to kill her. I pull Defoko's sweater out from my duffle bag, and set it out in the thickest tree branch. I pull out my goose and de-feather it. I start a fire by rubbing tree twigs together, and keep the flames away from the trunk by surrounding it with wet leaves. I roast the goose on the small fire, and finally eat, after two full days. I sip in Miku's water bottle, and drink until it's empty. I pick the goose clean, and throw the bones out of the tree. I tie all of my supplies (a duffle bag and a water-bottle) to the tree with part of Defoko's sweater. I lean against the tree trunk. I look at it and trace a circle on one of my head flesh wounds until it breaks. I wince and dip my finger in the blood, and write Piko, Defoko, and Miku on the tree.

I clench my fist into a ball; the wound I opened on my forehead was bleeding into my eye, clouding my vision, but I didn't care. I clenched my fist into a bloody ball, and screamed at the top of my lungs, "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" I punch the tree bark, rip leaves out of their sockets, and shake myself by wrapping my hands on a branch and pushing and pulling my top half against them. I'm screaming at the top of my lungs, so I wouldn't even be able to hear a cannon if it decided to go off. My yellow hair is stained red in some parts, but I don't care. I just want this to be over God dammit!

I swallow hard, and lay down in the tree. This will be the night. The night I die… I will probably be assassinated, gone. But it doesn't matter. I'm just a game-piece for the Capital to toy with, besides, I'll be with them. People like SeeU were meant to win this game. She's a cold-blooded assassin, with no trust for anyone.

I'll be forgotten…

And that's perfectly okay.

,,,

Turns out I was wrong. Here I am three weeks later! It took a while, but I stopped mourning over Piko's death, and started giving life a chance. Four more children have died, so this leaves SeeU and I. I have killed one other person, and this was the pink-haired girl. I stabbed her in the chest in self-defense.

There was about one death a week, and I'm the next target…

Well fuck.

I'm terrified of being found by SeeU. I'm paranoid!

But I have a feeling that today is the day. It's too perfect a day. It's an autumn morning, the sun is bright, it's nippy out, and the yellow leaves were practically translucent through the sun.

Yup.

Today is too perfect.

I suck on my fingers to keep them warm, and pull Defoko's sweater over my head. It's very warm inside. I say goodbye to the tree, and head out in search of food.

Wind whips through my hair, and gives my cheeks some color. As I walk on blankets of red, yellow, and brown leaves, I stumble upon a marsh with berries. I look at the berries. They're raspberries, so I pop a few in my mouth. I broke the tender skin and the juice exploded in my mouth. I moaned and ate a few more, when I heard a snap behind me.

I jerked my upper-body in the direction of the sound, and saw a glint of blonde hair. The berries fall out of my hand and I sprint away, into a clearing. I pull my knife out of my belt-loop, and hold it in front of me.

I hear heavy breathing behind me, and turn to look. It's SeeU, and she's smiling. I stop short, and SeeU slams into me. She falls backwards, and I fall forwards. We turn to face each other.

SeeU rubs her eye, where her head collided with the back of mine. "You bitch!" She points her pistol at me and fires. I duck out of the way just in the nick of time. The bullet chops off a little bit of my hair.

I sprint into the open field and turn around for a split second. I hold the knife in front of me in my shaking hands. "I'll throw it!"

"You won't ! You'll run out of ammo!" SeeU counters.

I grin, she doesn't know I have another knife… Oliver's.

I chuck the knife at her face. She easily dodges it, and before I have enough time to react, she's on top of me, her pistol shoved in my mouth.

Spit is running down the left side of my mouth, and my eyes are stinging from the access gunpowder. "You ready to die?" SeeU smiles, an insane glint in her eyes.

I flinch. "Mae Ii mwik." I say, and turn my head away.

"I couldn't quite catch that." SeeU pulls the gun from my mouth.

"I said, make it quick," I say, my spit trailing from the barrel of the gun, onto my mouth.

SeeU puts the gun back in my mouth, and into my throat. I gag. "Gladly," she says.

I wince, and pull Oliver's knife from out of my pocket. I jab it into SeeU's chest.

BOOM! A cannon fires.

"May I present to you the victor, of the 101st Annual Hunger Games!" The intercom announces.

I lug SeeU's body off of me, and slide the gun out of my mouth. I throw the horrid thing to the side of me.

A shadow washes over me, like a wave. I look up and see a hovercraft. It lowers a gurney type thing down by a rope. I lay down in the gurney, and let the rope lift me up into the hovercraft.

Inside the hovercraft is like being in a whole entire new world. It's nearly entirely blue, and there are people in white labcoats everywhere! And that is the last thing I remember before a woman with long, silver hair in a long ponytail, stabs an IV in my arm, and I pass out.