Okay so this is the penultimate chapter of Dead Hearts so it's everybody's favourite ginger haired tribute Foxface. Hope you enjoy.
What I was about to do could possibly be the smartest or the stupidest idea I had ever come up with. I could end it all so easily. No pain. No torture. I wouldn't have to die at the hands of the blood thirsty killer from 2 or the star crossed lovers from 12. If I died this way it would be on my terms, I made the choices.
I had just been following the pair from 12 as ever since the girl on fire blew up the careers supplies I have been low on food. Of course I'm smart enough to know what's edible and what's not so I've been able to survive up until now but I need more and the lovers would have it. I was certain of it.
As I was following them I stayed hidden and then when Katniss left Peeta to pick some berries I took the time I had been given to get the food high in protein I so badly needed. I waited for a few minutes and noticed Peeta put some berries down next to a block of cheese and an apple. Quickly and swiftly I grabbed the food and headed off in the opposite direction to where the girl from 12 had gone.
I turned the berries over in my hand and examined them. Straight away I knew what they were and was about to throw them on the ground but then the crazy idea popped into my head. There was no way I was going to win as all three of the remaining tributes are stronger than me and could kill me in a matter of seconds. I knew I would not live to tell the tale of my games. Now I had to decide what was worse. Dying at the hands of another tribute or taking my own life.
It would be so simple and quick. That wasn't what appealed to me though. If I ate the nightlock then the Capitol wouldn't get the bloody death that they yearned for. My mind was made, it made sense after all.
"I'm sorry mum and dad" I whispered as I looked up to the sky and then down again at the berries in my head. I hope they'll understand why I'm doing this. Surely they must know there's no way I can make it out of here alive.
Maybe I shouldn't eat the night lock though. Like everybody else in the arena I want to go home and the only way I can do that is by beating the star crossed lovers and the brutal boy from 2. All I wanted was to get to see my parents again, my friends and my little brother. I couldn't though, all along I had told myself that I wouldn't kill anybody and I had kept to my promise so far and I wasn't about to go and break it now. The Capitol could put me in this arena but I would never become a murderer.
I slowly lifted my hand to my mouth and took one last look at the world before i swallowed what was about to end my life. In only a second everything went black and numb. Maybe death wouldn't be so bad. Now finally I'd be at peace in this arena.
My name is Marissa Hara and I took my own life in the hunger games. I took my own life so I wouldn't be just another piece in the Capitols games.
So what did you think? I tried to make this chapter longer but it was practically impossible. Anyway please tell me what you thought. Also do you think I'm going to do the movie death of book death for Cato?