We left that night. We figured, the sooner the better. Alexander told his parents he was going to be gone for a few days and they didn't question him any further. Apparently they wanted some time alone for themselves. As Alexander and I crossed the train tracks quietly and onto the other side, we held hands. We never let the other one go. We snuck past the few peacekeepers that there were and through the city until we finally reached the forest.
"Where exactly are we going?" I whispered to Alexander.
"Where would you like to go?" he whispered back.
"... I guess I'd like to see my friend Katniss back in 12," I said.
"Alright; then we'll go there," Alexander said, smiling as we entered the forest.
We walked through the forest for days, and soon it became weeks. We really didn't even know which direction District 12 was, we just kept on walking further and further away from the Capitol. Alexander had packed a lot of food when we'd left and had packed water as well. But after two weeks, our supplies began to run out.
"Here," Alexander said one night, handing me his piece of chicken. Usually chicken wasn't good to eat cold, but at the Capitol it stayed warm for a long time.
"No," I said, not taking it. "You need to eat, too."
"Food is running out, Mel," Alexander said. He'd started calling me by my real name ever since I'd told him what it was.
"You need to eat, too," I repeated.
Alexander sighed and took a bite of the chicken, knowing that I wouldn't take it.
"Where do you think we are?" I asked him.
"I'm not sure," he said. "I'm hoping close to District 12."
"There's not a lot of food there," I said.
"I know," he said. "But it's better than no food at all."
It was getting dark out, and Alexander soon put out the fire. Alexander handed me his bag that he kept the food in and I laid my head down on it, using it as a pillow. I sighed and looked up through the trees at the night sky.
"Alexander?" I asked. "What if we don't make it?"
"We will," Alexander said. "We will."
I inched closer to Alexander and he pulled me into his arms. We sat there all night in each other's arms, never once letting go.
My eyes opened slowly. There was a strange whirring noise. I looked up and saw something large and silver move through the sky. I immediately grew worried.
"Alexander?" I whispered, shaking him awake. "What's that?"
He moaned and looked up, and as soon as his eyes locked on it he shot up and grabbed my arm. We started running.
"What is it?" I asked him.
"It's a hovercraft," Alexander explained, pulling me behind him. "The Capitol uses them sometimes, and I doubt right now they're doing a friendly patrol through the forest. They know we're missing."
We dashed through the forest, clothes ripped from getting caught on loose branches, trying to outrun the hovercraft. And then I saw something in the distance; a girl and a boy. I recognized them immediately; Katniss and Gale. My eyes locked with her's and I started to run faster toward her.
"Help!" I called, but I could tell by her face that she didn't recognize me. I heard a whooshing noise and I was suddenly tangled in a net. The net started lifting me quickly up off the ground, but not before I saw a spear shoot down from the hovercraft and go through Alexander's throat.
"Alexander!" I screamed as he started to fall to the ground. The rope that was attached to the spear started to pull him up into the hovercraft. Tears ran down my cheeks. I looked back down at Katniss and Gale, who only stared at us in horror. I reached my hand through the net and toward Katniss as if some last attempt of trying to get her to help me, though I knew she couldn't. I looked over at Alexander, with the spear through his throat, and more tears fell.
"Alexander," I whispered right before I was pulled into the hovercraft and everything went black.