Everyone watches as we make a mad dash for it, some tributes like Rochelle and I run for the trees while others like the Careers and the boys in our gang head straight for the Cornucopia to gather supplies. Rochelle and I go to a tree near to the entrance of the woods but not to near that people can get us, we see Martin and Alex run towards us. Martin carries the supplies while Alex is carrying a much wounded Adam.
"Quickly let's go the Careers are gaining on us"
We jump off of the tree and make a run for it,
"What happened?" I ask
"Todd and his friends… They jumped out behind him and took him down; we promised we wouldn't leave him while he still had life in him"
"Poor, poor guy." Rochelle ads
We have been running, walking and doing whatever else we can to get away, for hours and cant find water. It is so hot and the sun is setting so we decide to make camp in a big tree. It is not that tall but it has room to fit all of us comfortably, we lift up Adam and then all go up, Alex going last because he wants to make sure none of the careers get us or pull us down. Rochelle and I sleep one side of the tree and the boys sleep on the other side, we all wake up when the cannon sounds and look to the sky all of the tributes from District 3, 4, 7 and 8 died in the bloodbath. We say a prayer and go back to sleep.
I wake up at about midnight and see Alex sat up by Adam,
"Were you too cold to sleep because it seems like its boiling in the day and freezing in the night?"
"No, I didn't want him to die alone"
"Have you had any sleep?" I ask
"No" He replies
"Right" I say as I crawl over to him, "My shift, go on go to sleep"
"No"
"Yes!"
"What if the Careers come or worse… he dies"
"I will tell you, I promise"
"Ok"
Before sunrise Alex wakes up,
"How is he?"
"Nearly gone"
"Oh ok"
We have a moment of silence but then I hear talking.
"It's the District 6 tributes… they are down below the tree" I whisper. Alex gets a knife to throw,
"No wait, look over there… the Careers" I say
"Let's wake everyone one up and work out a plan"
I nod along. We get everyone up and look down at them, they haven't spotted us yet so hopefully that's a good sign. The Careers aim and shoot down both of the Tributes. We work out a plan and decide to stay with Adam, slowly he passes on and we all say another prayer for him. We take his headphones and coat off of him so nobody can contact us and we can keep warm with an extra coat. As the tree is so wide we decide to run away instead of ambushing the Careers so we jump down the other side of the tree and move on. A helicopter comes and Adam is lifted away.
The Careers watch and laugh as Adam is lifted and we see this as the time to run, while they are distracted. We run for a while then stop to see what is inside our backpacks; I open mine and find a big, long piece of rope, a long piece of bandage, an empty bottle, a container for food and a big metal ring shaped like a horse shoe which I presume you attach to the end of the rope. So you can swing it up and the hoop will wrap around the branch so you can climb up the rope safely if you can't climb up trees. We all have roughly the same things Rochelle and I have the ropes and hooks, Martin has a compass and Alex has a big bladed knife. We put our stuff in our bags and carry on walking and looking for water but that isn't all we will find.