A/N: Okay I'm guessing it was a little too much... Oh well that happens sometimes. I promise they will be a little bit more in character this chapter and hopefully future chapters.

Disclaimer: I do NOT own The Hunger Games.

*****IMPORTANT! Please read the authors note at the end of this chapter!*****

*****IMPORTANT! This chapter will be REALLY short. Sorry for the inconvenience.*****

I walked back to camp right before daybreak. I didn't find Gale. That worried me. I had gone back to the place where we had our fight; which I now realize was a ridiculous fight. He had been missing for ten hours now. I had no idea where else to look until I saw him sitting next to our father's and Haymitch in the clearing.

My mouth dropped open. I stop at the treeline and say, "How long have you been back?"

They all turn to me.

"Oh, thank God, Catnip," Gale says as he stands. "I've been so worried." He makes his way towards me and I to him. But when I near him I begin shaking my head and walk right by him. I enter the small tent and find my mother, Hazelle, and the children packing up their things.

"Good," I say. "We're leaving in an hour."

"Katniss!" Prim exclaims. "I'm so glad you're back. We've all been so worried. Gale's been back for hours."

"Hours?" I ask angrily.

"Yes, hours," Hazelle replies. "He wanted to go out and look for you but we refused. We didn't want both of you getting lost again."

"He came back about an hour after you left," Rory says.

"So you're saying I went out there for nothing?" I exclaim and stamped out of the tent.

"So I went out there looking for your sorry ass for nothing!" I scream as I approach Gale. Haymitch and our father's have disappeared.

"Catnip-" he began.

"Oh, don't you "Catnip" me! You can't just go running off after we have a fight! I don't care what the fight is about. Whether it's about you being in love with me or something simple like what we're going to eat that night, you can't go running off every time I make you mad or upset."

"I just needed time to think, Katniss. But you know what? What you said earlier was right. I should just let you go. I mean it's not like you're ever going to love me anyway. So that's what I was doing; I was letting you go. And that's what I did."

"Good," I whisper and turn away from him, back to the tent. I'm sure everyone heard everything. How could they not?

I stick my head in the tent. "It's time to go." They all nod. I exit the tent once again with everyone behind me. The fathers and Haymitch have reappeared. We fold up the blankets and place one in each bag. Haymitch pulls out the map.

"Okay, which way's North?" he asks.

Hours later we feel as if we have traveled days. Everyone is exhausted. We haven't seen a water trail since we left our little clearing. We had filled our bottles before we left and, even though it was winter and very cold, we were still just as thirsty as if it were the middle of summer.

The Capitol must have noticed our absence by now. Must have realized that we were supposedly in the explosion that Gale had created. My worst fear was that they would investigate the explosion, but when I advertised this my father quickly shot it down saying that the Capitol people would just believe it to be an accident. A mine that was left underground after they moved the opening of the mines to where they stand today.

Gale's and my house used to be the location of the entrance to the old mine. That's pretty much what the Seam was; just a big giant mine. It was expected that one of the houses would blow up eventually. That made it the perfect cover up for our escape.

So we went on. And on. And on. And on.

***Important Author's Note!***

*** I apologize for the MAJOR shortness of this chapter but I have to be 100% honest. I'm running out of ideas. Soooooo... that's where you guys come in. If you have any and I mean ANY ideas at all for this story I am open to suggestion.

THERE IS ONLY ONE RULE:

1. No ridiculous ideas... I want my story to be as believable as possible. I want it to follow the original story line a little bit. I'm not looking for "And Katniss and the family got abducted by aliens. THE END!" Okay? So if you do submit a suggestion please make it believable.

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