Still not putting a disclaimer! Hehe ^^.

I dedicate this chapter to all that are obsessed with chocolate. :D


Xenna Niam (Age 19) female – District 2

"Happy 19th birthday, Xenna!" My friends and family shout while they are surrounding me, their mouths oddly distorted. I smile; the joy that I have made it to this age is overwhelming. I am about to be handed my present, which I already know what it is, when Bang! I jolt awake at the cannon fire. It takes but a second for the thought to enter my head; yet another tribute lost.

For a few more moments I hold the hope that they will take me out of the arena; that they now found it unreasonable for me to be here. If today truly was the day that I thought it was, it could be possible. But no, after a moment, the obvious is stated and it is clear I'm not going back to Two soon. Oh well, I can return once I kill off the remaining four, err, three, tributes.

I blink twice, shake the remaining sleep off of my shoulders and look at my hand. I had been marking the days left with mud. Today was the eleventh day I have spent in the arena; my nineteenth birthday. I shouldn't be here now. Had I been born a few weeks earlier, I would positively not be in this mess. I would not be in this arena. I would have volunteered for the last game, and I would be on a freaking beach! I would not be splattered in mud.

I pick up my spear, for spears were the only weapons provided in the arena, and walk out of the cover of the brush. Savannah: that was the term that would describe the arena. Once you excited the brush, there were miles and miles of tall grass occasionally dispersed by one of those leafless trees. It was so flat that you could see the Cornucopia from miles around. Rather boring, if you ask me. The sun was high, as always since the rain, and I didn't even bother to lay low. My mud coating was camouflage enough.

I really wish that I had sunglasses. I put my hand over my eyes and look up, to try and tell the time. I see something in the sky glint off of the sun. Something that was silvery and metallic. A gift! The silver parachute barely was in my reach when I jumped up and snatched it out of the sky.

Once the package was in my hands I began to wonder. I was well off; I didn't need anything. I had been trained well, not only with weapons, but also with ways to gather food and water. So, only one possible idea came to me. Was it a birthday present? Hope building, I shred open the packaging, a smile already creeping onto my face.

It takes all my will not to shriek when I see the item that I have been given. It's chocolate! Actual chocolate! Dark chocolate! As in the sweet, delicious, mouthwatering chocolate! I love chocolate! By far the best birthday present ever, even though I get chocolate every year on my birthday! I always knew to expect chocolate; I just never knew to expect it in the arena.

My smile is not concealable as I take my first bite, the chocolate melting in my mouth just as all my worry is. I don't love chocolate; I am obsessed with it. An unhealthy obsession if you ask anyone who knows me well. But I don't care; chocolate is my Achilles' heel.

Not bothering to conserve my delicacy, I eat it within five minutes, licking my fingers even though they are coated in mud as well as chocolate. Once it is all gone, I look at my hands for a few minutes. It takes a while to convince myself that there really was chocolate. I let out a sigh and continue to walk.

No more than ten minutes later, I fall to the ground, concealed in darkness. I'm unable to move anything; but I feel a burning sting throughout my body. Although I hate to admit it, I know instantly that the chocolate was laced with a poison, a deadly poison. I lived for exactly nineteen years, just to be ended by what I loved most. All I can feel is betrayal. How, chocolate, how could you betray me like that?!


I always imagined that if I were in the Hunger Games, this would be my death. I have an unhealthy obsession with sweet things. I love dark chocolate! I always wondered why mentors didn't send posion food to opposing tributes. So I say that after this little incident happened it became not allowed. Thanks to LunaPadma and :D (love the name by the way) for reviewing! Thanks for reading! Review!