I wake up across our clearing. I'm confused for a moment, but I remember what had happened between Vincent and me. I hope he's not mad. What if he really hates me now?
I walk over to the pack. It's already mid-afternoon. A few people are still sleeping, so we wake them up to go hunting. It's my turn to keep watch. I watch them walk down the mountain in the direction of the District 11 boy.
There's not much to do, so I go through all the supplies and organize them. About twenty minutes later, there's a cannon fire. I hope it's someone who's harder to kill and not a little weakling who is no threat at all. I also hope that they got some information out of whoever it was.
I start to feel hungry, so I go to my organized food pile and start eating an apple. When I get down to the core, I throw it off the mountain. It's kind of entertaining, watching it roll down the slope. I'm almost laughing at myself when another cannon goes off. I know it's good, but it's a little frightening. I look around, but I don't see anyone. Then another cannon fire. I'm really on edge now. I don't like being alone, even if it's my pack doing the killing.
No more cannons fire, so I start to relax. The sound of footsteps makes me jump. But it's only my pack returning from the hunt. I thought they would look for longer, but I guess two tributes is good for now.
"Did you find anyone good?" I ask hopefully.
"The District 11 boy. But he put up a good fight. Amiens was too slow with his leg. The boy managed to kill Amiens before he bled out," Cliff answers gravely. I sigh. Not a day can go by without one of us dying.
"What did he do to him?" I ask carefully.
"He had a dart gun. One of the darts hit Amiens in the eye," Vincent answers quietly as everyone else goes to the piles for food. Good, I guess he's not mad at me. But I wish it had been Fabio instead of Amiens. Fabio is giving me the creeps.
Tonight, we go hunting again. We wait for the anthem to leave like always. Amiens, Nick, and the District 11 boy show up then vanish from the arena forever. It's Allison's turn to keep watch and I suddenly feel grateful that I at least had a daylight shift.
We don't actually have a tribute trail to follow, so I suggest going back to the lake or the spring. The others agree with me, so we head off. We get to the spring first, but no one's there, so we decide to fill our water bottles again. After we visit the lake and still see no one, we decide to walk around and see if we see anyone. There aren't any tributes left just walking around, so I stat joking around. "Shut up, Crystal," Ares says, but he's laughing.
We go over the list of tributes again, but no one can remember anyone who's left other than one of the girls from Fabio's district and the girl from District 3. When the sun creeps up over the trees, we decide to just go back. Obviously, no one's near us and we're getting tired and hungry.
Sheen trips over a bush and I can't help laughing. Everything's just so grim that I feel like it's my job to cheer people up. Sheen glares at me, but he's laughing too, so I don't care. "Let's get a move on. We need to come up with a plan," Fabio barks. He reminds me of a military leader that I've seen on one of the Dark Days videos that we have to watch in school. He's really getting on my nerves.
By the time we get to the mountain, all of us are trying to hide our laughter. Fabio is terrifying and mad that we didn't find any tributes. He's more bloodthirsty than any career. Oh wait, he is a career. Why is it that we let him join?
One of these days, Fabio will kill us all.
Again, I'm updating really quickly, so tell me if it's annoying. I love all of you who've stuck with me this long. -Theuglyduckling492