FINALLY! The Arena! I've been so exited to write this part! :) Enjoy! I don't own anything

Chapter 7

"Oh my gosh, Lily I was so worried" Alexander says still hugging me. "I was worried about you Alexander, what happened?"

"Well, once the gong sounded I came for you but one of the Careers was running right for you with a knife in his hands. He threw it..." he takes my hand. "I told you to get down and it cut your hand. If you didn't move it would have gotten your stomach"

"Thank you" I breath. "What does it look like?"

"It's a forest, it's really cold and on the other side of the cornicopia there is a frozen over lake. There is no snow but if it rains there will be and There are sticks and logs and leaves everywhere"

"Good, I can hear people coming if they do"

"Thats good."

"Did you get anything?"

"I got an empty water bottle, the knife the Career threw, and a very small back pack with some wire, rope, and crackers in it"

"Better than nothing" I tell him.

"Yeah" Alexander agrees.

"What should we do now?"

"I not quite sure, but I want to get further away from the cornicopia" I nod in agreement. He takes my hand and we walk away from the cornicopia.

We walk and walk and walk and walk. We walk for a long time. The crunching of our feet on the leave covered ground is loud. I do have amazing hearing so it's louder to me than a normal person. "We should find a place to sleep tonight" Alexander says. He's right we need to. It wouldn't be smart if we just kept walking all night. "Yeah we sho-"

"What is it Lily?"

"Shhh!" I say and he obeys. I hear footsteps that aren't mine and aren't Alexanders. The footsteps are heavy and carefree. Then I hear the voices. They are distant, but loud and I know it's the careers. "The Careers are about 1,000 feet to our right" I whisper into Alexanders ear. He takes action after a few seconds. He squeezes my hand and then pulls me down into a small hole that I think is partly under a tree. I am in his lap, his arms around me. We sit in silence and I listen for the Careers. Their talking grows, louder, closer, and clearer. They became close enough that we could hear them talking now. "How did you not get the BLIND girl Jacob?" one of the careers asks. Jacob I'm guessing was the one who threw the knife at me. "I told you, her and her district parter teamed up and she jumped off the pedastal. My knife got her hand." Jacob says

"And how does that help us, she is still out here"

"Yes but she is, like you said, blind. Once we find her she won't be that hard to kill Chris" Chris, I guess, is a careera as well. "Yeah, she better be or it's you who will pay" Chris threatns. Then the voices go back to mumbles as they get furthere away. Once Alexander and I were positive they were far enough to way to come out of our hiding spot, we did. "Can you hear them still?" Alexander asks. I listen carefully, but only hear their very faint footsteps getting quieter with each step. "They're gone" I say.

"Good, do you just want to stay here for the night, we'll worry about food and water tomorrow"

"Sounds good" I say. Alexander and I go back to our spot by the tree. He leaned back against it and I leaned against his shoulder. He pulled me closer in. "You try to sleep, I'll keep watch for a bit"

"Alright" I say. That's when I relize how cold it was and how cold I was. I started to shiver, but I tried to hide it the best I could after a while Alexander seemed to take notice. "You're shivering, are you cold?"

"Yeah" I say

He pulls me closer into him, rubbing his hands up and down my arm, while I rest my head on his shoulder. "Thanks" I whisper into his shoulder. "Your welcome Lily, now try and sleep" I close my eyes and eventually sleep finds me.

I wake up sometime later. "Did you sleep at all Alexander?"

"How did you know I didin't sleep?"

"I'm blind, not stupid"

"I know that"

"Sleep I'll watch for a little while"

"you mean listen?" he teases

"Shut. Up." I say in a sarcastic tone.

"Wake if something happens"

"Duhh, now sleep" I feel his breathing ease and after a few minutes he falls asleep. I listen for anything unusual, but instead I find a bird singing. I love the tune it's creating. Then all of a sudden the singing stops. I get a feeling in my gut that something isn't right. I wake up Alexander. "Alexander, wake up!"

"wha- What's wrong?" he asks groggily.

"Somethings wrong" I tell him

"Do you know what?"

"No not yet" I say he begins to say something else but I cut him off and listen, to see if I can tell what is comming. That's when I hear and feel the earth rumble. "We need to go!" I say to Alexander. We both get out of our spot in the tree and begin to run away from the giant gap in the groung, causing the earth to shake, tree's to fall and us to stumble out of the way.

(A/N: I was sooooooo exited for this chapter but then I couldn't figure out what to write :/ I hope it's not that bad. REVIEW PLEASE! :D)