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Chapter 11

We both fell asleep together by our tree. We didn't move the whole day and when we woke up we would wait for a parachute that would get us out of the arena. We would live in the woods together for the rest of our lives. I knew I would miss my family and friends. I wish there was another way to get out alive.

The whole night I would wake up every hour or so and think to myself, "Would you rather live in the woods the rest of your life with one person or die a painful, terrible death with your whole family watching?" either way I would never be able to see, well be with, my family again.

Over the past few weeks Alexander and I have gotten closer. I know he really truely loves me and my feelings for him have gotten stonger. I do love Alexander. "Lily?"

"Alexander."

"There's our parachute" I feel him reach for it and then open it. "It's a bunch of letters, some food, and weapons" from that sentence to the end of this conversation we whisper in the lowest voices we possibly can. If the camera's pick up what we are saying, the gamemakers are going to make our lives a lot more difficult then they have been and we really don't need or want that.

"Does it say where we go?"

"Umm... Yeah, here it says that in three hours the arena will shut down for about two hours. In that time, it says that we should make our way west"

"Okay"

"I'm guessing that that's the side of the arena we are closest to.'

"Probably, so what do we do now?"

"We make our way west, but not to far"

With that Alexander helps me up. He grabs our stuff and the stuff that Haymitch sent us. "I can carry something"

"It's alright I got it"

"Are you sure?"

"Yeah, now lets go" He grabs my hand and we start walking.

We talk for a while about nothing imparticular. We both wanted to talk about what we were going to do when we got out of the arena but we didn't. We couldn't.

After we walked I heard buzzing. Then it just stopped. "The arena's down, I saw the sky light up bright, like it does but then it just stopped" Alexander said

"It's getting warmer too, and I can feel the sun, the real sun not the one the gamemakers made"

"Yeah, we should go common." Alexander says. He squeezes my hand then we start running.

We ran for a while, even when we were tired we didn't stop. We slowed down a bit after a while but we didn't stop. We ran for a long time. Until we were positive that the arena was behind us.

After a couple of hours later we stopped running because my legs felt like jelly and I collapsed. My breathing was heavy. "Lily!" Alexander said when he saw I fell. "Lily, are you okay?"

"Y-Yeah" I said. He slid his hand under my back and the other behind my head, he helped me sit up. He picked me up in his arms. I tryed to protest but it was no use. He set my down against something smooth but hard. I'm guessing a rock. "Are you sure you're okay?" He asked worried.

"Yeah I'm fine. My legs just hurt from running so much"

"Mine too but we're out of the arena, that's good"

"Yeah" I agreed.

"Let's just rest a while and look through the parachute Haymitch sent us."

"Yeah" I repeated.

I could hear him open the container and then start to look through it. "It... it's a bunch of letters"

"Letters?" of all things why would it be letters? What could we possibly do with letters? "Yeah from our families" he said. I could hear the awe in his voice. "Read them to me" I said and he did.

"This one is from your mom and dad. Dear Lily, we both love you so, so much. We miss you a lot, we all do. We both know this is the best way to end things, we'd much rather know you are alive in the woods with Alexander then watch you die on our TV. No matter what happens know that your mom and dad love you and always will. love, mom and dad." He read. the next was from my brother. "Lily, I love you so much. I miss you and I really wanted you to come home but I know this way at least you will still be alive. I love you Lily we may have had a lot of fights but I love you so much. Love Carter"

By this point I had tears in my eyes. Alexander's hand was on my cheek wiping the tears that escaped my eyes away. "Lily you still have two more"

"Alright read them, please"

And so he did. "This is from Sam, Dear Lily, I miss you and I love you. Mommy and Daddy explained what was going on and I'm really happy you get to live, but I'm sad I won't see you again. I love you Lily, Love Sam."

"She is only 6 and she knows what is going on, that souldn't be right"

"I know this is the last one it's from Lauren"

"My best friend..." I trailed off.

"Lily, I've known you since before you were blind, we've been through everything together. I love you like a sister, I'm going to keep my promise. I always was and I always will. I've always known you and Alex would end up together." I could hear him chuckle a little at that. "and I know that he is reading this to you and laughing." his laughing stopped. "anyway, just know that I love you, I'm glad you're safe, and I will always, ALWAYS remember you. Love Lauren"

"I love you too, Lauren" I wisper to myself.

Alexander read his letters and then we just sat in silence. We ended up sleeping in that spot. Right then I knew that even though I didn't have my family anymore, I didn't have Lauren, and I would never be back in district 12, Alexander would take care of me.

(A/N: Okay soooo, that's it really but there is an epilouge! yay! so I hoped you enjoyed :D)