Chapter 5

Sorry for the very long wait. I haven't updated in more than a week and that's appauling on my be-half. I really hope this doesn't happen again. The reason I haven't been active is because I've been playing too much Animal Jam with my friends. My username is Eahhgeek13 if you want to friend me. If you walk up to me ( I don't bite! :) ), shout cupcakes cuz then I'll know who you are.

I STILL OWN NOTHING BESIDES FROM EVE, OWEN, MATTHEW, ZACH, FARRAH G. FAREY AND ALL OTHER TRIBUTES!

I woke up happily. Then I realized what day it was. Reluctant to move, I dragged myself out of bed and got dressed in my arena gear before grabbing breakfast. Zach and Effie were already up and eating. For some reason, Effie looked happier than usual. I then grabbed breakfast and sat next to my district partner. Haymitch then entered the room drunk and muttering something about 'Maysilee' whoever the hell that is. Zach and I ate in silence while we watched the smack-down between Haymitch and Effie:

"You should be helping them!"

"Sweetheart, there's absoloutely nothing in the entire world that I could do to help them."

"You won that thing once!"

"Yeah. ALMOST 20 YEARS AGO!"

Then we hear a crash. Haymitch had fallen over and puked. Effie moaned in disgust and walked off. Being the good and obediant tributes we are (yeah, right!) we cleaned Haymitch up and took him to his room.

"Maysilee." Haymitch's voice startled us. "Where are you?"

Zach and I swiftly left our penthouse to meet up with the other tributes. When we got down, we saw Finnick hugging the District 4 girl. Johanna walked over to me and I gave her a confused look. She realised what I was looking at and she explained.

"Coral is Finnick's cousin. She's the only family he has left." I then gave her another confused look and she rolled her eyes. "As he was considered a 'desirable victor' Snow forced him into prostitution. Finnick objected at first until Snow shot his parents. His sister gave herself to The Capitol so they'd leave Finnick alone. They tourtured her for a couple weeks until the 'Finnick-lovers' wanted him back. Then Snow shot her too so she wouldn't tell anyone what he was doing to Finnick. He's actually doing the same to Cashmere and tried to do it with me and I refused... you can kinda guess what happned."

I gave Johanna a sympathetic look.

"President Snow sent Coral into the Games purposely so it would look like a sad accident."

Finnick then walked over all 'notchalantly'. Coral followed, looking fed up.

"'Sup ladies." Coral rolled her eyes at her cousin.

"You can drop the act, Fin. She's going into the Games and-"

"-and I'm probably gonna die so... I won't say anything."

Finnick smiled. Not the smile he'd use for The Capitol, he genuinely smiled.

Then a robotic voice blared over speakers. "All tributes report to pods in 30 seconds."

I swiftly hugged Johanna before walking into my pod. "I have to win this," I told myself. "For Peeta." Then I see Coral sobbing and refusing to move away from Finnick. He gave his cousin a final hug before she went into her pod. Even though he wasn't, you could see Finnick was about to cry.

The voice appeared again.

"Five,

Four,

Three,

Two,

One."

Johanna mouthed 'good luck' to me and I saw Finnick attempting to calm Coral before we all shot up.

The arena was a scortching desert. No wonder we were wearing tank-tops and shorts. I then mouthed to Coral (who was on my right) about being allies. She noded, shaking her firey-red, frizzy hair around.

We saw the timer count down from 30.

This is it. 24 going in, 1 coming out.

Some sort of alarm went off, telling us that we could move. Coral and I took off into the tiny woodland area, as far away from the Bloodbath as we could possibly get. 10 cannons. Only 14 left already. My ally and I just hike around until we set up camp at dark and see the fallen tributes:

Stefan

James

Glyna

Conner

Lila

Mason

Amber

Lydia

Ethan

I don't have time to guess who the last dead person is...

It was Zach..

I feel so evil getting rid of Zach in the bloodbath, but let's face it. He had to go at some stage. Thanks for sticking with the story if you have. I don't update this one as often as I am trying to make the chapters longer. We are almost half way through this fic now so thanks for reading.

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