Okay go ahead and kill me. This is the Hunger Games after all. I know I'm am getting so awful with updates but I have had finals on Monday, Wednesday, and today. I also have them next week. So I've had to study a lot. I'm sorry for the lack of updates though.

Disclaimer today is to be done by Sapphire Flash.

Sapphire: HPHGPJGONE doesn't own the Hunger Games. No matter how much she insists that it's hers. Sadly miracles only happen in movies. Not in the Hunger Games, and that is why I am dead. *teardrop*

Me: Well Saph as touching as that was you do realize no one actually reads these right?

Austin's POV

As soon as the feast was announced I said to Leigha "We're not going." We have lots of food and supplies. So why risk our lives to go to some dumb old feast that can't help us? I had expected Leigha to agree so I kept on walking. Soon enough I realized she wasn't next to me. Turning around I saw her just standing there looking at me funny. Breaking into a run I head back. I can't leave her.

"Austin, what makes you think we're not going to the feast?" Wait is she serious? Why would she want to go to that death trap. Especially because we don't need to. My mouth dropped. I bet I had looked really stupid. Whatever.

"Leigha I-I-I-I don't understand. Why risk dying at some feast when we have everything we need?"

"Oh please Austin, man up. It'll be fun, plus there's only seven of us left. If we don't go the gamemakers will make us go anyways. Can't you see that they want us to go. Please Austin, can we please go. I'm bored doing nothing. I need some action. Austin if you let us go I'll love you forever." She looked at me with a pout and puppy dog eyes. I'm a goner now. She'll love me forever. I can't resist her isn't that why I fell for her in the first place?

And so that is how I ended up cramped in a bush with Leigha waiting for the feast. It's not long before a table clicks into place. As soon as it's up the girl from eight, Willow I think sprints from the cornucopia and grabs her bag. She rushes off into the forest. No one dares to move. That's when I see 6 and 2 running at the table.

6 reaches into his bag and finds some poisoned darts. 2 reaches in and finds a watch. He reads his note and turns on 6. They begin to fight. Now's our chance. I motion to Leigha to follow me. She nods and we sneak in. Both of us grab a pack and sneak into the forest once again.

"Austin look out!" I jump back and step into a trap. I feel myself springing up into it. Leigha's in a trap next to me.

"Leigha you scared me. Please don't do it. Let's get down now."

"Austin wait let's look at what we got at the feast."

"Okay, I guess that's a good idea." I take off the pack and for the first time look at it closely. It's wrapped in plastic with a note attached.

This backpack will kill anyone it touches unless it has the plastic on it. Use it well.

Interesting. I toss the bag over to Leigha. She looks at it and smiled menacingly. Leigha gives me a thumbs up and tosses her bag to me. I open it up and see a medical kit. It has all the healing things we would need in it along with a book about edible and medicinal berries.

"Leigha this stuff is perfect."

"I know right. Hey let's sleep here tonight."

"Leigha I don't know we could be found and easily killed."

"Austin we'll be fine." She snapped. I don't even know why I bother arguing with her. She knows I'll cave. And she knows that I can't beat her.

"Alright fine, I'll take first watch." The anthem plays. The faces of Kevin and Nathaniel appear in the sky above us. Leigha is soon asleep. I turn to watch her sleep and remember the first day I realized I loves her.

It had been a Tuesday. We had technology training that year on Tuesdays. We were both 16. Leigha had been trying to hack into a well secured computer and got rendered unconscious. She was out for three days. I kept on worrying for her. It was then that I realized I loved her. When she woke up, I almost cried with relief. For the rest of the year I followed her home making sure she was safe. I've loved her ever since.

That was two years ago. And I guess it was never meant to be. Me and her. I mean she and I can't both survive. I know that but I can at least pretend. Maybe we can...no it would be impossible. Only in a quarter quell...and even then...

"Austin wake up! Some guard you were." I am jostled awake by Leigha shaking me. I notice she's free from her trap. She cuts me free and I hug her. Only she doesn't hug me back. Like I said it wasn't meant to be.

I know, I know it's a short chapter. But it just felt right to end it there. Oh well. I've got to go study for math. Area of a circle is pi r squared right? I should go look that up. Until next time.

~HPHGPJGONE