Chapter 13

I watch a spider make it's web. I need to find a place to hide. Before I start hallucinating. I crawl, unable to stand. My movements bring pain. I focus on crawling, I need to keep moving.

Eventually I find a river. There's mud. I grab a handful of the mud, and start covering myself with it. I may be able to disguise myself. Once I'm satisfied camouflaging myself, I lay down and close my eyes.

Something hisses at me. I open my eyes, and notice my vision isn't normal. Everything seems kind of shiny. I find the spider from earlier, except it's gigantic. I look around wildly, searching for this spider's web. I find it. Trapped in the web are my dad, Rye, Graham, Delly, and Katniss. The spider crawls to the web, it wrapes Delly in it's silk as Delly screams. Then it begins to eat her. I try to look away, but I can't move. After the spider is done devouring my childhood friend, it crawls away.

I close my eyes again and try to relax. It was just a hallucination. I tell myself. From the Tracker Jacker stings. I stare at the sun and watch it move across the sky. I fall asleep.

I stir at the sound of footsteps. I open my eyes to find the spider back. It's staring right at me. It approaches the web and this time eats Graham. Like last time, I can't look away. The spider finishes and crawls away. The spider isn't a hallucination. It couldn't be. Watching my brother get killed. It's too real to be fake. And that means now, both Delly and Graham are dead. And I didn't do anything to help them.

The next time I wake up, the spider picks Rye. I try to stand up, to do anything to save my brother. But it's like I'm frozen in place. I'm helpless.

Once the spider leaves, I promise myself not to fall asleep. Because whenever I do, the spider comes back. But my leg hurts soo much, it would be easier to fall asleep. I give into the temptation and close my eyes.

But the second my eyes close, I hear the twig snap, and my eyes are forced open, and the spider is back. My father. This time it's my father. And now all that's left is Katniss. I can't fall asleep again. I watch the sun set, and then rise, and then set again. Sunsets are pretty.

My eyelids are heavy now. And I need sleep. I let myself drift off.

I open my eyes, what a pretty spider. I think to myself. I start to sweat as I remember what happens when I see this spider. I plead for the spider to let her go. The spider approaches Katniss. I beg for the spider to take me instead. But the spider is hungry. So, it rips Katniss's head off.

"Attention tributes!" The spider, and Katniss disappear. "I'd like to congratulate you, for surviving this far into the Games." The Games. I'm in The Hunger Games. The spider was a hallucination from the Tracker Jackers. And this voice is the announcer for The Hunger Games, Claudius Templesmith.

"There has been a rule change for this Hunger Games. If the two last tributes are from the same district, then they will both be crowned victor." says Claudius. As Claudius repeats this announcement, I wonder how long I have been hallucinating for. I wonder who died while I was unconscious.

Is Katniss still alive? And if she is, will she come looking for me with this new rule change? Or course she wouldn't . She thought I was trying to kill her. She thought I was a carrier. But maybe she remembers how I told her to run. From Cato.

My leg still hurts. I never looked at it. But I can tell it's bad. I'm still covered in dirt. Right now, my only hope is that Katniss would come to me and we could find a way to win together. But even though the Games have been changed. I know Katniss won't come.

So that leaves me with no hope.