Jodie's P.O.V
I walk slowly through the meadow, only stopping to pick a daisy along the way.
I love the Meadow. It's the only place in District 12 where there's any proper nature; much better than anywhere else around here.
"Finally," I hear a voice say. "here's the right room. God, it took me long enough..." What does that have to do with the Meadow?
Then I suddenly come to reality, as someone shakes me awake. Ugh, I don't want to wake up. I thought Effie was much more sophisticated to wake people up like this, too.
I look out the window. I didn't think she'd wake us up before daylight either. I always thought Capitol citizens slept in.
"Jodie, wake up, nerd!" someone whispers harshly in my face. What the? That's definitely not Effie.
Some dark blonde hair falls onto my face; great, it's Elisha.
"What do you want?" I groan, blowing her hair out of my face. "I'd prefer it if you didn't wake me up so ridiculously early."
"Damn, you easily annoyed in the morning... Anyway, we're stuffed," she says, getting straight to the point, without answering my question.
"Huh, how?"
She sits down on my bed and explains everything to me; why we're stuffed (we're gonna be killed), who will cause our stuffing (Kevin, Elisha's co-tribute, Jordan's co-tribute and the Careers) and when they will stuff us (after killing a couple of the weaker tributes). She also mentions the names of some of the Career tributes (Cleo from District 4, Sprite from District 1 and Zack who she isn't sure fully of his home district).
But only one thing really stands out to me; Kevin has joined the Careers.
"I bet he'll want to kill me personally," I say to her, my head flopping down onto my chest.
"If he even gets near you, I'll kill him," she replies, grinning at me. "I've heard of two people winning before, why not now?"
"How come you told me about all of this first?" I ask her, "You would have gotten to Jordan faster."
"Well, when I ditched the main cart, I didn't exactly think about where I was going," she tells me, "I just looked up and I saw I didn't have any more doors to go through and realised that I was in your cart. After that I just checked random rooms to find you. You were in, like, the fourth room."
"Oh, okay," I reply. Elisha gets up.
"Where are you going?" I ask.
"I'm gonna go tell Jordan. Wanna come?"
I get out of bed and follow her down the hallway, through the door and into her cart. We keep going down the hallway until we reach Jordan's cart.
We split up and start checking rooms. I find Jordan's room behind the second door on my right.
"I've got it!" I whisper loudly to Elisha.
"Good. We can't be out here with our district partners in the main cart. After they nearly found me, I think they'll be coming back soon."
At that moment I hear the slight thudding noise of footsteps.
"What the hell is that?" Elisha asks frantically, even though it's obvious.
We quickly shut the door of Jordan's room and run into the closet on the far side of the room.
"Jordan, was that you?" Oh thank god, it's just the District 10 escort. "I heard noises coming from your room. Are you awake?"
We hear Jordan roll over. From the groaning noises she's making, it's clear she doesn't like being woken up.
"Of course I was awake, Kate," Jordan says sarcastically. "I was also talking to a mockingjay about what I should feed my cows, eating a five course meal in the process."
"Sorry... I just thought I heard voices."
"Well you obviously misheard, so just let me freaking sleep."
Kate closes the door, muttering about being polite.
"Jordan, wake up!" Elisha whispers, the moment Kate's footsteps stop.
"Kate, I thought you were going to fuck off and let me sleep," Jordan replies angrily. She really doesn't like her escort...
"It's not Kate, you idiot. It's us, Jodie and Elisha," Elisha says, shoving her.
"Is it important?"
"Very," I say.
"As long as it's not Kate, I'll listen to whatever you've got."
"The Careers are plotting to kill us," I tell her, "Namely Elisha, but we're all targets."
"Also, your district partner has joined them, as well as Luca from my district and Kevin from Jodie's," Elisha tells her.
"It's the Hunger Games. You two should have expected something like this. The rules are kill or be killed and no cannibalism," Jordan states.
"But still dude, it's your partner and you guys were sort of like friends. Aren't you even a tiny bit shocked?" I ask, confused about her reaction.
"Not really. People do everything they can to survive, especially in situations like this," she replies.
"Okay then, we need to sort this out," Elisha says. "I mean, these people are going to kill us."
"There's nothing to sort out. In fact, we're lucky that we get to survive longer than most of the other tributes."
"The point of this alliance is to get at least one of us out alive!" Elisha almost shouts. " I'm gonna at least try and achieve that!"
I walk tiredly back to bed, after an hour of arguing between Elisha and Jordan about the Games. It's hard to believe the amount crap someone can come up with, on spot, at 3am.
When I reach my bed I fall face first onto the bed, and go back to my dream about home.