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" 𝐼𝑓 ℎ𝑎𝑝𝑝𝑦 𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟 𝑎𝑓𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑠 𝑑𝑖𝑑 𝑒𝑥𝑖𝑠𝑡, 𝐼 𝑤𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑑 𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑏𝑒 ℎ𝑜𝑙𝑑𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑙𝑖𝑘𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠 "
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"𝐼𝑡𝑠 𝑎𝑙𝑙 𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑓𝑎𝑢𝑙𝑡 𝑣𝑖𝑐."

"𝑛𝑜 𝑔𝑎𝑔𝑒 𝑖 𝑡𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑑. 𝑃𝑙𝑒𝑎𝑠𝑒 𝑖 𝑤𝑎𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑚𝑜𝑟𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑛 𝑎𝑛𝑦𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡𝑜 𝑠𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑦𝑜𝑢." 𝑖 𝑠𝑎𝑦 𝑎𝑠 𝑡𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑠 𝑟𝑢𝑛 𝑑𝑜𝑤𝑛 𝑚𝑦 𝑓𝑎𝑐𝑒, 𝑏𝑢𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑡𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑠 𝑎𝑟𝑒 ℎ𝑜𝑡 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑟𝑒𝑑. 𝐵𝑙𝑜𝑜𝑑.

"𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑐𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑑 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑠𝑎𝑣𝑒𝑑 𝑢𝑠 𝑎𝑙𝑙 𝑣𝑖𝑐. 𝐵𝑢𝑡 𝑙𝑜𝑜𝑘 𝑎𝑡 𝑢𝑠. 𝑊𝑒 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑑𝑒𝑎𝑑.. 𝐵𝑒𝑐𝑎𝑢𝑠𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑦𝑜𝑢" 𝑣𝑖𝑛𝑐𝑒𝑠 𝑣𝑜𝑖𝑐𝑒 𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑔𝑠 𝑜𝑢𝑡

"𝑛𝑜 𝑝𝑙𝑒𝑎𝑠𝑒 𝑏𝑒𝑙𝑖𝑒𝑣𝑒 𝑚𝑒. 𝑃𝑙𝑒𝑎𝑠𝑒."

"𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑛𝑒𝑥𝑡 𝑣𝑖𝑐.. 𝑌𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑙 𝑏𝑒 𝑑𝑒𝑎𝑑 𝑡𝑜𝑜" 𝑔𝑎𝑔𝑒 𝑠𝑎𝑦𝑠 𝑎𝑠 ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑠𝑚𝑖𝑟𝑘 𝑐𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑝𝑠 𝑢𝑝 𝑢𝑝𝑜𝑛 ℎ𝑖𝑠 ℎ𝑎𝑛𝑑𝑠𝑜𝑚𝑒 𝑓𝑎𝑐𝑒.

𝐼 𝑠ℎ𝑎𝑘𝑒 𝑚𝑦 ℎ𝑒𝑎𝑑 𝑎𝑠 𝑏𝑜𝑡ℎ 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑚 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑒 𝑐ℎ𝑎𝑟𝑔𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎𝑡 𝑚𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑛 𝑛𝑜𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔. 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑏𝑜𝑑𝑖𝑒𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑒𝑙𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑛 𝑘𝑖𝑑𝑠 𝑠𝑢𝑟𝑟𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑑 𝑚𝑒. 𝐴𝑙𝑙 ℎ𝑜𝑤 𝑖 𝑙𝑒𝑓𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑚. 𝐵𝑙𝑒𝑒𝑑𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑜𝑢𝑡, 𝑜𝑛𝑒 𝑏𝑦 𝑜𝑛𝑒.

𝐼 𝑠𝑐𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑚 𝑏𝑢𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑖𝑟 𝑚𝑢𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑎𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑙𝑑 𝑎𝑟𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑑 𝑚𝑒 𝑑𝑎𝑟𝑘𝑒𝑛𝑠.
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Sitting up in my bed panting I hear the door click open to find a familiar but strange face, "I heard a scream, are you okay?" He says watching me as I try to regain control of my breathing.

"I-I" I can't choke any words out, all I could think of was those innocent kids. Was Gage hating me. Was me dying. My eyes begin to fill with tears as I watch him come to me. Making him out in the small light from the window it was Finnick. The guy I just met on the rooftop.

"It's okay Victoria." He says as he climbed on the bed next to me and held his arm around me.

I didn't argue, I simply started crying as I let myself fall into him. His embrace. I could feel his fingers through my hair as he smelt like home. The waters. The beach.

Where Gage and I would be for hours...

This caused me to start crying more as I felt Finnick hold me tighter into him.

"Shhh."

This goes on for around an hour before I start to relax, still against him my breathing comes to a steady pace

"Why don't you try to sleep Vic." Finnick says as he twirls his finger around my shoulder

"I can't.. even if I tried. I can't go back to where the dreams take me. Please" I say. I'm very vulnerable but I don't care. I'm just a kid. Soon to be fourteen but even then I'm a kid. Who's seen so much Tragedy in her life already.

"Then talk to me." Finnick replies with his tired musky voice. It's quite hot. But I have no time to think about that stuff.

"Like what.."

"Tell me everything."

I don't normally feel this comfortable with anyone. Especially when I just met them but he understood. He saw what I have.
"Like the deep stuff?"

This causes him to chuckle, "yeah like, what's your favorite color?"

This causes me to giggle and I look up at him in the eye. He glances down at me, "Green. Like your eyes."

He smiles softly, "blue, but I like a bit of grey in them too. Keep things mysterious ya know" he says referring to mine which I assume and a faint blush falls to my cheek.

I place my head back on his chest so he doesn't see and I sigh, "I miss home"

"I do too, it's my safe place the beach it's like my-"

"Home." I interrupt him and he nods

"Well Mr. Odair. Tell me about you" I say glancing up

"Like what?" He says making eye contact with me

"Everything" I mutter so he catches and he smiles

After an hour or two of laughing, talking about the past, our games, Gage, and more we seemed both calmed. Still in each other's arms we fell silent.

"Stay with me?" I whisper as I shut my eyes slowly.

"Always" he whispers back as I fall into a restful sleep which I haven't had for days.

Finnick, he just might be the new thing that's now keeping me 𝑆𝑎𝑛𝑒.

A/N

Ugh I'm having a bit of writers block even though I know what I wanna do. Lmao bare with me on the next chapter.

Also thank you for almost 200 reads!! That's crazy what. I truly made this story just so I could look back at it and I liked the story line but I wasn't the only one apparently!
Have a great day!

Stay strong,

~Emma xx