𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐑𝐒 ˚₊· ͟͟͞͞➳ 𝐧𝐜𝐭 𝐝𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐦 - 𝐡𝐮𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐫 𝐠𝐚𝐦𝐞𝐬 𝐚𝐮

⇛ 𝐂𝐇. 𝟓

the second day of training was over and jihyun was on her way up to her apartment when she felt someone roughly grab her arm. she winced, pain shooting through her arm and then she turned around to face the person. it was wren. she quickly knocked his hand off her and jabbed him back with her fingers.

"what?"

"you." he pointed a shaking finger at her. "you bitch. i was doing you a favour, but you couldn't keep your mouth shut."

"no, you weren't. you had no good intentions and you know it. you're disgusting." she sneered and he reached out to grab her again, but a hand yanked him back.

"sorry, dude. this elevator is occupied. get the next one." jeno said, joining jihyun inside. he stood just in front of the door with his arms crossed showing dominance.

"i think there's just about enough room for me though." donghyuck said, shoving past wren and entering just before the doors closed.

"you didn't need to do that. i can defend myself." jihyun said.

"i'm aware. he should just wait till the arena to take his anger out." jeno replied.

"right." she whispered, leaning against the glass wall.

"you two are so awkward it's funny." donghyuck said, breaking the momentary silence.

"shut it, twelvey."

"sorry, aquaman."

jeno pretended to hold his fist out to punch him, but haechan didn't flinch. the door opened and he gestured to it, signalling that jeno could leave.

"night, jihyun."

"night."

jihyun noticed how none of the tributes would say 'good night'. it was always a simple 'bye' or 'night' because there was nothing good about going to sleep in the bedrooms provided by the capitol until the day of the games arrive.

she pressed the button for the fifth floor and they arrived in only a second. she was about to exit, planning to eat dinner then fall into her bed and sleep away her worries about the last day of training, but donghyuck held his arm out.

"can we meet?" he asked.

"how and why?"

"i'll explain later. after dinner, just come up to the penthouse. it's where i'm staying." he told her then lightly pushed her out of the elevator.

"but there are avoxes guarding the elevator doors..."

"they won't say anything." he said and she nearly scoffed because of course they wouldn't. they had no tongues. "see ya."

it felt like everyone suddenly wanted to be in an alliance with jihyun and she would have to make the difficult decision of picking who she'd team up with. she was also beginning to wonder if she could agree to them all and create a group of allies, but it sounded stupid the more she thought about it. she'd have to ask doyoung what he thought.

she took a seat at the table next to hana, noting the lack of wren. "where is he?"

"i told him he should have the rest of his meals in his room." hana replied then lowered her voice, shuffling closer to jihyun. "or doyoung might end up killing him with the cutlery. personally, i think i would too."

"glad to see you're on my side." she said. "talking about sides... doyoung, thoughts on alliances?"

"i told you before that it's important and now that wren is no longer on the list, you should look at other tributes."