The 71st Hunger Games - A Love Story COMPLETED

Chapter 10

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Day 2.

We stayed where we were, up in the tree, and for me, trying not to look down.  We heard 3 cannon shots throughout the day. 11 left. All day, we talked about the life we imagined. I wanted to spend as much time as I could with her before I died. And I knew I would, this was a 10 vs 2 situation. Everything we talked about, marriage, our first date, proposal, kids. (Not in that order.)

We rationed our food. This was easy for both of us. We both grew up starving or with barely enough. District 7 was just as harsh, if not harder. At 13, every child would go to the forest and work to get a certain number of trees down. You could work for 10 hours at a time. We tried to avoid this topic, happy thoughts, I guess.

We just had to wait for everyone to kill everyone else. Just stay hidden, quiet and ration food and water. 

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Day 3. 

2 cannon shots today. 9. It was closing down. We might actually be able to make it! River is still alive, most likely with the other Careers. I would rather get killed by Capitol-made disaster than him or the other Careers. They would make it painful and enjoy it. A disaster would kill me in seconds. Both on TV to be enjoyed, but still.

Han was more loving to me. I didn't mind, of course, but we needed sponsors. We needed support on our side to get through this.

We had gotten one today, our first one. For Johanna Mason, in fancy print. It had a condom.

"Very funny. We're girls. And every one is watching us." I laughed quietly at the sky. I put it in the back pack and looked at it carefully. It had a tiny note in it. Han put the sleeping bag on us to hide us from the viewers, and we read it. 

'Snow is getting revenge and getting mad. Careful.' For what? What did I do wrong? Act weak? It was from her Capitol trainer. Just like me, there was no female tributes to be her trainer. Her Effie. 

We took the sleeping bag off and played it off. I took night watch that night.

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Day 4.

7 more cannon shots. Chaos. I think I saw something blow up in the distance. How could they possibly make a bomb? Either way, River was gone. So was mostly everyone. 

I remembered the training room from a few days ago. It was only 4 left. We needed to set out. We would kill the last two. Ire and Snow. District 1 and 3. They were allies, Careers, trained, smart and looking for us. Against one weakling and Han with one weapon, the axe. And that was it.

We didn't have Cornucopia on our side and we needed food. 

And we barely had a plan. We packed up our stuff and set out to murder 2 (maybe 3, but I hope not) people.

I hope it doesn't come down to that. I could never kill her.