𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐑𝐒 ˚₊· ͟͟͞͞➳ 𝐧𝐜𝐭 𝐝𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐦 - 𝐡𝐮𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐫 𝐠𝐚𝐦𝐞𝐬 𝐚𝐮

⇛ 𝐂𝐇. 𝟔𝟎

around the afternoon, coin broadcasted the footage to the whole of panem. of course, the districts would begin acting on their plans to take down the capitol but there was no way anyone in thirteen could see that so they'd have to wait for caesar to make an announcement or maybe even president snow himself.

as promised, coin granted the friends permission to leave the underground base. so when night came around, jihyun was blindfolded and forced to trust them to safely take her to the destination they wanted to take her to. they guided her into the elevator and she nearly scoffed.

"i can tell we're in an elevator so we're clearly going up somewhere." she said, not wanting to be a party pooper by guessing where they were going but she couldn't help it.

"what if we're going down somewhere?" haechan challenged.

"well, considering i have sense of direction and can feel that i'm moving up..."

"right." he mumbled.

"good job though."

"that doesn't mean you know exactly where we're going." mark giggled.

"maybe i do, but i'll save you all the embarrassment and keep my answer to myself."

"she's bluffing." renjun called.

"sure you'd think that."

"okay, okay. let's go." jaemin said, lightly pushing her out the elevator and towards the ladder leading to outside. he nodded at the guards to open the hatchet and it made a lot screeching sound.

"doors are opening. hmmm... i wonder where we're going..." jihyun teased, resulting in getting elbowed by chenle. "ow."

"stop it, smartass."

"rude."

"i'll go first." jisung said and he quickly climbed up the ladder, waiting at the top to help jihyun up.

"here." jeno placed her hands on the ladder.

"a ladder?" she asked, hoisting herself up onto the next step.

"be careful." he warned, following behind and stopping each time she moved up so he could hold out his hands in case she fall.

"i'm not going to fall, jeno. don't worry. you can put your arms down." she told him, a smirk on her lips.

"how did you..."

"i know everything." he didn't decide to bite back because he could tell she was going back to her old self, slowly, but it was progress.

she heard a soft chuckle but didn't get to comment on it when she felt the wind on her face, blowing strands of her hair all over her face followed by the scent of flowers and pine. this wasn't like when she visited the other districts because there was nothing nice left there. here, she could smell the nature as jisung helped her out the opening in the ground.

"we're outside." she whispered to herself.

"yeah, we are." jisung said, having heard her.

the others joined her and she was itching to rip the blindfold off her head.

"can i take this off now?" she asked.

"let me." renjun insisted and she nodded.

he stood in front of her, trying to unknot the ribbon that was tied around the back of her head. maybe he should have stood behind her but he wasn't really thinking, which was unusual for him. he had to lean forward, struggling to untie it. jihyun could feel his breath fanning the side of her face. then finally it came loose and the ribbon dropped from her face and down to her neck. her eyes landed on renjun's face so close to her, she could see his ears turn red even in the darkness.