𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐑𝐒 ˚₊· ͟͟͞͞➳ 𝐧𝐜𝐭 𝐝𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐦 - 𝐡𝐮𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐫 𝐠𝐚𝐦𝐞𝐬 𝐚𝐮

⇛ 𝐂𝐇. 𝟖𝟒

a few more days went by and things had been the same.

"i wonder what hana and doyoung named their baby." jihyun said into the silence.

"what if they never named her because they're too indecisive?" haechan said but she could barely laugh. she wasn't sure if she would be able to smile and laugh for a long time. it was hard to.

"that sounds believable." she replied. "hey guys, if we ever get out of here, let's leave panem."

"beyond the borders? has anyone ever done that?" mark asked.

"let's be the first." jisung said.

"what about our family?" chenle asked and jihyun paused to think.

the last time she suggested they run away together, her mother was still around. but now she was gone and she only had her siblings and doyoung as family and she knew her siblings were dependant on her. but jihyun felt like being selfish. she didn't want to be trapped any longer.

"mine will understand one day." she said.

"we've hardly been with them since the games. does it really matter anymore?" jeno mumbled.

"i love my family but if you guys ask me to disappear with you i'm going to." haechan said.

"maybe we've all gone crazy so something like this doesn't bother us so much." renjun sighed and then shivered. "it's freezing in here."

"i'd be hugging you right now if we weren't separated." jihyun said and he smiled at the thought.

the sound of the cellar opening could be heard and everyone's blood ran cold. soon jihyun was being hauled away for more interrogation and torture. she couldn't stand up on her own. her legs were weak and she had lost feeling in them. it frightened her knowing she had no way of defending herself.

the tank of water came into view and her heart dropped. out of all the methods of torture, she hated drowning the most. it brought her closer to death by having her slip into darkness and then forced conscious only for the process to be repeated. she'd rather be whipped over and over than be drowned.

her head was harshly pushed into the tank and held there as she thrashed around, her lungs burning and head pounding. she was brought out of the water for only a second allowing her to gasp in air before she was pushed back under. jihyun didn't even hear the questions she was asked and she wasn't given any time to respond.

"please no more." she mumbled when she was finally given a break.

"if not this then it'll be something else." the torturer said with a sick smile.

"i don't care. anything else."

jihyun wasn't in her right mind and she hadn't realised what exactly she had said until someone else walked into the room and handed the torturer an item. it was a razor. he turned it on and held it close to her as she moved around trying to escape.

"tell me thirteen's plan and i won't have to do this." he said as she begged for him to stop.

the razor was getting closer and closer. it wasn't a matter of physical pain anymore. everyone knew how much she loved her hair and doing this would destroy her mentally. 

"you can drown me again! stop, please!"

just as the razor touched a single strand of hair on her head, the doors burst open. the woman that was in charge of electrocution walked in.

"that's enough." she said, snatching the razor out the man's hand. "she's expected to be on another live broadcast. if the people of panem see her with none of her precious hair, what would they think?"