Safe and Sound

Chapter 12

I woke up to something cold on my nose. I slowly opened my heavy eyelids and there was a snowflake on my nose. I let out a small smile. I poked Rose till she woke up. Her eyes rose as well. I looked at her cross-eyed looking at the snowflake on my nose. She let out a small chuckle and a smile grew on my lips.

"We should probably head out to find more food," Rose suggested. I nodded and untied myself from my sleeping bag, as did Rose. I climbed down the tree and Rose followed. I winced at the pain in my foot. Oh yes, I remember that tribute twisted it yesterday. I limped over to a rock and sat down. Rose had a sympathetic look on her face. I rolled my eyes. I hated pity. It made me feel weak and Rose knew that. She just laughed.

She sat over by me. "So, how do you think we can get food with this?" I asked, pointing at my twisted foot. She just shrugged.

"I guess I could kill them and you could cook them. That rabbit was delicious last night! Where did you learn to do that? I thought you couldn't cook to save your life!" She joked. I just smirked.

"It was my mum. She showed me how to cook one day and I just knew from that day on how to make things good," I explained. I remembered that day.

**Flashback**

"Hey mum?" I asked.

"Yeah, hun?" She answered.

"Can you teach me how to cook? I wan't to learn, so my prince will love me," I answered. (I was in that stage at that time. Come on we've all had that stage.)

"Alright, love. Come 'ere," My mother said, leading me into the kitchen. She taught me how to cook everything from rice to a deer. I never knew how important that would really be.

**Out of Flashback**

I smiled. That was always helpful to me. Especially right now. I looked up at the sky and smiled again. I said a silent thank you to my mother, knowing she would probably see me with the cameras that were everywhere. Rose smiled at me too.

"C'mon. We should get going," Rose told me, standing up and lending a hand for me. I took it thankfully and hoisted myself up with the help of my best friend. I hobbled as quietly as I could to find some game. We soon found some more snow rabbits and Rose killed them with her spear. Thank god that she knew how to use that. Otherwise we would probably starve to death, thanks to that tribute that practically killed me.

****

We cooked some of the rabbits and ate them like before and headed off. We trekked for awhile. We heard some rustling in the bushes. I looked at Rose and she looked at me the same way. Surprise. We rolled into the nearest bush and watched from afar what was rustling. Soon something came out of the bushes. It was a tribute. My face turned from surprised to scared to quizzical. It was Liam. There was soon some mumbling and more figures came out. Did Liam make an alliance? It was four tributes with Liam. There was an interesting mix of tributes. One was strong looking, one was weak looking, and two were in the middle. My expression was still quizzical. I couldn't jump out or else some of them would kill me. I just stayed behind the bush with Rose. I put my hand near her to make her not move. I kept looking at the five lads. They soon left. I looked at Rose with mix of a surprised and questionable look. She just smirked at me because my face looked weird. I rolled my eyes.

I got up and started to hop somewhere, nowhere in particular. I just wanted to get away from that awkward situation. I heard more rustling and I jumped and rolled and hid behind a bush. I remembered the "stop, drop, and roll" sequence they always taught us in school and I did exactly that. I peeked out again and sure enough it was those same five lads again. I rolled me eyes and stood up.

"You know, it's not nice to sneak up on people you know?" I asked, scaring the heck out of them. I smirked instantly. They all got defensive and some pulled weapons and some pulled out their fists. I rolled my eyes. "I'm not going to hurt you, maybe. I just want to see what you guys are doing," I asked popping my hip and an placing my hand on it. I felt eyes drop down to where my hand was, but I shrugged it off.

"Sorry, May. I heard talking and I thought it was someone we needed to kill," Liam explained. I never thought he would kill someone. Whatever. I let out a big sigh.

"C'mon out, Rose they won't bite, but if you do, I will," I threatened them. They looked frightened. The smirk came back to my face. Soon enough, my friend came out of the bush and over to where I was standing. She crossed her arms over her chest and pursed her lips as if saying, "Don't come near me or I'll cut your throat." Violent huh? Yeah that's why I've always liked her as my best friend.

"Well? What do you want with us?" I asked. They just shrugged. They just wanted to kill something. I could see it in their eyes.

"I don't know, you heard Liam," one said, pointing at Liam with his weapon. I nodded at his words.

"Separate ways, then?" Rose spoke up. We all nodded and walked our different ways. I started to speak to Rose about how awkward that was and she totally agreed with me. It was very awkward. I was laughing and I got interrupted by a twig snapping. I looked down and I realized that was me. Shoot. I looked at Rose with complete terror and I didn't want to do any more fire procedures. I was tire of stoping, dropping, and rolling. Even if I only did it twice. I just dropped.

We stayed like that till a rabbit came out. I let out an exasperated laugh. "That scared the living daylights out of me. I thought I was going to die!" I said. "I think I should get this bandaged," I pointed at my arm where the gash was. Rose's eyes went wide. She ran off to gather leaves and I grabbed some snow for the pain. It didn't hurt as bad, but it hurt a bit.

Rose came back with the leaved and a string, I have no idea where she got it from, and bandaged my arm up. Once we were both done with our parts, we decided it was a good time to start taking out the tributes.

How should we do this?

I wonder...

****

A/N- HAHAHA! Cliff hanger! Bigger than the last one! Haha what do you guys think? Let me know! Comment and vote please! Thank you guys so much for reading!

Love you my lovely carrots!

-Cyn<3