Safe and Sound

Chapter 14

Rose was rustling in the bushes and I was trying to find some food. We had finally eaten that fox last night and it was heavenly. We needed to find more foxes to eat. They were delicious. I started remembering the most random things also. I remembered Liam and I on the train. At night. Apparently I would sleep-walk into his room and crawl into his bed with him, and when it was morning I would sleep-walk back into my room and lay in my bed or Liam would carry me. That was one of the most awkward moments of my life when Liam told me I did that. I guess I was just a bit lonely. 

I smiled at the thought. I still wasn't sure about Liam. It confused me so much. I hated this feeling and I know I've said it multiple times in the past week, but I couldn't stop thinking about it. I needed to stop and focus. When I came out of my thoughts, a boy ran through the forest and noticed us. He came up to me and embraced me into a bone-crushing hug. I gave Rose a quizzical look. She just shrugged. Once the boy had let me go, I figured out the boy was Liam! Talk about déjà vu.

Liam noticed my expression and he cocked his head to the side just a bit in confusion and I swear my hormones were going crazy. I couldn't help it. His face was so adorable. My stomach was filled with little butterflies. "May? What's wrong?"

I shook my head of the thoughts, "Nothing. Peachy keen right here." Lie. I wasn't alright. I was way less. I got taken away from my family for goodness sakes! I just sighed deeply and sat down. Liam sat to the right of me and Rose to the left. My head had drifted to my right and landed onto Liam's shoulder. Liam rested his head on top on mine. Then Rose put her head onto my shoulder. It was like a train. The seal of Panem came on up in the sky and showed the dead tributes. Only three. There weren't that many tributes left. It was about 9 left. I drifted into and out of consciousness. Once my body gave into the exhaustion, my eyes finally shut all the way and I fell into a light sleep. I had the same dream as a few nights ago.

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I was awoken with someone touching my head and placing it on the ground. I sat up and saw Liam standing there, holding my head. I looked at his with a confused expression and he just smiled. I just shrugged. Liam sat back down and placed my head onto his lap. I looked up at his chocolate orbs. They were magnificent. I didn't notice I was just staring at his eyes till Liam moved his hand and tapped my nose. I scrunched up my face. I looked over to my other side and found Rose sprawled out on the ground. I just giggled. Liam looked at the same place a chuckled along with me. I looked back up to his face and admired his every feature. I never really did this with people. I usually liked to stay away from people. I liked my isolation, but Liam made that so hard. I got lost into his eyes again. I see that he is staring at my blue orbs as well. 

"Your eyes are beautiful, May," He broke the silence. I shook my head. 

"Yours are. I love the brown. I can't find a bit of plain in yours. Mine are just plain blue," I explained, not happy with my irises. He shook his head as well.

"You don't see what I do. The way they sparkle is amazing. They are just the deepest of blue. Mine are just this chocolate brown. It's a boring color," He says, looking off into the distance, breaking the eye contact we had. I sat up and laughed a bit. 

"Whatever you say," I poked his chest, "Payne." I could feel his chest vibrate with laughter. That was when my best friend had woken up. I looked over at her. She looked like she was going to kill someone. I just laughed at her expression and she looked at me, not changing her features. I couldn't help but laugh more. I was on the floor laughing and now I just looked like a retarded seal clapping because I laughed so hard I couldn't get any sound out of my mouth. I had to get ahold of myself or else I would attract the other tributes to us. 

I look a big breath into my lungs. I exhaled and slumped back next to Liam. Rose had finally recovered from her "I'm going to kill you" face and was now just staring at me. I rolled my eyes. "So! What's the plan for today?" I asked no on in particular, but Rose answered.