chapter 16

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The next morning I lay in my hiding spot thinking about how I was going to find Katniss. Soon I found I didn't need to.

As the sun reached high in the sky I heard footsteps coming towards me. They were light and small, I felt like I recognised them. They stopped at the rock that I had dragged myself onto while I was making my camouflage, it was still covered in blood from my leg. They moved around it to my hiding spot. I closed my eyes and said my prayers of goodbye as they came towards me and bent down. "Peeta, is that you." said a voice. I opened my eyes to see Katniss'eyes staring into mine. I sat up and hugged Katniss, suddenly we found our lips touching. When we stopped she looked down at my leg and saw the gaping wound. I saw her face screw up in disgust as she inspected the wound. "the wound needs to be cleaned to avoid infection." she said. She started taking off my trousers and I groaned with the pain. She pulled me into the stream and the pain was unbearable. I let out a really loud groan and tried to pull myself out of the water but Katniss glared at me and I stopped struggling to get away. She gently splashed water on my wound and it seared with pain. "we need to find shelter." said Katniss "somewhere secluded while your leg heals." I nodded and gritted my teeth as she carried on cleaning my wound.

When she had finished she picked up her pack and helped me up from the ground. When I tried putting weight ony leg it made it worse. I let out a small scream and clinged on tighter to Katniss. We slowly made our way along the bank of the stream, trying to make our path as discreet as possible. After a few hours of struggling we found ourselves at a small cluster of rocks. There was a small opening between them, Katniss leant me against the rocks and lay on the ground to inspect what was inside. Slowly she pushed herself more and more inside until she was no longer to be seen. I waited a while before she came back out again. "looks good, cummon let's get inside before something bad happens." she said. I nodded and painfully crawled inside.

We have finally found shelter.

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