More than just a friendship

Chapter 3 - Fading away

Josh, as Peeta, Sam, as Finnick and I, as Katniss, are shooting some scenes today. It's super hot outside and our wetsuits are really tight and uncomfortable in this heat even thought they're made for this. All i want is to go back to the hotel for a cold shower but this day just got started.
"Jennifer, I need you to stay right where you are when the first monkey appears, okay?" I nod and Francis moves on to Josh "And Josh, I need you to stay here," he grabs Josh by his arm and leads him to the one tree where we have our water coming out ",drinking and then when Katniss tells you to slowly move towards her I want you to look up right here," he points at a black mark at the tree next to Josh's tree ", because a monkey is going to scream right in your face so you need to look scared as hell too okay?"
"Okay."
"And Sam if you could just back a little bit closer to Jen.." Sam takes two steps towards me ", that's perfect Sam okay so can I get everyone's attention?" He sits down in his chair and puts his sunglasses on "Okay so this is our first scene in the jungle and I know that this is really hard for everyone because of the climate but I need every single one of you to do the best you can because otherwise we'll be stuck here the whole day okay? And I'm not only talking to our actors because they know what they're doing, I'm talking to all of you."
"Can we just get started?" Sam asks a little bit annoyed and Francis agrees.
"Are you ready? Aaaand action!"
I stick my hands in the water, pretending to wash them with Finnick while Peeta is drinking from the tree. Then, all of a sudden when I look up, I recognize not only one but two monkeys and then there's three and four and then I can't count them anymore. Finnick recognizes them too and we prepare ourselves for a battle but Peeta is still unknown about what's happening.
"Peeta?" I say as gentle as I can.
"Yeah?" He turns his head to our direction in a rush. I tell him to slowly walk over to us but he moves too fast and then he recognizes the imaginary monkey next to him and then Francis screams; "Cut!" Josh stares at him while he explains that "You need to look like you just took a shit in your wetsuit, alright?" He nods and then we do it all over again.

30 minutes later we get to take a break so the three of us settles down in our trailer at the beach to protect ourself from the sun. We drink a lot of water even though it's not cold enough and then one of our make up artists gives us some fresh fruit.
"It's hot today, you need this energy." She says with a smile and then she's off to another trailer.
"The only thing that annoys the crap out of me is the amount of water in my shoes right now." I say.
Sam agrees "And these thongs they gave us are not comfortable at all, ugh."
I laugh "Are you guys wearing thongs?"
"Yes we are and are they supposed to be this extremely uncomfortable?" Sam asks annoyingly as he's trying to fix the problem.
"Yeah," I laugh again ", but not THAT unconfy."
"Well what should I do about this?"
"Go to Francis and tell him to go get you a bigger size." I grab an apple from the fruit basket "How is your thong, Josh?"
"My thong is perfectly fine." He smiles "Maybe I should start wearing them all the time."
"Well yeah they do make you feel free, right?"
"EXACTLY!" He looks at Sam "Do you want me to tell him?"
"Tell who what?" Sam asks confused shewing a piece of apple.
"Do you want Josh to tell Francis about your thong problem?" I explain.
"Oh God no." He laughs.

It's time for us to shoot our second scene for today. The fog scene.
"Action!"
I'm asleep even though I was the only one who should be awake. I wake up. Peeta, Finnick and Mags are sleeping and then all of a sudden I recognize a big creepy fog coming against us. Carefully I reach my hand out, just to touch it a little, but the fog isn't just fog, it's poison.
"Run! The fog is posion!" I scream while rubbing my hand. Peeta is the first one in the lead running for his life and there's me screaming in pain because of my hand. Finnick is a little bit behind because he's carrying Mags on his back. The fog is catching up on them and they keep falling over and over again, so does I but then Peeta falls and the fog reaches him. He screams in pain not wanting to stand up. Almost crying I say to Finnick that "I can't carry him." I'm afraid and that's when Mags decides to end it. She turns around to kiss Finnick on his lips and then she walks right in the fog, killing herself. Finnick screams after her "Mags! Mags!" But there's no use because she's already dead.
"Finnick, we have to go." I say "We need to get out of here." With tears streaming down his face he turns around, leaving Mags for good. He grabs one of Peeta's arms and so does I and then we run as fast as we can through the jungle, trying to get away from the fog. We fall down a hill and when we hit the ground we're all too tired to move on. Gladly the fog stops. It's over and we can breathe again.
"Cut!" Francis screams "Great job everyone! That was fantastic!"
"Thanks." I say, dizzy on my own feet. I try to stand still but it's impossible and every time I take another breath it feels like I'm gonna fall. This heat is killing me.
"Jen, are you alright?" It's Josh talking but his voice is fading away "Jen, are you...." He repeats but then his voice fades out completely. I can see his mouth moving and I can see Sam asking me something too, but I can't hear them and why do they look so worried? I try to take a step towards them to explain that I'm fine, but that's it. I can't handle it anymore. I trip on my own feet and the next thing I see is Josh's face when he catches me in his arms, but then it all goes black.