An Unexpected Romance [on hold]

Preperations

After all the video's were posted online I watched them with Miles. I had a sketch pad, my laptop, drinks and snacks. We were sitting on my bed taking notes on anything that was important.

"He stayed behind the rock climbing area the whole time." Miles says pointing to a boy with his pen.

"I think that when the blow the horn I'm going to scale a tree and shoot as many as I can. I mean I'm the lightest tribute. What are my odds?"

"You have about a 10% chance of winning on the ground. 20% behind the trees, 3% in the open, 70% high in the trees of thick brush, and 80% with an alliance in the trees. None of the other tributes even thought of climbing the trees, until now. I guarantee everyone will try to scale a tree. Here is what you do. As soon as he gets to one you run away as far as you can as fast as you can. You find a huge tree, that's not that same tree, and you climb it. When you reach the tallest, sturdiest branch, you stop and start shooting people who are trying to climb tree's. Before the Quell why don't you ask Jillion or Mitchell to be your ally?"

"I'd rather do this on my own!" I retort.

"These people will get you when you try to switch tree's! You have no chance!" he matches my volume.

"I don't care, I'm doing this alone!" I tell him.

"Alright," he says looking at his watch. "Crap I have to go, it's 10:30. Think about what I said."

"Alright!" I say throwing my hands up surrendering. After he leaves I continue to watch. My real competition is Mitchell, Justice Awl, and Mason Lassley.

I walk into the school and get stares from people. Johanna one of my friends comes running up to me. "Why is everybody staring at me?"

"Because of your suicidal move you did to win a fake freggin' game!" she says waving her arms around, like the nut she is.

"What?!" she sighs and shows me the video of when I jumped from tree to tree.

"Everybody doesn't know whether to congratulate you or freak out!" she squeals. "All I know is that everybody thinks you're awesome. Even Justice and Mason." she squeals.

"Cool?" I say opening my locker.

"That's all you say? I thought you had a crush on Mason!" she whisper/yells.

"So what if I did, it doesn't matter. I need to focus on the Games. Miles thinks I should get an ally. What do you think?" I ask her leaning on my locker.

"Do you really care what I think?" she asks me with a playful smile and her hands on her hips.

"No not really, so it's settled I'm not getting an ally." I say throwing my arm over her shoulder. She laughs and we walk to class.

"What do you expect me to do?!" Paloma screams at Tommy.

"I don't know, you could maybe not flirt with him while I'm standing here!" Tommy snaps. Paloma and Tommy aren't dating but a lot of people think they should. They always fight like this.

"Why do you even care?!" she shouted.

"Because I'm a guy, I don't think that flirting with another guy while talking to one of your guy friends is alright!" here we go again.

"Guy's shut up," I say standing in between them. I know what I said was blunt but hey, everyone knows how blunt I can be. Lets just say I'm not one to go to when you want to be lied to, I tell you how it is. "What are you yelling about now?!"

"Nothing that concerns you." Paloma says. "Oh and thanks for shooting me in the back, during the Games!"

"You saw the video?" I ask flinching in regret.

"Of course I did I wanted to watch my best friend and see how she won! What do I look like a heartless jerk?"

"Sorry, no hard feeling, right?"

"I guess not." she says cracking a smile. She leaves happily, forgetting Tommy, like she always does after an argument.

"Tom, I'm torn. Miles thinks I should get an ally but I think they will only slow me down. What do you think."

"...I think Miles is right on this one, they have more skills on you. You need help, why don't you ask Jillion? She'll happily agree to help you."

"Thanks... I still need to think about it, but you did help me." I give him a hug around his stomach and head to class.

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