life, love and hunger games

gunshots

Prim's POV

when I woke up it was one of those days where i wanted to do nothing but sulk, now that katiniss is gone I dont have anyone to talk to and the subject upsets me so no more on that, while I was laying in bed I did what I do pretty much do everyday, I try to work out what happened to katiniss she couldnt just dissapear like that, there had to be a reason... KNOCK! KNOCK! KNOCK!

"who is it?" I asked

"who is it always?" tay yelled back, I cracked a smile,

"come in," she burst through the door and face planted into the floor, ok I couldn't be miserable at that it was hilarious, after a few seconds I was laughing so hard I was crying,

"you... are you ok?..." I said through my tears,

"yes... I'm good," she jumped up and dusted herself down, I calmed down a bit,

"so how has your dad been?" I asked trying to make conversation after the short awkward silence,

"not bad, he's getting there, caught him with a knife last night," tay was still smiling after she said that but i knew she was crying on the inside,

"Oh, sorry about that,"

"it's k," she replied, "not your fault,"

"yeah, anyway, do you wanna go hunting again?" tay grinned,

"I thought you'd never ask! lets go," we ran all the way there to try and avoid the peacekeepers they were everywhere after katiniss destroyed the last dome of the games, once we slipped through the fence to get into the woods tay pulled out a large tomahawk,  she had managed to buy the largest and best quality tomahawk she could find, she also pulled out a long thin katana and gave it to me, we stayed low for a bit looking for some animals, there was no luck at first but I managed to spot a rabbit hole, I helped tay pull down a tree branch and I went to the other end of the burrow with my jumper, tay shoved the branch down one end of the burrow which scared out several bunnies and two rabbits which I caught in my jumper.

me and tay have a policy, if there are any baby animals which we caught then we let them go, for two reasons, one: if we let them go they can grow and they'll actually be able to live a little longer, and two: they don't have much meat on them anyway, I let out the bunnies and let tay snap the rabbit's necks, we had a rabbit each which would feed our familys for the day.

"before we go do you wanna do some target practice?" tay asked,

"yeah with the reaping tomorrow it's better to be prepared," I replied, we spent the last 20 minutes slashing at branches and throwing our wepons at trees, I was much better at mêlée while tay was better at distance, all I can say is we definitely left our mark on the forest, there was broken branches and slashed trees everywhere.

we started to head back until we heard footseps near us, we weren't far from the fence but we couldn't make it without being seen we ducked behind some bushes and peeked through, it was a boy, he was heavily built around his chest and legs, he had short spiked hair and a black shirt with green army shorts, he was cute, he had a slightly misshapen nose... but cute,

then I saw he wasn't alone, another heavily built boy came by except he had a black and red checked shirt on, same hairstyle but longer.

tay's POV

we dived in some nearby bushes to avoid being seen by whoever it was who was walking by but when I looked again I saw that it was jerome and mitchell from district 11, I sighed with relief and came out from behind he bushes,

"hey jerome! Mitchell!" I shouted suddenly jerome swung around with a bow and shot at me, I had been shot at before so swiftly dodged the arrow, "c'mon guys use your ears rather than first instinct," wjen jerome realised it was me he sighed and shook his head,

"taylor, please don't do that, you're gonna get yourself killed," I pulled a smug face,

"prim! it's ok I know them," she slowly pushed through the undergrowth,

"hi, prim is it?" jerome extended his hand,

"primrose, but I don't mind,"

"wait, everdeen?" I knew where this was going,

"prim this is jerome, he's in district 11 with Mitchell, I know them from the mines,"

"mines? you seem more like an archer,"

"yeah I wish," he chuckeled, BANG! a loud gunshot let off from district 4,

"oh no," I said, "prim we have to go, she set off running, "see you guys later," I waved, I tried to catch up with prim but when she was concerned for her family there was no stopping her,

"PRIM! PRIM!" she took no notice of me, BANG! BANG! two more gunshots fired, then another, we got past the fence and ran into town, there was a huge gathering of townsfolk in the square, we pushed through row by row, until we reached the front, we stopped, there was several peacekeepers surrounding some bodies, one was in the way so we couldn't see who it was, until they cleared, I felt my heart stop, in umongst the pile of bodies was my dad, my youngest brother alec and prim's mum...