72nd Annual Hunger Games

The games. Oh boy, day number uno.

“You are strong, you can make it, you are” Finnick said squeezing me, mom was crying inevitably. The peacekeepers were coming towards us

“Come on Effie” Finnick said hugging mom who was still crying, I looked at Alex who was as nervous as me.

“You are going to win” I said looking at him

“Are you kidding me? You will win” He said smiling, the peacekeepers took us away, I last saw Alex and smiled weakly.

They got me into a cabin as I felt the floor move, they took me into a room and at the end was a tube I got in and it started elevating, we were in a tropical paradise, and everything was waterfalls and tropical fruits, probably all poisonous. I sighed and closed my eyes and started to hear the countdown.

“…5...4…3…2…1…” I don’t really remember what happened there, I just captured myself running from everything with a bag I grabbed from the Cornucopia. Running through the palms, I heard a lot of canyons and panicked.

“1…2…3…4…5…6…7…8…” I said to myself counting how many tributes have died while I ran, that left 16 of us…

“BOOM”

… Well… 15 now. I sighed and started to walk when I realized I was already far enough from the Cornucopia, then l found a waterfall, I kept walking and found a cave in the other side which the waterfall was completely covering, and nobody could see me there since the water was dense and all together it almost seemed white. I sighed and finally sat down; I opened the bag and found 2 knives, a rope and a cooler. I went out again and grabbed a slim piece of wood; with a piece of the rope I stack it to the two knives. I made a trident; I wanted to imitate Finnick’s techniques, he was the perfect role model I could take advises from. I knotted the rope and made a net, I decided that waterfall was going to be my camp but still I needed to find food. I was walking through the woods and looking at the trees while I looked both sides in case of and attack, I was seeing some berries, suddenly a bow trespassed them, I turned back in panic to see Cecelia and Luke laughing

“You are not going to eat that right?” Cece said.

“You almost gave me a heart attack” I said laughing, I was about to grab the berries

“Those are poisonous Emma” Luke said putting my hands away from them.

“Already found refuge?” I asked

“Looking for it, and you?” Cece asked

“Come here” I said leading them to the waterfall. We entered the cave

“It’s amazingly covered! We came here a couple of minutes ago and didn’t see a thing” Cecelia said

“You can stay here” I said

“Thanks” They said and put their supplies on the floor

“You made this?” Luke said handing the trident

“Yeah, just a minute ago” I said

“Using Finnick’s technique?” Cecelia asked while she drank water from the waterfall.

”It may be useful” I said

“Good idea” Luke said

“I will look for Alex, I’m scared about him” I said getting up, I grabbed the trident

“We will search for food” Luke said smiling

“We’ll catch up here” I said and walked out of the camp.

I walked with the trident in my hand; everything was silent, too silent in fact. I climbed up a tree that was extremely huge. I almost fell a couple of times but made it to the top. I stayed there until I saw signals of Alex around the place. It was getting dark and I was getting sleepy, I saw a campfire not too far, there they were, Harry and the bitch lying in the ground while they looked at the sky, really stupid Harry, even for you, campfires will kill you. I rolled my eyes when I heard somebody; I knew it was a fight

“Please” I heard, I knew that was Alex voice. I immediately started to climb down, I ran where I heard gasps and metal sounds, I saw Alex fighting with a boy from district 9. He was about to kill Alex when I desperately threw my trident at him and he immediately fell on the floor

“BOOM”

I gasped and panic realized I had just killed someone, I cried, Alex hugged me

“Shhh, is okay, its okay” He said trying to make me calm, Cecelia came running

“What happened?” She asked desperate, maybe she thought one of us died.

“She killed a guy that was trying to kill me” Alex said

“Oh, its okay darling come here” She said hugging me, “Let’s go”.

That night I didn’t slept, I kept remembering how I killed that guy. I felt I was a monster, I just panicked thinking he could have killed Alex, one of my only friends here, and probably one of the truest. I sighed and thought I didn’t say goodbye to Pauline, she and all the citizens of District 4 might be as stunned as I am. I heard two canyons, it was probably 4am and I was still awaken, I went out and saw the sky, two tributes from district 3, another 2 from 6, 1 female from 8, 2 from 12 and 11, one from 5, another from 9 and finally one from 10. That left Alex, Luke, Cecelia, me, Harry, the bitch, two Careers from 2, the male from 5, the guy of 8, the female of 9 and the male from 10. I sighed and I was the only one awake, I told the guys I would guard since I couldn’t sleep, I think I now know what Annie passed through. A little thing with a parachute passed through the waterfall, it had a letter, well, four.

“Good luck, feed the rest with this, looooooveeeee you – Fickster.”

I laughed while I read it; I messed with him with that nickname, I opened the other letter

“Big news 2morrw – Liam. Ugh, Liam is so lame, here, I got this, take some in case of an injury, xx – Niall”

I smiled while I read it. I opened the next one

“Good luck with everything, they told us there was a limit of giving gifts in one deposit but well, there wasn’t one for letters tehee, love you, and oh, your mother also does, she misses you – Zayn.” I chucked a little bit, I opened the last one

“Hello helloooooooo, thank god you made it through the first night, I have prayed for you and Harry, go to sleep! Nobody is going to find you there sweetie. – Louie. This guy is sick, he loves you, keep it up little me – Haymitch”

I laughed and smiled, I opened the recipient and it had fruits and a cream, I followed Louis’ order and went to sleep, wishing nobody found us.