Happy Birthday Candice! I will always be the Annie to your Katniss. Remember Feenick is so Sex! ;) You should know how much pain I was in while writing this, you know being Team Peeta and all. Oh well I still has my Finnick! Note, imagine Rue more like Amatha rather than the girl in the movie.

Katie: I would tihnk the Sex God of Panem would have it on a beach but he would do something in addition [8:16:56 PM] Katie: *think [8:17:31 PM] Candice: ...are you implying something?... [8:17:39 PM] Candice: O_o [8:17:48 PM] Katie: What do you think I'm implying? [8:18:35 PM] Candice: reread what u sent.[8:18:46 PM] Katie: Oh gosh no! That came out so wrong![8:19:00 PM] Candice: oh good. hahahahah[8:19:05 PM] Candice: ! HAHAH [8:20:44 PM] Katie: That is easily the most embarassing thing I've sent over Skype

Chapter 1- Run Away

So that's what we did. We ran away into the forest, away from where anyone could see us. We went back to our houses one last time, not to say goodbye but to gather things we would need. I knew how we would convince everyone we were dead too. I took squirrel blood, covered the fence where we escaped with it and left charred pieces of our clothes. The final touch was leaving bullets scattered by the place so they would know we were dead. We stood looking at the fence one last time, pressed three fingers to our lips, let them hover over our escape and ran. It wasn't like I was leaving anything behind anyway. Prim was killed by a Peacekeeper last year and my mother committed suicide months ago. Only the Hawthornes knew about it though. We pretended she was fine so I wouldn't be sent to a community home.

I had brought with me a map of Panem I had stolen from school, my father's hunting jacket and a change of clothes, all stored in a games bag where we would keep our clothes. I lied. I said bye to one person, Madge not because we're friends but because I felt as if I owed her. She gave me a golden Mockingjay pin which I fastened to the oversized jacket. "Ready?" His voice was uncharacteristically shaky but I nodded. There was nothing to return to anyway.

We headed out with stealth that was common for us. Each of us carried one bag, Gale the one with our supplies, like clothes and water bottles and other necessities and I carried a currently empty bag that would hold meat. "Where are we running to?" There were few options for us. The closest districts were 10 and 11. In 10 they specialized in livestock, meaning there would be wide pastures for miles before we ran into a person. 11 we wouldn't fit in at all because of our light olive skin and gray eyes. The only thing that was the same was the color of our hair, dark colors.

Gale took another look at the map and smiled. "We're headed for District 4." I tripped over a root in shock. Of all places, 4 was the last place I expected him to say, except for maybe District 1. It was the last place I expected which means there was no way anyone else would expect it either.

I regained my composure quickly. "Well where are we going to stay?"

He sensed I was trying to talk him out of our location, which I was. The last place I wanted to go was a Career District although out of all the Career Districts 4 was the most preferable. Gale looked at me with humor glowing in his eyes. "Catnip, that would be a problem wherever we ended up. Maybe we could go live with a victor and get fake ID's making us over reaping age."

I rolled my eyes. "A victor from District 4? You want to go live with Finnick Odair?"

Gale laughed. "No I was thinking more that really old lady that no one can understand."

I was about to laugh when I heard the familiar sound of prey rustling over leaves. Gale must have heard it too for he fell silent as well. I put my bow to the string. He left his bow where is was and picked up a rock. He threw it in the general direction of the prey causing a squirrel to come scampering out. I shot it quickly with an arrow. We both let out a breath. This is what hunting was supposed to be like. Gale went to pick up the squirrel and he tossed me the arrow. "Great job." He said as he pulled out a knife from his back pocket. He started to skin the creature as we walked. "The reapings, do you think they're over?"

I shrugged and smiled as a thought crept into my head. "What if we were reaped?"

Gale laughed as he continued to skin the beast. "Then we got out just in time and it would cause chaos in the Capitol and to Effie Trinket."

I smile and pull the map out once again as soon as we come across a great electric fence, bigger than the one in Twelve and electrified. "This must be District 10." I let out a yawn as I see the setting sun. "Alright, Catnip, lets camp out here for the night. We'll do the same at District 11 and we'll find some way to get into District 4."

"Alright." I pull out our sleeping bags, set them up under a tree and start a fire. Not a big one, just one big enough to cook our squirrel. Once I'm finished with that Gale come up to me holding a rabbit by its foot. "Good catch."

He smiles. He didn't go very far to hunt, just far enough to look for game while I set up. He skinned and gutted the rabbit and put the pelt in the game bag while I cooked our squirrel. We finished about the same time. "Alright, let's eat."

We eat our squirrel in slow bites so we would become full faster. We had only eaten about half the squirrel so we wrapped it in a piece of leather and put it in the bag with the rabbit. I lied down on my sleeping bag and looked at Gale as he stamped out the water. "We're going to have to find a place for water soon."

"Don't worry. I saw a river while I was hunting the rabbit. We can go refill tomorrow." I smiled and let out a sigh of relief. We wouldn't go hungry or thirsty. Gale would make sure of that. As I drifted off to sleep I heard Gale whisper under his breath, "I think I love you, Katniss."

I almost woke up right there. Surely he wouldn't have said that if he thought I was awake. Maybe my mind was playing tricks on me. I'm sure he didn't say he thinks he loved me. I drifted off into an uneasy sleep.