I couldn't sleep all night. I tried to look like I was sleeping during Giovanni's watch so that he didn't feel so bad about it but I still couldn't sleep. Whenever I close my eyes the faces of the dead haunt me. They scream that they deserved to live and it's my fault they are dead. I know that even if I leave the arena, these faces will haunt me joined by two more though. I was so close. I knew I could win if I wanted to. I just had to win now that I was so far. Giovanni shakes me awake so we can kill some tributes and hopefully get closer to winning. One of the Gamemakers starts to speak. I never bothered to learn their names though. "Attention top four tributes. All of you have been paired up. If your partner does not die within 48 hours then we will randomly kill one of the members of the membership. Your partners will be kept secret. Happy Hunger Games and may the odd be ever in your favor!" Oh no. If Giovanni and I got paired there was no chance of both of us going home!

    "Giovanni, what will happen if we are partners up?" I ask him worriedly.

   "Then one of us will get randomly killed." He says with a stony face. I couldn't kill Giovanni. I could kill anyone in this arena if I had to except for him.

    "Come out, come out wherever you are." A voice called from outside our base. "I know you two are hiding here somewhere so get out and fight you little coward." I recognize the voice as Panther. She is the only one who is that sadistic.

   Giovanni and I walk out, him holding his hammer and me holding my bow "Panther you do realize that you can't beat the two of us." He yells.

    "That doesn't mean that I can't kill one of you." She says with a smile. "One more kill."

    Then she leaps at me with her knives drawn. She seems like some sort of demon as she flies forward. I toss my bow aside and grab some knives before she pins me to the ground. She drags a knife up my arm and I scream in pain. If I get the chance to kill her...

   Suddenly a hammer bashes her head and her brains splatter all over me. A cannon fires and I start to yell. "Damn it Gio! Ugh I have useless career Brains all over me!"

   "These are the Hunger Games Hydra!" He laughs "Go wash off in that stream if you want to. Just take your bow and I will guard the camp."

   I pick up my bow and walk over to the stream. That boy from 6 better not come as I am washing these brains out of my hair. The stream is about waist deep so I have to bend over to wash out my hair bit seems so calming, the clear, cool water rushing over me, soothing my aching skin. I stand up to get out of the pond when something sharp touches my neck. "Help Gio! Help!" I scream instinctively. I clasp my arms over my chest and try to twist my way out.

    The boy who tried to kill me is paralyzed with fear. Giovanni comes racing through and yells at the boy "Get off of her!" He starts to run but Giovanni catches up to him quickly. He places the sword against the boy from 6's neck and the boy starts to squirm. Fear is flashing through his eyes and tears are starting to well up in them. I shoot him through the eye without a second thought.

   "He didn't deserve to have to go through the anticipation of waiting to die. He was going to die no matter what." I say calmly. Then I dry myself off and wait. Hopefully Giovanni and I weren't paired or one of us would be very much dead soon.