I squinted, my eyes still adjusting to the change of light. Or rather, lack of. There didn't seem to be much light at all; it seemed to be nighttime, but without any sort of light source. Once my eyes were adjusted, I looked around.

30.

All I saw were walls everywhere. It was as if we were inside an empty building, except for the Cornucopia being in the center of it. On each wall there was one opening, leading off to who knows where. It was a maze.

20.

To my left I saw the boy from District Twelve, who looked as if he might die of fright before the Games even started. To the left of me I saw Cassandra, the evil looking girl from District Three that somehow didn't make it into the Career alliance. She had her eyes set on a wicked looking sword, which I felt she would put to use very well. I looked around, and the closest thing to me was a camouflaged backpack, which I knew I had to grab. It could hold items essential to my survival.

10.

I looked further into the Cornucopia and saw a set of daggers that I knew were placed just for me. However, that meant that I would have to go into the Bloodbath, which I was strongly advised not to do by Sapphy and Bates.

5.

I looked over and saw Bates looking at me, motioning over to the entrance to the left of me.

4.

I caught Rosetta and Lyla's face too. They were right in front of it, and they were in the position to run backwards towards it. I guess Bates had already told them about it.

3.

Cristoff looked as if he was going to dart into the Cornucopia to grab as many weapons as he could. I really hoped he wouldn't betray us and go with the Careers instead.

2.

I wiped my palms on my clothes and started preparing myself for the run ahead.

1.

A gong rang throughout the area. I sprinted forward as fast as I could, to ensure that it would be me that grabbed the backpack. Suddenly, I was tackled from behind. I was pushed to the ground and saw that Karl, Rosetta's District Partner, was grinning evilly while holding me down.

"Thought that you would have an alliance with my Rosetta and not include me, huh? Well they're just going to have to settle without you and with me instead!" He cackled, and was about to bring a knife down on my head when he slumped forward to the point where he was laying on top of me. I saw blood trickling out of his mouth, and onto my clothes. I saw that there was an arrow embedded into his skull, and saw Cristoff standing a couple feet away from me, bow still strung.

"Come on. We've got to get out of here and meet up with the others." Cristoff extended a hand to me and quickly pulled me up. Before we ran away I grabbed the backpack that so nearly ended my life.

We sprinted over to the exit that we agreed on before, or at least what I thought was the same one. Once I fell on the ground my sense of direction got all messed up, so I had to trust Cristoff on this one. He handed me a dagger that he had grabbed out of the Cornucopia, and I kept it in my hand. Since it was the first day, I didn't know who all I would encounter; all I knew is that I had to stay safe.

As soon as we passed through the exit we were faced with the tough decision of whether or not we go left or right.

"I say we go left. I've got a bad feeling about right." I agreed with Cristoff. There was something off about the right way, and I didn't want to find out what it was that was making us feel that way.

We ran to the left, and made random left and right turns until we felt we had to take a break. We were no closer to finding the rest of the group as we were in the beginning, and were starting to need water. All of a sudden we heard a loud "BOOM". The Bloodbath must be over at this point. It was followed by six more, signifying that seven other kids died today. Seventeen left.

Cristoff and I still couldn't figure out how to find the rest of the group. We hadn't even considered thinking of a place to meet up at, because we never imagined the arena to be a maze. I suggested that we kept on going until we at least found another tribute, but Cristoff was against that.

"With our luck we'll run into the Career group. Then we'll both be dead. We need to just stay where we are and hope that they'll somehow make a signal so that we can find them." There was really no point in arguing with Cristoff so I just sat there. I looked through my backpack and found that we had a canteen that the Gamemakers so kindly left empty, a bottle of iodine, a couple strips of beef jerky and a small first aid kit. Cristoff managed to get a bow and arrow sheath, my dagger, a spear, and a sleeping bag. It wasn't a bad haul, if I do say so, for something that two people managed to get.

We were silent for so long I thought I would go crazy. Finally, I decided that the quiet was too pointless to continue, so I brilliantly started a conversation.

"So... I heard that you were approached by the Careers."

He looked over at me, and then back down at his arrows. "Yeah. They did. Didn't think word would spread so quickly. I didn't want to be a Career, because all they are is bloodthirsty murderers that eventually turn on each other. It wouldn't be that safe for me there, and I just generally liked all of you better."

"Oh." I didn't really know what to say anymore. My conversation starter hadn't really started a conversation all that well. "Do you have any family back home?" There. That one should start an actual conversation.

"Yeah. I have a little sister and my mom. My dad died when I was little; he had some weird disease. I promised Sara, my sister, that I would come home to her. She gave me her favorite ring for good luck. I kept it as my token." I looked up and saw that on a chain hanging around his neck, there was, in fact, a ring. It was shaped like a heart. "What about you?"

"Oh, I just have my mom and dad back home. That's all." He nodded, then all of a sudden cane over to where I was sitting. "I know your secret, you know. That 'stuff' that you were avoiding talking about in your interview. I'm really sorry about it by the way." I jerked my head over towards him, my body starting to shake.

"How do you know?" I barely whispered it. I hated the thought of it, so just the idea that someone knew about it just made my stomach start to turn.

"Well I just put two and two together. I remembered that Games. It was a brutal one."

I didn't respond. I just sat there, showing no response at all. I didn't want to talk about this. I didn't want to think about it at all. I just wanted to curl up into a ball and wake up in my bed at home. That this was all a dream.

"Hey, it's okay. I didn't mean to upset you. Here, eat some jerky. You'll need the energy." I nodded, accepting the jerky. I was in the middle of chewing when the Capitol anthem started playing. We looked up to see which tributes died.

Boy from Three, boy from Five, Karl, the girl from Nine, the boy from Ten, and both from Twelve. I breathed a sigh of relief. Bates, Rosetta and Lyla were all safe. We just had to somehow find them in the maze.