"What, on earth!" Maizy shouts, seeing Emily dead on the floor and Ethan lying on the floor with a bloody leg.

Gruff looks at me angrily. "Willow, would you like to explain...WHAT HAPPENED HERE!?!?"

I look up, fear rushing through me. "Um, well, Olivia was trying to stab me with this knife," I say holding up the knife now covered with blood. "But right before she stabbed me, Ethan walked in with a gun. Olivia threw the knife at his leg. He fell. Emily gave me the gun. Olivia stole it. Ethan tripped Olivia. I fell on top of them and the ready-loaded gun Ethan was holding went off and hit Emily in the stomach," I stay rushing through it all.

"I think I've heard quite enough!" Gruff said.

Maizy has the peacekeepers come in and take Emily's body away. Then they tend to Ethan's leg and take him away. Now here I am, sitting here, blood covering me, and a knife and a gun lying beside me. Gruff is staring at me like I'm crazy.

"Little miss Willow," he begins, "I will indeed talk to Olivia, but I think that you ought to be careful! If you weren't about to go into the 100th Hunger Games, the worst hunger games of them all, you would have quite a painful death and that is after seeing your family die. But we have indeed found your father and have decided to bring him here." He brings in my father and I run up to him an give him a hug. Gruff pulls us apart and picks up the knife from the ground.

"No, No, Please!!!" I scream.

My eyes fill with tears and I can't see what happens. All I hear is a blood-curdling scream and then I fall to the ground crying. I hear Gruff take my dead father away and the door shuts.
I cry and cry.

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I guess I must have fallen asleep while crying last night because now I'm sitting on the ground in the middle of my room. I see a puddle of blood from Emily, a puddle of Blood from Ethan's leg and another puddle of blood. Who's blood is that? Then I remember; it's my dad's. I get up and go get changed, tears pouring down my face. How could this happen! I didn't think going into the hunger games could affect anyone in my family but me, and Fin of course...FIN! I quickly finish getting dressed and rush into his room. He's not there! What!?! He's not here! He's not here! Where could he be? WHERE COULD HE BE!?!? Ok, ok, calm down Willow. Think!...Oh, he's probably just eating breakfast. I run to the dining area and am relieved to see Fin eating breakfast. My wonderful entrance causes everyone to stare. I walk over to my seat and sit down. I begin serving myself some breakfast as everyone goes back to eating. I look over at Emily's spot and am surprised to see that they have not chosen someone else.

Maizy notices me looking at Emily's seat and says, "We have decided not to replace Emily. For she would have died in the games anyway, so it makes no difference."

I sniffle. Then I look over to Ethan's spot and notice it's empty too. Wait where's Ethan? He's ok, right? He has to be ok! What if he died too?!?!

"Where's Ethan?" I ask Maizy.

"He's in bed eating breakfast," she replies.

"You mean you guys didn't kill him!" I ask quite loudly.

"No, we decided it would be interesting to see how an already injured tribute does in the games," she says wickedly.

I jump up from the table and run into his room. Sure enough there he is laying in his bed eating breakfast. He glances up at me when I enter. His eyes seemed to have lost the sparkle that made him look so happy. I walk over slowly.

"Hi, is your leg doing better?" I ask.

He stares at his food. "I guess so," he says his voice hollow and empty.

"That's good," I say looking at him expecting a response. When he keeps eating, I walk out and head to my room.

What's wrong with Ethan? I mean he seems so different and I barely even know him. Well, I guess this is the hunger games. But, the real hunger games haven't even started and Emily's dead, Ethan's hurt, Olivia's a killer, and I'm losing my mind. I'm so stinkin scared, angry, and worried.

I go sit down again and finish up what's on my plate. Then I get up and get ready for training.