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24 teens. 24 people, innocent people, just there. looking at each other. They're thinking of who's gonna survive, or how they'll kill or they'll kill and who will kill them. 24 minds, all at once, just wondering and ready.
This arena is a cliff. It's a round patch of dirt at the edge of a cliff. They'll have to jump to reach the cornucopia. It always starts with a circle. A big circle like they used to do in pre-school to get everyone to know each other. They are getting to know each other, but this time they don't want to be your friend. They want to kill you.
They have red unifroms, red. Really red. It's like they're already bleeding. It's diffrent this time. The people from the same district are actually side by side, in order. They'll have to jump. One step. They can't go back, it's electrocuted. If you don't jump the land mines will be actived. You jump, or you jump. One hour. You jump or you get blown up.
Red unifroms and black back packs, those are the parachutes. You jump. That's what they kept telling them. You jump. No matter what, you jump. That's all they knew, they had to jump. They weren't given train or anything. Just jump. The voice starts, there's the usual speech, and the song and then it says "When the canon sounds you jump. The parachutes will open after 10 seconds. Jump". the countdown started and tehre they went. The canon sounded and they jump. You could see the people from the 3 first districts jumping right away. The others took longer. Some wouldn't jump by themselves and clinged to their district companions. "JUMP" they all screamed trying to force themselves.
No one knew what was down there. It was bitch black. One girl, from district 6, she leaned in real close to the edge trying to see, she slipped, her back pack got stuck on a branch, she was dangling, crying for help, no one dared to help her. She fell after at least 10 minutes of pure panick, no one moved, they covered their hears, they screamed JUMP to each other. She fell, but her back pack stayed there, on the branch. Later on, they would all see her in the cornucopia, all broken. The canon sounded as she fell, 47 seconds to be precise. I counted. ´
Ohhh, have I not mentioned I won, yeah, I did. This is the story. I won. I won. I wish I didn't.