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Dylan.
He let his eyes fall to Jenna, and she pushed herself up.
“Well, well, well. What delectable little treat do we have here?” he asked, his voice sticking to my skin in the tight space.
Without hesitation, I reached forward and grabbed Jenna’s hand again, attempting to pull us toward the exit, but that fucking Seeker was faster, and before I knew it, it became a sort of tug-of-war between the two of us.
“Stop! Please!” Jenna screamed.
Hands reached towards me from the other Seekers, blood and dirt caked under their fingernails. Panic clawed through me, if they got hold, I’d have no hope of getting free again. Not while they each had a good fifty pounds on me.
It was then that I realized howfuckedI was.
My eyes shifted toward Jenna, and for the first time she looked at me with such hurt that it caused even my jaded heart to crack.
And then I…let go.
It was enough to send them all scrambling back, but the purple Seeker was fast. They twisted their body so Jenna was forced to the ground, raised their hand, and broug—
The sickening crack of their metal weapon hitting Jenna’s skull was the thing to push me forward. They brought it down again and again and again, the noise ringing in my ears and I turned on my heel and sprinted down the hall.
Within a couple cobweb covered turns I found myself in a room positively crawling with rats, not that I had much time to be disgusted by them—not when my eyes landed on a glowing red emergency exit door just up ahead.
My lungs burned as I crossed the room, the animal skittering away from my feet as I pushed myself faster than I’d ever run in my life through the door and into the warm lights of the amusement park beyond.
She brought this on herself.I tried to tell myself.If she was just the slightest bit faster—
The yells from behind me forced all other thoughts from my mind. They reminded me why I was here. What I needed to do.
Ineededto win this fucking thing, and if that meant having to sacrifice the life of a friend, goddamn I was willing to do it.
Kohl
Before the Games
Itried not to make a habit of stalking Victoria at school, but it became harder and harder to hold myself back after she started to spend more time at the house with my brother.
That useless scumbag didn’t deserve to talk to someone like her, that he’d managed to convince her to date him was…ineffable. It didn’t make any fucking sense.
Naturally, I started to wonder what her life was like outside of dating Dylan.
It was like an itch I couldn’t scratch, all these questions about who she was that I didn’t have answers to.
Who were her friends? What did she do in her free time? Was she good at school or kind of a slacker?
Today, we had free period at the same time. That’s how I found myself lingering at the edge of the quad, watching as Victoria and a few of her friends from cheer gathered around one of the stone tables. Their laughter carried across the open space, making the back of my neck heat.
So this is what the little Legacy did with her downtime.
It was a bit disappointing. I don’t know, maybe I expected something a little less… pedestrian.
I’d placed myself behind one of the large oaks that surrounded the perimeter of the quad, hiding in the shade while also being close enough to see them and hear what they were saying.
Vic and her friends often walked through the halls together, sometimes even wearing their matching cheer sets. It was criminal that I hadn’t been able to get close to her before this.
The sunlight bounced off her golden hair as she talked, her hands moving to punctuate her excited voice. She looked at her friends with such a carefree, unburdened smile that it caused something in me to shift uncomfortably.
She never smiled like that with Dylan.
