Creative Writing: One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest

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Cato and his friends agreed to wait it out. Within hours, we were all asleep.
I woke up to a whisper. I looked down to see Cato and his friends still sleeping by the bottom of the tree. I looked around to see where the whisper came from, until I saw a little girl. It was the last twelve year old tribute, Rue. She was pointing to a tracker jacker nest that was a branch above from me. Then I got what she was saying. She wanted me to cut the branch, so the nest would fall on Cato and his friends and kill them all. I climbed to the nest and started to cut the branch. A few of the tracker jackers flew out of the nest and stung me a few times. Ten minutes later, I got the nest to fall. It broke on top of them, but Cato and Peeta managed to escape. The others were not so lucky.
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“It was from Cato. I'm sorry, I tried to get him to kill you but he tried to kill me when his girlfriend Glimmer and his friends were killed. Now he is alone. Will you please forgive me?”
I didn't believe anything he said, just the fact that his friends were killed. I decided to let him tag along with Rue and I. We all made our way to a cave that was by the river after we drank some water. Peeta lied down on a rock, holding his cut leg.
“Thank you Katniss. I could be dead right now.” said Peeta as I cleaned his cut. I pulled up his pant leg and poured some water on the cut. Then, I wrapped the cut with these leaves that Rue handed me. She said that they were good for healing wounds. I looked up at Peeta and we made eye contact. He smiled at me and got a little red. I smiled back because Rue was making fun of both of us.
They next day, we walk down the river to get some fish. Rue was in the cave still. Peeta was sitting on a rock as I was fishing, and he was grabbing the fish I threw at him. There was a snap of a twig and we both turned out heads. It was Cato. he was holding a knife.
“Well, we meet again.” said Cato smiling turning his knife around his

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