Oh, for fuck's sake. She had gone and done it now. Actually, scrap that, she didn’t fuck it up – that idiot snitch did. She was doing everyone a service by going out past the safe zone for food. It wasn’t her fault that the animals were apparently getting smarter and knew to avoid her school’s part of the forest. She was tired of coming back empty handed, tired of letting the others down. That’s why she decided to ignore the rules and venture further out. The thing was, she had to go past the fishing hut to get where she needed to go (even though she was supposed to be at the hunting grounds), and that’s when that imbecile walker-fucker Justin must’ve seen her and told Marlon.

While she were successful in finding food, her happiness was short-lived as she walked through the gates to see Louis waiting for her, a frown on his usually happy face. See, Louis was her hunting partner for the day, but when the two of them realised there was no chance of finding food in the hunting grounds, he agreed to keep his mouth shut and let her go out alone. Once she saw the disheartened look on his face, she already knew she was in trouble.

“Marlon knows you went outside the safe zone,” he had said, crossing his arms. “Justin snitched, so now Mar wants to see you in his office. I think you’re in shit.”