Clay woke up for what was like the fourth time since she had tried to fall asleep.She was so exhausted but her brain was strangely excited and would not rest so she found herself waking for strange reasons , with her brain replaying almost every scenario that she had witnessed within the past few days over and over again.At first, the reason she had been unable to sleep had been quite simple , it had been because she had been unable to sleep as she was plagued with how Saul had looked as he read Carlos' note .She had tried to tell herself to keep calm that she would talk to Saul later on and they could resolve it when everyone was sufficiently rested , but her body would not obey so she had ended up getting up and trudging up the stairs to look for Saul who she had promptly found so deep in thought that he did not notice Clay outside his room for almost six minutes , when he had eventually turned and noticed Clay , Saul had looked quite depressed.So Clay had spoken briefly to Saul

"How to survive the night ", Clay reiterated to her team as they all looked on.They all collectively groaned at Clay's statement and Clay nodded in understanding , she also wanted to groan louder than they had all done altogether.She had also not imagined herself spending yet another night at the Arena and especially within the gauntlets ring, but right now, they did not have much of a choice if they did not want their names to be on the next day's pyramid fall.Clay had actually expected some kind of blow back from Vasquez and his team,she had just not known when and in what form it would come.People like that always wanted to establish their authority and when their authority was threatened, they did anything to return it to how is was.After all, June had first interrupted one of their fights and then she had gone in to also interrupt the already Interrupted fight.And as if that was enough, The very next day , June had gotten into yet another fight and then, there had been the

"Long time no see, Westbrooke".Clay cringed over the name and frowned deeply at Juan who was smiling broadly like he had just won some kind of lottery .Clay had expected him to still be quite enraged or in a sour mood after everything that had happened to him in just one night but he seemed quite okay actually, he seemed more than okay , which was kind of shocking to Clay who had been discretely hoping that his grieving would make him easier to handle.Clay put her gun down since none of Juan's men, including Juan had their weapons out and she did not want to be the odd one out since Juan was obviously not here for any sort of violence.But it was just her that thought so,the others refused to out their own weapons down.Saul and from the corner of her eyes,June and Jared too, they all still had their weapons up in case something went wrong which was highly likely with how excited Juan looked,he definitely did not look like someone that was here for a meet and greet."I honestly wis

"Who is going up against who?"Clay could see as they all raised their faces,moving their bodies closer for the second part of their gathering, which was really the more important part,the determining part because if a pairing that was not up to par was made,that would signify the beginning of their end.Clay was still not sure how to go about it or rather, she knew how she would go about it, she was just not sure of how the others would take it in stride, actually she knew for a fact that certain people would not like it.There was no longer any avoiding it as they all moved closer, their eyes on the paper and the five figures with name tags drawn on it.With this distraction, Clay leapt forward and grabbed the ink brush out of June's unsuspecting hands.She raised her other hand but missed her at the last moment and instead hit Juan on the side of his head, a loud whoop that caused everyone to turn to her.Jared , Saul and Ricky stifled chuckles , covering their laughs with fake cou

JADEJay woke from her nap with a start, she had been having one of her usually unexplainable dreams, dreams that she was positive had no actual meaning.She had been dreaming of going to school when an explosion had taken the school down, it was a typical dream for places like their apartment or any of Clay's workplaces, Jay was always having dreams with explosions or bombings, usually of places that she did not like, which was a lot of places but not school.She had always wanted to go to school , mostly because Clay had always wanted her to go to school and she did not think of how a place dedicated to learning could be bad.She knew it would be a pain learning with people that were beneath her or could not contribute to what she was learning but she had always been curious of what the other children did there and how exactly they learnt that they ended up so slow.And Clay seemed to think she would make lots of friends and be very happy at one of these schools,Jay had never seen t