Chapter 1

Marvel P.O.V.

I walked across the town square feeling as confident as ever. It was my last and final reaping, I was obviously volunteering this year, for sure. As our escort, Ava blabbed on and on, I caught attention of a pair of gorgeous green eyes that belonged to a gorgeous girl, she had long, flowing blonde locks and was of average height, I'd seen her before in training, but I hadn't taken that much notice of her then. I was then startled by the name read out into the microphone. "Glimmer Munroe!" Ava boomed. And just then her gazed dropped. The beautiful girl I was looking at had just been called to enter The Hunger Games...

Glimmer P.O.V.

I turned my head to the side, and I saw Marvel Hancock staring at me, the Marvel Hancock was staring at me, all I did was stare back smiling until someone from behind me pushed me forward and whispered "It's you Glimmer!" I casually turned my head and walk towards the stage, trying to look confident to impress Marvel. "Now for the boys!" Said our escort Ava said smiling as she walked over to the bowl full of boy's names and picked one out. "Marvel Hancock!" She shouted into the microphone. A tear rolled down my cheek as I thought 'Why always me?'

Marvel P.O.V.

I walked to the stage confidently and shook Glimmer's hand as soon as I got up there. We were escorted to a room where everything was white except for the red velvet, sofa that I soon sat on, and the mahogany table that sat in front of me. My brother was the only one to come and see me. He was fourteen and was volunteering when he was eighteen, "Win for me, so I can show off to all of my friends?" He asked. I shook my head "Alex" I said "You don't need me to win for you to be popular; everyone loves me as it is." He laughed and said "Good luck." And with that he left.

We were quickly escorted onto a train and Glimmer waved at the crowd and they roared for her, she was beautiful after all. As soon as we were on the train she stormed off to her room. As I walked down the hall towards my bedroom, something caught my eye. A big sparkling jewel, that I saw Glimmer wearing around her neck, on the floor so I picked it up, just in case anyone stood on it. "Glimmer?" I knocked on her door.

"Come in!" she replied with that sweet tone of voice she always had. I opened the door to see that she was just gazing out of the window. "I...I found this..." I opened up the palm of my hand, and there, the necklace sat, glimmering and shining against the reflection on the sun setting through the window.

"Oh!" she jumped right up and hugged me "Thank you so much! What would I do without you?"

"Uhh..." I was in utter shock... She broke off the hug. "Oh..." She broke down in tears right in front of me. "Glimmer? What's wrong?" I asked her. "Marvel, my whole life is gone, right before my eyes..." She replied as she hugged me. "Glimm" I told her "It'll be fine..." I said. "But it won't Marvel!" She snapped at me "Nothing will ever be right in my life, don't you see? The last thing I want is to have the guy I have loved all of my life, before I'm sent off to die and I can't have him!" She yelled at me. I looked down and thought of some of the other guys back in one, but instead she said my name...

"What?" I looked at her in shock. "Marvel...I've liked you for most of my life...all of the other boys...I just ignored them because one day I was hoping you would ask me out..." She said as she wiped away her tears and buried her head in my chest. "I...I've always liked you too..." I trail off. She looked up "You have?" She then did something I wasn't expecting. She kissed me. "Marvel...I...I love you." So I replied "I love you too." Suddenly there was a knock at the door "Dinner!" Ava shouted.

As soon as I reached the table I dived into the food. For starters Carrot and coriander soup, with bread rolls and lamb pieces. For our main, Potato and Chicken stew, a luxury we could never afford in District one. For desserts something quite odd called 'profiteroles' with a custard and chocolate sauce on top.

Straight after dinner we were told to get some sleep because tomorrow was the day we arrived in the Capitol first thing in the morning, and we wouldn't want to be tired for that. As soon as I got to my room I kissed Glimmer on the forehead and said goodnight, but she took my hand and pulled me into her bedroom. "Please?" She asked me with that sad look in her eyes. "Fine..." I replied. I slumped down on the bed and she fell right into my arms. Sleep was peaceful, relaxed.

When I opened my eyes Glimmer was still sleeping, and I decided I didn't want to wake her since it only looked about six or seven in the morning, but she woke up suddenly with tears streaming down her face. "Glimmer...what's wrong?" I asked "Oh...nothing...just a bad dream that's all..." She replied and then hugged me. "Get up, Glimmer! It's going to be a big day!" Shouted Ava. In the distance I heard her shouting my name and knocking on my door. "What if she walks into my room and sees that I've gone?" I asked Glimmer. "She won't. She didn't come into my room, did she?" No, I think. "Well, we best get up before she suspects us..." I say. "Okay then." She says, as she gets up and walks into the bathroom. I get up and walk into my own room. "Be back in a minute!" I call. I get dressed into some clothes that are lain out on the bed for me. At breakfast I see that Glimmer had got into a short, white dress with straps, which made her look more beautiful than ever. "Today" Ava said "You are going to meet your stylists, and we will prep you for the chariot rides and after that training will start. We clear?" We both nodded. As soon as breakfast was over we both walked into Glimmer's room. "I'm really excited about going to the Capitol." She said "Me too." I lied. I had never wanted to go to the Capitol much. It was a place where people actually liked watching kids fight to the death. Uggh. The Capitol disgusted me.

As soon as we arrived in the Capitol we were quickly escorted to the elevator. We were stood in the elevator with two other tributes, from district two I think. The boy was large and had huge muscles, spiky blonde hair and light blue eyes. "Hi, I'm Cato and that's Clove." he said as he pointed to the small dark haired girl behind him. As soon as Glimmer looked up at Cato I knew she liked him. I clenched my fists from jealousy and anger and I saw Clove do the same too, at that moment I knew we were going to be friends.