I've recently been all about the Hunger Games. I haven't seen the movie but I've been reading stuff on it and watching some scenes plus I've read the book so expect references from both. I personally like the unnamed tributes a lot so I wanted to write about a couple I thought had a lot of potential if they'd gotten time, District 3 male & District 9 female. Weird huh? If you don't like the idea well just don't read but I liked this idea personally. Thanks for anyone who at least tries to give it a chance:) Oh and Happy New Years!

Most other kids in this district and most of the others had at least once in their life had the air taken away from them as the Hunger Games chosen tributes were being picked. This was the day. I, Riley, was wearing a knee length yellow dress which made my read locks stand out even more through the crowd of others. I hated this! Why did we have to die for something we didn't even do, that was so long ago. I stood impatiently just wanting to go home for another having to wake up to chores that practically killed me by the end of the day. Finally our mayor came on stage. Unlike the other districts the two tributes were picked ahead of time in the morning only to be announced in the afternoon so we could just go home.

The mayor started off with a boring speech which I slept most through until I heard her voice yell out through the microphone what we had actually come here for.

"And with that being said I would like to call out the name of our male who will represent our district in the annual Hunger Games, Buck Keene!"

Who? It wasn't a very large district but that name didn't even ring a tiny bell to me. I saw the boy about 13 I'm guessing make his way up to the stage. He didn't seem scared like most of our previous tributes had been but he certainly was mad enough. Our mayor began to call out the girl name he had chosen so my attention went back to him.

"The young female also chosen to represent our district in the annual Hunger Games is Riley Galloway!"

Time seemed to freeze. Wait a second, did he just call out my name? That's impossible. I looked around only to see that everyone was looking at me, waiting for me to walk up to the stage just as the guy had done. My legs started to move and I guess that meant I was making my way but my brain was still processing what had happened. This wasn't what was supposed to happen I'm supposed to be going home now!

"Those ladies and gentlemen are our two district tributes!"

Everyone clapped and cheered. I wanted to yell at them to just shut up! They weren't going to die in a couple of days! I hated everything right now especially our district for making me do something that was dumber than being split apart from other districts.

"They shall now be boarding the train to head to the Capitol where they will be staying until the Hunger Games officially start!" The Mayor yelled over to the districts people

"Don't we usually get time to say our goodbyes?" I asked shocked all of a sudden

"No young lady, not this year, we haven't had a winner in years so the faster we get you to the Capitol the more time you have to train and off you go!"

I suddenly felt a strong hand on my arm. I looked up to find large men dragging Buck and I to our train. I tried to pull myself away. Why were they doing this? I didn't even get time to say goodbye to my mother or after or my older brother.

"Riley!" I heard my mother crying from a distance yelling for me to come back to her

I turned back now in tears too yelling back, "Mom!"

I was shoved to soon into a large dark room. I was guessing we had already made it to the train but I couldn't see anything due to the darkness but then everything went lights everywhere were being flashed onto me ad as I turned around the only person I could see was Buck. He was looking back at me questioning with his face just as much as I was. Then we finally heard the voice to our questions.

"Hello my names is Daniel and that will be the only name you two will address me as for the rest of all of this, got that?"

We nodded our heads frightened already for dear life. This guy was twice as big as the guys that had dragged us into the train. What was with all of these guys anyways?

"Alright now that we have that settled I don't really plan on talking to you much unless we are in training which doesn't start until we get to the Capitol, the food is already prepared in the next room, your stylists are picked out and well be at the Capitol in about 3 hours so enjoy for now"

With that he was off leaving me on the ground speechless and just about in tears. I didn't want to cry but with all that happened today I didn't really have much of a choice. Tears began to roll off my cheeks even though I'd forgotten that I wasn't alone.

"You ok?" Buck asked surprising me

"Yeah I'm fine, this just wasn't how I planned out today to be is all" I replied trying make myself stop crying

"Me neither"

For the first time that day I took a really good look at Buck. He seemed harmless. He was younger than me and his height proved it too. I actually felt like I could trust him which was pretty rare in me but I guess the whole dying thing was getting to me. He was tanned and had the brownest eyes. His white covered shirt really seemed to look loose on him. Probably a hand me down like everybody else used in our poor district.

"My name is Buck" He said starting a conversation holding out his hand

"Riley" I said shaking his hand while he helped me stand to the floor

"I guess we're going to have to be partners for the next couple of days, huh?"

"Yeah"

"You don't talk much do you?" He asked a little disappointed

"No I do, I'm still trying to get over this whole shock is all, why don't we go eat while we get to the Capitol were almost there anyways"

"Cool!" He answered and wight hat were off to the next room to find a meal fit for a king. We ate and talked and as soon as that were at the Capitol seeing that The closer Districts were already there like Districts 1, 5, and 7. As soon as we got there there was a train right behind us which I guessed was District 3 because they were the closest to our district.

Buck and I got out of our train just as the District 3 partners did. I first saw an extremely tall girl get out and instantly she looked over to us and smiled waving at us. She probably didn't care that most of us would be killing each other in less than a week but I waved back at her. She seemed nice enough and I wasn't going to say no to anyone that was willing to team up with me or not stab me to death.

Right behind her came a shorter guy. He was taller than me tough and seemed older too. He looked a lot more serious than his district partner. He looked over at us like the girl and when his eyes looked directly at mine I shivered, I don't know if I could exactly trust him.

The girl began to make her way to us still smiling so he followed her. I looked over at my partner and he seemed to have a smile as wide as the one the girl was giving us. This was the first thing that day that made me want to sort of laugh but I held it in. I didn't want to look foolish.

"Hello, you must be the tributes from District 9!" She said as if we were stars

"Yes and you must be the tributes from District 3!" Buck responded back to her in an even cheerier tone

Were both of them not aware that in a couple of days they'd be trying to stab each other to death in an arena in front of the world. They were acting as if they'd just won a giant prize! I looked at them weird but then I noticed they were probably just trying to cover up their actual feelings with good ones. Or they might just be completely insane..

"My name is Amber, nice to meet you" The girls told us

"My name is Buck and you too" Buck said

"My name is Riley" I said to which Amber looked back to me and smiled again

"Noah" The guy said surprising me

"Yeah Noah here talks more but he's been quiet most of the way here probably due to the shock of all of this" Amber pointed out

"Riley's been quiet too and that's exactly what she told me, perfect match right?" Buck also pointed out laughing which resulted me in elbowing him in the arm while I tried to hide my blushing

Amber started to laugh along which made Noah a tad blush too but everything was cut short when Daniel came out of our train and started yelling at us.

"What is this!?" He yelled questioning Buck and I

"Nothing, just meeting up with our competition is all" Buck answered him before I could but in a hushed whisper

"Not on my watch! You two go find your rooms and I don't ever want to see you talking to any of the others again, is that clear!" Daniel yelled at us

I did the dumbest thing next but I didn't regret it, I tried to stand up for myself which ended up in failure, "But that's completely not fair! None of this has been fair!" I yelled back at him

Smoke was literally coming out of his ears and I saw flames in his eyes. Buck grabbed my arm and pulled me away before I could continue saying anything else that would end up in my early death.