Finnick POV
Prologue:
"I volunteer as tribute!" Those four simple words changed my heart and my view on life forever. I was blind up until then, I wasn't really seeing what it meant to love. I mean really truly love someone, up to the point where you'd say, be, or do anything for them, even if it meant sacrificing your own life. This act of unconditional love for another person opened my eyes because up until that day I had only been surrounded by the gaudy, grotesque version of what people in the Capitol considered love.
The only thing is I never planned on this happening. I was perfectly content with the life I was living, well content isn't the right word, more like at ease. Sure I wasn't happy with having to sleep with countless Capitol socialites, but my life had taken on a monotone pattern and I had gotten used to my playboy lifestyle. I was sure I would live the rest of my life the same way, never truly living just doing what I had to do to survive, but of course that plan changed. My whole life now changed all because of one teenage girl. I never planned on her volunteering; I never planned on me wanting her to win at all costs. I never planned on her victory affecting me the way it did. Most of all I never planned on falling in love with the one and only Katniss Everdeen.