I once again plop down onto the couch with a wonderful barrel of popcorn to keep me watching it. I see the Capitol seal and then the word "Interviews" in bright fancy letters. I lean back and get a drink, because the District 1 girl has already appeared on the screen. Confident that this will be a fun interview, I pay lose attention.

I hear that the District 1 girl is going for a cute sexy approach, which works if you look pretty. She certainly does and no doubt she will get many different sponsors. If only last year's girl was that cute. But I don't have time to brood. The boy is appearing onto the screen.

"My name is Goldenreef Teresino, and I am 13 years old. I am sad that I was selected, so PLEASE HELP ME!" He broke down very quickly, and that brings tears to my eyes. Even when he came, he looked on edge, and I can't bear to see him die.

He is so very scared, beating his fists on the interviewer as he sobs loudly. The interviewer pushes him off with disgust, and the Peacekeepers drag him away. I can't look at these interviews. The poor children sob, cry, fight, and I can't do anything. These games may not be very exciting, but there will be a great amount of begging and sobbing. As the timid boy from 12 finally steps down from the stage, I am sobbing, the audience is sobbing, because these were terrible, depressing interviews.

President Snow is back on the screen and he tells us that the scores will be up. The TV turns off, and I think about the tributes. Although about seven of the tributes broke down and another four were to timid to stand a chance, many of the tributes managed to stay calm. I rewatch the interviews to find out that the girl from 5 will do well by evading enemies, the boy from 7 is great with an axe, the boy from 8 competes with the boy from 2 as a killing machine.

But as I've learned, people can say anything in the interviews, but that won't change anything about how they'll do in the arena. Plus, they have to survive the bloodbath for sponsors to even matter. I know that many of the people who appealed to the crowd will not get out of the bloodbath so quickly.

Please let the boy from 2 survive. The point of these Games is money.