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I only own Cassie, my friend owns/made up Riley.

(Cassie's thoughts/looks)

I sat in the stupid Avox auction, which reminded me of a horse auction. Us Avoxes had no say in where we went. Someone showed interest in one of us an auctioneer would come and start the bidding. Nobody showed interest in me, I was thankful for that. After quite some time a man and an older couple noticed me, the man was more interested in me than the couple. I paid no attention to them and continued to wallow in self pitty.

"What about this one?" The man said, meaning me. He had blonde hair and grey eyes, he was relatively good looking. He began to move a lock of hair behind my ear. I bit him. He retracted his hand.

"Oh! How about a different one, sweetheart?" The older woman said. I assumed she was his mother.

"No," the man smirked, "I like this one."

I continued to glare daggers at him. I had nothing against him, I just didn't want to be bought by anybody.

He laughed as his parents delt with the auctioneer. "Trust me, I don't want to be here any more than you do."

I rolled my eyes. Sure, like you were forced here against your will knowing that you could get sold to an axe murder! I thought to myself.

"I'm serious, they had to drag me here." He continued laughing. Somehow, he knew what I meant just by looks.

Sure they did I rolled my eyes again.

"Honestly." He said as his parents came back.

"Ready, dearest?" His mother asked.

"Yeah." The man said, taking my hand. I ripped it out of his grip.

I continued glaring at the ground, hating my life.

"Better me than some abusive bum with more money than he needs." He whispered to me.

I sent him a look saying How do I know you're not one?

"You can either trust me and let me prove it, or deny it and be miserable the whole time you're here." He pointed out.

I'm going to be miserable no matter what! It was true, no matter how nice of an owner I had I was still going to be miserable.

"It's funny, I've found I enjoy life more when I'm happy to be alive." He gave me a useless philosophy.

Would you be happy if you had to be a servent without any say in the matter? I wanted to scream.

"Don't even worry about it. I take care of most of the cleaning myself. I'm probably the biggest Germaphobe in the Capitol." He attempted to make me feel better. Yea, like that would help.

Not what I meant. I said using my eyes, damn I must've been good at talking with my eyes. The man just smirked at me.

"I'm Riley, by the way." He introduced himself while staring ahead. I couldn't exactly respond to say that my name was Cassie.

Riley tried helping me into the car, I ignored his help. I saw him roll his eyes in annoyance and get into the car. I crossed my arms and exhaled loudly.

"Don't worry." He tried to make me relax and make me feel better. It didn't work.

How can't I? I asked with my eyes.

"Just trust me." Yea, like that was gonna happen anytime soon.

I shook my head. I didn't plan on trusting Riley anytime soon.

"You don't trust me, do you?" He asked.

I shook my head again. He was finally catching on.

"I'll have to convince you, then." He smirked at me.

Like that's going to happen. I almost never trusted people.

"You'd be surprised," Riley laughed, "I'm very convincing."

And I don't trust people.

"So you think there's no way I can convince you I'm different?" He asked me. I shook my head. "Good," he smiled, "I like a challenge."

I scowled at him, my mind instently going to the gutter. An awkward silence settled around us. I snuck a glance at him out of the corner of my eye and saw him smirking as he drove. I bit my cheek and made my eyes stay silent and my face devoid of any emotion. I eventually fell asleep.

"Wake up, Hunny." Riley said jokingly as he woke me up. Apparently we were at his house, my new home.

I gritted my teeth at the nickname. Never call me that again. My extremely expressive eyes told him.

He lead me up to the giant house. "Welcome to Casa de Riley." He said. The house looked like something out of a modern fairytale. It wasn't a castle but it was still pretty huge compared to what I was used to. I opened the door for myself and walked in. The walls were extremely white. It was like that in every room. I felt like I was in an insane asylum. "So," Riley's voice broke the silence, "I'll show you to your room." I nodded.

Once I was all settled in the room I flopped down on the bed and fell back into a dreamless sleep.