The Capitol symbol flashed on the screen.

"President Hanner has the floor."

"Good Evening, tonight's events have set a new status to life in Panem. Tomorrow a Capitol representative will come to your district in the mood of fun and games to tell you all about our new celebration we'll have every year. Good Night." President Hanner's speech ended so quickly we had no time to process what we are going to hear tomorrow.

No one said anything. They wouldn't even announce they blew up District 13? Everyone knew it. With all the uprisings on the Capitols hands it was only time. They had already got our District along with the others under control. Then again, we were never really a huge problem. We tried our hardest to stay out of the war and anything controversial. We were a pretty well respected family, we didn't want trouble.

"Time for you guys to get home." Mika's mother said. She usually loves having us over which meant something was wrong.

"I'll take you over." Mika said. Again he stared at me, this time very intently with his bright beautiful blue eyes. I would have told him that was stupid considering we live 3 feet away from each other, but the way he stared at me, I could tell he wanted to say something important.

"Ok, lets go." Kane took Jelly over to our house and went inside. I waited with Mika and said goodbye to his parents and walked out.

In between both of our houses he stopped. I waited for him to come but he just stood there not moving.

"Spring, I feel like something bad's going to happen soon. Like we won't see each other anymore."

"That's silly" I told him. But in the back of my mind I could feel he's right. I felt myself get closer to him, but I stopped myself. This time though he walked straight towards me and kissed me.

We didn't stop for awhile. I didn't know what to think. He finally released me.

"I love you Spring, always have." I was too shocked to say anything. I knew I loved him too, but words wouldn't form. I didn't want him to think I didn't love him back, so I kissed him. This time I stopped the kiss and finally words came out.

"I-I'll see you tomorrow. Mika, I love you too." He smiled and walked to his door and went inside.

I was still too stunned, I didn't move until my brothers voice yelled at me to get inside before Jelly went to sleep.

We always tell her a story as she falls asleep, ever since our parents died. And I wasn't about to miss tonight's story. I went inside to her bed and sat next to her.

We told her a story about how a poor girl becomes a princess, old fairy tales, and soon her eyes were left the bedroom and gently closed the door, and as soon as that happened my brother became very serious.

"Would you mind telling me what Mika wanted?" Kane said. I wasn't sure how to answer. I figured he'd might have been listening the whole time anyways and just wanted me to tell him, or if he really didn't know.

"Kane," I said. "Mika and I…" My voice trailed off.

"Spring, you have to tell me what happened."

"We…kissed." I blurted it out. I bit too loud that I had to check if Jennifer was still sleeping. She was.

"You what?" I wasn't sure why he was so angry. I thought he always liked Mika and his family. "Things are very serious right now! You can't be in a relationship, especially with Mika!" He yelled whispering as to not wake up Jennifer.

"Why what's going on? It's now or never. We both feel like something bad is going to happen and we want to take advantage of what's left."

"Nothing bad is going to happen Spring, don't do anything irrational if you just assume something is going to happen."

"I can't believe I'm having this conversation with you! You're my brother not Dad!" Why did I say that? "No Kane I didn't mean it that way." I could already tell he was angry and trying to fight back tears.

He was basically me and Jelly's father once he died. And Jelly used to call him dad, no matter how many times we said he wasn't her father. "Kane, please I'm sorry! You know I didn't mean it!"

All he said was "Go to bed Spring," in a very tense manner that I obeyed and slipped silently into me and Jennifer's room.

As I changed and got into bed I felt as if I hadn't slept in days and fell asleep instantly. The problem was it wasn't a good night.

Just as I had the dream of the explosion of District 13 the night before I had a worse dream. I didn't want to believe what I saw, but because the explosion had come true I felt obliged to myself to believe it.

I woke up to the sound of an announcement telling us to get ready for the day and the big Capitol person that's tell us about some game or whatever. It said for us to be in the Town Square at 12:00 sharp and to not be late at ALL.

They stressed the punctuality of it a lot, it must of meant something very important. Jelly was awake already, but Kane was sound asleep. I swear he could sleep through fireworks right above our house if that were to happen.

I went into his room and shook him awake.

"Kane! Wake up! The Capitol official is making the announcement at 12! WAKE UP!" I shook him harder and he finally arose.

"Jeez Spring, I was asleep!"

"I know dummy, get ready the Capitol official is announcing something today." I forgot all about the huge fight we had last night. And began the day as usual, or somewhat usual. Another day going where this crazy dream is being analyzed in my head.

"Mooorning!" Jelly said. She was already ready for the day in a blue dress the color of Mika's eyes. MIKA! I can't believe I forgot what happened. I wasn't even thinking as I ran outside right into and we toppled over.

"Hey," He said. We kissed lying on the floor.

"Hey" I replied. I got off of on top of him and helped him up. "Are you ready?"

"Yeah," He seemed off.

"Listen, I need to tell you something." I didn't want to add to his off-ness but he's the only one I could tell about my dream.

"Anything…"

"Well, I had another dream." I didn't know how to tell him what I'd seen.

"What did you see?" He read my mind it seemed.

"I saw myself, and I was…different…I guess."

"I don't understand…"

I couldn't help it. How could I not tell him, I just hoped he would still love me. So I told him,"I saw myself killing other people."

His eyes widened. "Who?"

"I don't know, people I've never seen before."This time he only nodded and he took my hand.

"Listen Spring, no matter what you will always be MY Spring." He kissed my forehead and led me back to my house.

An hour later we were all ready for the big announcement. We gathered into the square where hundreds of chairs were waiting for us. All seven of us sat in the 4th row waiting for the rest of the District 4ers to gather in. There was a stage in the front which had our Mayor and a strange Lady with bright purple hair and blue skin with silver spirales up and down her arms and legs.

Her voice was so small and high-pitched she was practically eating the microphone.

"Welcome District 4 citizens gather around the stage and choose a seat. We will begin shortly."

What she felt was shortly felt like 3 hours. In reality it was only 15 minutes. Mika held my hand tightly as the strange looking lady stepped up to the microphone again.

"Hellooooo everyone! Today's the day for the special announcement!" Most of us were sitting at the edge of our chairs in anticipation. "This meeting is very exciting. President Hanner, other counselors, and some other few have decided to provide a new nation wide entertainment show. We hope that it will go well and we will have it for years to come. All children from ages twelve to eighteen must be admitted into the games."

The words the games felt glued to my brain and all I could hear for the moment she paused were the words "the games, the games" repeatedly. Everyone else whispered to one another and all I could do was stare straight at her.

"Two tributes from each District will be randomly chosen. There willl be one girl and one boy. These two proud youth of each District will represent each District in the games. Twenty Four lucky youth will go to the Capitol and be trained for the games where everyone will compete against one another to win pride and benefits for their District."

Somehow I felt like those two people weren't very lucky.

"For the young boy and girl chosen, the honor will be great and they will be famous to all! The games will be televised to all the Districts so that the tributes family and friends can watch. Work will also be stopped so that everyone can have the opportunity to watch. The reaping for the tributes will be held in two months. So that's November 1st at 10:00 precisly. The reaping will be held in this very square!"

So many people were excited, but all I could do was continue to stare at her bright purple hair.

"So, I hope you all are excited for the 1st Annual Hunger Games. And may the odds be ever in your favor."

The whole crowed cheered in excitement but both me and Mika didn't. He squeezed my hands and that was the end of the announcement. In 2 months we'd have a reaping and 2 people would leave to the capitol and all we could do until then was wait.