Me and Piper made our way to the square, signed in and sat down on the Capitol supplied elegant chairs and sat next to each other, I take Piper's hand as I could see she was nervous,

"Don't worry" I say to her with a reassuring smile, not that it did much good.

Our attention turned to Axel, the district 2 escort as he began his speech,

"Welcome everybody, happy Hunger Games and, may the odds be ever in your favour." he said with an abnormal tone of delight in his voice.

We sat and watched a 2 minute video about the history of Panem and how the Hunger Games came to be but my God it was boring,

The video finished and Axel spoke into the mic,

"As usual, ladies first."

I could practically hear Piper's heart hammering against her chest, or maybe it was my own heartbeat I could hear.

"Piper Williamson!"

I sit there staring at the ground for a moment, wide-eyed and my face was pale, I slowly lift my head up and turn to see Piper, her face also went pale, really pale, she looked completely fear struck, she slowly got up out of her seat and started to make her way up to the stage.

My worst fear had come true, they picked Piper, of all people why the fuck did they have to pick Piper? yes ok she has the physical skills to survive and she is very clever, but she's my twin and I will not let anything happen to her.

I get up off my seat and make my way to the isle,

"I VOLUNTEER!" I scream as everyone including Piper turns to look at me,

"I volunteer as tribute!"

The crowd is stunned into silence as I walk up to Piper, she's crying, begging me not to go, it broke my heart seeing her like this,

"Patricia please, you don't have to I can do this!" Piper was frantic, saying anything just to stop me from going, but I was not changing my mind.

"Piper listen to me, if anything happened to you I would never forgive myself, now go find mum."

I was starting to choke up as could feel that I was about to start crying, but I managed to hold back the tears.

I make my way up to the stage and in the crowd I see Piper sobbing relentlessly with her face buried in her hands.

"That was very brave of you, and your name is?" Axel asked as I stood on the stage thinking about what just happened,

"Patricia Williamson." The words barely escaped my throat.

"I'll bet that was your sister, wasn't it?" Axel said.

"yes" was all I managed to say.

"And now for the Boys!" Axel declared,

"Eddie Miller!"

As he made his way up to the stage I couldn't help but wonder why his name seemed so familiar, it's not like it mattered, in a matter of week's we, along with 22 other people would be trying to kill each other.

"Go on you two, shake hands." Axel cheerfully motioned for us two shake hands

We shook hands and made eye contact, giving each other serious looks.

"Ladies and gentlemen your tributes from district 2 for the 76th annual Hunger Games!" Axel shouted as me and Eddie walked into the justice building.