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"Clove, wake up" My eyes shoot open at the sound of Cato's voice.

"What?" I asked slightly irritated that he woke me up from my peaceful sleep.

"It's your turn to keep watch"

I nod my head and get out of the tent to make my way out to the fire we started. I sit down lazily on the ground and look for something to do before I doze off on my watch again, which I know will only annoy Cato. I grab my favorite knife from my belt and start to sharpen it, when a memory starts to play in my head.

-Flashback-

I enter the training center for the first time. I hear it's anawesome place to be at, and that district 2 has the biggest training center out of all the career districts. I'm so excited to try out all the weapons, but one station catches my eye- the knife throwing station. I walk over until a sound causes me to turn my head into its direction. I turn and see a tall boy with blonde hair, and I have to admit that he's really handsome. I shake my head 'The training center is only for training Clove, not for boys!' I tell myself.

I walk over to the knife-throwing station. I pick up a small dagger, position my legs and my hand that holds the knife, then throw. Bullseye. Dead center. I smirk at the sight of the small knife sticking onto the center of the small red dot. "Not bad for a beginner" My head snaps into the direction of the voice that just complimented my successful throw. It's the good looking blonde boy that I saw earlier. He smirks at me, but I roll my eyes "Don't underestimate me" I say as I walk over to the target to retrieve the knife.

"Oh, well I wasn't planning to" he says. I look at him and see the smirk on his face.

"I'm Cato" he says.

"Clove" I say back quickly.

"Well Clove, how about we make a deal" I scowl at him.

"What do you want?" I say harshly.

"Slow down there feisty one, I was just going to ask if you could teach me how to throw knives, and I'll teach you how to use a sword" he says slowly.

"Didn't you see me walk in here? I'm new, it's my first year"

"So you think that throw was just beginner's luck?" Cato asks.

I don't want to think that way, because when that knife left my hands, it's like I was a natural. But I need to be true to myself so I just nod my head.

"So let's try and test that theory" he says while walking over to the shelf full of knives. I see him pick up a small knife similar to the one I just threw. He walks over to me, and gives it to me. I take it, position myself again, and throw. Dead center. I smirk, and when I turn to look at Cato I see him smirking as well.

"I don't think it's beginner's luck" he says.

-End of Flashback-

I smile as I remember my first experience with a knife and my first encounter with Cato. I wonder if he ever thinks about that too, but I dismiss this thought because it was a really really long time ago. It was my first year training and it was his second year, so the memory must have drifted away. When I'm done sharpening my knife I feel the tip, and it's 10 times sharper as it was before. I think of using the big willow tree near the fire for target practice to get some practice in and to keep myself awake.

I decide to sit down and throw my knives from where I'm at, so I take out 4 more knives out of my vest and set them down near my leg. I pick up the knife, and throw it. It sticks onto the center of the bark, I smirk and throw the second knife and it sticks next to the first one. I throw the three knives that were left on the ground and they land near the two knives.

I decide not to wake up Cato to take watch because I can tell by the color of the sky that it will be morning in an hour. As I wait for dawn to arrive I decide to cook the canned beef and the dried fruits together and make stew, so when we're done eating we can hunt immediately for that stupid fire girl and her injured boyfriend. I'm so glad Cato sliced one of his weak little legs because I'm sure it's slowing fire girl down. When the stew's finish cooking I wake Cato up and get two bowls out of the big bag pack Marvel found at the Cornucopia. As I'm putting some stew for Cato, he walks out of the tent with a tired look in his eyes

"Hello there fellow camper" he says.

"Morning, start eating so we can hunt for district 12" I tell him.

He nods and grabs his bowl of stew. It takes us 30 minutes to finish our food, drink water, and relax for a while, before we start to get our weapons, a flask of water for each of us, and two packs of dried beef. We head out looking for tributes and animals that will make a good meal until we see a tall figure in the distance. The boy from district 11. I look at Cato and he nods his head signaling that we approach him quietly, because who knows if he'll attack or run. We walk up quietly and hide behind a tree that's 5 feet away from the huge tribute.

Cato and I decide that it'd be better to kill the boy now. Thresh, I think is his name. We both knew from the beginning that he'll be competition and I'm glad we're going to kill him because he made us careers look stupid when he rejected our offer to join the alliance. Cato walks from tree to tree to get near Thresh, when he gets close enough I know Cato will strike, and I will help him kill. Cato sneaks up behind him, takes his position, and is about to swing his sword, but Thresh turns around at the last minute and ducks. Cato manages to make a gash on Thresh's shoulder, but Thresh takes his sickle sword out, and I know Cato's in trouble because Thresh's sword looks more deadly. I jump out of my hiding spot and run over to the where the battle was taking place.

Thresh doesn't see, so I decide to take advantage of this. I kick the sword out of his hands and stand in between it and him. He lunges at me but I dodge it and punch him in the face. This angers Thresh, but he doesn't do anything because Cato gets him into a headlock, I stand in front of him

"You think you're a strong big boy huh?" As I take a knife out of my belt I felt a big force knock me down. I thought the Gamemakers had sent a mutt down to stir the fun, but as I get up, I see Thresh running away.

"I'll kill you at the feast little girl!" Thresh yells.

I see Cato on the ground and help him up. "He kicked you down. I got furious, and for a moment I forgot that I was holding him and I was about to help you put he pushed me down and ran as fast as he could" he explains.

"It's okay, we'll get him later" I brush myself off and put my knife that fell on the ground when Thresh kicked me back onto my belt. I walk over to Cato and link my fingers through his as we walk back to camp hand in hand.

A/N: There you go! I hope you enjoyed this chapter, I will update soon again. Feel free to review. You guys are awesome readers.