A/N: Hey guys I'm back! Do you guys like it so far? Please review as always!

Disclaimer: Don't worry, I didn't turn into Suzanne Collins.

I sit down on a soft leather chair in the special room I'm directed to. Ed goes into another room. I wonder why. Can't we be together?

My mother and brother walk in and look sad. Why are they sad? I'm winning an award!

"Why are you guys so sad?" I ask them.

They're surprised I asked that. Did I do something wrong? What could I have done wrong? Was it attacking those pink lizards?

"Do you even know what the games are?" My brother asks.

"Uh, duh! I'm winning an award!" I tell him with full confidence. "Right?"

"No-"Fred starts, but mom quickly cuts him off.

"Yes! But to get the award, you have to play a game. And win." She says.

"What kind of game?" I ask, but the cops are coming in. She says she can't tell me, and they leave. I suddenly feel empty. Why couldn't she tell me? Was it the cops? Was she afraid of telling me?

My other friend, Mary, comes in. "Will you use this as a token?" she asks. She hands me a bracelet with sea-green gems on it. I don't know why I need a token, but I accept it anyway. It's pretty. She leaves without another word. I get that empty feeling again. The cops come back in and tell me it's time to get on the train. I don't hesitate.

I see Ed on the train. We're both really excited. We both get an award! But wait… What if only I win? Oh well… I guess that matter can wait. Frankie tells us it's time for dinner. We follow her to the dining car, where there's a buffet of delicious food. I don't even know what most of it is! I gather a lot of food, and sit down. Finnick and Holli sit down across from us.

"So, what are your strategies?" Holli asks us. We look confused. We didn't know we needed a strategy for accepting an award. Oh, she meant the games.

"Well, that depends. What game is it? Hide and seek? Tag?" I ask. They look dumbfounded.

"Seek and kill." Finnick tells us. I'm horrified. Kill?

"How could we KILL innocent kids?"Ed asks the two mentors.

"Oh yeah. These are the two SPECIAL kids." Holli tells Finnick. "Okay, what do ypu hate the most?"

"Pink lizards." Ed and I say at the same time.

"Okay… how do you defeat the pink lizards?" She said.

"Don't talk to us like that. We're not babies!" Ed says. "You defeat them by stabbing them in the heart with a spoon."

Holli looked at him like he was crazy. "Okay. Pretend the other kids are pink lizards, and the knives are spoons. Stab the poop out of them. But not literally."

No way. I had no idea. No really, I didn't.

We finished the rest of our dinner in silence. After dinner, we watched the other reapings. No one really important. Ed and I talked about our plan in his room.

"We're going to split up." He told me. He looked totally serious. I was shocked.

"Why would we split up?"