My knife flew out of my hand and hit the dummy directly in the head. Everyone stared in complete silence. They obviously weren't expecting a small twelve year old to be able to hit so accurately. Alex stared me longer than anyone else; we haven't spoken since the kiss. He turned round a continued to practice with a bow and arrow; he was alright for a twelve year old to be fair. The careers were whispering to each other. They either saw me as a threat or wanted to form allies. The male from district two came up to me, I believe his name was Leonard. He had murky grey eyes and jet black her. He was a lot taller than me and looked about sixteen or seventeen.
"You have a good aim" He whispered pressing his lips against my ears; I felt his warm breath on the top of my neck.
"Thanks." I replied quickly moving away from him. He was obviously trying to manipulate me.
"You should join forces with me and the…" I shot him a dirty look. I hated the careers and I certainly didn't want to from allies with them!
"I don't want to…" I didn't have time to finish my sentence; Leonard had leaned in to kiss me. Anger boiled of me as I went to slap him. I suddenly remembered you weren't aloud to touch any of the other tributes before the games started.
"Do NOT kiss me!" I yelled loud enough for everyone to hear. Everyone stared. He gave me a look of pure anger. I felt slightly afraid.
"You're going to be my first kill in the arena Honey." He whispered angrily as he walked away. The careers looked equally as angry as Leonard.
If I have any chance in these games, I have to stay away from the Leonard and the rest of the careers.
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Depression and tiredness was all I could see on my face. I had nightmares about Leonard and the careers all night. The games were ruining me and I wasn't even in the arena yet! As usual breakfast was awkward, Alicia our mentor always tried to be cheerful and happy. She annoyed me a lot.
"So are you looking forward to the parade today guys?" She asked in her stupid sing-song voice. Me and Alex replied with a 'hmmm' and her smile faded.
"Well I can see your infusionism" She muttered sarcastically as she turned to talk to the district seven stylists. Thank god she had shut up. I didn't really pay attention to them, they bored me.
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Alex and 1 were dressed as trees, no surprise there. You couldn't even see our hair underneath the hat made up of fake leafs. We were both holding fake axes in our left hands covered in fake blood. Looks like a pair of 'murderous' trees for district seven…
"District seven, Alex Asbury and Honey Willow!" The carriage started to move and we were faced with the audience. I started to wave and blow kisses and Alex copied, they didn't seem interested though; the careers had got there eye. There weren't many victors from district seven. If a tribute from district seven were to kill someone, it usually would be with an axe. You learn to work with an axe at a young age in district seven although; I don't know where I got my knife throwing skills from…
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Today was the day we had our private training session with the game makers. You would get a score from one to twelve (One being the worst, twelve being the best.) The careers usually got the best scores. Alicia had advised to get the best possible score we could training to scare away the other tributes then hide. Only show yourself If needed. Being the girl from district seven, I would be fourteenth out of twenty-four. Boy went first.
"Honey Willow district seven!"
Alex muttered me a good luck as I walked past him. The game makers seemed bored and restless when I walked in; I had to do something to impress them. I started by throwing some knifes at the dummy but they have already seen that before in training. What could I do? My face lighted up when I saw the axe; I picked it up as I approached the dummy. I raised the axe above my head and used a quick motion to slice of its head. The only sound to be heard was the soft pad of the dummy's head falling to the floor. They were speechless.
I had been successful.
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I watched the screen as the scores from training came on. All the careers got eleven and the other tributes had gotten six or seven. Alex's name appeared on the screen with the number eight next to it, at least he had got better than most of the other tributes! I smiled at him to make him feel better. Then suddenly my name appeared with the number ten next it. I gave a jump of delight, that's an amazing score for a twelve year old! The score has only been reached a few times by district seven! My axe skills must have impressed the game makers.
Maybe I do have a chance at these hunger games...
Hey guys! I'm really sorry that the first chapter was short; I am trying to make my other chapters longer! And thanks for the comments and favourite story/author!:)