Chapter 2

When Sky woke up the next morning, he couldn't remember a thing about last night. He vaguely remembered someone saying something about "wiping memories", but he wasn't sure. Missy repeatedly knocked on my door and yelled at me to get dressed and to come to breakfast. She seemed to be in a bad mood, and I wasn't going to be the one to catch her wrath, so I did as I was told.

Once we were at breakfast, Lark seemed troubled. I had no time to explore what might be bothering her because Missy blurted out "You two need to get done with breakfast and head down to the training room for a surprise session by 8:45 or I'll personally come into that arena and mangle both of you!". After that outburst, she ran out of the room right as our breakfast of bagels, bacon, and supreme omelets came out.

"Sky," Lark began to say,(which is the first words she had said to be since we were selected) "Did you notice that guy servant is different that the one we had yesterday?". Come to think of it, we did have different servants today. "It's probable nothing," I said, "They probably just rotate the servants around to each district each day". "Maybe," she replied, "but I keep getting this sickening feeling that we might be in danger,". I laughed at her statement. I didn't intend it to sound mean, but by the look on her face, it seemed like I had said something horrifying. "Lark," I said trying to clarify, "We're going to be in the Hunger Games in three days. WE ARE IN DANGER!". After I said that, I knew that it was the wrong decision. She threw all of her food at me and walked with her set of guards to the elevator.

All I knew was that she had just wasted a good portion of food. I hurriedly finished my meal and glanced at the clock. "Dang it!" I exclaimed as I saw the clock was already at 8:40. I ran a little too fast to the elevators, because the guards immediately tripped me and I went falling. "What was that for?" I screamed at them. The looks of scorn on their faces indicated that they wanted me dead. I still wondered why. Once we got down to the training floor, it was 8:50. Lucky enough for me, Missy wasn't there yet when the doors opened. Unlucky for me, the strongest of the guards literally threw me out of the elevator and walked out casually so they could watch the training sessions.

By 9 o'clock we were starting with the camouflage station. All twenty-four of us were gathered around the instructor and his bodyguards as he showed us basic camouflage techniques. I was off minding my own business until the girl tribute of district 6 came over and yelled "So, where's your girlfriend?" She didn't leave me alone until her guards came and took her away. Well that did it. Every single tribute came over and made fun of me on their own time. By the time we had all gotten through with the training, we had one last thing to do; archery. When the archery teacher came out, he pressed a button and two dummies came out from the ceiling…only they weren't dummies. As I stared up at the dummies that had just emerged from the ceiling, I had a horrible chill down my spine.

The two dummies were actually my ex-servants.

Stay tuned for part 2 of chapter 2