"I can't do this" I whisper, and I walk off stage. I run around the stage and back into the room set up behind it. I can hear people talking loudly in the audience.

"Alright, settle down! Settle down!" I hear from Coin. I start to cry as a slide down the wall and sit on the floor. Peeta runs in.

"Katniss, what's wrong?" He sits next to me.

"I can't do this! This is wrong! This is completely wrong!" I cry. He nods and rubs my back. He gets up and walks out and I cry harder. He walks back in and tells me that Coin is calling out the rest of the names. Great. Now I'll probably be in trouble with her. Peeta and I sit in silence for the next 25 minutes that Coin is calling names.

"That is it everybody! You will now be escorted into rooms to say goodbye to your families. Good luck and…" in a capitol mocking accent she says, "May the odds be EVERin your favor!" She laughs. She burst into the back room. "What was that? The entire nation of Panem saw those reapings! You are the Mockingjay! You're supposed to be strong! You just showed we are still weak and they can easily overpower us, you've just probably ruined all we've worked for in the last two ye…"

"Hey now!" Peeta stands up, "This isn't her fault! You were never in The Hunger Games! You don't know the emotion behind it! You lived sheltered away for 75 years, while we had to endure these idiots trying to kill us all! She's lost her family, friends, and almost everything else important to her! And you think she can just watch these people go through the same thing? Obviously it's going to be hard for her!" By now, Peeta is up in her face. Coin gives a humph and stomps out. Peeta turns to me. "Wow! She reminded me a little of Effie there" I giggle. Peeta always knows how to make me feel better. I stand up and kiss him.

We are all flown back to District 13 and I go into my chambers in The District 13 Capital building. I turn on the television and watch the reaping. I see myself stop and run off. Then Coin finishes. The new District anthem comes on and I turn off the television. I lay on my bed for several hours, thinking, until I'm interrupted by a knock on the door. "Come in." I say. It's Coin. I look away from her.

"I'm sorry for how hard on you I was earlier. What Peeta said was right. I don't know what it's like. It has to be terrible!" I roll my eyes. "Anyways, it's just this year then it can all be over! Good? Good!" She stands up and walks out. That's true I guess, just this year then I never have to think about the games again. Good!

"Are you alright honey?" My mom walks in. "I just watched the reaping. It looked like you had some trouble out there?"

"I just feel like now I'm the bad guy, like I'm sinking as low as they did, with the games and torture and all. I remember going and being reaped, saying goodbye to all of you. It was terrible! Now I just chose two of the people who have to go through that!" I stay up late that night and talk to my mother. I haven't talked with her like this in a long time, it's kind of refreshing. She's been kind of quiet since Prim died.

The next three days are pretty normal days. I think a lot about Gale. I miss hunting with him. I haven't seen him in a while since he moved to the upper districts. I also still think about Prim every minute of every day. I think about Rue a lot too. I really didn't know her that much, but I miss her, she didn't deserve to die. Neither does that little girl… what's her name? Starzy! Just thinking about her makes my heart feel like a ten pound weight.

Finally it's time for training scores. Peeta, Coin, Haymitch, my mother, Coin, and me all gather in the main room to watch them. First all the boys go. Most of them get 3 or 4's. Not surprising, they're Capitol people after all, they have no skills. One boy, Richseca, gets an 11. Impressive. He's a big guy, brown hair, and brown eyes. Another boy, Fsarzario, gets a 10. Looks like we have our careers of the year.

Now it's time for the girls. Most of them get 1s and 2s… Starzy's up. She gets a 6! Wow! I wonder what she did in the training room. She's the last girl, so the TV turns off and Coin stands up. "Well everyone! We're going to The Capitol Tonight to watch the interviews. So we're your best clothing!" She walks out. I look over at Peeta and remember what happened at our interviews. That was when our whole romance started. I smile at him, he smiles back. I know everything will be alright.

I go to my room and prepare for the interviews. I wear a long, red, sparkly dress, resembling the one I wore for my first interview. I wear the Mockingjay pin. I look in the mirror. "Come on Katniss!" I hear Coin yell.

"Coming!" I yell. I start to walk out, but I turn around and run back to the dresser. I take my Mockingjay Pin off and place it down. I run outside and get in the hovercraft. By the time we get past district 4 Coin looks at me and notices.

"Katniss, where is your Mockingjay?" She says. I look down and act like I'm just noticing.

"Oh my goodness! I must have forgotten it!"

"Oh." Coin looks away, then looks back at me, "That's alright, don't forget it next time!" She says nothing else the rest of the craft ride. I can tell she's mad but at this point, I don't care.