"So you still didn't answer my question. "I say to Jason.

"Umm what question?" Says Jason

"Don't pretend. You're such a bad lier. Well. No. You're pretty good but I can read someone like a book." I say

"Well... You're actually a bit famous." Jason replies quietly.

"What? No I'm not. All I did that was worth noting was spit at the president." I say a little shocked. But I kinda know he's telling the truth...

"You are... You saved my life. You do great trades and..." He trails off

"And what?" I say

"Well you're the one of the most good looking girls in school." He says

"No. I'm not that pretty... I mean I'm always covered in dirt. I barely go outside the forest and the only time I actual ly make an effort to look good is at the reapings." I say a little to bluntly.

"Even if you don't think so all the boys do. I over hear them talking about girls. Inclueding you. Oh and most girls admit that you're one of the most pretty girls there. Appartently if you weren't co vered in dirt and let your hair down you would be in the popular circle 24/7." H e says. He is being really honest here.

"Ok..." I go all dramatic and I let my h air lose and do what the girls at school do to get boys. Which is wave it around and bite their bottom lip then flutter their eyelashes at them. It actually see ms to work for the girls. I start laughi ng and Jason joins in. Wait... Was I jus t flirting with him?

"Do that to Harrison. It will be halario us!" Jason says after the laughing dies down a bit.

"No. I don't want to get pinned to the w all and kissed like some of the girls at school that do it for fun" I say firmly

"Aww come on! If he tries to you can alw ays beat him up." He says teasingly

"Good point. I can test your therory of my looks." I reply. I braid my hair back up and I go in the elevator with Jason up to our floor. The place is empty so w e go back to our rooms and about two min utes later Whats-Her-Name knocks on the doos announcing lunch. I get up and walk out to see harrison hovering inbetween mine and Mercy's rooms. I do what I did to Jason, (the hair thing) on Harrison a nd he just stands their wide eyed in sho ck. I burst out laughing along with Jaso n who was convenitly near.

"What did you think I actually liked you ? Bless your delusinal heart..." I say to him flicking my hair in Harrison's face while he walks to me and I speed up to walk beside Jason. We chat a little. Aww... do I have to go to the games? I eat silently. Once I've finished I go get r eady for the chariot ride. I find a light blue top that hangs losly on me and I wear it with a silver head band and belt along with a pair of black trousers with my hair down. Wait. My badge! I go over to my reaping dress and take off the badge and pin it back on my new clothes. I sit on my bed until I'm called. I walk beside Mercy. She's made no effort. She's still scruffy and musuly. She looks more like she's from 7 then from 12. What. Does she work in the mines already or something? I don't know much about tweleve since I don't really live there.

"Hey, I was wondering how you got so strong? Or is it nataral for you to be able to pick up a career one handed?" I make it into a joke and she finds it funny.

"Well, you don't know yet do you?" She says.

"What?" I'm a little confused

"There's an ilgale mine where kids under eighteen go to work. Sometimes forced by parents, peacekeepers or staff in the care home. But the staff in the carehome take all the money and keep it day after day. The kids work for nothing. So do I." She says quietly.

"Oh... I didn't know... Who set this up?" I ask gentally.

"Either peacekeepers or the capitol." She says

"Why don't you just leave to the woods like me?" I say

"You weren't Ilgeally chipped by them." She says sadly.

"What? Like those tracker things?" I ask. May be I shouldn't have said anything...

"Yeah... They do it to all the kids. You were really lucky. They were about to get you and chip you but when they came you weren't there. Everyone kept it a seceret from them that you live in the woods. After a while they found out but by then you were allowed to stay in the woods so they couldn't touch you." She says

"Wait... How do you know this?" I ask

"I steal from people who I find annoying. They can't tell that its me. They think it was you." She says as we reach the bottom floor. I laugh.

"Thanks for the great image." I say with a laugh as we walk to the remake center. "Well so long!" I say as peacekeepers guide me to my remake center room. I see some REALLY wierd people inside.

"Hi I'm Mikie!" Says some guy with bight blue sticking up hair and eyes that look like pools of water. I make up nick names for them. Sea man.

"Im Natallia." Says this girl with natually curly but bright pink hair. Pinky.

"I'm" She takes a deep breath. "Shalicalaemina. Or Cari for short." This woman with bright purple hair and dress says. She's the worst. She has purple tiger strips all over her with a tail, ears and whiskers. Cat Lady.

"I'm Sky Oversea." I say calmly. This makes cat lady burst out laughing and sea man gives a little snigger.

"Thats not polite. Sorry Sky." Says Natallia. I'm not going to call her pinky. She's to nice for a nickname like that.

"It's fine Natallia." I say softy.

"Well lets get to work then! Sky Oversea." Cat lady says while muffling a laugh. I give her a death glare which makes her stop in her tracks. But this time Natailla laughs. I laugh along with her. I'm Pretty sure cat lady wants to mess me up. Natallia and Sea Man get to work. I don't flinch or grit my teeth when they wax. I just get on with it. I need to look my best know don't I? They take me to this tub and strip me naked. Apartently I'm very good because most people don't like this part because of the shame of someone else seeing them naked. Shame is to conem. Its unnessary and stupid. A little bit ok. Too much... Well if you have to much... I'll put it like this. If you were on fire and had a cup of water. I'd drink the water. They scrub off all the dirt and a layer of skin then dry me off. I'm still nude so I reach for this thin robe but Cat Lady slaps my hand and shakes her head tutting.

"You really don't know anything do you?" She says as if I'm stupid enough to jump in a fire.

"Atlest I'm not a bright purple cat who judjes people by their names and is about to get punched in the face if they keep going on like this." I say anger rising in my voice. Her purple striped face goes pale and she hurries away.

"Ok your stylest will see you now." Natallia say quietly. "By the way don't aruge with him. He'll slap you if you don't." Natallia whispers quickly before hurring out after sea man. Some guy wearing, crazy bright pink clothes walks in.

"Hi I'm Nicki!" No way is he going to chose what I wear when he looks like a candyfloss abomation. (I've tried it before on the train when I was in my room.) He walks around lifting up my arms and poking me here and there.

"Well since your pretty enough for the capitol to like I have the perfect out fit!" He says clasping his hands in delight. "Cari told me you're shamless so it'll all be fine!" He says a little to happily. He waddles out then back in soon with a bottle of some liquid and some coal dust and nothing else.

"No." I say. Damn it Sky remeber what Natailla said! "I don't want EVERY one to see me. I have boundries you know." Sky shut up...

"Hmmm... Well I guess I understand but you need to show off your body to the captol! They don't care about fashion so much. They care about looks." He says

"I have an idea." I say while quickly grabbing the robe and tying it around my body.

"Ok here." He says while passing me a piece of paper and a pencil. I start to draw. I'm not that bad but I have limited time because this is going to take a bit of work. I show it to Nicki and he smiles and nods.

"This will be perfect." He says contently. "I'll get started!" He says waddling out the door. It will take a bit of work since I'm going to be half on fire.

I'm getting fitted for my costume. I'm half covered in something that looks like coal dust but isn't going to hurt me when I'm on fire. I feel like half my body's in a mask. The mask like thing covers up what is private and the rest is free. Just a couple of touch ups on scars and stuff. Nicki has made some editions to it so it looks like I'm burt around the edges of the mask. I trust Nicki's words saying that it's real fire but it won't hurt. He has put some spray in my hair and so it won't catch on fire, or hurt my body. Then the moment of truth. Nicki hasn't tested it yet so it might end badly. But I trust him. Natallia sets me alight and I look in the mirror and realise that I look amazing. Like really amazing. No wonder why Harrison tried to get away with kissing me. I'm stunning. Jason was right. Always trust Jason. I might have thorght Jason's name to many times because I see him looking at me. Leaning on the door frame staring into the mirror. The mirror I'm infront of. I spin around and do that firty thing to him and we laugh. Jason's wearing ruffly the same thing as me but a bit different. He has loose, almost undecectible shorts on which were on fire, along with a lot of his skin showing. Nicki wanted as much of me showing as possible too. There's more of my skin showing. I quote 'Not to much to make girls jesous but enough to get men.' Thats the exact words that Nicki used. Jason has his chest open (With scars Blacksmith's scars. Why do I have to wear make up?). He might actually have been working in the mines. I doubt it though. Nicki uses some of that Non-Flammable spray on the tops of the fire on me and Jason so it just gets put out and doesn't stop working completely.

"I'm assuming you'll want these." Natallia says holding up two, neatly folded, slightly thicker robes. I take a robe and put it on.

"Thanks Natallia." I say nicely. She smiles at me. She isn't that bad. Yeah she gossips and talks in that stuiped acsent but she understands.

"Thanks." Jason says with plesent half smile. Nicki leads us to the stables to get on our chariots, we meet up with Mercy and we're all wearing about the same thing except Mercy is a bit more covered up than me. We're a bit late to arrive as District one are about to head off. We all take our robes off and I can feel Harrison staring at me. Mercy and Harrison are on the cart behind me and Jason. Me and Jason always get put together because, in this case, if I go with Harrison I will beat him up and if I go with Mercy people will get the wrong idea. After a while mine and Jason's horse drawn cart enter through the doors to be deafend by screams.

"Ok make a better image fo yourself. Smile and wave." Jason whispers in my ear. I do so, and realise almost all the men are staring at me. There's prettier girls than me but I have more of myself showing. I'm shamless. Not bothered. Jason takes my hand and I immedently pull away.

"Come on. The crowd will love it. Even if you don't." He whispers. I allow him to take my hand. He holds it up and the screams get louder. I keep smiling and waving to the capitol people. I see myself on screen. We're getting way to much air time. Harrison and Mercy are having a little bit less than us but they still get more than most. We all look so dramatic compared to the other tributes. We get to this main part and the horsesgo around in a circle then face snow. I smile at snow as the lights go down. The other tributes are gently glowing or shimmering in the darkness be we're full on bright. The president does his speech and I can still feel Harrison's eyes staring at me. I realise that I have an iron grip on jason's hand so I start to let go but Jason holds on.

"Don't let go. I don't want to fall off this thing." He whispers in my ear. I can tell thats not true... But I hold on anyway as we pull out and back to the stables. As soon as we're out of sight from the capitol Jason lets go and literally jumps of the cart.

"I hate horses. Too... Big. hard kickers." He says walking away from the horse. Harrison holds out a hand for me to hold onto so I take it. The I twist his arm and push him onto the floor. I walk away. I high five Mercy as i walk past her. She's a bit jeslous. I can tell from her face. I'm prettier than her and all the sponserswill proboly come to me. I stole the show. I talk to her any way.

"So did you like my disign?" I say

"What?" She oviously didn't know it was my design. I saved her a lot of trouble.

"We were going to he naked and covered with coal dust but I made up the fire design so thats what we wore." I explain.

"Oh. Well thats cool." She says. This is making it worse... Damn it Sky!

"Want to come to the training center?" I ask eventually

"What are we allowed?" She asks

"Well... Sorta... I tricked the peacekeepers into letting me and Jason go without any trouble." I say. She smiles and gives a bit of a laugh and I smile as well.

"It can't last forever. Any way I need a shower and get changed out of this stupid costume. Oh not the design I just don't like the feel. I hate having things on my face." She says quickly.

"Good point. We need rest aswell." I say while walking away slowly when the conversation was getting arkward. I walk alone to the elevator and I shot up alone. I get to my room soon enough and as soon as the door is shut I strip off my costume and jump in the shower.