It was unbearable! I hated every moment of it. Ok that's a lie, Romeo's silence was driving me nuts in the train, and it was almost as if he expected me to make all the conversation. After the first few minutes, I realised talking was getting us nowhere so I gave up and thought about my sister, her new guardian Maisie and how I was seeing every sight that they would.

When the train was pulling closer to the capitol, I was almost scared, when I say almost, I mean almost. But it was pretty daunting.

The capitol was beautiful! It was completely different to what I've known in district 10, the women were dressed in bright colours the men looked almost too smart and the children were oblivious to the sad faces staring at them from the train windows, 23 I knew of, mine was a serene face (well at least I hope it was!).

A sad thought popped into my head from the cheerful faces outside, if Athi hadn't been reaped, or I hadn't volunteered for her, I would be here indulging myself in the splendour of the capitol, not here to fight to the death. We were pulling into the station when I saw him waiting.

Ian.

But he wasn't looking at me. When I came off the train, I might as well have been invisible. Then I saw them, my sister and Maisie, I hadn't even known they were on the train. Did they even know I was on there? Surely they must have, I mean the number of peacekeepers on the train must have been suspicious, mustn't they?

But they ignored me. It wasn't until they were about to leave the train platform that Ian noticed me.

"Cassie?" he asked questioningly.

"Thought, you'd never notice me!" I told him.

"I'm so sorry! My sisters killing herself for not doing the paperwork earlier, you'd have been here before the." He stopped mid sentence. "You know, the erm... thing"

I put a hand on his shoulders and said "tell your sister, she's saved my sister and best friend, and that was more than I could have ever asked for." Than I leant forward and brushed a tear from his face, and kissed him on the cheek.

"Time to go" a peacekeeper put a hand on my shoulder and lead me towards the other tributes.

I turned round and smiled at him "I'll fight until I'm back" I called "I can't die without seeing you once more"

when we got to where we'd be training, well let's just say I was more than adamant now to survive than I'd ever been before the reapings, and no one can stand my way no one.