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We became friends on our first day of school, some of the older kids liked picking on the younger ones and they pushed me into the mud. Griffyn was nearby and he helped me up. After that we went into lessons and I hadn't made any friends so he left the group of boys he was with and sat by me. We started to hang out together in our spare time.
I sob into his shoulder for a bit while he starts to stroke my hair. When he eventually pulls away from the hug I look at him, our eyes inches from each other's. He leans forward and slowly kisses me "My going away present, it's something you can never lose, no matter what happens!" He says to me.
He wipes the tears from my eyes and smile at him. He smiles back at me and twirls the end of my plait in his fingers. A Peacekeeper knocks on the door and walks over to Griff and takes his arm. Gryff kisses me on the cheek. The Peacekeeper takes him away.
Next comes in my other two best friends Sky and Saffra. I notice Saffra had been crying, I never warned my friends about all the tesserae I took because I didn't want them to worry or try to change my mind. Saffra wraps her arms around me "We didn't want to come in with Gryff because...well you know!" Sky says, smiling over to me.
I remember when I first met them too. It was a few weeks after me and Gryff became friends. Sky and his twin sister Saffra were told to work with us in lessons. They didn't want to work with other people because they were worried people will use them because they are they're mayor's children.
Saffra pulls away and smiles at me. "You will win, we will sponsor you!" She says. She then turns to her bother and folds into his arms. I hug them both and say "I-If I die, and ONLY if I die, t-t-tell Gryff I love him!" I say between sobs.
The peacekeepers come in and take me away this time and take me outside and through the journalists who're taking pictures of me. They guide me into a car and Jamie's already there waiting. I've never been in a car before, the only one I ever see is the truck that takes all the trees we chop down over to the town or the train station.
I spend the time staring out into the woods, wishing I was still there. We spend the time in silence. I turn and see Jamie looking very anxious, tapping his feet on the floor. Felix keeps trying to make conversation but he's not that good, he just asks one-word answer questions.
All I can think about is Gryff, our kiss, how he'd feel if I do die and what would be between us if I come back! Eventually the car stops and we get out. Peace keepers follow us towards the train station while capitol people with cameras film us.
Luckily they don't realise I've been crying because I hid all the signs while in the car. They escort us into the train and close the door behind us with a bang. Jamie and I jump but Felix ignores it.
I see the mentors, Augustus and Maya sat on the sofa waiting for us. Felix sits down in a nearby armchair while Jamie and I sit on the sofa opposite our mentors. There are five districts surrounding the capitol, 1, 2, 3, 4 and 7. This means that it takes a maximum of an hour to get into the capitol because they put all the train stations and tracks on the edge of the districts, so ours is on the edge of the capitol anyway!
We spend the of the time eating a few snacks and listening to survival tips from our mentors. "So I think the best place to stay in a big, thick, tall, concealed tree! Then you are likely to be camouflaged!" Maya says. "Or in a hidden cave, there's always one, most are hard to find." I start eating some 'crisps' while taking in very single word.
"Don't make a fire but if you need to cook food, make sure you put nothing green on it and stamp it out when you are done!" Augustus tells us "Also ages ago at about the 75th games everyone started to cook food on the force field surrounding the arena! The gamesmakers started making the arenas bigger, making the force fields see-through but nothing worked! They eventually gave up!"
I pick up a 'pretzel' and try it. It doesn't taste nice so I go back to the crisps. "At the beginning, in the bloodbath what should we do?" I ask. Before Maya can answer an avox drops to the floor, a small silver dart protruding from her lower back.
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